The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09


dervish. the young American is caught.
UP in an amazing adventure and the
reader travels with him at the rate OF q
monoplane while he rescues Mary Car
ruthers from Turkish harem
A verse in the Koran sets them all
a-going. For under the Turkish : law,
Jack Is impressed to act as proxy hus-
band so that the girls 70-year-oldt Turkish
husband may remarry her after imme-
date divorce. Returning from Mecca ON
a wager in which his fortune is at stake,
Stanton falls In love with his unexpected
wife. He forgets his fortune when she
begs him not to desert her-for she doesn't
want to go back to the old man. Stanton
starts to rescue her
Only Isham could have invented such
a plot, and only such a master could un-
ravel it, leaving not a dervish and a
houri-but a dashing young American
who has saved a beautiful English girl.
That such story can be told without
once crossing the boundaries of POSSIBLE
ity makes it a maSerpiece of adventure.
A knowledge of Oriental life which Is
ham has gained through many travels
has been put into the pages of Aladdin
From Broadway yet without the slight
est pedantry On the contrary, the style
is delicious blending of slangy AmeHr
icanism with the grandiose phrasings OF
the Syrian story teller Our adventures
far from Broadway ..-..5
Here. then. is a tale of short delight
for all who, like stories. There is not a
single instance where it droops in its fas-
cinating flight. II is real romance
purest fiction, rarest narrative!
JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN"
Pageant play in four acts BY Louis
N. Parker. Illustrated. The John Lane
Company. publishers, New Fork.
1t is quite probable that the fascinating
figure of Joseph. with its dramatic shifts
and sudden crises. Will always attract
the skillful artisans of the theatre. Mr..
Parker's Joseph" is a striking figure,
uneqnalled in any previous presentation.
The recent successful production of this
spectacular biblical drama will make this
book welcome addition to- the fall pub
lications
r; EEL DORADO 't9st vi
BY Baroness orczy. George H. aDoran
Company, publishers, New York;
81 Dorado Is the long promised and
eagerly expected novel of the further ad-
ventures of "The Scarlet PimperneE'-
immortal character creation of Saroness
Orczy. !. IL is a fresh recital of the ex-
citing days of the Commune and, of the
Adventurous part played by the Scarlet
Pimpernel during the. reign of terror.
Here again the champion OF the fallen
royalists rescues fair women and brave
men from the tumbril and the giullotine
He moves throug the pages a fascinating
and bewilderng figure, always changing
his disguises and continually standing
central inv the zone of danger. In the
streets of ancient Paris, with their
crooked houses and narrow skyline, the|
very spirit of intrigue seems. to hide. Ans{
the story moves SO fast that the reader
follows breathless In ayriot OF suspenseI
and piquid imagination H.
MADELINE AT HER MIRROR"
"a WONAN'S DIARY" BY Marcelle
fishers Tinayre. Translated by wini-|
fred Stephens. The John Lane Compa-
ny, publishers, New York. M
slnithe excellent translation by ,Winifred
Stephens OF Madeline at Her. Mirror
by .Marcelle Tinayre. we find the clever
author in her most typical mood, subtly|
psychological, numerous. yet. grave, In
terweaying into a. web of romance auto-|
biographical threads and topical. illusions |
Pictures of fashionable PaNsiani life all
ternate with peasant idyls, and Stheret
are all manner Of acute reflections on ourI
modern existence, on the art of cubists, I
on feminity as revealed at sales, on the|
grievances of wives and the fears of the|
mothers of sons. in these days of revived
militarism. The book also contains the1
pen poFtralt Oh an EngHsn sunrageftAeI
whom Nine. Tinayre visited at Clement Il,
Inn. q ti3s ~
OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED, ,(REvIEWss
s 81 LATER) Z
"BENDISH.'' BY Maurice Hewlett :
Charles Scribner's Sons. publishers. New
York. ~
THE MAN BETWEEN.' BY Waltsr1
Archer Frost Illustrated by Howard Mel
Cormick., Doubleday, Page Co., pub
fishers, New York. = = IS lis E