The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-23

Ibravely, was. the death of her son, she being the direct cause of his drifting into deceit and subterfuge because he was not strong enough to make war against a thing so helpless-he died be- cause he dared not throw of that re- morseless tyranny of weakness
 It is the unveiling and deposing of these self constituted saints that Miss Glasgow excefls, though she is wise enough to leave their worshipers still burning incense at their shrlnes Not a breath stains the purity of her utter se1shness. To witness such spiritual beauty is divine inspiration. Kept , alive by such incense and by the strength or self deceit a. few such saints still dwell on our earth! No such character is ever built without cost-to some other-the payment for Angela's sainty apartness from the hardnesses and realities of life fell to the share of her sister, the home ly Keeiah. Here again Miss Glasgow makes her one of masterpieces-no one draws better the state Of the uneman- cipated lady of the old south, she who must, despite all talent. stay n a. home and let the men folk of the family look after her"
 A famous painter. had said that Kesiah must go to Paris to study art But, of course it was out of the question that a Virginia lady should go off by herself anu paint perfectly nude people in a foreign city,, Therefore Kesah must perforce remain at hand to bear the blame for all the i'll wrought by Angels soft saint N ignoring of all that was unpleasant, or sorrowful, or sad.
 Now does all the skilled character drawing prevent the working out of s1 rong plot and tfe holding of strong ln- tefest.
 The book is profound and of profound interest.
 Molly's couuetting is as brisk and breezy and beautiful as a roses flirting with the summer wind. True love when at last it comes to her IS as strong as summer bsnnshine.
 On the whole the most impressive work of the soutlfs greatest novelist.
 '.The Legacy: A Story of a Woman"
 by Mary S. Watts. Macmillan Co.
 New York. S1.50.
 A most remarkable and readable book
 A three fold cord made up of good and i'll and circumstance as are the lives of al. men and women A book that, tells so much of life and tells 1t so truly that 1t makes life itself seem the counterfeit resentment There is huinor. keen and duizsical. There is the fruit of an ob- servatfon quiet and whimsical. There Is iealisn. so even andf quiet that,its start
  hint of bitter In the luscious peach. An cxquisitely fine piece of literature. "Old Reliable By Harris Dickson.
 Bobbs Merrill O., Indianapolis.
 Some years ago several of the noveNsts of the. south and several editors of the north discussed the subject of a book written altogether about the negro. Could such a. book be made of interest? Various opinions were expressed Judge Dick son has written such a book and it is str1ldngly interesting. Old Reliable is just that type of old-time darkey that is fast vanishing. The civilization that created him has gone before him. There will be no more of him, the mould that made him is broken in atoms. He and his like remain the happy rogues, the Robin Hoods of our day. He cheats us with such compensating complacency. He lies to us with such lightsome non chalance. He works for us (while we look on only) with such lingering leisure. He promises with such amazing prodigality. He steals from us with such sweeping suavity. When caught up with in any of his pecadilloes he entirely forgets his own predicament in generous praise of our astuteness. And in the pleasant glow of his profuse praises of our perspicacity we forget to meet to him his due punish .ment. Wfthall there is to be found in him aEsort, of fperyersesfaithfulness, . sort of inconsistent honesty and unexpected loyalty to de ole-time white folks" And these same old Miners, despite having been deceived many time and oft, yet never fail to heed his cry for aid. The book is past belief fellcitous in its real wit. humor and truth.
 The Sovereign Power" by Mark Lee
 Luther. (Macmiliam Co.,. New York,
 S130.)
 An aeroplane romance that flies straight to the height of good litera- 'ture
 A prince who Is a prince of good fellows.
 An American beauty who shows real brillfancy in the book itself and not in the authors hidden mind
 An American senator and his wife who are noble, well informed. well bred and high minded-though wealthy!
 The scene is laid in Paris at Rheims ,tgrande semaine d'aviation), at Pau, in the Balkans-and smacks not at all of the guide book.
 It Is story full of real life, red blood, warm love. It is vital, vigorous and vivid.
 "Phrynette." by Marthe Trolly-Curtin
 (Lippincott Philadelphia $125.)
 There are no adjectives in our staid English to describe the fascinating Phrynette of France. She is the en- chanting heroine of the most entranc- ing novel of the season. The orphan of French painter of note and a Scotch woman of nobility Phrynette comes to make her home with her aunt, Lady Barbara, in quadrangle of houses on Cromwell Road In the most fetch ing and delightfully."- foreign style she tells of her life In London. in Eng fish country houses in bachelor quar- ters of the suffrag gette maiden. The story and it's telling are entirely out of the common. It is. fresh and de- lightful and whimsical and sweet. A