The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-01
Literary Ligh1s and Shadohs
BY s. MAYS BALL

Graduate Medical School and Hospital; attending physician to the Riverside San atorum for Consumptives of the City of New York, and lot of other things, Is the learned doctor.
 This reviewer has read carefully Dr. Knopfs book with great interest The former spent four years out in The Land That God Forgot" Arizona, Call fornia, Mexico and so forth, chasing the cure" coming in contact personally with thousands of "lungers,
 Of course, tuberculosis is curable, or at least the disease can be arrested as they say, If taken in time. There Is no question of that. For instance, this re- viewer, the night before he went west, hunting-ozone in the winter of 1901. spent a portion of that evening at his club to say goodbye to friends When he left the club there were in a certain room eight strong, be-sick men who bade the reviewer goodbye, with an air (hidden of course, but nev- ertheless there) Oh, well, we'll hear of you coming back soon to Gods Coun- try 'In the Baggage Coach Ahead" Be- fore this reviewer completed his chase-of- the-cure In the west seven of those strong men died, and the unhealthiest looking of the lot, together with the writer of this, are the only ones left of that com pany of nine. Showing what? Simply that you never can tell.
 As this department has, in reviewing other books treating tuberculosis, often stated, the disease, if taken In time, can be as easily If not easier, cured or Ear rested"-same thing for all practical pur- poses--than typhoid fever.
 The greatest business success in Ari- zona today is MT. E. H. Harriman's per sonal representative in the west, presi- dent and general manager of no telling how many railroads. mines and so on, who was sent from Kentucky by Col. C.. P. Huntington, way back yonder; sent to the west on stretcher-he was not expected to survive the journey. He has now only about one-third of one lung re- maining in his chest, but Is the "chest- iest'' man in the western section.
 The "lungers' in the west have mot to, God Almighty Hates a Cutter" and many of them following that motto win out. Anyone can do 1t.
 "When I Am Rich," by Roy Mason. e.
 w. Dillingham; Co).
 The greater portion of this book, that is the action therein, takes place in New York and many aspects of great city are portrayed. The book is wholesome, breezy and humorous; naturally the man got the girl" else why the book?
 It deals with the story of a young college man who went absolutely "broke" in the streets of New York. Being up against 1t, he Is forced to accept the ad- vice of member of the underworld with whom he is thrown in contact. The advice aforesaid consisted mainly in that one. particularly a struggler, should keep feelin' cheerful inside all the time,' except when his lady love proves unkind. which has been known to happen (so they say) oft and anon, in fact a great deal of the time In both the upper and the uDder-w world
 fvt,a a North river pier when he first meets "her" but we note that his new found philosophy stands him in good stead which was Just as well-for he succeeds so well by it that he progresses through a series of marvellous adventures to much better. more suitable position than driving wheel-truck.
 Of course the hero gets into Wall street. How easy it Is for heroes in books to get into that locality, make a fortune get the girl and live happy ever after" to a more or less extent? Any how this hero did 1t in Wall street. Wall street in books Is certainly one easy mark. Nevertheless you can go to New York right now to find plenty, more than a sufficiency, to suit your own pocket hook of real-life heroes of your home town. who went to New York to make "killing' standing around ready to breakfast, lunch dine with you, to save their own money.
 But that is neither here nor there. "When I Am Rich" will kill time very pleasantly. if you have any of that most precious thing in the world (next to po- liteness) to murder. So there you are. "Peter-Peter a Romance Out of Town
 by Maude Radford Warren. QHarper
 & Brothers)
 This is novel dealing with some what wooden-headed young man of much money, that he lost simply because he could not be shown by friends wiser than he that a certain business firm was going to take it from him. The young mans 8 maine was Peter and before the loss of all his money he had married one Of hls aristocratic set. to-wt, Margery. This pair had been accustomed to and delight ed in motor cars. a mild attack of joy riding occasionally, and when the money went. it was appalling, or words to that effect.
 Peter Peter had been attempting to paint pictures, but no one took Peter se- riously, certainly not the buyers Of plc- lures. So when Peter lost his money