The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25


 from the teaching of the cloistered people
 that the book is quite unusual, but Inter
 esting and will assist in passing away
 bit of time without any mental effort
 necessary upon the part of the reader
 which is something.
 Lewis Rand" by Mary Johnston
 QIoughton, Mifflin & Col
 Mai. John w Johnston who was pres
 ident of and assisted in the construction
 of the Georgia Pacific, with headquar-
 ters in Birmingham, years after he hao
 left Birmingham to live in Virginia was
 on the train one day going from the sou1h
 to New York. A young friend or MaJor
 Johston, to whom the latter had been very
 kind in days gone by in Birmingham,
 had the pleasure of travelling with the
 courteous major for 24 hours on the train
 Tn the smoking room of the Pullman thls
 Young fellow during a long conversation
 asked: By the way, Major. have ohiy
 recently enjoyed the reading of TO Have
 and TO Hold by a Mary Johnston. Is
 that Mary Johnston a relative of yours, and of your daughter Mary, l knew Tn
 Birmingham; used to see her going 10
 school?" In a most modest way the Ma for owned LID to the then, as now, cele-
 brated author being his daughter. What. what" sharply exclaimed the young . chap but fortunately caught himseil, LOT you see he was prominent member ol the q Knew Him When club. It Is one of the most difficult things in the world to realize the truth of that a "prophet is not without honor save in his own country" etc But even so, recalling Miss Mary Johnston. the really gifted au- thoress, it is difficult now-really, isn't 1t? to remember her as she formerly ap- peared in Birmingham, and then try to
 realize her as she now stands h the iit- erary world.
 Miss Johnston's new book is the best she has written. She has prejudice, not a bad one either, of insisting upon leaving the reader way-up-in -the-alr' as to the ending, happy or otherwise in her books, but that is much petler
 than the usual they married ed-and-nyeo- happy after tommy rot. In one or
 her books Miss Johnston left united couple up on top of a mountain away from everything and everybody save space and gazing off into the latter but the lovers were united at least, which is something. In Lewis Rand we are refused happy ending too, but the subject demanded what MISS , Johnstons genius gave it.
 Lewis Rand" was the son of to- bacco roller who lived in Albemarle county, Virginia. He was vigorous, capable, ambitious and undeVeloped
  Thomas Jefferson became interested in Lewis, persuaded his father to allow him to be educated and supplied him with books. The boy rapidly educated himself and soon took rank as lawyer of force and ability. From law to politics was but step in that time and in his case. This was in the year 1790. Fourteen years later Lewis Rand was in love with a charming and noble nf al a distinguish ed families in the neighbor- hood. Their estate, Fontenoy, and their manner of life are charmingly de- scribed by Miss Johnston and her pie ture may be accepted as one Of the most gracious and beautiful studies of ! the old regime in the south in it's best 1 moment. The Churchills were feder- alists; Lewis Rand. was republican, l or, as he would now be called, dem ocrat, and a follower of Thomas Jeffer- | son. Ultimately and at the height of his influence he falls Into the hands of Aaron Burr, whose grandiloquent Ma l poleonic scheme for an empire 1n the southwest awakes his ambition. Lewis Rand compromises himself deeply but l is saved by the forbearance of MT. | Jefferson. The description of the Burr | trial in Richmond is one of the most | notable features of the book. From
 
 | tragedy; the irresistible antagonism l of two men of very different type is l described and the noble devotion of a l woman who is loyal to her husbands s soul even though his position and pos | sibly his life are In danger are nobly depicted.
 Lewis Rand" marks decided ad vance in Miss Johnston's power and art and she was pretty far advanced | | hofn ha ra n nf really deligh tfu1 story
 Religion and Medicine" by Elwood l Worcester, D. D., Ph. D., Samuel Mc | Comb, M. A., D. D., and Isador H. Coriat, M D., (Moffat, Yard & Co). 1 This book is the only official book l on the Emmanuel Movement and the 1 only authentic presentation of the prin- l ciples and methods that underlie the 1 work originated and carried on in Bos- ] ton by the authors.
 The object of the book is to describe l in plain terms the work in behalf of 1 nervous sufferers which has been un l dertaken in Emmanuel church, Boston. | So much had been written in regard to | this movement that the originators of l it who are the authors of this book. | felt that it was due to the public and | to themselves to state what they are | doing and to discuss the religious and | scientific principles upon which they l are building.
 l Nearly three years ago the Emmanuai | church tuberculosis class began it's benefi- l cent mission under the medical direction l of Dr. Joseph H. Pratt. The question at | tempted to answer in founding that class | was: Can the poorest consumptives be cured in the sums Of a great city with | out removing them from their homes? | The treatment consisted of the approved | modern method of combating consump- l tion, plus discipline, friendship, encour- agement and hope, in short, a combina | ton of physical and moral elements, and | the workers in that class are satisfied l that the personality of Dr. Pratt was | largely responsible for the fact that while their work has been carried on un- der the most unfavorable environment, their records will bear comparison with those of the best sanitoria The success of that tuberculosis class convinced the Emmanual church that it had an im- portant mission to perform for the sick and that the physician and clergyman can work together to the benefit of the community. Accordingly in the autumn of 1906 the authors of this book deter mined to begin similar work among the nervously and morally diseased. These worker-authors believe in the power of the mind over the body, and they believe also in medicine in good habits and in a wholesome, well-reg,l- lated life. In the treatment of functional moral and physical agencies, but they .~t,. 41xa, 1,,