The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-28

book done by the skilled hand of one who knows his country and her people.
 Charlotte Lee Weyland is about one of the most fascinating southern girls ever put upon the pages of fiction. A brave, beautiful, brisk, busy little working wom- an who leads germans, and leads many hearts to loving, who receives and earns a daily wage, who give her hearts best energies to the foundation of state re- formatory. Just such girl as may live next door, who may be met any day, and once met be sure the effort will be made 1 to have the pleasant experience repeated. Charles Gardiner West, Charles Gar denia,'' called by honest Klinker and his crowd down at the Mercury, who has just the adaptable virtues and the adjustable aspirations to make him the receptive and Acceptable suitor to the heiress. Miss Avery, late of "Mauch Chunk, But Now of Ours" Buck Klinker, the rough dla- mond. who once heard text that struck him as the greatest in the Bible: But He l spake of the temple of His body" and he makes his teaching of athletics the ser- mon of that great text.
 | Colonel Cowles, editor of the Post, noble l old soldier who fought with the best and the bravest through the sixties and whose every day since has been battle waged
 for every reform and every step forward l old fighter.
 Queed, Little Doctor Queed Not one
 word shall preclude or impedite the joy of encountering Queed as he appears In these pages, queer little man with the queer little name, the learned writer of Headers that no one reads, preacher of al- truism who could not (without the best of teachipg) practice the least bit of a kind ly act, this walking dictionary in whose wonderfully array of terminology there were no words of love-and yet who-but the story must not be marred for the eager reader whose joy in a new book, true book, a good book lies all before him.
 1 If 1t were permissible to give full 20 best pages of a book and call it a critique there would be given here without hes itancy the inspiriting description of Confederate Veterans reunion and all that it stands for and all that 1t reminds of. A book as bright as a southern summer. "The King Over the Water" by Justin | Huntly Mccarthy. Harper Bros, New York), $1.5O.
 l Every one who knows his history knows that every adherent of the old pretender James the Third of England, My King | Over the Water" was willing at all times to do and to die for him. It seems per- | fectly satural therefore, that there should oe found four Irish gentlemen willing to risk life and fortune for James Stuart that his bride imprisoned by the connivance of the Elector of Hanover might be released. These four have many adventures, including the good old-fash- toned duel; but withal there is brilliancy and variety about these adventures that makes the telling of them very alluring. The book reads like 8 genuine record Of real events, so naturally is all told. The reader must perforce love the good Car dinal who points the moral danger of ltrining with sudden temptation with such good grace that the young princess re- nounces the danger and goes to fulfill her destiny. She is even pursuaded by the Cardinal that she must forego that com fort of the sinner, the confession of her
 short comings to James. Thus are conse- l quences most disastrous averted and
 Princess Clementina goes forth to meet James Stuart, but laggard in love him.
 self, if adjudged by his slowness in meet
 ing his affianced bride.
 The authors canvas is not crowded