The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06

The Tower is a story of the life OF a
college community; II is primarily love
story. tender and genuine and pervading,
but not of the noisy, tempestuous type
The relation of events have TO do with
the faculty side, which is departure
from the usual college story and in con-
sequence is replete with dignity and earn
estness The little provincial town of
Great Duwich is found in England and
possibly in no other country could the
quiet. tranquil scenes OF life as depicted
in THE Tower have existed In fact the
reader is fully persuaded that the mere
fact that Mr.. Robinson is an English
man can explain his actions in the story
There are large number of personages
who figure in the story-a regular COM
munity one might say, but the live af-
fairs and quarrels of all these young peo-
pie are merely the necessary padding
of the authors real undertaking. For the
real puzzle of the story is our friend Mr.
Robinson, and the actions of this, often
times very coloress professor. At any
rate he puts the reader to thinking. Some
times the solution seems to be that he is
simply hypnotized by the memory of his
youthful devotion. For he returns TO the
college as a professor some eighteen years
after his graduation and finds his sweet
heart of former years the deans daugh-
ter. just the same as when he left excus-
ing, of course. the passing time. which
will leave footprints; for. as the dean OBJ
served, eighteen years is large slice out
of mans life, a large slice indeed
That the heart of Miss Langdon is true
and answering is soon realized by the
reader.
"'What had life done to Robinson she
unused She caught her lip fiercely in her
teeth to strange a sob" Then a very de-
uure though Fascinating little widow APP
pears on the scene with the most impos-
sible biography of her famous departed
to write. And strange though it may
seem. an expression recently found in
Mace of detion seems to suit our friend
Robinsons case. that he needed to open
keans vo,, .a,lessing', to the very end
ono most extraordinary thing about this
story Is the acutely active part that a
character PLAYS who passed away some
five wears previously He figures In con-
nection with this same Impossible biog-
raphy but the Importance given 1t is en-
tho case And vet one finds ones self en-,
deavorinp to decide lust what relation the
"hieher renunciation'' bears to the finali-
Nv of our friend Robinsons course. And
the reader is by no means sure that the
matter is settled at the close of the story
n is the finish to the story, but it may
NOT he the end of It,
! .1rhe Tower, Is above the average and
&c we'll written though quite tedious in
some parts; but story that one enjoys
reading in the light of subsequent events
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"1sron, tho Cotton Field to the Cotton
Min. study of the Industrial Transition
in North Carolina is the title of a vol
rme hv Mr. 7 Holland Thompson. which
Tho Macmillan company will issue this
ewing rho hook Is described as a thor
ougbi,, scholarly study of it's subject,
a,hio, is IF snecial interest lust now. on
aooo,,nt IF tho discussion about child la
hor
The non, hook nv the author of 1.-THE
Csarden of a Commuters Wife" is now
defnitelv announced by The Macmillan
| comneny for issue the end of May. 1.-THE
on,ta,,, +n,entv-fve illustrations from pho
to o
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e;,,co rofoadio Hearn died. Mr.. John
Inther Long is almost the only living
writer who can give to fiction the color
and atmosphere of Japan. The scene of
bis new novel. "The Way of the Gods
is ,aid IN the beautiful land of Madame
putterfv- and in the heart of the Lady
IIoshi ..Drea m -of "A Star, This novel is
said to he one of the most enthralling,
noionant and romantic tales that have
conc from, the pen of the author of 1.-THE
no rlino ~ the Gods"
now nhase in the whims and fancies
~ .tha American hejress'' is ingeniously
90 fa,tb in "a Little sister of Destiny
nv caIett Burgess novel bearing the
;n,,rint of Uoughton. Mifflin & Co. Being
nossessed of a spirit of adventure and an
y n,hition 10 snend her money to the adj
,,antage Of others. Mr.. .Burgesss heroine
soars o,,t and befriends. in true fairy god
motbar stvle. people in the various walks
If life into which she enters In disguise.
Ier tindness is none the less Sincere be-
| oarso Of tho snir.ited adventures which she
| encounters and her charitable intentions
none tho less serious because of the enter
t.inment which she derives from this
novel form of amusement
.Jn nm, Town " bv William Allen White.
puhlished nv Mcclure. Phillips & Co..
1a0e
sto,.ies ar more properly speaking.
,unnine comment about "our town from
tbo ,,iewnoint Of the country newspaper.
..ou,, town, is situated, we learn in the
west $50 called by those who live east
% ne AIIephanies. and referred to loving
lv DC hack asst by those who dwell west
If the Rockies" And the country news
paner office is declared to be the social
| clea ring house And in this particular
newspaper office they say I'VE are all re-
norters. and we know many intimate
| things about our people that we do not