The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-26
Monies, the Matador.' by Frank Harri

Monies. the Matador.'' by Frank Harris
mitchell Kennerley)
Now, If you could produce stories SINH
lar or within, say, a few hundred kilo-
meters to the FIVE here mentioned under
the general title, Monies, the Matador,'
which is the title of the first in the SUI
perior book, well. you wouldn't long COM
plain of heartless editors or readers" as
this scribe has done often, more's the
pity.
Mr. Harris is the editor of the London
| Saturday Review. An authority. too, he
| Is. on Shakespeare.
The first story of the collection.
Monies the Matador' is a gem. Next
in delight as experienced by this review
en- is Sonia" the story of one of those
must die for-her-people young Russian
women who feel called upon to cry out,
Yours for the Revolution kill some
body, be hanged and buried Mr.. Harris
knows how to tell his story. otherwise
much of this red-hot talk would appear
distasteful. From most of the stories
written from Russian women, they must
be an awfully bloodthirsty lot.
From Monies, the Matador," who had
his trifling heart broken. took his revenge
and left the bull-ring; to "Sonio,'' the last
scribe only desires to say that for finish,
polish and pure delight In short story
writing Mr.. Mitchell Kennerley publish
err. is importing for us a mighty good
thing; no better on the market.
THE Great Natural Healer" by Charles
Heber Clark "a. w. Jacobs & Coz
Mr.. Charles Heber Clark. If recollection
runneth not to the contrary formerly
-. -, an hoy
where he found many pleasant spots upon
which he dallied with his numerous
friends. Since hitting those pleasant
spots, If spots he did hit hereabouts. In
other words, II we have got the same
Charles Heber, Mr.. Clark has done much
writing under the pen name OF Max
Adeler, which he now haughtily discards
and will be known hereafter to all lovers
of humorous literature under his real
name, which doubtless Is much better.
Certainly Clark is easier spelled and re-
called than Adeler.
Mr.. Ciark's new volume, THE Great
Natural Healer" contains the narration
of the trials of man who Is mistaken
for a physician endowed with wonderful
powers of healing. There is no reference
to Christian Science. mental healing, or
anything of the sort; 1t Is simply very
ridiculous book.
Come again, Charles Heber If you are
our long-lost Charles Heber) and give us
more. under your real name. The public
can stand 1t.
"Bianca's Daughter" by Justus Miles
Forman. (Harper & Bros.)
What Is coming next In the situations
offered in books to stimulate interest?
Mr. Forman formerly has been pleased
to be quite a mild young man, In his writ
ings, at least. In his latest novel, 'Bian-
cas- Daughter" long before we know any
thing about It, a charming woman had
deserted her husband to run away with
another man-of course, you say-but all
necessarily, on the contrary. The pecu-
liar idea played up In Mr.. Forman's nov
ell Is that he shows how very proper 1t
all was for the lovely wife to abscond by
the winding stairway, by depicting what
an awful creature the husband was. Us
ually, you see. novelists have made the
husband deserted the paragon of all that
was lovely and the lover the cad. But
Mr.. Forman simply juggles the cards
completely and thereby makes q fairly
readable story out of "Bianca's Daugh-
ter" r.f /!
For. YOU see. the complications take
place 20 years after the aforesaid elope-
ment, when the daughter" learning the
facts. believes that her mother did ex
actly right. But. hold, A love affair
spring up hurredly between "Bianca's
Daughter" that Is, the daughter of the
fieet-footed wife of 20 years past and the
son of her mothers lover. Now what
have you to say? Isn't Mr.. Forman wax
ing warm?
And how the complications were worked
out The lover of old seeks out the awful
discarded parent of "Bianca's Daughter"
and forces him to release Blanca from
solemn promise she had made that she
would never marry her gay Lothario.
Mixed up A good deal. If you wish to
know anything more of Blanca" and her
daughter, 1t will not tire you to find out
by reading the book. The book is far
above the average.
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