The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-03
was his mission. That his works are of permanent value, and so on.

White Magic by David Graham Phil lips. (D. Appleton 6, Co)
 | MT. D. G. Phillips Is one of a group of successful young authors, supposed to be rolling in pieces-of-eight, torn from the hands of publishers who hang upon his and their doorsteps for manuscripts, who. given a drawing or painting or two by | Wenzell will turn out for you or any body else, auickly-for a price-a novel of great power" The Wenzell picture must be forthcoming on c. 0. D. method though, or nothing doing MT. Wenzelrs pictures of heroes. standing 3 to 10 feet tall, with shoulders at least six feet from tip to beam. upon which rests head suitable in sibe for a 12- year old boy a waist-line of 3e-is that about right? We'll you finish Mir. Phil lips, Mir. Robert Chambers, George Barr McCutcheon, Harold MacGrath or any Of those electricity producers, Werzell pie ture, in colors. preferred, and if you don't get novel from MT. Phillips, particular l ly dealing in power, within a jiffy, it will be because he Is busy on something else or asleep-at- -the-switch-which ye gods and little fishes forbld
 Some one, who has doubtless often re- | gretted it some, must have told Mir Phil l lips that putting much power in his | novels he had a right, or could take Il, to deal frequently with the questionable; | at any rate he does 1t anyway. In some of his novels MT. Phillips has discussed
 matters with directness not equaled outside of tho Decameron.
 White Magic" is just another Satur- day Evening Post serial, now put be- tween covers. The plot concerns an American painter, educated in Paris, who comes back to America to set up at work in the woods and devote his life always, forever and q day to his ari with capital A. Of course, one day l in u rainstorm, a lovely girl Is forced to take refuge in the painters hut. Re turning from work the painter finds her there, asleep before the fire; not Tn Il, or of it. but before the fire-remember that! Do you know how Wcnzells men net when they find strange young ladies, pretty and all that. in their rooms? NO ? | Not much like real men.
 The pretty girl has fallen deeply, oh, so terribly in love with the painter welded already (but to his art> and she rroposes fto .erself) to divorce MT. Pain- ter from his present. wife Miss Art and take him unto herself As she is the daughter of very rich man, man who had never let a little or big obstacle | stand in his Why; inherltinS HucH oI tha strength, sometimes called, in real life
 buli-head dedness, there is but one answer to the problem. Mir Painter was doomed and it wasn't very long before mamma papa and the young girl had him, tied
 branded, and eating out of their hands
 Now, if you wish to waste lot of time
 reauing white Magic,' wherein much ol the conversations turned loose by Miss
 Young Lady are quite below the belt and could hardly be tolerated in the best regulated families now is your opportuni. | ly. For six months from now, you may go into your local book sellers and ash for White Magic and you might have to explain to him that 1t is book, not rat powder that you wish.
 "The Day of Souls" by Charles Penney | Jackson. (Bobbs- Merrill Co.)
 The best story, novel. sketch. essay oi what not on old San Francisco or the new the Paris of America, that has ,spne out of the cast or west, not excepting Wh Irwins ''The City that Was delightful sketch though 1t isis ''The Day of Souls
 by young newspaper man of Frisco.
 To appreciate crackerjack novel oI