The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-03-29

things that would take whole page
CT this paper to tell about. 1t is sufficient
to say that Christine after "awfully mis-
judging" Roger Herrick, she found OUT
her mistake and loved him-as she ought
to have done and as Mr.. Brebner started
out to compel her to do. The book
"Vayenne," will kill time and some trou-
HE.
1t is just another light Zenda story and
While we all have a special grudge against
Mr.. Anthony Hope Hawkins for ever hav-
ing invented the Zenda type, now that it
is with US and we cannot get rid of it
(more's the PITY then we must do the
best we can, admitting when a good
machine made Zenda story comes out
aid applauding the machinist. 'Vayenne"
is quite above the ordinary. 1t ought to
have good sale with lovers of the best
sellers"
The Man Who Was Dead by A. w.
Marchmont. (Fred A. Stokes Coz
Does the reader recall short story
of Mr.. Rudyard Kipling's, in which the
latter tells of the ride of some Indian
white man, which leads him to the home
of those who did not die but may not
live?' 1t is a great story and this new
novel by Mr.. Marchmont, while not on the
same order as Mr.. Kiplings great short
story, the title will remind one of it. The
title of this novel is, of course, catchy.
So the beginning of the fight for success
In this books sale is won. In addition
to this the author has written a first
class 'thriller"-everybody knows what
that means. 1t means a whole lot. This
thriller" is clean and wholesome; not
many of the thrillers are that.
Guy Pershore" was on duty at the
English embassy in Belgrave, Servia
where he fell in love with a beautiful
woman, Norma, who was a princess
kind of heir to Servias throne and
didn't know it. Guy didn't find this out
soon, either. Norma lived with Baroness
Stephanie, who, being a real widow, had
a perfect right to and did love Guy Per.
shore just about as desperately as any
body could imagine. AS desperately as
anyone would dare put in book anyway.
Guy saved Norma from insult in Bel
grave and was nearly killed in so do
ing When Guy recovered from his in
jury Norma had disappeared. Guy Per-
shore was then sent to Vienna by the en-
l@ssy to try to unravel some plot against
the Servian throne. He went there and
located himself down in the unknown
parts of the city so as to be able to
Sherlock Holmes out the conspiratorS
He soon discovered that Baroness Ste
phanie Is the head of the conspiracy,
and that she Is using Norma as the legal
claimant. Now Guy Pershore was dis
covered by the conspirators. He must be
gotten rid of and plans were arranged
t. kill him.
In the meantime Guy had cousin who
locked exactly like Guy. SO one night
returning to his rooms, he finds his
cousin, Gerard Provost, dead in a chair
stabbed through the heart. The likeness
between the cousins is so great that when
some of the conspirators come to Guy )
rooms to see If he Guy had been killed,
they find him, whom they take for Pre-
vost standing over the dead man whom
they take for Pershore. Provost, Guy 3
cousin, being In the conspiracy, Per-
slore accepts Prevosts identity to save
his own life. He only accepted this wrong
assumption to save his life at that time,
whence comes the title to the story, Tho
Man Who Was Dead" because, of course,
Pershore's death is reported, and so on.
Then when he finds the woman, Norma.
ne loves mixed up in this conspiracy
through mis-statements of facts to her,
lie keeps his cousins name. From which
time more things happen than one can
tell of in a review.
1t is a first-class thriller. So If one
cares for a good, clean story, with excit t.
ing adventure, duels galore, hair breadth
escapes ending, of course, with two low
Ing hearts united, then 1.-The Man Who
Was Dead" is the book you want. Like
''Vayenne," it is improbable, but possible
lat least this book is is "Vayenne' is
net.
Ten to Seventeen" by Josephine Das-
com Bacon. Harper >. Bros.)
This book is a supposed diary of young
girls from ten to seventeen in age
at a boarding school when the world is
made up usually of two kinds of excite
ment-sentiment and scrapes. The diary
is kept by one of the girls at the school
to be buried as she says and no doubt
aug up by future generations to add to
literature of long gone times and peo-
pie. The story involves grown-ups and
their affairs seen from the genuine
schoolgirl point of view, and expressed
in the language of that age. Mrs. Ba-
con wrote THE Memoirs of a Baby
and recently THE Domestic Adverturers. -
All of her books are filled with delightful
humor and this latest one, Ten to Sew
enteen," is no exception to ner general
role. The dairy is kept under headings
Of Events" which the diarist tells of
and makes very amusing. The book is
very ridiculous. 1t is just such diary
as one would expect a real schoolgirl
TO keep and bury, too This book Is as
good as anything Mrs. Bacon has written
which is saying a great deal, for she
excells in her humorous tales. There
are seven chapters of Events in the
book-all good
The Hemlock Avenue Mystery" by
Roman Doubleday. Uittle, Brown &
Coz
A first-class clean detective story is
The Hemlock Avenue E1ystery.' A de-
tective tale must keep its readers all
naked up to hold the interest and Mr.
Doubleday's new book does that II IS
rot a rival to 1.-The Leavenworth Case"
even if the publishers intimate that they
think SO, but it is all right in its way
which is good way. No one could posi-
lily figure out who committed the murder
in the book until he reaches the end,
which is the aim of most detective
stories. In this book a prominent at
lorney -at-law, who was heartily disliked
ty another was killed. The dead man,
"g'ullerton,' had been prominent. but he
was a fairly wicked young man. His
enemy, Lawrence who loved the same
girl that Fullerton did, was arrested for
tie crime. OF course this enemy young
Lawrence had nothing on earth to do
with the tragedy, but all detective stories
start that way; first, by putting the crime
in the readers mind on the innocent
Iarty SO that it can then be unravelled.
Else why the book? There was fine
young newspaper reporter, Lyons, who
appreciated and liked Lawrence very
n UGH, so he goes ahead to clear his
friend SO that Lawrence can win his
QLawrences) sweetheart. OF course
Lyons, the newspaper man, succeeds and