The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-17

1 the need of sleep, you can be sure you
 are listening to or reading from man l who knows whereof he speaks.
 Dr. Saleeby also very auth oritatively
 and most Interestingly discusses drugs
 and drugging; the question of alcohol
 praises milk and bread; devotes chap
 ters to foods and appetite; the use of l meat; the new school of dietetics; the
 care of the bowels, the skin and it's ap- pendages. To the care of the teeth, on growing stout and growing old, the elixir of youth, the care of the senses, the racial functions, concerning heredi- ty and the transmission of contagious disease, Dr. Saleeby also devotes q chapter each.
 It has been the object of Dr. Saleeby to write text book of physical moral ity from the point of view of what he calls "The New Asceticism," the doc Urine that in man the original relation of the physical and the phychical has been reversed and that large muscles, for instance are only to be of value and 1 to be desired if they serve their own CTS mind: believing that while the cure of disease is only possible for the practitioner, the prevention of disease and the maintenance of bodily and | mental health can be effected and prac- | ticed through the art of writing In Health, Strength and Happiness" Dr. Saleeby accomplishes much in that direction. It is a valuable, interesting | book.
 l "The Right Man" by Brain Hooker Bobbs-Merrill Co.).
 This reviewer has been longing and constantly on the lookout for a book which, through its strenuous hero, prac- xVb he
 stance, if the reader recalls in The Fighting Chance" what the hero in | that story. as well as the you-can't- stop hero in The Scarlet Car" were going to do, but didn't do, all sorts of things to the girls In both books they loved, but who spurned them. Said Winthrop in The Scarlet Car" MT Richard Harding Davis story to the ef- feet when the young lady declined to marry him that he didn't propose to be spurned. that he would simply take the object of his ambition in motor car, drive her into town, call a preach CT and marry her willy nilly. The girl loved Winthrop as the girl in "The Fighting Chance loved that hero but they both hesitated which was trying. but in view of all the threats made by both men, easily overcome. Did those heroes grab the object of their
 
 the young clerk in Great Expecta- tions" pass a church, call attention to that strange looking building and say why here's a church. there is a preacher; why, let's get married?" Not at all; in face of all their threats and talk of what they were going to do, they did simply what all men in and out of books have been doing for 5000 years, which length of time the Worlds Almanac of 1909 tells Is the period in which man on this earth has been conscious of his existence here and really alive as psychic being To- , wit, they played Fido, rolled over, Jumped through hoops, all the necessa- ry things, until the young female per sons of beauty got good and ready So that in view of all the above it is really a delight to find a book which car ries out the unities, let us say. In "The Right Man" the lover who appeared on the scenes at the right time, said he
 was going to marry the lovely girl in certain way which was when the ship ar rived at Marseilles. When the ship did arrive the lover declined to tolerate any foolishness and the marriage took place. Goodbye, MT. Hookeri The story in 'The Right Man is very fine, even not consid- ering the unities aforesaid. It deals with voyage across the Atlantic on a snip carrying among others pretty girl, her rich captain of industry nancee, her aunt guardian anc -.le new lover. The new lover and the girl both caught a glimpse of the light that never was on sea or land at the same time. With the result as de- scribed above. But there was a lot of hemming and having before time was called. The right man was all right be- cause, as MT Hooker argues. he was