The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-25


 one of the three men who aroused Vice President Johnson from a drunken sleep and made him fit to take the oath of of- flee as President of the United States, and all of this in the gray of an April morning while Abraham Lincoln lay dead a few blocks away As a devoted friend of the south, Stewart really defeated the force bill (see Congressional Records); he wrote the fifteenth amendment to the constitution and he tells of it's incep- ton and of General Grants interest in It. As MT. George Rothwell Brown. the ed tor of this notable book, truthfully states in his preface ce-introduction: Now that he (Stewart) has come to write of his col- leagues all of whom have long since passed away who will begrudge him con- sent to paint them as they were, not as new generations have been taught to re- gard them? If Andrew Johnson was drunkard and broke his pledged word at critical times, is 1t not just that the world should see him in his moral naked ness? If Charles Sumner was a vain, petulent, overgrown boy, an inconse- uuential busybody clothed in pompous impotency disgraced by his fellow re- publicans for his discourtesy-even treachery--to the President of the United States. why should not his true char acter be laid bare and the truth about
  ator Stewart has no apologies to make It is a great big book, and not only that it thrills with interest that makes it read like romance.
 Senator Stewart, after his retirement from the Senate in 1904, broken in for tune, but in splendid health returned to Nevada, where he located the far-famed mining town of Bullfrog New. and where he is now engaged in practicng law and ,f,fp oJr du uyitb another large tune at his command-this wonderful old man of S3 years of age.
 The Avenger. By E. Phillips oppenheim.
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 Surely whenever MT. Oppenheim is Tn doubt on any question, as to just the proper thing to do. he must simply sit down or stand lip and write a story-on the theory that he must not miss any thing coming to or going from him. HIS publishers say that he does not work out his numerous stories from his mind ono mind on this earth or under 1t could carry all those stories), but he goes out into the different parts of the world ana there he sits or walks, until the people, unconscious that an author is around about, things happen and MT Oppenheim appropriated them. This explanation from Mir Oppenhem's publisher is very timely for with the innumerable novels coming from Mir Oppenheim, reason should be given as to his wonderful pro- ductiveness new story comes from this author every once in while. And practically every time that one does come, it is interesting some more thrill ing, others not so soul-stirring, put all have In them something which holds the reader on the ''l1ill time" order from the beginning of the book to the end.
 Tn "The Avenger'' a young English journalist. Herbert Wrayson. coming home one night late to his apartments finds beautiful young lady in his room. He interrupts her in the act of ransack- ing his desk. Explanations follow which go to show that the young woman had entered the wrong fiat. She thought that she was in that of Morris Barnes, the key of which also opens Wraysons. Before Wrayson can get fuller explanation or this unusual nocturnal visit his telephone bell rings and a message is given him to deliver to Barnes immediately upon that gentleman's return. In attending to the telephone Wrayson's attention is drawn from the young lady and she escapes. That night however, Is destined to De one of a series of exciting incidents TOT the journalist Finding the young lady nowhere he sits down to await the re- turn of Barnes, but falls asleep. He Is awakened toward in the morning by the ijngling of bells. Looking out Of his window he sees a hanson cab stanuihs before the door of his apartment house. and assuming this to mean that Barnes has returned, he goes out or ms own iia | !. to await Barnes arrival Instead or Barnes he meets again the young iaus whom he had caught earlier in his nat She is terror-striclzen and trembling, and heps for his escort out of the building Once outside Wrayson looks into the hanson and discovered that Barnes 's there. but that he is dead, having been murdered by strangulation. AL the IT. quest which follows Wrayson gives eVi- dence but omits purposely any mention CT the young lady. This incomprehensipie motive on his part brings him into the first of a number of situations which em- broil him in a whole complication of elr- cumstances of a most extraordinary char scter The murder of Barnes is follower lp by the murder of Benthan the iaW- yer the very man who rang Wraysoh in on the telephone on the night that the latter disturbed the young lady. thlrd murder, just at the close Of the pook, oi vorng Sam Barnes is not so mysterious as that of the other two. All or these murdered men are intimately connecteu with a packet of letters which an English officer had received from his sweetheart who later became Queen of Mexonia py her marriage with the king. These letters are the one piece of evidence the king IS anxious to obtain in order to Insure him . verdict against his wife. whom he IS now seeking to divorce for political req cons Barnes had secured the package from the officer himself when the latter law dying in South Africa at the time or inc Boer war. By levying blackmah Barnes secures comfortable income from the queens party. Benthan act ing for the king, tries to purchase these letters. and only fails in his efforts when Barnes Is found murdered. There VIII De great deal of speculation as to the ,nurderer in this book When the de- moment does come. it is so unecpee'eo that the reader will be left thrilling 'n astonishment MT. Oppenheim makes the murderer give reasons for ms crimes namely the right to remove rom e,,s earth Undesirable citizens. He aaus that in war time hundreds and thousahds of men are killed for prmeipie' '"e" why not during peace! ,.,.,,
 This hook Is much better than "The Great Secret" the book pupnsheo JUS. bofore the appearance of "The Avenger' It ; a hoo,, that the reader will not care to law aside until he has finished read ine If through. MT. Oppenheim pleases' and no mistake Doing that, then what IS the answer?
 heath in the Kiss. A pamphlet by
 New York physician. (Broadway Pup
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 The New York physician who sent forth this audacious proposition for discussion was well enough endowed .,,,.h ,,,ontol oifts not to give his name.