The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-14
Literary Lights and Shadohs
BY s. MAYS BALL.

YS BALL.
 parties instead of massacres. "Beatrlx of Claire is not connected with this new
 story "The Princess Dehra," but "The
 Colonel of the Red Huzzars' is, for the new book Is sequel of the last named story. In the first of this series many will recall how an American army colonel went to Vaeria, where he fell in love with Princess Dehra, and was discovered to be the long lost heir to estates and power Tn the Dalberg regning family. When the book closed Princess Dehra and the now Duke Armand (the American) were engaged to be married, much to the great sorrow and chagrin of Duke Lotzen, who up to the coming to Valeria of Ar mand, had been heir to the crown of th' Dalbergs.
 Of course all of this love business and strife for a throne caused a great deal of trouble and In this instance-a sequel. The new story Is strictly in line with its predecessor-just as good to many lovers of the Zenda type of novel, of which this is a good speci- men. The story opens just at the death of King Frederick of the Dalbergs who before his death and just before Prin
 cess Dehra's and Armand's marriage, had inscrib ed in the Book of Laws who was to be the next king Armand or
 
 ished to his estates. All of the evi- , dence pointed to Armand having been selected as the new king by the dead ruler but the Book of Laws had been lost and around this book and Prin- cess Dehra's regency of the kingdom for year, while the fight for love and a crown goes on, does "The Princess Dehra" run. It Is good story of it's type Well fitting for summer time, when one doesn't care for problems, in books or anywhere else. The book has some pretty love passages, and sui | ficient adventure to suit anybody. The l book is above the average, it should | have a good sale to lovers of the light | bright, happy ending" story.
 ], Comedy of Mammon. By Ina Garvey Dana Estes & Col
 | This story is one told by diaries-whcn kind as general proposition does not ] appeal to the average reader. But this 1 book in spite of its form will interest 1 throughout It is the story of love, biased l by desire for the flesh pots,' and of the l well laid plans of designing men and l women in their wish to bury love for
 riches or combine them, when justice IS dealt to all concerned. It is good to read 1 Of justice even if we do not see it shown
 always in life. A sweet young school l teacher, daughter of poor but honest l parents, had fallen in love with scion l of English nobility, army captain, l stationed near her school. This army | officer loved Amy Robinson too, but
 he was poor; so was Amy, and as thare
 was nothing else to do, he married secret ]; ly the. heiress to $1O,OO0, ,0OO-secertly be- | cause the owner of the aforesaid $10, ,000,- | 0n0 didn't wish the captain to be his wards husband The young army cap | tain had bright, attractive sister-a 1 kind of queen of London society, who l in her diary (the best in the book) gives
 most amusing accounts of doings in her i set. Blanche was wonder She of l course, loved somebody else, other than 1 the multi-millionaire she married. Her 1 lover married an old woman-Banche's
 aunt-with much money just to get even | with Blanche. Then after the scheming l young army officer had secretly married l the supposed heiress the old guardian dis
 covers his wards perfidy, disinherits her
 and left the money to whom? Why, to
 the poor young school teacher-a niece
 to be sure. A comedy O. mammon sure | enough.
 The best part of the book is the ridc- ulous diary of Blanche de We're, who | mas her motor car called Carte
 Banche,'' her lap dog with it's manicure l set, all the. social appurtenances had
 Blanche of the smart set. 1t is very 1 bright book. The plot does not amount | to much, but the story a whole, told
 in such pleasing way, does. It is a
 very good production.
 Paid In Full" by Eugene Walter and John w. Harding. e. W. Dillingham; | & Co.,
 i G. w. Dillingham; & Co. are making quite a feature of the novelization of suc- cessful plays now running in New York l The latest from their press is Pad In Full' by young dramatist, MT. Eugene Walter
 "They" tell the story that young Mir Walter walked the streets of New York wearily with many manuscripts of stories and plays in the pockets of his thread bare coat until he sold Paid In Full" i Now he is on what is properly called the shady side of Easy street." Because Paid In Full made a great deserved hit It is still running to crowded houses in New York.
 The plot is that dealing with a young couple-not long married--who are strug- glng in a 2x4 Harlem flat on the small income of the husband, employed in .ne shipping office of a supposed cold-ploodcd man. The young husband has chance to steal, and after deliberaton does so. Of course he Is caught. It becomes neces- asry to bring some pressure to bear upon his employer, the cold-blooded steamship agent, to prevent criminal prosecution. The pressure thought or ana used by the young husband was the charming wife so he sends his wife to plead with his employer--a supposed libertine-hoping that her physical charms even her indis cretions, intimated as agreeable to the nusband-if necessary to save him-would be understood and approved. The young wife goes to see the employer, and saves her husband, but not by her indiscretions- simple by her innate pureness of heart. This meeting between the good, pure wife and the supposed cold -blooded, grasp ing employer is the means used to show that this employer had been greatly mis- understood. The story ends as does lb- sens great drama "The Doll House.
 Paid In Full'' has established the repu- tation of MT. Walter. Collaborating with the dramatist-Mr. John w. Harding-has made the drama into a story.
 "I Dine With My Mother" from the
 French of Pierre Henri Adrien De-
 courcelle, translated by Evelyn Clark
 Morgan (Neale Publishing Co)
 q Dine With My Mother"is French play with five in the dramatis per- sonae-. Sophie. Arnould of the Paris opera Count d'Hennin, her lover; Baron d'Ornay, one of Sophies admirers; Ma ron, Sophie's maid, and Pierre Dridier, an artist
 Sophie egreat favorte on the stage and in certain class of society, wished xx.ttl l,nr. n,, Nnuf