The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-12

art, the co-author of ''Florodora," nat urally conversant with London stage life, and MT. Stuart before .l-s recent death no doubt gave Frank Danby all of the points dealing with the stage which she makes so interesting. Lord Gilbert Kid derminster falls in love with Sally now Miss Sarita Wainwaring,' singing as 0 Fart of the 'Wainwaring Sisters in "The Two Tuti-Frutti Girls" The heart of the child" Sally appeals to Lord Kid die," a rich, heavy but good-hearted young Englishman. Lord Riddle could not win Sally in the way that he had been accustomed to with chorus girls. so he really fell in love with her and wished to marry her. but he had not proposed; he was only drifting along, until Lady Dorothea, his cousin. interfered-with the result-there is no use stating!
 A review cannot well give all of the situations shown in this very interesting book, for Frank Danby covers many of the side lights of the poor in London, the stage and many of its hangers-on. The book is as good as Pigs in Clover" not possibly as strong a book some people did not like so strong a book as Pigs in Clover" but most people will be delight ed with 'sThe Heart of Child" The pretty thought running through the book is that Sally, clothed as she was with innate pureness, was armed against anything dangerous that the London up- per or lower class endangered her with This book is another one that the reader
 will not care to lay aside until he fin ishes it. Another good thing, too, which pleases a great many readers is that in this book the heroine never has set back. The reader can see right from the start that "alI will be well' with Sally, that everything is going to turn out first rate, but Frank Danby does her work in such a true to life kind of way that there is no lack of strength in the book at all.
 '~The Tenants."-An Episode of the
 Eighties. By Mary S. Watts. (The Me-
 Clure Co.)
 The work of Mrs. Mary S. Watts is fa- miliar to most readers of the magazines, but it is stated that this is the first nov el she has yet sent forth If so, it is a great pity. because if Mrs. Watts can
 write as charming novel as The Ten ants she has been holding her light un- der the proverbial bushel too long. It is a
 pleasure to realize that she has awakened as it were and that all of us may hope
 for further long stories from her most pleasing pen. "The Tenants. an Episode
 of the Eighties," Is very charming. It is light, and it reads and reminds one of the
 delightful writers of the old days. No rambling, but an easy, gentle, quiet d1s- sertation on what is what, not what ought to be. A great ulllclSASC. iO ololy pl the book deals with an old house belong ing to curious family named "Gwynne.' Mrs Watts does her best work in her descriptions of the varied Gwynnes. Af- ter the death of old Governor GWynne the house remained for long time without any tenants None of the family had money enough to live in it. The house finally was rented by promoter a Col Pallister, great old humbug, with his lovely wife and tomboy daughter, to say nothing of his uncouth mother-in- law. The Colonel was one of those pro- moters who is most familiar to all of us who in the early eighties flooded the country. some honest, but most of them | otherwise, who lived off of the Tat or the land, were entertained by the best peo- pie and enjoyed life at everybody else's expense. There is. too, kind of detec- tive story interwoyen in the end Of the story. And the different character draw ing. of the old Doctor Vardaman" and his servant "Huddesley''-well! there has
 not been anything better for many years