The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-30
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become a belted earl. A Scotch lassie, granddaughter of the old Scotch dairy man, who proves 10 be daughter to the earl-as well as a would-be Ophelia-only this time happily saved by the man she loves and the good steed Satan A home raised rascal, whom Aunt Lucretia pro- nounces 'the most contemptible rever- sion to a scrub that ever came from a good pedigree" makes some trouble and is about to make himself master of the ancestral acres until Ballington, the gen tle scholar. proves himself before Iloilo the better soldier of the two grandsons of old General Rutherford. Ther6 is a leap at the hurdles that nearly costs the heroine her life. There Is a story that the soldier Jack, helping to take and hold Iloilo. keeps hearing by snatches of a beautiful Red Cross nurse who can ride Satan (for Satan, too. has come with the armies to the Philippines).
 But to tell more would be to rob TO- nance of it's surprise.
 There is an Aunt Iucretia who comes near taking the honors of heroine from her adopted daughter Eloise. Yet thore are not many women of the south-and heaven be praised therefor-who bring
 gut so round and su frequent a damn as does Aunt Luct etia. Aunt Lucretia who had pedigree for her religion. Pedi- gree before all else, pedigree for every | thing-nor is she far wrong when she de- | clares: Pedigree counts in a Virginia | reel. and you two were bred for it." In truth there never was dance that so shows to advantage grace of limb and | lightness of tread, sure attributes of the thoroughbred in people and horses Auat I.ucretia, who wanted to start standard he x;rtr, x.,t.1 l that Old Humanity shall breed a race to | strike the stars with their uplift ad heads" Aunt Lucretia, who would make herself matrimonial censor for the race, l seeing that according to her views they | do so badly for themselves: Many a l man." she declares, falls in love with and marries woman whose qualities and character and pedigree, if she were a horse, he wouldn't be caught trading a
 blind mule for" Nor is woman wiser Tn
 her choice if Aunt Lucretias opinion De regarded. Many a woman, under the
 same divine influence, marries some vicious brute of a man for no other
 reason than she maybe wants to refor,1 | him. who, if he were turned into buggy horse she wouldn't be caught risking her
 nc ok behind" Aunt Lucretia has a lover
 of her own, who has worshiped afar for 30 years, the old German botanist who | calls her Hike great redwood lily lilium Philadelphicum." How Aunt Lu-
 cretia at last captured and ran away with him had best hc told in the author S own way, so that story and the rest Is
 left for the many who will read and en- 1 joy the good story of the good folk of tho | bluegrass.
 ''The Catspaw," by William Hamilton | Osborne. (Dodd,. Meade x Co.,, New
 York). SIPS.
 | Roberies and racing automobiles. dia-
 mond thefts and devitries. stolen jewels
 and woman's jealousy. Interest stands attention from first to last page-lille the
 most faithful sentinel that ever stood
 guard. Not a word of the whirling TO- nance will be willingly lost.
 That many and newly netted intricacies
 of plot unwind at the last to show tn
 time-worn device of the close resem-
 blance and the double has not alien
 ated interest.
 Two fetching love stories unwind them.
 selves with the rapid rush of the tale oi
 . daredevil thief and his big deals and
 the wles of his aluring accomplice.
 -*The Unforeseen by Mary Stewart Cut
 ting. Doubleday, Page & Co.,, New
 York.). $1.20
 The Unforeseen. after running suc-
 cessful route as serial in a magazine de-