The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-08
Literary Lights and Shadohs
BY s. MAYS BALL

N. Y.." is quite interesting. You are not likely to jump up out of your chair and
 shout with delight in the reading, still,
 there is much pleasure, if you look for it,
 to be found in Trial By Marragep-the
 book, this scribe means
 James Missenden, young English chap,
 grew up in the home of his father, a
 widower, who was devoted to scientific study and forgot there was a Master James. The result was, James junior,
 not having known much of the world or
 the people in 1t as boy and youth, when he finds 1t necessary to go to London to earn his living, was what would be called
 in this country an F. Z Mark. The first
 shot out of the box, James marries a disreputable woman, unknown to his people, but is relieved of that incum-
 brance as he thought dncorrectly) by
 railway accident.
 James father died, as well as his rich uncle; the latter left his estate to our
 hero if he would marry his awful, calcu-
 lating cousin-this scribe's horror of a woman as the book shows her to be Well, the first impedimenta having been, as James thought, removed by Provi dence, he takes on the other, which was worse
 James does not have 8 very nice time with his cousin-wife. on the contrary. Mrs. James the second-of course she didn't know she was number two-was just about the limit.
 Far be It from this scribe to suggest ! anything so unladylike. still, in the case
 of such wives as Mrs. James and some husbands we all know, they say, this scribe doesn't say, but they say that ground glass Is very efficacious. Well, of course Mrs James No. had not been killed in the railway accident, so she turns up to disturb poor James, ad n mai Inn After a bit, James came to. the conclu- sion, as an Atlanta man once told this scribe. ''Whats the use? I think I'll just disappear" and both did-the At lanta man (who has nothing to do with
 this novel; and James the hero. After James has wandered around the world bit, permitting his second wife to
 believe him dead so that she prepares to marry again, he decides to come back to England to see his daughter, particu- larly does he wish to do this because he has heard of the real death this time of Mrs. James No. 1.
 When James came home there were complications, naturally.
 Trial by Marriage" like many legal, and they say matrimonial actions, is long drawn out, with exciting portions here and there but altogether a fairly inter- esting novel.
 Hygiene for Young People, by pr. A. P. Knight. Charles E. Merrill Co) The data used in the preparation of
 Hygiene for Young People, is taken from the latest reports of various state and federal boards of health, covering 1 the United States, Canada and other countries where physical conditions are more or less similar.
 The author of this little volume is pro- lessor of physiology, Queens university, I<ipPGfnn fQ Ia author has freely consulted the standard works on physiology and on special topics he has made use of many original mono graphs by leading medical authorities. It is further stated that all of the more fact in the several departments of the book have been carefully examined and the topics submitted to the supervision of the authorities above mentioned. | While the book has been approved by scholars and professional men of special
 qualifications for criticising physiology, l the author has laid the emphasis on hygiene and the text contains an amount of useful information on this subject This Is a valuable little book, intended primarily as a text book or one as O | supplementary reader for use in the schools of this country, but which will
 be found interesting as well as instruc- l tive by those who have paid any atten-
 tion to this subject of such value-hygiene | for the young.
 Those Nerves, by George l.. Walton, M. 1 D. q. P. Lippincott Co.,
 | Dr. Walton sent forth book last year | entitled 'Why Worry?" which was sane, scientific and quite helpful book. That book was based on the old Chinese ] proverb: '"The legs of the stork are long; 1 the legs of the duck are short; you can not make the legs of the storls short;
 neither can you make the legs of the duck long-why worry?' | The object of Dr. Walton's new book, Those Nerves" is to promote such peace of mind as may make for health as well as happiness. "In other words, like vaccination, pure milk and disinfec- l tion, it aims to prevent
 Dr. Walton says that the electrical dis play of a broken trolley wire calls our attention to the fact that 1t is alive and that the wire Is conducting. That by a similar figure of speech we credit nerves 1 with feeling, but that the nerves, like | the wires, are only conductors, and that it Is only the brain that feels. ITO be l accurate, we should, perhaps, replace | those nerves with that brain.'" This book is intended for "those who | need it, and is written by an authority l who knows whereof he speaks Dr. Wal | ton<is the consulting neurologist to the Massachusetts general hospital. Ann Veronica, by H. G. Wells CHarper & ] Brothers)