The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-05


 The Redemption of Kenneth Galt," by Will M Harben. Harper & Brothers This reviewer thinks that 'The Re- dempetion of Kenneth Galt'' is the best novel yet written by MT Harben-and he has written some first-class stories. as all discriminating readers know. In tbis latest story MT. Harben has laid the scene in Georgia, at the town of .Staf ford'-in his other novels it was Darn ley" you know, generally believed to be MT. Harben's old home town, Dalton. Ga.
 Kenneth Galt was a brilliant young man of ability and much money who had read so much on science and philosophy that he has reduced us all--good, bad and indifferent-to mere cosmic dust According to him we are mere mud babies energized by planetary force and living on the pap of graft. Ask him to account for good spiritual impulses and he will, if he admits there are any. show you conclusively that good conduct is the mere evolutionary result of communal self-interest; men came to believe mur- der was wrong only because they didn't want their own throats cut"
 In the town of Stafford lived an old Simon Walton, the towns skin-fint, who had son always in trouble. In the be- ginning of the novel Fred, the son. hay ing lost 5000 of his fathers money and believing that his father would prosecute him as a common thief, runs away from home just at the time that the pretty Dora Barry. the organist at the church, gets into trouble, is ruined and for which ruin Fred Walton is blamed-his run ming away happened too close together with the news of Dora to avoid the coup linz ha m . rnnl1oa
 Of course as you know from the title of the story, it was the cultivated Ken neth Gait, he that believed in and pro mulgated free love- -above-the- world s-ordinary-rules talk to poor Dora that caused her downfall and Fred Wal tons unjust accusation.
 While the story deals primarily with Kenneth Galt's "redemption.'' there are los of other people in the story who needed and who were redeemed.
 Kenneth Gait. brilliant and able with . theory of life which pretty much allows human beings to make their own moral laws, providing they call themselves by highsoundng names-had betrayed Dora Barry. Instead of fighting the wrong, he quits the town of Stafford. Then six years go by; Kenneth Gait comes to pow CT and fame and returns to the village to meet his own child
 
 the man and woman are brought together rather unexpectedly.
 "The Redemption of Kenneth Calt" is all right--first class, well worth reading The book is clean and wholesome and most refreshing.
 "Home- Made Philosophy; HomeM Made and Hand Turned" By Albert William Macy. (sturgis & Walton Co.)
 Based on the quotation. Take the short cut, and that is the natural one''-fron Marcus Aurelius. MT. Albert William Macy cautions his readers of "Shortcu Philosophy to this effect:
 Some like their philosophy in small doses. sugar-coated and easily digested For such this book is intended. Others prefer it in large packages, voiuminousiS wrapped about with ponderous verpiage They must look elsewhere
 few selections of Mir Macy's philos ophy will give the reader an idea of the contents of the pretty. entertaining catchy little volume:
 "A busy man is never too busy 70 tei