The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-28
H. C. Abbott 6 Bro.

make hit with you, you had better ar- range promptly to place yourself under the Jurisdiction of MT. John D. Rocke- feller's hookworm commission to be worked on.
 '"rhe Wiving of Lance Cleaverage." by
 Alice MacGowan. co. P. Putnam's
 Sons)
 Miss MacGowan, formerly of Tennessee, writes very charmingly of the old noun tains, Turkey Track" and so on-that she must remember so lovingly.
 AS this reviewer has attempted to make clear before, he has travelled a bit up in the mountains of Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina and so forth, and never yet has he seen or even heard of any beautiful mountaineer women thereabout certainly none such as make up the he- roines of Miss MacGowan's books. But leaving that point out of the question, which will be necessary, the rest of Miss MacGowan's stories are all right; true, and are quite interesting and convincing.
 In this story, the latest from Miss Mac Gowan's pen, we read of the love and marriage of Lance Cleaverage and Cal lista Gentry-both hot headed, hot tenn pered, yea bull-headed young mountain eers, neither of whom after marriage would give in to the other. The result was, of course, only one thing or two. I6 husband wife declined to '.give in''-one of them had to get out; this Callista did twice and no doubt Is stiu doing it, if there is a real Callista any, where abouts.
 Miss MacGowan tells us though, or would have us believe at any rate that in time Callista was conquered through love and suffering. This reviewer doesn't believe 1t Then. too Miss MacGowan having pictured to us two strong, con- trary creatures, both much alike, both insisting on this or that little thing the author seems unconsciously, because she is a woman, no doubt to place most of the blame on the wife, whereas it is very clear in the novel that Lance caused as much of the trouble as did Callista
 There is plenty of action in the story 1t is well written. There Is only one fight in the novel-for which relief, much thanks-and no tobacco chewing at all carrying out this reviewers often ex- pressed theory that a convincing novel dealing with mountaineer life could really be written without much destruction of chewing tobacco. This scribe stands vin- dicated He therefore, takes pleasure in recommending, because the book de- serves ft-'The wiving of Lance Ceaver- age"
 
 Rickert (Moffat Yard & Co.)
 Once there was little girl named Tyrrhena Sidonia Cloverdale and she was the only child of the Congregational min- ister in the town of Harmony. Mass. i, and she lived with her father and her Aunt Lucia in the square white house next door to the church."
 The little girl didn't like her name-she didn't understand why other children should be called Tom, Mary "and like that" whereas the facts were that the little girls mother, poor Sally studied Biblical geography. all that time Rueben was in Palestine for his health or what ever 1t was; and when this youngster ap- peared. she reckoned he must have been somewhere about Tyre and Sidon and thought the names would be a pretty tribute to him. But he wasn't pleased. 1t seems-wanted her called Reubena,- sand-blind and ny-stung, suppise !. and he wrote her letter that broke her heart-so they say in Bideford Any, way, when he came home he wrote her choice epitaph.
 Then the little girls father died and Uncle Ben, her mothers brother, a suo- cessful artist in Paris, appeared on the scene to take Tyrrhena Sidonia Clover l dale home to live with him Then began 1 great times for the little girl and her magic" mirror, into which he daily ! gazed and conversea with "sidoniar who 1 was entirely different from the high i strung, nervous, though gentle "Tyrr- hena."
 After tripping around Europe poor ! Uncle Ben died, leaving the little girl now grown-up to be a very attractive l woman. to fight for herself She was 1 quite adept In modelling, so she went to London to start life over again There at an auction of el things; those curios she and uncle had collected, she didn't l now need-Miss Cloverdale called by her 1 uncle and later all through the book by everyone else. "Petty-zou," meets Lord Wharton. In the due course of later events the noble lord fell in love with Petty-zou and tried to marry her but for long time co lldn't.
 The novel deals with the fight that | Petty-Zou puts UT, through ''Tyrrhena'' and 'The Beggar in the Heart assisted by "Sidonia" against the pleadings of Lord Wharton.
 ] Petty-Zou goes to live in what we might call the slums, where she is soon wor- shipped by everyone. Poor PettyZou was taken advantage of by everyone with { whom she came in contact; Lord Whar- ton knew it and kept sharp lookout for her But even then she has some start ling escapades, through her bull-headed- ness, her fights with the bsggar in her i heart who could not be hushed
 Al times the reader will wish to shake Petty-Zou; she was such a. little fool but charming with all that It Is quite tribute to an author when she can make you feel that if you only could get one good lick at one of her characters
 what wouldn't you do to her or him, eh?
 The beggar in the Heart is first class. One of the good books of this year.
 ''rhe Writing on the Wall,'' by Edward
 Marshall (G. Dillingham; Col
 The novel, '"The Writing on the Wall" by Edward Marshall is founded on Miss Olga Nethersole's play of that name. by William J. Hurlburt- Miss Nsthsrsole