The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-01

Angela is sorry now that she had en-
 tered the convent, but her vows are not easily to be cast off. But in comes the helper-o of the-loye-sick k-in-distress
 Ippolto decides to lay the whole mat ter before Cardinal Vicar at once
 Well, the Cardinal was seen. You can understand the rest of the plot. If not, why not?
 "Some More Review Contests" offered by Doubleday, Page & Co.
 In announcing in pamphlet form the re- suit of the contest for the best book re- views on MT. E. F. Benson's "The
 Climber" the firm of Doubleday, Page &
 Co.,, still strong in the courage Of their advertising convictions, makes another offer to-wit, prizes for the best reviews of Mrs. Humphry Wards new novel,
 Marriage a la Mode" The rules to be followed are given below, principally that some reader of this department may
 pull some of D. P. & Co.'s prize money
 down into this section-which wasn't done
 in "The Climber" contest.
 1. Copy to be written only on one side
 of sheet, typewriter preferable. ?. The review to be not more than 1000 worlds 750 would be better. 3. The manuscript to be submitted not later than September 15, 1909
 4. The prizes to be awarded and an
 nounced in the November numbers of D. r II America" 'The Worlds Work and
 ''The Garden Magazine the successful
 reviews to be printed at that time The first prize is $50. The second prize | is $30. The third prize is $20 The fourth prize, books from that publishing house S oatalog to the amount of $750 The l fifth, books amounting to $5. The sixth | prize a subscription to Country Life in America" and the seventh prize, a sub
 scription to ''The Worlds Work" i In the pamphlet announcing all of tho l above and the winners in "The Climber contest, the money of which, by the way,
 went to Stratford, Conn. New York city and Chicago, ILL. some books to Nash vile, Tenn, it is stated "We hope that
 we may say without giving offense to our newspaper friends, that the average con tribution (to "The Climber contest was, to our thinking, better than the average
 review which is printed in the news No offense here-on the contrary.
 As a pointer to any probable contest ants Publishers of books, when they offer such prizes, always insist sometimes vociferously that a review condemning the book discussed or criticising 1t harsh
 ly, will have the same opportunity to win a prize as one that praised the book It is not probable that the publishers of books intend that readers should ac- cept that airy persifage seriously, or real ize that they are humorists AS they publish the reviews which win prizes in a pamphlet to be sent about the country broadcast, don't you think such reviews that contain "All sense of literary crafts
 manship Is lost in what seems more an absorbing bit of life than of literature and this is novels highest achieve
 ment" (from the first prize winner on
 'The Climber'o This is MT Bensons
 art No reader should do it'' Gfrom sec
 ond prize winner) and from the third,
 the only money-prizes, Though the
 theme is frankly treated with, at times,
 a brusque harshness of touch, the work
 ings of justice and retribution are felt
 to be inevitable and are made to be pro-
 foundly impressive" really now, stand
 better chances than, well-some other
 other kind of reviews?
 Wherefore In this new contest-"Ver-
 bum sat sapienti' which being freely
 translated simply means that after you
 have been knocked in the head with an
 ax get out of the way of it next time or
 get hold of 1t and swing it yourscelf
 would be better.
 "The Battle,"a novel. by Cleveland
 Moffett. (G. w. Dillingham; Co)
 The material of this story Is taken
 chiefly from the play, "The Battle." a
 metropolitan success with which is blend
 ed about half the old text of Mir. Moffett's
 "A King in Rags
 Mir Moffett is of the opinion expressed
 that the exceptional men who do ex
 ceptional things are entitled to exception
 al rewards, but that there should be a
 limit to these rewards.
 That it is inconceivable that any man can earn or deserve a thousand million dollars! Or hundred million dollars! Or fifty million dollars! And that 1t Is intolerable injustice that such enormous sums should be inherited by persons who have done nothing exceptional, but have merely benefited by an accident of birth MT. Moffet believes in an inheritance tax so vigorously graduated that on a rich | mans death the state would take all | that he leaves above say, ten or twenty millions.
 This novel is not a tract however. The | story is concerned with the adventure l of the richest man in America who, un- l der an assumed name, goes into business | to win his lost son and who proves. in the | process, that a man of brains can and | will rise from the bottom to the top to- | day as readily as 40 years ago. | The book Is an interesting discussion, l we'll done, of the eternal struggle be- | tween conscience and desire.
 Here are three suppositions that might come to you or some one in the reading of the book:
 Suppose that you were young woman of emotional temperament whom men loved too easily and too well. Suppose that great love came into your heart, the love for fine, strong man of high ideals, who transformed your life and made 1t worth the living.
 Suppose you found that he was begin ming to love another woman and you knew that by the lure of your beauty you could arouse his passion, would you