The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
BLINDS DOWN.
By Horace Annesley vachen. George

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 1 By Horace Annesley Nachen. George II. | Doran Company. New York. l In "Blinds Down." Horace Annesley Nachell has taken a little village faA re-
 moved from the "madding crowd,' and behind closed blinds, is- a house fronting I on Hog Lane, ensconced the three poor daughters of an Earl, who sit in willful I ignorance of life and it's actualities and
 ponder over conditions that have brought them to their present state by the prop | erty belonging to their father, going by l entail, to a male cousin
 l one of the sisters, the youngest and only l half sister to the other two, has been l forced by her family pride into a most unhappy and uncongenial marriage, but | her experience has the effect at least of saving her daughter from the same sort 1 of fate, which after all is something. The author has made decided fight In ''BIinds Down." of the narrow. prejudiced. straight-laced, old fashioned ideas of peo- pie who live in a little country village. apart from the worlds unconventionality
 and progressveness.
 1 MT. Nachell has drawn the characters
 of the Misses Mauleveter with their prin1- 1 ness and refinement as cleYerly as did Mrs Gas5ell with hes ladies in Gran
 | ford" Sir Rodney Brough suggests Ceci
 l Rhodes in. many instances, so much per
 I sonality is there in his t'pe and much
 1 force and dominance.
 l Above all, Blinds Own is an intelli- gent wei constructez, well defined. in- telfectual piece of literature, which pro- claims the author to be one from whom many good results will accrue, his pen being gifted with more than ordinary power and a refinement that will always appeal to the highest class of readers. | THE COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENSE.' - By Leroy Scott. Frontispiece by Charles NJ. Chapman. Doubleday, Page X Com- pany, New York.
 In Leroy Scott's delightful novel, "The Counsel for the Defense" which has been dramatzed and played by one of the most popular actresses in America most sue cessfully, we have the unusual situation l of a young lady lawyer-a Vassar gradu- ate-occupying the limellght and occupy I ing 1t with great credit both to herself and her profession.
 Westville Ind. Is the scene of the story | and there is a great celebration about to take place, when the Water works owned and built by the city, are just about to be completed
 l pr. David West, an old man. who for many years has been studying the typhoid situation. is really the nero of the occa-
 sion. for the affair is a personal conquest | for him-a personal testimonial-and one |
 | His daughter Katherine comes home for | the celebration. but just before the great | Jubilee day something happens. | pr. West Is accused most brutally by l Arnold Bruce, the young editor of the Express" of graft of receiving from the Home Filter Company "bribe.' The evidence against Dr. West seems to be we'll nigh perfect, snd when no repu-
 table lawyer will come forward to defend him his daughter Katherine, nothing
 daunted volunteers to undertake the case and thereby horriies the whole of the village of Westville.
 Just how well Katherine defends her father and just how much Arnold Bruce falls heels over head in love with her. is told in the most brilliant style by MT. Scott and his remarkably successful characterization and delightful colloquial vigor his memorable description and the l flashing action of the story, stamp him at | once as an unusual novel writer and de- | lneator of events.