The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-21
Literary Lights And Shadows
BY s. MAYS BALL

'.Nobody's Cousin" by A. Van ogle. cfhe
Cochrane Publishing Coz
This story might be called a quiet study
In real life on two continents, deallng
In cousins, of course.
If one has just returned from the ao-
yertised delights OF summer resort u
tho real pleasures of home and town;
If one bv his or her relatives is. we will
sav. "Nobodys Cousin" why the reader
will enjoy A Van Ogles book.
The principal hero is young man
named Dent, living in the United States
in good circumstances but hndlng MN
self. alaek-a-day, without any known rel
atives. There are many peopie VIM
would have considered Dent fortunate
bnt no matter Dent knew that he had
come originally from England, but be-
vond that, alas, he knew nothing OF him.
self.
Hist eyer-present Cupid Desire to wed
Young lady of good family made II
necessary, as Dent thought, for MN 10
go over to England to hnd out II pos-
sible. well, his coat-of-arms
Dent made this trip at the same time
as a trim was made by female frleno
of his. lila Danvers-watch Cupio!-"n
was searching for young schooiina,e
named Pauline, whom she hao prte.i,
cally educated and of whom she hao
lost trace These lost-trace-persons save
| the lives and more tue'h '"s''
| American novelist. 80 ~
Anvbow as we we're saving, Miss Dan
vers found her friend unfortunately SIT
uated Surei That was In the STORY "
be expected, anyway; but dear MISS Ian
vers brought her friend back to her ow Il
home. Where? Never mind; IL Is III 'h'
book. 49,, as.or,
For Mr.. Dent, you see, found the s.oly
| of his parentage"-good for Mr.. Den.
- ,,,ar and few women fail at Dent
,asr Dent found at" and returned 10
| America. ho-+r.oad.
Pauline-long-lost, couldn t-oe-ei go,
,.on.Lnow-is at last persuaded to marry
DENTS intimate friend physician, Ma
comb. but she-ain't it awful Mapei u
er all this trouble-dies immeolaeeiS "i'e'
the wedding! o,,,.s a,e
hotween Dent and LA Danvers, ends more
ga tisfa ctorily, however. Never tell you;
The hook is all right enough-in the
summer time!
"Tbe Burnt Offering" by Mrs. Everaro
Cotes. (John Lane Coz
Mrs Cotes opens her very import
ont novel with an incident wherein Q
Hindu of the highest caste IN lnoid
is being rudely expelled by couple
Il of mill assistants from the railway
carriage to which the Hindu was en-
titled. The Hindu explains to sym
pathetic strangers that the officials d.
not sneak that way to Indians Thest
were common men what we call "Cheta
sahibs" and the Hindu proceeds to tel
of insults more gross offered his fath
err who thereafter always preferred tt
travel third class with the coolies.
Mrs. Cotes takes up this fearful Hin
du question, one Americans are no
likely to understand, while enjoyins
reading about 1t. 1t is doubtless lik'
our negro question, you simply have Il
be there to warm up over the troubles
of Hindus or Yours-for- Revolutionist'
in Russia, for instance, or here
may be.
But there happened to be standing
near the outraged young Bengah-o
course a socialist and his daughter VIII
make the acquaintance of Bepin Be
hari DEFY NJ. A, of Cambridge, .studen
in London and Paris and still ma
tiyer" Good gracious, why not? Wash
he born" there? Certainment. Thes'
writer's of fiction and otherwise wh'
are going to save us from this, tina
and all the things we know not OF
what must we do with them? As lon,
as Mrs. Cotes writes as charmingly
she does we must simply let her alone
as the southern saying Is.