The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-11
Literary Lights and Shadoh's
BY S. MAYS BALL

thropic on the grand soale-a man in
 whom kind of formal righteousness is
 blended with treachery and dishonesty.
 This volume will please any reader who
 cares for the books which contain meat"
 in them-it is not volume to read on
 q railway journey or a summers after
 noon-for which we should be thankful.
 The married couple mentioned above | jumped-the-traees the bulk of the irlI-
 some duties imposed by Uncle Gregory's
 will rested mainly on them. They free
 themselves from those trials and tribula- | tioas and it Is shown how the grandiose
 fame of Uncle Gregory withers and ] shrinks.
 A great confiagration plays in the de- ] noument of this very worthy book
 very important part; all of which and
 much that the reviewer purposely does
 not tell you, can be ascertained by read 1 ing-which is more than worth while 'eWhere the Fishers Go. the Story of Labrador" by Rev. P. W. Browne. <; (Cochrane Publishing @
 "Labrador-where the fishers go-has ever , been to me a land of fascination in early 1 days 1t was the Hesperides of my wouth- ] ful dreams;' and when In spring time l 1 heard the thud of the mallet and caulk- ] ing Iron, and watched the departure of 1 the%. fleet which does business in great
 
 ! of myriad charms. But the fates were i unpropitious then; and not until I had | served my missionary apprenticeship did visit the land where
 "There are magic lures in the open air, l There are wondrous things for the eyes,
 That all that. is the beginning of Dr. Brownes "Foreword" and the worst part about the book, which is all right outside of the criticism the reviewer is now go- ing to make-is that you, the reader, get to lodging quotations from the poets, also what Charlestonian said to this reviewer | recently was ''high-faluting writing" | Those are the only criticisms one could fairly make on Where the Fishers Go.' For in it is much valuable data and information that will instruct and please alike, the student, the traveller and the general reader.
 Very few people know (and, also care) | that Labrador has a coast line of HOO miles; that its aggregate breadth is 600 miles and its area equal to the area of the British Isles, France and Austria combined. The eastern portion belongs to the jurisdiction of Newfoundland; the | remainder now forms part of the prov | ince of Quebec, Canada.
 | There is much of interest in this vol | ume; 1t is amply illustrated by photo grahps by the author and others. Among other things this reviewer wished | to know and never looked up was what | was Moravian Brother or Mission? He used to see one brother in California | to whom he could never get within l speaking distance to make inquiries. h. tentional on the Brothers part? Don't knowl No one In California inquired of, | knew anything of the Mission-but 1t is all in Dr. Brownes book.
 | AI.,A | jerked in here and there-even among the Esquimauxi
 "The Planter" by Herman Whitaker
 (Harper & Brothers).
 | It is only the artistic manner and skill shown by MT. Whitaker in the handling of the Uaterials in his latest story, "The Planter" which make 1t what it really is-a very interesting novel,
 Handled as most, not most but many of tho books these days are "The Planter" would have been awful. It is a pleasure to state that "The Planter" | is all right.
 The story deals with young New | Englander David Mann," with that
 typical conscience, Mary E. Wilkins | Freeman tells us Gas do other writers) l all New Englanders have; but who
 wasn't a prig, nor a cad (which was a
 great dealD was made the manager of
 a rubber company in Mexico Mann's | widowed mother had beeen induced to
 invest most of her fortune possibly
 David got his job that way. But
 David goes to Mexico for very
 strenuous year-things were different
 in the "Manana" (tomorrow) land from
 what they had been in New England. 1 According to the story, David finds in
 Mexico slavery far exceeding in "cruel- 1 ty' that of the negro slavery in the United States.
 A neighboring planter, Herz, becomes 1 David's bitter enemy simply because l the latter wished to interfere with the
 way Herz handled his labor. Very pe-
 culiar man-Herz, not to understand the New England consciencel
 There is 8 pretty love story in the book dealing with David Mann and his
 feelings for beautiful Mexican ! glrl-who was as good as she was
 beautiful. She couldn't have been very good then, that Is to say, the reviewer
 spent nearly a year in Mexico and never
 saw even a good looking woman, and
 he looked for them.
 Anyway, admitting the Mexican girl
 was beautiful, she and David plan to
 work out the labor situation in the
 tropics along humanitarian lines. The fake rubber company and the methods
 by which its promoters secured the
 savings of small investors are notab
 features of MT. Whitaker's good novel
 which really is interesting throughout.
 'The Planter" undoubtedly will please the general reader.
 "An Adventure in Exile" by Richard Duffy. (B. W. Dodge & Co) This Is a pretty romance of Normandy,
 but in which most of the characters are Americans.
 Two American bachelors, together with an American girl and a French i widow furnish the book its heart-or love-interest. Such bevy should be
 able to do that easily.
 In the book there is an awfully disap- pointed French lover with very de- lightful mother who attempts, and in a measure does console his broken heart by buying for him the finest automobile in France Joy rides' are said to be cancellations and sometimes fortunately for pedestrians) the end of sorrow, pleas | ure-even life itself.
 There was a French peasant girl who had been "thrown down." so to say, three times hand running on account of her meager dowry. Not having a rich mother to buy for her motor car, this | girl ends her life another way, to-wit. by suicide. This Is the one serious, pa- I thetic part of the book. Tho book is gay rather than serious, and will give a few hours of real pleasure in the reading of this romance of Normandy, which is Il | clean WhalasOme and first rata