The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-03
Literary Lights And Shadows
NY S. MAYS BALL

good God e'-said John. How's that for a hero? Should he not have been taken out and beaten over the head with an ak?
 Oh, we'll Mrs. Atherton is one of the recognized literary lights of this coun- try; hence the great disappointment IT, cldent to a reading of Tower of Ivory. " Maggie finally kills herself; Johnnie, hay Ing married rich American, in the old fashioned, not mental way, by which he secured a few millions, kills her by neglect, coldbloodedness and cruelty-bnt of the mind remember; no assault or | battery with John. He was too refined for that; he and his scent and his 2si neckties and things.
 This reviewer felt after finishing Tow CT of Ivory" as If he had. after long years of separation, met an old friend, Mrs. Atherton, in whom he is disap- pointed.
 Tar Heel Tales" by H. E. c. Bryant.
 "Red Buck" (Stone & Barringer Co.,,
 --.arlotte, N. O
 These Is tales of North Carolina, con cerning all sorts of conditions of people, were written by H. E. c. Bryant, better known in charlotte as Red Buck. As 1 staff correspondent of the Charlotte Ob- l server, Mir Bryant visited every corner l of North Carolina and In his travels over | the state wrote many stories of human interest, depicting life and character as | he found 1t.
 Mr. J. P. caldwell, the gifted editor of the Charlotte Observer, has stated--re- garding Red Bucks work: His negro dialect stories are equal to those of Joel 1 Chandler Harris-Uncle Rsmus.''
 There Is said to be no better known man in North Carolina than Red Bucki that letter addressed to "Red Buck, North Carolina" would be delivered to ! H. E. C. Bryant at Charlotte. 1 MT. Bryant has travelled all over the state of North Carolina and for his news paper, now for his book, has written hu- man Interest stories from every sand hill and cove. They say that many Tar Heels know him by no other name than Red Buck. In fact, that there Is sort of Red Buck fad in the state, which re- suited in a Red Buck brand of whisky, a Red Buck cigar, a Red Buck mule, q Red. Buck rooster although we are told | that the man for whom they are named, | like Congressman Hobson drinks not; neither does he smoke
 Tar Heel Tales" artistically bound, containing MT. Bryant's best work, some Acres and Mule;" is worthy produc- ton.
 ''rhe Poet of Galilee,'' by William Ellery Leonard, Ph. D. (B. W. Huebsch, ESQ., This is literary study of the authentic fragments of the dscourses and sayings of Jesus as embedded in the Synoptic Gospels. A psychological analysis and re- construction of the imposing personality and genius of the great Galilean, rather than an abstract exegesis of his theology or ethic.
 It is the earnest work of writer whose desire to approach all problems of men and books with self-relance and tNsach- ment. This essay though conscientious | ly based upon the results of modern scholarship, Is neither technical nor polemic: and, though frankly emphaslz- ing the humanity of Jesus, should be welcome and helpful to thoughtful men and women of any creed.
 | The contents consisting of an intro drction, the Observer, the Lover the Seer, the Inspired, the Man of Sorrows, the Scourger, the Humorist, the Alert, the Story-Teller the Saver and a Hero of Folklore, will give the prospective reader an idea of the book. Who do men say that I am?" 1 Here is one bit from Professor Leon- ards book Tt is probably not literally true that he was tempted in all things just as we; it is probable that he never knew, as most of us know too well, the craving for praise of honorable achieve nent-the craving for social standing, for money to live generously, for a plot of land on which to set a house. Tt is probable that he never felt to the full the mysterious power, old and fundamental as life, that depends on sex. And the domestic ties. that noble as they sometimes are, may yet divide disastrous ly, for his individuality and for the world, a mans duties between his vision of things beyond and his wife and children about hirn-these he never contracted. If in some ways, then, his life, in spite of it's imaginative comprehensive ness, was less varied than Goethe's or ahakespeare's His masterfu singeness of purpose gave unity to that life not often paralleled in history-a unity made perfect by sacred martyrdom."