The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-01
NEWS OF NEW BOOKS

.tThe Queens Fillet, by Cannon Sheehan. Gongmans, Green & Co.,. New York.
 Since Carlyle's French Revolution that most thrilling romance of a period whose history over tops the widest fiction, no clearer picture of those world changing times has been given than is to be found ill this, novel from the pen of Cannon Sheehan. Every page grips and holds in terest Every character who played a part in those scenes of unparalleled herosm and horror, patriotism and terrorism. lib- erty and libertinism is here for season revivihed The weak but personally courageous Louis. the radiant and en- thralling Marie Antoinette, retaining even to the guillotine some of that august dig nity and majestic beauty that justly styled her the daughter of the Caesars" Taile- rand, Mirabeau, Marat. the sweet voiced Chenier. Lafayette, Vergniaud Robe spierre, Desmoulins, the painter David, Collet d Herbois, Danton, Tallen. the ever bold De Batz and Despard roulon, red republican won by a Queens majesty to attempt the impossible; the brutal simon; Carrier inventor of the unspeak- able 'Noyades'': Le Bon. reel<ing in bru- tality and murder in Arras; Couthen aLd Fouche dyeing Lyons in blood; Madame Elizabeth, the Saint of the Revolution" all live again in these vivid pages. Here is told in thrilling strain of the rise to full tide of that river of blood and death that engulfed alike royalists, noblesse, Giron- dina, Jacobins, Monteynards and Com munists.
 "Pandora's Box" by John A. Mitchell.
 tF. A. Stokes, New Yorl), $1.30.
 A delestable love story, all composed of sweetness and light. An ancient castle for the scene, the daughter of hundred earls and young American architect
 for chief characters. There is a mystery interwoven in the pages which will proTS a veritable surprise to every reader and a vertable delight to everybody in and out of the book. Here is the story of that pride that goes before fall-in love. Here the story of shilling given for tip by an earl's daughter, which that young lady is eventually glad enough to nave back that she may buy with it an Ameri- can architect for a lover. Not the least pleasant part of the story is that of Base born, the dog of uncertain lineage, who yet rescues a lady in dire distress as no- bly, as he were any knight in pumod hel- met. Here the story of a man cheated into" a million so-in mines of solid silver. Here in the old castle garden stll lives the rose that Anne Boleyn planted and here it's pale pink blossoms still car " lovers sweet messages, interwoven with fanciful, delightful and believable episodes. Anybody would dare open Pan dora's Box to take out such jewel of a book.
 "The Sick-a-Bed Lady," by Eleanor jIal-
 lowell Abbott. (The Century Co, New
 Yorll), Sl.30.
 A book of short stories by the author of that really charming novelette,, Molly Make Believe
 These stories are as unreal as tissue paper roses. They are not close to life. and are far from literature. The author depends for her effects upon dashes and capitals. It is a pity when punctuation is called upon to play the part of power.
 Every story is decorated with simple sentences or ordinary statements cracked LID with dashes: 't-think-you- ouite-,lnderstand.' ''What--do- you m-e-a-n?" ht-Astop-loving-me. Life -is,- oo-hard-for-me.' ''You-eX- pected-all-the-time me--to-be-married--i in July?" "Where--did--you-
 A witches dance about a wash pot. It is wonder the very type did not refuse to cut such capers without just cause or plausible provocation. There is an alarm ing array of capitals: Young Doctor, Old Doctor, the Girl the Chronic Quarrel, Much -Loved-Gir, Lover,