The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-06
adventures that fail to rouse a reader s

adventures that fail to rouse a reader s excitement.
 Dawn of the Morning" by Grace Liv- inton Hilg Lutz. NippincotD, Phila- delphia. S1.25. A book as lightsome and
 pure as the dew of the dawn. A novel Is scarcely worth days life unless it crystallizes, makes clearer and firmer. to mental vision some true phase to cherish it's matchless worth. The story fixes and clarifies to cognizance that wondrous, fairy-like innocency of youth. That translucent incomprehension of re- fined, reserved youth, perfect as a candid | pearl, wondrous as miracle. yet not as unusual as wise and dubious world would pronounce it to be; it is the pearl of great price oftenest flung before swine. The further beauty of this book is, how ever, that in the progress of the story the priceless gem falls into hands clean enough and strong enough to hold and to sherish it's matchess worth The story begins with the life of little girl in | oVeless home. From a stern father and a sterner stepmother she hears no word of love. The old clock on the stair ticks the one song of sympathy that she hears: Poor child. poor child, poor child" From an unsympa thetic home Dawn Is sent to u school whose atmosphere is little con ducive to joy. While still at the scnooi she attracts the notice of a man much older than herself, of plausible manner, but unworthy. He besets the young girl with unwelcome attentions and leads her l in her ignorance of lire into tacit be- trothal. The wiley suitor secures her fathers consent to this engagement and to an early marriage and with this sane ton Dawn feels that she may not with honor violate her word-however ignor- antly and unwillingly given. So, as wrapped in a white mist of inexperience Dawn drifts to the day of her wedding Here the plot takes so unique and so agreeable turn that its telling here would mar the pleasure of later readers. brave, sweet romance. A wholesome, fresh story remembrance of which fingers like the memory of dew-wet flowers, or of the rosy glow of earliest morning.
 "The Treason and Death of Benedict Ar
 nold Play for a Greek Theatre" by
 John Jay Chapman. (Moffat X Yard,
 New York), $l.
 great poem. There is in the pages much of broad human sympathy. much of profound insight into complex human nature. Below are quotations from the Choruses which show something of the spirit of the play:
 r fOOllSI IS lllt lldi WnO Niiiihs upoH his wrongs though they be great. The sting is in him; the poison is in himself.
 ''There is the short cut to antiquity; therefore endure
 "A light thing is man and his suffering very little.
 If he can but endure for a short time death saves him. Lo. his release cometh and his happiness is long.
 Fame forever follows in the steps of the just man; an intending life springs up behind him
 life is lamp that burns in the heart of the son.
 How short is the struggle of the great est hero and how long is his fame,
 Save me from pride and from the ex- rectation of praise from men," Four Good Books From Flanagan Com pany, Chicago
 ''The Tale of Bunny Cottontail," by Laura Rountree Smith. A good story to amuse little tots Quite the best part of the booklet is the story by Ossian H. Lang.
 How Jack Rabbit Got His Long Ears and Lost His Long Tail" This is best for the reason that in giving animal stories to children it is better to give those that illustrate the ways, nature habits of the animals (and these things folk lore tales usually do) than to give impossible tales of their taking lunch to school in covered straw baskets. putting up parasols, tying on bibs for eating ana those sort of unreasonable. unanimal things. Lang's tale. though no more ac- tually true than the other tales vet is true to the nature of the beast, and that is what is wanted in such stories.
 Stories of Seventy-six,' by Mary Hall Husted. Little bits of Reyolutiopaxx nis-