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

Catholic church in New Orleans. mar ried Godfrey Benteen's sweetheart, loVe- ly Eloise. Benteen, at the FISK or ms own life, saved De Noyan and ne, to- gether with the chevalier and lovely T,loise. who still loves him. began jour ney up the Mississippi river History says that all of the conspirators placed on board O'Reilly's ship were executed but what is little history 'between friends and then, too, MT. Parrish in his introduction to Prisoners Of Chance
 explains his reasons for believing thae De Noyan with Benteens help got away. At any rate these three strangely as- sorted persons started up the Mississippi and they certainly had time of it. Ev- erv chapter reads something like this:
 "And lust as they were quietly settling for a good nights sleep Benteen looked up and saw-." or Just as death seem ed imminent" or words to that effect. This party, augmented by a red-headed preacher, stumble into the stronghold of the Natchez Indians, the mound-build- CTS. the worshippers of the sun, with beautiful queen, and there, too, things happen as fast as the reader can wink his eye or faster. Everything turns out all right. Of course it does. For Ben teen wins his sweetheart after all. He
 was entitled to her and from the book s account the husband certainly was not good enough for her or even appreciated his good fortune. It is often so in real l,fe-alas and alack!
 Prisoners of Chance is quite inter esting When a book holds the interest it has accomplished a great deal and MT. Parrish's book does that. Of its kind, which Is a good kind, this book is hrst rate. The descriptions of the Mississippi river and some portions of the Arkansas river are first rate. Altogether, or "on the whole" as most reviews say, "Pris-
 oners of Chance makes good.
 .srhe Heart of a Child."-By Frank
 Danby. (The Macmillan CompanyD
 "Frank Danby," that bright English
 woman who wrote the most successful, striking novel called Pigs in Clover" has written another first class story, now published, called 1.-The Heart of Child" with the subtitle Being pass ages from the early life of Sally Shape, Lady Kidderminster.' Sally Shape was A .gutter-snipe" which is the English
 term for a child born in the London slums Sally had a no-account drunken
 father who compelled his wife to sup
 port him. Sally spent her time avoiding the school truant officer and dancing on
 the sidewalks to the music of the barrel organs Sally was not beautiful. Frank Danby keeps impressing that fact upon her reader, but there was something about Sally that attracted everybody who saw or came in contact with her, for Sally had personality. She was red-headed, but she had beautiful fig ure, with features not smooth at all, but with all that every man and most women not her rivals wished to get closer to Sally Sally's mother died and so did her father Then Sally meandered from pillar to post, that is first at work at this thing and the other until she finally
 secures work at jam factory, likewise
 pickle works. Sally was injured by an
 automobile, operated by Lady Dorothea' Lady Dorothea felt sorry, not very sorry, but enough to secure Sally good posi- tion in a swell dressmaking establish ment from which place she was uncon- sciously being led to go on the stage. Sally does go on the stage and the de- scriptions of the stage life in London. the pitfalls and temptations there for young girls and how Sally, from the in nate pureness of "the heart of a child escapes them, are splendidly described by the author. It is stated that this story was begun by Frank Danby in col lahorstion with her brother, Leslie Stu