The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18

have much of time abroad for few weeks Pauline has much to learn.
 Richard Darragh was "one of the boys, a regular cut-up, who had a hapit or
 making trips abroad simply as soDering
 up affairs. He is having one or nis per- | odical sprees and consequent trips abroad
 on board Pauline's steamer when she
 meets. or at least is brushed up against | by him as he staggers to his stateroom. | Pauline could not help seeing that | though a man of unmistakable breeding,
 he was for the moment very, very
 drunk" It is about the voyage which fcl- 1 lows ths stumbling together that We | read in "The Landlubbers."
 Pauline has the gamblers fever; she wanted to get into "poor' on the daily l runs of her steamer, so as to augment l that pitiful (2o00. On deck Papline fool 1 ishly gets very chummy with Mrs blos-
 sic Gately of Harlem. lady Of blonde
 hair and past performances, who. after l few weak-kneed objections, agrees to
 show Pauline how to bet on the ships ] run. Of course Flosse gets most of ! Paulines dinero. Truth to tell, while 1 Pauline was no doubt very pleasing, she | did not glow mentally over 12 candle
 power at the outside limit.
 With most of her hard-earned money | gone. struggled for in her school situated
 
 that nothing is worth while-why not end it all thinks she? She decides to com- init suicide but sensibly concludes that she will rest up bit in her berth before committing the act In the meantime,
 while waiting for the hour set by her self in which to cast her pretty self into the raging deep she falls asleep at the switch and is awakened sometime later by the crashing of the ship into an ice- berg The captain orders all hands to the boats. While making up her mind whether to stay on the wrecked ship ana commit suicide that way. or to go on Tn the boats, the ships load of humanity make a getaway without Pauline. she was awfully wooden headed at times, was Papline. Discovering that she was left on the boat, where she could die all right, just as she had made up her mind to do before this she is startled to beat the bass drum in a brass band. falls down in faint and later crawls on deck. There to her borrow she hears the voice or an- other. It Is our old friend and coliese chump, the .souse Richard DarraGh, also I left on the bunged-up ship. Dick was clad in buff silk pajamas and rain coat. and, for Dick, was quite sober. He nad been sleeping it off' below and had been left behind also.
 Then things begin to happen to these two, between Dicks drunks, They or
 
 Dick sober-but nothing doing at all. Sober half of the time. drunk the next was Dick. Matters are complicated by inc return in a small boat to the ship or the wicked Flossie Gately. With her was an old rich man. Flossie decided she would marry and not be left behind by Pauline in the marrying game; that Is, if any of them ever got to land again.
 More things happened after this quar- let got on board together than you could shake a stick at. The book is interesting. First thing most of us know 1t will De "best seller if we don't watch out or care.
 .'The Landlubbers will thrill you for two or three hours or so. what more oo you wish?
 "shelburne Essays" Sixth Series. by
 Paul Elmer More. (G. P. Putnan's
 Sons).
 Like all that Mir More writes, these essays appeal to every man whose curios- ity about life and human nature is keen and who wishes, as well through the broader experience of books as through the narrower personal experience to know the world better. If possible to come to better terms with it. These essays are chiefly concerned with religion and philos- ophy, but as in the case of the studies of Pascal, Sir Thomas Browne. Bunyan and Rousseau, with literature. also in It's religious and philosophical bearing.
 The titles of the essays included in tn1s volume are: "The Forest Philosophy of India" .'The Bhagavad Gita," Saint Au- eustine." Pascal" sir Thomas Browne ''Bunyan,'' Rousseau" Socrates, The Apology" and Plato" The first of these essays appeared originally in the Atlantic Monthly; the Saint Augustine in the IJibbert Journal; the Sir Thomas orr o pd seau'' in The Nation and the New York Evening Post the Socrates" and "The Apology" together with 'The Crtto' and the closing scene of '"rhe Phaedo,' in a little volume of the Riverside Literature Series, under the title. of 'The Judgment of Socrates" The other three essays have not before been printed. ."rhe Man in Lower .1O," by Mary Rob- erts Rinehart. Dobbs-Merrill Col Most of us enjoyed thoroughly not so long ago either, that very charming, real detective story, written by this author called '"rhe Circular Staircase One or the charms of that detective story was its humor running all the way through IT, Tightening and brightening it up wonder
 fully. doing much to add to the books deserved success.
 We now have another book from this author which is very good also. There is mystery in it all right. No mistake aoout that. Whether the reader will care TOT
 .'The Man in Lower 10 as much as he or she did for "The Circular Staircase Will depend simply upon individual tastes, oI which there are not few varieelesr ana then--some.
 Lawrence Blakely, the rising young law yer who tells this story in the first per son, visits Pittsburg on professional bus mess, carrying with him certain highly important papers. On the return journey he goes to sleep in berth Lower S' ana awakes later to find himself in berth Lower IT. minus the precious documents and all his own belongings except his pa1arnas which, fortunately, he was wear ing. The natural anger arising over this situation Is speedily distaneed. however, by the shock of learning that the drunk en occupant of berth Lower 1o," which, by rights, Blakely should have occupied has been murdered. Then comes the sec ond shock of being accused of the murder and of finding circumstantial evidence strongly against his innocence. fearIul train wreck sends this last set of cir cumstances temporarily to the back ground and throws Blakely much Into the company of Alison West, who is held in high personal, yea. tender. regard by ms friend and partner, Richey Mcknight. Beginning wifh AliBon's acquaintance Blakely has about as thrilling experi- enoes as can be found in the book any where.
 There is not dull moment in the book i-k-