The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-28

'In Ambush" by Marie Van Worst. q. P.
 Lippincott Co)
 Bill Flanders and his friend, Tom Moody, were bad men of the western country. They had been into all kinds of scrapes and ended together down in Texas with quite a lot of money, much of which Moody was taking to his wife. Moody was stricken ill so Bill Flanders was sent on ahead by his friend with the money to deliver to Mrs. Moody. Mary Moody was about 35 years of age at that time. "She was very good sort ar very clever and she fell in love witt Flanders and he fell in love with her"
 At the end of weeks time, unfaithful Bill Flanders and unfaithful Mary Moody left together and made tracks for the unknown, as it were; they went up into Alaska, long before the Klondyke boom, miles north of Yukon, where Bill pros- pered He was a gambler, a miner, all sorts of things, was Bill. Mary killed man who had broken faith with her dur ing Bills absence. Bill shields the woman and hikes back to civilization, where he makes a great deal of money through the operation of gambling hells" and retires to see life by travelling as a gentleman should. Mary Moody? Oh, she disap- peared some place.
 When Bill Flanders, changing his name 
 about a bit, in his search for excitement, more particularly for that one woman who would make his life real life, the story of "In Ambush begins. The scenes shift from America, from Alaska, to Cairo, Egypt. into the desert of Sa- hara. up the Nile, back to America, into the blue grass country of Kentucky and, of course, in all that shifting BiH, alias Sidney, was simply obliged to find that one woman-two or three of them, don't you think? Sure,
 But of course, after Bill found the charming person he wasn't good enough for her-of course not. And then, too, chap named Scranton, whose brother was the fellow whom Mary Moody had killed Scranton thought Bill Flanders was the murderer-was on Bill Flanders Sidney Adair's trail.
 There is lot of excitement in "In Am bush.'' The book is pretty good, noth- ing extra. Some of the descriptions of things and people are all right and the novel will kill a good bit of time, and in doing so, drive away @ lot of trouble, too, no doubt
 'Germaine,' by Henry c. Rowland.
 Crhe John Lane Co.)
 "Germaine' Is a charming story, de- lightful production, one that you should read.
 It deals with Louis Marcellin, a writer of great talent, a man who lived the most careful, ascet.s life, yet wrote some of the most stratlng of the "fleshy school of fic- tion' stories The story of "Germaine" is supposed to be related by Jack Brown,
 an English publisher. an old college mate | of Marcellin at the Sarbonne.
 When the story opens Marcellin had 1 just received at Paris letter from an- | other dear friend of his who was about | to be executed for something or other in i Central America; young Englishman of
 noble birth and breeding. This English | man wished Marcellin to adopt and rear 1 his illegitimate daughter then in a con- | vent in Paris-the daughters name be- | ing Germaine. This, with the assistance 1 of Jack Brown. who tells the story, Mar l cellin proceeds to do. Germaine as a | youngster was terror; ugly, unprepos- | sessing, unattractive in appearance, man. ner and speech, but Marcellin had under taken the job-he would carry it out If he died in the attempt.
 He carried it out all right enough by 1 taking Germaine all over the world the while she grew up into a strong and, as Meredith thought, still boorish, man. nish young creature. But Marcellin, like many men who live in the same houses with women, never walked up to the start ling new birth, as 1t were, of Germaine. Germaine was not particularly pretty; she wasn't exactly handsome. but every | man, nearly, who met her wanted to mar ry her and poor Marcelln could not un
 derstand 1t at all Then Jack Brown,
 who tells this charming story. wakes
 up, too; he wishes to marry Germaine, secures Marcellin's permission to ap-
 proach her on the subject, then discovers
 that in all the years. unbeknownst to everyone, Germaine had loved strongly almost pathetically, her guardian, Mar ] cellin Of course Marcellin must not be
 told of this; Germaine was then on hei