The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-19

jeered by the wicked Knocked by the
pious-that's how the tide of love was
liable to run" In the days of that IL
tied upstart Sir Edmund Andros," imp Of
that most profligate and blood-thirsty
potentate. King James IL
a stirring story of high adventure b.
land and sea is Mr.. Phipps' Romance
of Colonial Days" IL Is full of life and
color and dash, where things-dreadful,
startling things-"keep happening" and
the brave. pitiful pioneer life surges
around it like a sea OF menace.
NOTED SPEECHES or DANIEL WEB
HENRY CLAY.
BY Lillian Marie Briggs. illustrated.
Moffat Yard & Co, New York.
In arranging the best known American
history in literature will include. the
authors purpose has been to meet the
need of the student and the public lib
rary as we'll as the school and college
library. As librarian, Miss Lillian
Marie Briggs has found that the excel
lent compilations which include all these
we'll known speeches In one volume can
meet the need OF but one reader at
q time. while the same speeches arranged
in more than one volume will accommo-
dete several persons whose requests are
for different speeches.
/, The biographical sketches have been in
/ ciuded for the convenience of the reader
| and for the schoolboys and girls who
are constantly asking for short accounts
OF the lives of our great Americans.
THE WOMEN OF THE DEBATABBE
| LAND"
| BY Alexander Hunter. The Golden Pub
| fishing Company. Washington, d. c.
| a true history in the most entertaining
| style OF the adventures, heroism. cunning
Wit, suffering and forttude of the wonl-
en- of uosbys confederacy during the
/ late war between the states-Alexandal
| Hunters ''Ihe Women of the Debatabe
| Land"
| The book is beautifully Illustrated by
| line cuts and half tones, which adds much
! to its attractiveness.
| Alexander Hunter in this book has
| done for the south what Walter Scott
| did TO immortalize the women of the
Debatable land of Scotland TO his own
| knowledge. as one of the Black Horse
| cavalry who helped TO make the section
of which he treats famous, the author
| has added years Of research and labor;
| and has written a true account of the
! life of the women who were between the
| lines OF the hostile armies of the Blue
and GRAY.
The book reads like the legends OF old
but at the same time shows the stamp
| of historic truth.
| No veteran who served in either the
army Of the Potomac or that of northern
Virginia can afford to fail to read this
book; and every man who married a yir-
gin!a girl or whose mother was q Virgin
! Ia woman could give her no greater
pleasure or pay her higher compliment
than to present her with copy OF this
work.
! MARY WARES PROMISED LAND .
| BY Annie Fellows Johnstone; l.. c. Page
| & Co.. Boston.
/! Annie Fellows Johnstone In Mary
Wares Promised Land" has contributed
another very charming volume to ''The
Little Colonel Series.
Some two or three years ago II was
| agreed by thousands of young readers
that Mary Ware is quite as loyable. II
| not more strikingly Individual in charac-
ter than was even Lloyd Sherman. popu-
larly known THE Little Colonel" who
| held first place in g.rlhood's heart for
some time. In this latest book, Mary $
| desire to visit 1.-The Locusts" the old
| home OF THE Little Colonel" is cratified
and the environment OF green fields and
| spreading trees snd all the charm Of
freshness Of the beautiful Kentucky conn
4 try asserts itself throughout the entire
story. Many OF the characters In the
earlier books re brought IN, but the book