The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-29

] l to think to a more or less extent, and
 in addition to that-they are pretty apt l to be as this one is-yery interesting.
 "Tamar Curze," by Berther st.-Luz. CB. r. Fenno & Co)
 This is weird story, more or less, one
 of those stories that the reader must
 agree when he takes it up, that he will not dispute on single word or statement
 made by the author
 If you dispute anything about the book,
 or in it, begin to wonder can these things be?' you pull the strings the VT way look behind the scenes and
 would not be playing fair. I44 so. 1l.4eas O4 d young lady who is
 visiting a beautiful country place in Eng
 land tells to her charge the story.
 The story deals unusually, with the dual
 identity of another girl. who is some-
 times the beautiful, strangely fascinating daughter of an East Indian princess and
 an English officer and at other times,
 she is a tigeress who creeps out at night
 to slay the deer in the park surround
 ing the English country home where
 the girl, to whom the story is being told,
 is visiting.
 Much of the passion, much of the weird,
 the unbeluieveable (of course) go into the
 makeup of this story which may appeal
 to those readers who do not care to em-
 ploy their mental apparatus when visit
 ing the library.
 Mind. Religion and Health. by Robert
 Macdonald minister of the Washing
 ton Avenue church, Brooklyn, N. Y.
 Gunk & Wagnalls Co)
 This book is an appreciation of the
 Emmanuel movement inaugurated at Bos-
 ton and it is intended to show further how those principles can be applied In
 promoting health and in the enrichinar
 of our daily life.
 In addition to showing how he has applied the principles of the Boston movement Dr. Macdonald speaks in this book authoritatively on philosoph- ical and psychical questions and his discussion thereof is really valuable contribution for all those who would have knowledge of the psychological principles underlying mental and rel1g- ious therapeutics.
 Dr. Macdonald is of the opinion that never before in the history of the world have the physician of the body and physician of the soul been more intel ligently at one. That the church no longer ministers to the mind and ignores the body That the medical practicitioner no longer treats the body and ignores the mind. Both are heed ing, pr. Macdonald says the divine call as never before to attend to the necessities of the entire man. From the religious side, we are told that this has been going on for some time. The so-called institutional church, with gymnasium, employment bureau, read ing room, citizenship league and indus trial department to teach poor girls cooking, sewing, millinery and general housekeeping and poor boys com- potency in the trades and arts is a recognition of the call. And that the Emmanuel movement which is ration al establishing on scriptual grounds of the many heretofore sporadic attempts within the church and without to ban ish certain grievous ills, carries this desire to remedy the whole man into the physical realm with amazing bene fcial results.
 On the other hand pr. Macdonald says that the medical profession is | awakening to a new responsibility, l though some of the best physicians took it up long agn; namely to use 1 all psychic and natural forces as cura- l tive power for diseases beyond the | reach of drugs and surgery. pr. Macdonald claims to have on his desk 20 medical authorities that show that many organic as well as function al diseases are caused by mental and emotional conditions. He says the list includes diabetes, angina pectoris, apoplexy, asthma, dyspepsia, liver trou
  says that Sir B. W. Richardson claims that dia betes Is undoubtedly caused by mental strain. That Sir George Paget claims that in many cases cancer has it's origin in prolonged anxiety. That Dr. Snow, Dr. Murchison and Sir w. H. Bennett of St. Georges hospital, Lon don, all agree that cancer of the liver, the breast and other cancers are due to mental anxiety That Dr. Scho1eld l.aln hot nf min ic producing agent in every disease. We are also told that the eminent physician and surgeon, Dr. Dubois of Germany, believes that nervousness is a disease pre- -eminently psychic and that a psychic disease needs psychic treat ment
 pr. Macdonald, in his book, proceeds to discuss the minds power over our ills; the power of the subconscious self the power of suggestion; the power of auto-suggestion; the all- power of the universal life demanding health, realizing health, the light of His face; two chapters devoted to the Emmanual movement; the Emmanuel movement and Christian science; the Emmanuel movement and Jesus Christ; with a final dissertation on "questions and answers"
 Anyone who wish to follow the work now being done by the ministers of the gospel working with the medical prac- titioner can secure much interesting and valuable information from Dr. MacDonald's book.
 With the Battle Fleet" by Franklin
 Matthews, illustrated by Henry Reuter- dahl. (B. w. Huebsh.)
 Everybody recalls that on December 16, 1907, there sailed from Hampton Roads, bound for San Francisco, a fleet of 16 American battleships, the most powerful collection of warships ever assembled un- der the American flag and about to under take the longest cruise that any fleet of any nation had ever made. It was or dered as all recall, to make this journey of about 14000 miles, by President Roose- welt, the commander-in-chiefo of the navy by virtue of his office for reasons which he did not deem wise to make public fully and which up to this writing have not been revealed In his annual message submitted to Congress a few days before the fleet sailed the President designated the feet still known officially the United States Atlantic fieet-as the battle fleet"
 There were about 14000 men on the 16 ships, and the value of the vessels and stores was about $1O0,OO0,00 MT Frank Matthews sailed on the Uni ted States steamship Louisiana" with