The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-17


compel his characters to exhibit them
selves. A great literary knack that. too.
The y chapters are II capsules of whole
some fun, to be taken one right after the
other. with results guaranteed by this
reviewer.
1.-The Girl From His Town. by Marie
Van Vost CThe Bobbs-Merrill Coz
Dan Blair, whose father had recently
died leaving Dan in Blairtown, Mont,
only $50 900, 900 Careless father. thatD had
gone to England to visit an old friend of
his fathers. Lord Galorey, to whom Dad
Blair had been kind in years gone, when
the lord was travelling in this country
hunting big game. by gad sir. Young
Dan was overlooking with % years of
age good health. ten million pounds
sterling, an overplus of slang and nerve,
all of which, particularly the fifty mil
lions. was most interesting to the En-
glish house-party at Lord Galorey's, into
which Dan Blair broke soon after his ar
rival across the pond.
Among those present at the house party
was the Duchess of Breakwater. who,
like John Henry needed the money,
decided to and did set her caps, many
of them. for poor little. unprotected Dan,
he of the s50,o0o,ooo.
And from the book one would judge
would have clinched Dannie II in an idle
moment she hadn't taken him to the the
atre, where strange things before this,
have been known to happen. break up
plans and demolish arrangements Be
that as 1t may, Dan found the leading
lady In ''Mandalay" to be Lefty Lane"
the little girl who used to serve soda wa
ter at the drug store in Blairtown and
incidentally sing From Greenland's Icy
tatr of IN
church on Sundays, between drinks. as 1t
were.
But Lefty was not the Lefty of Blair
town; on the contrary. She has turned
the heads of all London by her singing
and dancing and living at the pace that
kills (the other fellow; certain Prince
Ponoitowsky Letty's latest and richest
and 1t can be understood easily that
| both the sophisticated Duchess of Broken
water and Lefty Lane were far cries
from the nice-girl Dan wished to marry
| so soon as he could find her.
| He had become engaged, of course. to
| the Duchess; 1t was SO written in her
| books, but certain discovery let's him
out of the engagement and then comes
a passionate and insistent wooing Of Let
| ty Lane.
The book is full of up-to-the-minute.
so-called slang: it will help the passing
of some idle time on your or your friends
hands, but, will not. in the humble opin-
ion of this reviewer. add to the reputa-
ton of Marie Van Worst
CAB No. 44-A Novel" By r. F. Foster.
| (Frederick A. Stokes Coz
Two financiers of the frenzied order
had an argument at dinner one evening
| in New York as to whether suspect
could elude the New York police for a
month, II given a good start, "a hours,
after committing a robbery. wager
of $4,000 side was made on this propo-
stion and mysterious foreigner I'M
dertakes to play the game Of suspect
This foreigner, an Englishman. had
come to New York with letters OF intro
ductiop to a nice family and had been
also introduced at one OF the New York
clubs. No one knew the Englishman, 80
he undertook the robbery. which was to
take place in a hotel without having tc
break any locks or climb through any
windows-to keep clear of later conse-
auences, II caught. He had been known
by the family to whom he had been in
troduced by letter as Hardy Maxwell
he was now known to these conspiratori
against the policies peace as Mr.. Fletcher