The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-06

are all about the same, they delight multitude of readers. so what's the an- swer?
 And This Is War" by Carl Hermon
 Dudley CCochrane Publishing Co).
 This book which contains a series of pictures of the tragedies that come to individual sufferers, Is intended to emphasize the horrible cruelty of war. The pictures from the authors pen are not pretty but he is understood to be seeking to prevent bloodshed by de- picting the heartrending episodes which accompany human slaughter.
 In And This Is War" is shown the very young man leaving his newly found Sweetheart and his beloved parents, doing what he understands to be hls sacred duty. preparing to lay down his young life on the altar of his country Another but older man, goes because, perhaps, as the author says, he is drafted cannot pay for d sub stitute; yet realizing the dangers and the chance that his little family may be made fatherless.
 The personal tragedies are played upon. The battle scenes are not those which would prove thrilling or inviting to the man about to enlist in the army -Daily Ways to Health" by Emily M.
 Bishop (B. w. Huebsch Esql.
  do all the things that Mrs. Bishop tells you to do, you will be well, happy and all that sort of thing. There are so many of these ways to health, one gets bit discouraged. There are things enough to do, according to Mrs Bishop, goodness gracious; you'll be busy all right enough, and that in itself is something.
 The writer of this does. however, have faith in Mrs. Bishop, for he re- calls with much pleasure her good book, "Seventy Years Loung." And even if he hasn't attempted to make waist muscles supple and strong, to overcome pain at the bast of the brain" or even to work assiduously toward keeping neck muscles firm and preyently double chin" the faith in Mrs Bishop and anything she writes is wholly firm.
 Anyone who can write book such as Daily Ways to Health and not bore one to death in the reading Is a won der Mrs. Bishop is the wonder, for really she has made catching cold, headache nervousness and insomnia at tractive in discussing each. The book Is cheerful Mrs. Bishop must be a very cheerful person herself She too makes you feel. if you happen to be victim of ill of the flesh or mind, that you can free yourself or that you are a
  that's all
 This scribe has seen read, marked and did his living best to inwardly digest so many of these health-giving effusions that he can only repeat, as ne takes pleasure in repeating, that if Mrs Bishop says it's so, it is pretty likely to be so. Worth trying to find out anyway
 Mrs Bishop, under thirty or more different heads gives directions for self-help by right doing and thinking toward oneself Mrs. Bishop empha- sizes the utilization of scraps Of time or ones odd moments for the body s prosperity.
 r.Astir," by John Adams Thayer. tSmali,
 Maynard & Co)
 ii is the personal opinion of this re- viewer that it must have required an enormous amount of nerve, as the saying ls. to get MT. Thayer into the condition ns mind necessary for "Astir," an auto biography, at his age and with what he can exhibit as a result of that age. To be sure he has been a very successful magazine publisher and has. according tc his own and others accounts. done this that and the other in the advertising enc of the publishing business.
 Brlt goodness gracious, there must be 1T New York great many men who have done as much. very f1ucn Hiore eldn ulu MT Thayer and no autobiography. Well MT Tbaver was out of business and he must have had that nerve for he began life as poor boy and ended at an early age rich At an early age he went into printing shop. We read that he was very ambitious and that he was industrious ant that he had executive faculty. He nevei remained long enough in one place to be come stagnant. He worked in Chicago Boston and Philadelphia.
 The big change in business life came with Mir Thayer's application for a posi- tion on the Ladies Home Journal in Phil adelphia He soon became the advertis fnr manager of the Curtis establishment and his big campaign was against paten medicine and other objectionable adver- tising. This is said to have been the in suguratiou of system os refusal of cer'