The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-07

will surely want to set up a hive of such wise, such industrious, such ex- emplary artihcers as these Maids" and Chap" described by Mr. Potter.
 "The Golden Silence" by C. N. and A. M. Williamson. Doubleday, Page x Co.,
 If the world, or all foreign parts of it, must be seen by anothers eyes, it is preferable to take for the medium of viewing 1t a good Baedaker of the country to be traversed In theory rather than Williamson novel. Wherever the Williamsons wish to travel they have but to make tho sheerest excuse of a plot and set forth On their journey. keeping a decorous diary of their goings and doings. Into these daily dottings they interlard the story in thin slices or thick smears as their fancy decrees, and beh old-a best seller!
 The plot in this instance is so outre. so impossible as to merit no note. The itinerary is Algiers and the desert to the south.
 De nihilo nihil fit.
 "S13," by Maurice Leblanc. Double day, Page & Co.,, New York.) $1.20. Quite the most fascinating of the romances in which the immortal Ar Stn6 1uplH pldyo Lic SiCNCl iOe uC. Since the days of Robin Hood, nay, farther to the days when Sampson spoiled the Philistines,'' the world loves a smart and generous rascal.
 Arsene Lupin, "protector of widows and friend of orphans" of all his class has the largest and most admiring fol- lowing
 This time he prahks with an em- peror for playmate and with projects that might alter the map of Europe. Let no one who delights in revel of restless rush of action, in insistent ai- venture in incessant mystery, miss thls book-Le Blancs best. "Buttered Toasts.y by Fred. Emerson
 Brooks. (Forbes Co.,, Chicago.) soc. Herrick, or even rare Ben Jonson," might not have ~.ushed to own these little lines: How Man and Woman Were Made"
 Man was made, so runs the story, Crown of all creations glory! But woman--perfect thing of love Required an angel from above! As guarantee that she would stay, Kind nature plucked her wings away; The dimples on h CT shoulders show Where once the pinions used to grow" It is in these simple, but very fetch ing lines, that MT. Brooks reaches his high water mark. The rest of the eighty odd verses smack more of platitude than poetry. When the verse-n maker states that his Lady Lover "winks with but one eye" though "she looks with pair" no one will dispute the probability of, his state nents, though no one will find breath of poesy therein. When he furthor states that he finds two rosy lps 'twixt her nose and her chin,' there is no cause for argument-and no suspi- cion of inspiration.
 Several of the Ttoasts swing like u pendulum between platitude and poetry. There is maynap little timeliness ;n this:
 :. Father Time was given wings;
 scytife to do the moving;
 With one he cuts down men and things;
 With 'totn CT keeps on going; Thnts why we try to make things whiz
 For this we must allow.
 Though we have all the time there is---
 We've got to use 1t now"
 "Genealogy of Jefferson Davis, Presi-
 dent of the Southern Confederacy.
 and of Samuel Davis. President of
 Princeton College" by William H
 Whitsitt, A. M., DD. and LL D.
 tNenle Publishing Company. New
 York.D as
 No more fitting time could be found for the appearance of this booklet than this memorial season. extending over late April and early May in our diverse states. when the thoughts of all arc turned backward The author modestl2 calls his volume "discussion" or "in- vcstigation."
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