The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-14
BOOKS WITH A THRILL IN THEM

\ A 4 Il - n A A A | | from the "Brotherhood.r a secret order of Russian revoutionists. A young millionaire of New York sur prised by finding a beautiful young
 woman awaiting him at midnight in his
 apartments
 A valet astounding his employer by be- coming on the instant a thief brother to
 the bodest and most interruptions of ad- ventures, and murdered corpse upon the fire escape.
 A search for half million of dollars
 buried in a scuttled ship in the Baltic. | A Broadway chorus girl set to play In
 real life the part of long lost Russian princess.
 A reporter who manages to get at the
 true inwardness of all these scoops" and
 never lets a line of any one of them reach
 his paper.
 million dollars paid to for bride. Thrilling from start to finish.
 Every chapter holds its own new and startling event.
 And every startling event is related in
 so even and pleasing manner that the reader feels that truth Is his guide. A clear, clean story that can be heart fly commended.
 The Green Curve" by Ole Luk-oie Doubleday, Page & Co.,, Garden City, L. l. Price, s1.20)
 | The publication of these stories in Eng
 land created profound impression. They are vivid, narrowing pictures of I war 'The Green Curve pictures that truth that lies at the hidden heart of all success or failure in the great science | of war-the politician from his easy chair curbing the ardor and overrulng the in- | tellect, of the general in the field. "The Second Degree" recounts how the | remembrance of a schoolboy and his
 sharp system of lying won battle from | that same boy grown to be strategic commander of forces. "The Kite" is appalling portrayal
 of the murderousness of modern methods of war. Truly universal peace Is the only thing to oppose to such sure slaugh- | ter
 | Fine stories of war as 1t Is played to-
 day. A, book not to be missed by civilian
 or soldier.
 "Osru: A Tale of Many Incarnations; | The History of Soul.p By Justin | Sterns. (The Theosophical Publishing l Co. of New York. Price, SD A surprise box indeed, in which every
 one of the ten stories therein appears | as a prize. The stories extend over a
 
 and purport to be progresses of one soul l toward perfection toward ultimate ab- ] sorption into the All Good. | Apart from the alleged tracing of soul | through its many incarnations the book | Is a series of strong stories told with
 vividness and with power. The characters are clearly drawn and alive.
 The stories purport to teach the les
 son of divine justice to show the req
 son for the suffering of the seemingly | innocent. These suffer for the sins done | in another body, in another life. | The author is very earnest for the pro- mitigation of his doctrine. This transmit | grafton of one soul Gin both male and | female bodies for the reincarnating ego is sexless) through many centuries and varied civilizations Is an excellent ex- | position of the tenets of Karma-a coun- l terpart claims the author, of the Chris ton doctrine-whatsoever man sows | that shall he reap" | If this series of stories Is not convinc- ing as a doctrine 1t Is nevertheless very appealing as literature. The first of the series is of "Sherau the Paraschites" This Is the story of an "embalmer's most vile but neces- sary assistant" the scene is Egypt | the period the time of Rameses IT. This l the beginning of Osru. | The next story, Nero the Emperor Osru's second incarnation. In "Dravid of the Galleys." A Ganl once of the arena, but now chained to the galieys because of the greed, fear and hate of his master. Festus, there Is the story of Osru's third return to earth. +s.5.... For fourth living and a fiery ex
 piation Osru appears in form of "Chun- do, wife of Ram Ruoy,, doomed front
 her wedding day to the suttee. As "Lovis Sieur le Brent" Osru comes to earth again to lifelong inn prisonment in the dungeon of @ Nor man baron's castle So through the ages, through many Incarnations till Osru inhabits the be-
 ing of '"Millie.'' This is a story of
 southern slavery that reads like an un-
 published chapter of Uncle Toms Cabin" As in that war-rousing romance
 the worst character the man using the
 institution of slavery to the worst
 ends, was the Yankee slave trader,
 Lagree; so in 'Jackson's Millie" the
 villain of the story is Connecticut
 man whose business 1t is to breed
 and sell niggers."
 In Jared Wilson," a leader of la
 hor unions, a soldier in the late un- easantness in Cuba, Osru suffers his
 tenth reincarnation and through mar
 tyrdom, by becoming a volunteer to
 inoculation by the bite of a mosquito
 that had previously bitten a yellow
 fever patient not heaven Is won-but
 "a step on the path" A moments Rest in Peace before returning again to earth for further expiation.
 Ten wholly interesting stories.
 "A Study in Alexander Hamilton" by
 Fontaine Fox. (Neale Publishing Co.,.
 New York, SD
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