The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-22

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 onces have been like your own--lt's working on men in the aggregate that makes so many missions to man fail The deadliest thing that you can do tc any man is to treat him as one of an
 ndistinguishable mass. What we all
 want is assurance. That in us all are
 all the potentialitles of conquest"
 Now Rose and David, who out of mate 1 and individual goodness Gan inheritance
 from their ideallst father) work good to 1 all who come within reach, bring about a
 meeting between Luclus McCurdy and l Creighton Lucius MeCurdy Is a man of 1 inherited wealth and position who has
 left by choice the haunts of wealth and 1 fashion and has made a home for him
 self not a stones throw from the Bow cry He is a student of sociology. who
 expects to bring about all needed re-
 forms by practical politics." and he himself has political aspirations for him. | self. Again by way of Rose and her manifold interests and sympathies these | two men are to meet the young Russian girl, Catherine KrakopfslSy, who is to | play so large a part in the lives of both men. Creighton is to die a myrtyr's death for Sonia, the beautiful sister of l Catherine, and with the marriage of McCurdy and Catherine there is a TO- nance not unlike a happening in real | life. a resemblance to a happening in real New York life that will be recalled by almost every reader. It is rather a touching. if maybe too realistic touch. that McCurdy's eourtship begins with the realization that Catherine cats 10 cent dinners. 'Men did, of course--thou- sands of them every day. But girls? Girls with mind like hers. With a soul on fire for humanty's help.' Thee contract of what he knows these 10 cent meals to be and his own sumptuous dinners which are not food, but an experience" sends McCurdy off post haste after Rose to chaperone a dinner and both to seek Catherine in the small round of cheap restaurants that she patronizes. The rest of the rapid love making of McCurdy and Catherine is not in blossomy lanes, nor even in the so-called Lovers Lane of New York-Madison avenue-but in the teeming streets of the lower East Side, where the two eventually determine to remain-together for the rest of their days, welded to each other and wedded both to one purpose, the betterment of humanity-but each working in his and her own way.
 New York, the setting of the story. could not be more wonderfully, more perfectly pictured than 1t is in this story.
 For the story itself, 1t touches one the deep things of life.
 Sketched with the light, true touch of genius is the experience of the ideal
 st wed to most unyielding realism in the person of a woman of conyentionalized beliefs, refinement. conduct; whose laws and aspirations are not those of the spirit, but of society's edicts upon things spiritual. Governor Innes was the ideal
 st, descendant of abolitionist and cav alier diverse characteristics of these for bears constantly warning with each other within himself. Julia Innes was "a thin. sharp woman with pale-blue eyes and frzzy light hair. She had been consid- cred clever girl and most people be- lieved she would make excellent help meet for Lyman Innes, but their dream of success was not the same dream
 As Julia Livingston she had brought him money" a circumstance and invest ment that even an ideaist must realize is one that exacts and justly) compound and perpetual interest. Julia 1nnes' self satisfaction was unassailable and she deemed her methods at bringing up Ter children and managing her husband su- perior to all other methods conceivable. She fed her children with sugar coated pills of propriety and bits of ancient con- ventionality all little suited for assimila- tipn by the offspring of an idealist. Al the opening of the book the state is in the throes of a general strike, at the very heat of one of those wars between capital and labor that sets every vein and artery of trade and industries throbbing as in death agony or in an agonizing ups springing to broader life. Julia Innes vas at a summer resort writing to the har- rassed governor of her personal mortifl- cation over "a horrd strike that was spelling her summer" At this junctare appeared in the life of the governor-"The Woman Who Helped'' With her advent came to the governor for the first time love deep, pure, enthralling. It was for both love ardent without hope deep without fruition. It was absolutely pure, having it's whole being in brain and heart wholly pure save that it necessitated concealment. He had not been disloyal to Julia in deed-only in thought But Julia, who believed firmly in the natural depravity of all men and some women, would never, if any inkling of the affair got to her ears, credit him, or Olivia, with less than the blackest infamy. It is the women of Julia Jnnes' sort upon which society sets its pillars, and it is the women of this sort that keep alive by secret feeding the scorpions of scandal.
 But any love outside the defense of law and social order, no matter how innocent, in itself. must and invaria bly does bring dire consequences. This love pure and deep brought death by murder to Lyman
 Innes; to the husband of Olivia suicide; to Olivia herself a life of secrecy and dread, and in it's tolls entangled the second generation. All this and yet the book holds the note of high hope. utters the beauty of utter forgiveness, opens the heart to wider outlook. The leath of Lyman Innes was his canonizaton to all those who labor. to all those who love justice. In death he accomplished more thar he or any man could have wrought by living even had every hour of life been given to success crowned labor. -s,f- e .E. 1An1 @4 4@ f1.~1 1@.. dreaded ills for herself, her child and Lyman Tnness children, but instead to love, respect and trust beyond her aigh- est hopes,-had she ever allowed herself to enter the portals of hope.
 Not the least striking part of the book
 is the story of the beautiful, protective reserve that sheltered the memory of Ly- man Innes. With many lay the knowl- edge that he had died not as the world
 proclaimed, a martyr to the cause of latQr and justice, but a victim to retri- button. sternest retributon, and for a, sin of mere thought. Yet so carefully was that knowledge guarded that no word of the pitifu truth ever reached laud- ing public. This because, as the great hu- for Emstead put it to the too keen in- vestigator. Prichard: Things that are
 true are not always the truth. Truth be- ing a great thought, or principle or pro- gress wrought out of actualities." An in. vestigator is not necessarily an historian; he may be mere collator of evidence. 1 it is the ability to sift evidence. and to | read truth into the residue out of a ricn | understanding that makes an historian. l The whole bearing of the book the chief l purpose of it is the showing of the chill dren of tomorrow: what they will be, what the keenness of their judgment, the
 clearness of their vision, the width of l their outlook. The whole book makes