The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-16
Literary Lighfs and Shadobs
BY s. MAYS BALL

i girls to protect them from the clutches of the white shaver is to keep them in the country.
 Many ask: Who are these girls who go astray?' having an idea" says Miss Florence Mabel Dedrick. rescue mission ary of the Moody church. Chicago, that it is only the ignorant class who are down in sin. It is not so, and let me un- deceive everyone on this point. though many, many Of the ignorant class do go as stray also Satan is claiming our best our very best, girls of education, refine rnent, advantages and religious rain- ing :" and Miss Dedrick proceeds to prove what she says by startling exam pies.
 Says the editor of war on the White Slave Trade" who. by the way. also writes many chapters in this volume: For the protection of the innocent. for the safeguarding of the weak. for the warning of the tempted and the alarm of the wicked, the truth must be told-the truth that makes us free. Therefore we have used plain words. not coarse or vul- gar. but ehaste and true. Lawyers of the highest standing have introduced the legal language with which the statutes provide penalties for crimes against the honor and safety of women and girls q ical colleges among the foremost in the world, men in reputation for their skill and beloved for their devotion to the peoples welfare, have told here in medi- cal terminology the intolerable conse- Quences, to guilty and innocent of the odious business of making commerce of girls and promoting the debauchery of young men. We are sure the time has come when millions will thank these law ,I~4w seal of secrecy and giving the people their birthright-the truth"
 War on the White Slave Trade is an earnest, convincing presentation of a very serious problem-witness, even the high brows in Washington, who usually need little dynamite, so to speak-are being jolted from that asleep-at-the-switch con- dition of mind And when Congress- wakes up to the needs of the people 1t Is pretty safe to say that the whole coun- try long before had investigated mat ters, performed surgical operations in Washington and were then throwing bricks.
 '"The Isle of Dead ships,- by Crfttenden
 Marriott. Q. P. Lippincott Co.)
 There is said to be floating island in the sea where no explorer has set foot, or. setting foot, has returned to tell of what he saw. That this island, if there is such an island of the Sargasso sea, lying at our very doors, so to speak, in the direct path of every steamer from the Gulf of Mexico to Europe, is less known than are the frozen poles. We are told that encyclopedias pass over 1t slightly; atlasses dismiss it with but a slight men, ton; maps do not attempt to portray it's ever shifting outlines; even the Sun day newspapers, so keen to grasp every thing Of interest, ignore it.
 But on the decks of great ships in the long watches of the night, when the trade wind snores through the rigging and the waves purr about the bows" says Mr. Marriott. 'the sailar tells strange tales of the spot where ruined ships, raked dere- lict from all the square miles of ocean, form great island, ever changing, ever wasting, yet everlasting; whence in the ballroom of the Atlantic, draped round with incircling weed, they drone away their lives, balancing slowly in a mighty tourbillion to the rhythm of the Gulf stream. Fanciful7 Sailors tales7 Stories fit only for the marines? Per hapsl"
 Based on the above, Mir Marriott has written an unusually interesting story of a wreck at sea and the discovery of an island. unfnhabited. made by years ac- SuiA1Aaliou Ol WTeCked vessels, For hum dreds of years the locality of the Sargas- so sea has been avoided because of the death current that turks nearby: but the good ship Queen" in aiming to skirt the vicinity, meets the awful disas- ter which has befallen so many other vessels. Among the noteworthy passen- gers who escape death are a convict and his guard and the Laughter of a multi millionaire, who must overlook the dif- ferent strata of society which they rep- resent and face the new existence on A level plane. Frank Howard, the convict Is the handy man and through hi, in- strumentality the shipwrecked party fin- ally escape. Their thrilling and most probable experiences are sufficiently unique to make a very interesting story. full Of details regarding buried treasure. intrigue and escape from brutal desper- adoes. verses" by Wilson Jefferson. TRich.ra
 G. Badger, Esq.)
 The respected negro physician of An gusta, Ga., has written and Richard n Badger, Esq, of the Gorham press Ro.- A.~ L