The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-08


 she was not getting what was coming to | her, as the saying is. Here she was, | grown young woman. she would say 10 | herself, and she had to go home at nights, | she had no latch-key. and things were | not going correctly at all. So Ann de- | cides one day that she will have it out | with her father, who is successful solicitor in the city. There was to be
 a dance that night In London which Ann | wished to attend with some harum- scarum friends of hers so that the re- l quest to be permitted to attend this dance would be breaking of the ice with MT. | Stanley. Well, papa declined to let Ann Veronica attend the dance. She pre- | pared to go anyway, and while she was not literally spanked and sent to bed, the l door was locked on Ann and she was | kept at home.
 Ann then made up her mind that the | time had come for her ito live her own | life,' and that she could only do that | by being in London, away from home | and restraints. So she fled to London, | took lodgings there and was followed by | her father, who expostulated with her, | but all in vain. Ann was a new woman; | she must see life; she wished to finish her course at the Imperial university in ! biology, and her father had even ob- | jected to that.
 | Soon Ann's money gave out and she l | cad, much to her later sorrow and re- | gret Ann joins the suffragettes, and 1 with them storms the houses of parlia- ment, was arrested and sent to prison for l 30 days, which cooled An a wee bit. 1 When she came out of prison she went 1 back for time to Morningside park to | live with her father again.
 | There was a wishy-washy chap that | wanted to marry Ann, but the latter | couldn't see 1t that way. She falls in 1 love with the assistant professor of biol 1 ogy at the university, who is married | man, already heretofore mixed up in a l scandal so that his wife would not live | with him, neither would she divorce him, | Then Ann still insisting upon living her l life to the fullest extent, runs away to | the continent with the professor just 1 mentioned and they together spend some,
 we are told, very happy times climbing | mountains and things. But they have to
 come home and face the music after bit, l and MT. Wells does not clearly show us
 in the end just how the music was faced 1 or danced other than to have a happy | ending to the book, for we leave Ann 1 and her professor, now great dramatist, l successfully married and at peace with | Anns father and aunt. The reader Is | likely to wonder whether the professor s l wife died or divorced him to permit the 1 pleasing end of the book.
 | This is a story really, of the unrest in
 the modern woman, done remarkably we'll The book will appeal to two differ ent cassef-those who like straight | forward human story and those who de- mand intellectual stimulus from fresh l point of view.
 Ann Veronica" like all of MT. Wells
 stories, is very interesting and quite
 superior.
 Myrtle Reeds Stories. e. P. Putnam's Sons)
 | The publishers of Myrtle Reeds stories claim that the 12 volumes of her books | have been read by not less than 2,500, 900 1 people Then they ask why? And add
 that realizing the hold of these stories
 upon readers, the publishers are desirous | of securing from some of those who i have found with each new issue of these l books increased attraction. criticism l and an expression of opinion as to the
 reasons for their widespread interest to 1 intelligent people. G. P. Putnams Sons | therefore offer two prizes for the best
 short essay on the exceptional popularity l of these stories; first prize, $50; second 1 prize, $25; and the conditions of the con-
 test are as follows: Q) The essay should
 contain not over 1000 words; @ 1t may be
 devoted either to Myrtle Reeds latest l volume, "Old Rose and Silver" or to a 1 criticism of all her works, including "A | Flower of the Dusk Lavender and Old Lace" At the Sign of the Jack O Ian | tern,' "A Spnster in the Sum- "The | Masters Violin" '"rhe Spnster Book, '
 Love Letters of a Musician and "The
 Shadow of Victory" (0 each essay | should be marked with some designation,
 with the full name and address of the | writer, sent separately in sealed en- l velope; (D the decision as to the com parative merits of these essays will be l left with Miss Jeannette L. Glider. the | well-known critic and author; t5) contri-
 buttons must be submitted by November 2O 1909, addressedUMyrtle Reed Competi- | tion, G. P. Putnanis Sons, 27 West Twen- ty-third street, New York, N. Y" In | the January number of Putnams Nigga 1 zine will appear the announcement or the names of the successful competitors | for these prizes.
 The Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics. l (The Macmillan Col
 In combining into one the two volumes
 of "The Golden Treasury of Songs and 1 Lyrics the publishers have done real
 service to lovers of English poetry. Since | the appearance of the first series in 1864, ] Professor Palgrave's collection has been
 the recognized standard The success
 of his work induced Professor Palgrave to carry on his task and in 1897 a second l series was published. The first volume
 included only poems written before 1850;
 the second, new edition of which was l published in 1906, is confined to the poetry | of the second half of the 18th century.
 But the two are in reality one book, a | real treasury of lyrical poetry.
 In uniting these two volumes into one l book still small enough to slip con- | yeniently into the pocket the Macmillan | company has made even more accessible | the wealth the two treasuries contain. | The Game and the Candle. by Eleanor l M. Ingram. (Bobbs-Merrill Co.) | The hero of this story is young Amer l ican of breeding who to save the girl he loves from poverty, unknown to her, | deliberately commits felony. He is l sent to prison, and his identity Is never | connected with certain Leroy who 1 had a few months before been captured 1 by the officers of the law.
 | Into this prison comes Stanief, grand 1 duke visiting America, who, attracted by | this man under the name of Leroy, aids l him to escape, not only because of the 1 faith in the convict, but because the l latter renders him an important service | Taken aboard Staniefs yacht, the man | under the name of Leroy once more as- sumes his real name, which was Allard. l and with the grand duke crosses to Eu- l rope on the yacht and becomes a great 1 figure in the old world courts.
 | En route, the grand duke learns of the ] death of the emperor of his country and
 of his own elevation to the regency of the empire. Allard becomes his rescuer's