The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-07

any other man of our time. possesses the
 equipment that is necessary to him who
 would write powerful novel of life as It
 Is lived, in New York city today. In more
 than one respect "He That Is Without
 Sim reminds one of La Cousine Bette,
 Balzac's great novel of somewhat similar
 conditions that existed in Paris during his
 time, for pr. Haubold, in delineating the
 character of the most extraordinary city that has existed since the days of antiqui- ty opens the heart of the wonderful city, and with him we look down into It's depths. The upper classes and the lower In this volume meet on the common ground of vice and of pleasure.
 Not at all Is this fine novel a moral text
 book. It is without a sermon. Nor is 1t immoral; it is simply immoral. And in the midst of the immortality we come to feel Oo know) that he and that she that is without sin does not exist-at least we are willing to say to the sinless one: Come, cast the first stone, and may you
 cast 1t at me. Seldom does book arouse
 emotions so deep as does this story. Taking his characters from the artificial ity and the colorlessness of what is called
 the upper life. and from the joy and the sin of what many is thought to be the | lower life, Dr. Haubod paints them all as he sees them. His canvass Is New York | City with much wickedness in high places | and in low, and with much goodness everywhere.
 | And as we read 1t is given us to know | that life is neither high nor low, but is a plateau with here and there a hill. In | Mildred F>uller-passionate, daring, coarse, | a harlot, and victim of more than one | form of intemperance-Dr. Haubold has | created a character that will live when many of the characters of books that now are thought great shall have lived their | little day and died. Tn this woman of the street there is the divinity of love, and | love is no less divine when Illicit and abid- 1 ing in her profaned body than it is when
 the gentlest and purest of bosoms Is It's | home. Necessarily Mildred Fuller took | from Life the little that she could steal; 1 necessarily she never failed to rob Life at every opportunity. Indeed Is the human. | plateau almost without a hill But its | broad plains are far above the clouds and | far above the tallest mountain peak; they | stretch to the farthest reaches of the heavens.
 | And as we close the book we repeat with I Dr. Haubold the words of Him who said i He that is without sin among you, let him cast stone upon her. or upon him. THE MAN FROM JERICHO" | By Edwin Carlisle Litsey. The Hale Pulp fishing Company, New York.
 | HIS IS henlucky, where the peOple
 drink deeply and gladly of life, feel | strongly, act decisively and love madly And sometimes they drink-well, never | mind
 l If you have never been to Kentucky
 then go. The Man From Jericho will
 be delighted to take you there, and if you
 have been this novel will introduce new
 and striking characters to you that you
 will delight to add to your list of friends, l or enemies.
 l That's the charm of the book.
 l It's so natural that you would like to | shake hands with big, level headed John Glenning and praise him for his heroism until you suddenly see that his attitude | towards bravery Is so unconcerned that | you feel yourself small for thinking it ex- traordinary. Then you would like to tell Julia Dudley how sweet and noble, and | lovable and beautiful you think her, and | that you do hope she is going to marry John Glenning. for you don't believe the ugly stories that are being circulated fin Jericho about him. And how you would like to stroke the glossy mead of Major Dudleys great colt, "The Prince.' and tell him how glad you arc that, despite the dastardly attempts made to destroy him, he lived to run that wonderful race
 and beat the horses of that midnight as- sassin of horses, "Devil' Marston.
 This is. the story of a forceful man who tries to escape the wiles of a subtly beautiful woman Ca married woman al that and prove his right to the girl thai he loves. Mir Litsey develops the compli- cated situations adroitly. leading the read CT on page by page. while he wonders
 whether q clean natured man, tempted a