The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-20

1.-THE House of a Thousand Candles
The Port of Missing Men, and as for
eRosalind at Red Gate"-well, never
mind
In this new book Mr.. Nicholson has
done something closer to what Mr.. owen
Wister did In Lady Baltimore than
any other writer treating southern con-
dition. That is to say Mr.. Nicholson has
caught the atmosphere, not so well as
did Mr.. Wister in Lady Baltimore" for
that book is really a classic, but 1.-THE
Little Brown jug at Kildare" is first rate
and very pleasing.
The story filled with impossibilties of
course is all right. The governor of
South Carolina and the governor of North
Carolina, instead of making the proverblal
remark in regard to the passing of time
and the omission of certain liquid refrsh-
ments, had at home some disturbing state
matters to decide Rather than stay at
home and face the trouble, politically,
they created the impression through the
press that they had had a misunderstand-
ing at New Orleans and then both gov
errors disappeared. This left at Column
bia, S. c., and at Raleigh, N. c., two
lovely girls, daughters of the two COVER
nors who assume the reins of state gov
eminent to carry out or work out the
problems that their fathers were afraid
to attempt.
Assisting these two girls were rich
young chap-Ardmore, who owned a love-
ly place in North Carolina, on the or
der of Biltmore, and a University of Vir-
ginia professor The latter Joined inter-
ests with the daughter of the South Car
DINA governor while Ardmore assisted
the North Carolina governors daughter.
both keeping their work hid from the
other In their attempts to arrest one
Applegate, a notorious outlaw, who lived
just on the border line between the two
states
1.-The Little Brown Jug" Where does
it come in? Not much anywhere, only
to give a catchy title to the book. But
Ardmore had been presented on the train
with two jugs, one of buttermlk and
the other with moonshine-the giver
thinking Ardmore was the governor of
North Carolina. Called upon to return
the jug of 'moonshine" Ardmore returns
the jug of buttermilk and there is Incl
dental trouble, of course. A bright, en-
pertaining light book is "The Little
Brown Jug at Kildare where Ardmore
received it. the jug-and the book will
kill lot of time and great deal of
trouble. 1t is the best book yet written
by Mr.. Nicholson, in this reviewers
humble, but nevertheless, outspoken opin-
ion.
There is one thing that always COM
pels wonder in a reader, how certain
lowed to enter into or at least, pass, a
proof-reader, in a novel. For instance,
while one cannot pass through Column
bia on the Washington vestibule from
Atlanta by direct route, 1t doesn't do
much harm to read in a book that one
can do so, except to exhibit carelessness
on the part of the author or pub
Usher.
Good Citizenship" by Grover Cleveland.
(Henry Altemus Coz
Mr. Cleveland's Good Citizenship is
splendid little book 1t Is a small
volume that ought to be read by every
! boy of high school age from Maine to
California. 1t Is, in effect, a primer OF
patriotism potent for untold good in fos-
tering an intelligent and unselfsh love of
country. theoretically most of US are
patriotic enough on election day. We vote
for candidates we believe to be honest.
or who say they are; on the Fourth of
July we burn frecrackers and eat big
dinners, and let it go at that. We be-
| lieve so implicitly in the splendid destiny
of our nation that we quite forget to do
| our share towards making that destiny
come to pass. Patriotism and good clti-
| zenship Mr.. Cleveland points out are
not virtues to be exerted once or twice
a year, but duties to be practiced daily
from New Years Day to next New Year
Day. No one can scan the pages of Mr..
.Cleveland's book, however hastily, with
out feeling that here Is a man who
breaches good things. Not all patriotism
finds expression in the heat and Joy of
the battlefield nor does good citizenship
begin and end on election day. Mr.. Cleve-
land has, in himself proved that an up
right and fearless chief magistrate in
the White House may be as true patriot
as the leader of a forlorn hope, as lofty
a type of citizen as one can find any
where No public man of this generation
was more bitterly assailed than Mr.. Cleve-
land, none met with more impressive
serenity the attacks, fair and foul, of
those whose interests had made them his
foes.