The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-30
voted to woman's interests. now appears

voted to womans interests. now appears | in book form.
 | There is an inviting everydayness about Mrs. Cuttings work that endears her to | a large circle of readers, mostly women; after all, 1t is well to be loved of the women, for they make the larGe majority when it comes to counting readers. i There is a comfortable evenness in Mrs. 1 Cuttings work though she may not es- say to play the part of magician, startling with thrilling surprises she never dis appoints with uneven or slovenly work. Her books make themselves welcome, as do well bred guests
 The author has ever pleasing way of l putting into words the small incidents, observations and experiences of every day that go to make up life, but that mo- body else puts into verbal form.
 | For instance, when Mrs. Cutting puts into words the cause of Evelyn Gaynor' 8 indifference to marriage it Is recognized as being the thing responsible for more old maids than are all the accredited bruised hearts and broken troths of the century: If Evelyn felt that marriage was the last thing that appealed to her,
 s was perhaps, for one reason. because she had so much vicarious experience of | it.. She had watched the romance merge
 into reality that seemed to her fastidi- ousness unattractive beyond words''- trousseau exchanged to untidy attire children dominating everything. ITO Ev- e1yn's appraising eyes few people were married as nicely as they might be; they not only offended but they were myste- | riousy proud of their offending domestic | ity; they Haunted 1t In the face of the unwedded. Yet 1t seemed to Evelyn that even were she married she would still have . rooted objection to looking unbe- coming at any hour; that she would not condone the cessation of certain polite nesses in a man because the man was her husband; that she would not regard intimate nusery equipments and crumbled food as decorative on front piazza" It is just such self-satisfed, self-centered a license to laziness that set so many feminine feet on the road that leads to single blessedness.
 Happily Evelyn Gaynor has later expe- riences.that turn her feet from paths of single blessedness (custom has coined the phrase in the superlative) back to the I ways of married happiness Cit is old GUS tom that has set the state in inferior phrase). To this state of merely married happiness The Unforeseen" leads the heroine in easy. pleasing stages, and the story m tne Skllleu ndHuS or MrS. CutllnS makes easy, pleasant reading.
 Barbara of the Snows," by Harry Irving
 Greene. (Moffat, Yard & Co.,, New
 York.), $1.35.
 This novel Is built upon a plot so well worn that mild wonder is excited that so long tried a structure can be made to bear up another, and a very creditably interesting romance.
 | The college man becomes the victim of his appetites, degenerates into the rarely, or never sober club man. Tn the hot pas sion of provoked wrath he fels fellow club member with a 'heavy match re- ceiver'; the stricken man falls heavily and is pronounced dead. The degenerate hero makes flight for life. Fear of pur- suit-and an author who knows the re- deeming virtue of outdoor life and hard labor-carries this now sobered inebriate to the lumber camps of the white north
 Barbara Is there before him, the daugh- ter of his employer. The inevitable love- story follows. Wilson Stoddard saves
 Barbara from a pursuing wolf, from a
 waste of snow, from forest fires, from a
 bold, bad rival, and, of 'course wins hei
 love. This climax reached as matter
 of course, so run all the stories upon like
 plot, the hero, now clothed in overalls
 ard in his right mind, determines that fie
 must suffer for the expiration of his
 crime before he can ask Barbara to be his
 wife and share the millions left behn.
 with the old life. or course he sets out tc give himself up to the law; this, c course again. brings him into touch witt