The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25

lectlon, vanishing Points," which rep
sent the true and ever pleasing at
mosphere of that part of this country
The book is not. however, composed
solely of this kind of fiction. Not a
few of the most interesting of the
stories make their appeal because they
rest on feelings. belief and character
istics that are universal in human ma
ture. One feels, as one reads of the
man who thought that as so many peo-
pie in this broad land must suffer from
poverty and cold and hunger. he, too
should share their lot or of the writer
who, though his success did not ap-
pear to be great was, nevertheless, in
huencing the work Of others, or of the
editor who took a stand against the
unfair policy of his ma gazine, or of
the mother who saved her son from
the wiles of an adventures, or of any
in fact, of Miss Browns delightful
characters, that the art of short fc-
ton is at last coming into its own.
THE CAREER OF DOCTOR WEA-
YER"
BY Mrs, Henry Bachus. illustrated. L.
C. Page & Co, Boston.
A big and purposeful story inter-
woven about the responsibilities and
problems in the medical profession of
the present day, is Mrs. Henry Bachus
clever story. The Career of Doctor
Weaver" DR.. Weaver, noted spe-
cialist, and head of private hospital
had allowed himself to drift away from
the standards of his youth in his de-
sire for wealth and social and scientific
prestige. When an expose of the meth
DDS employed by him in furthering his
schemes for the glorifying of the name
of weaver" in the medical world is
threatened ii is frustrated through the
efforts of the famous Doctors younger
brother, Dr.. Jim. The story is power
full and compelling, even if it uncovers
the problems and temptations of IA
physicians career. Perhaps the most
important character, not even except
ing DR.. Weaver and DR.. Jim, is The
Girl" who plays such an important
part in the lives of both men.
"ONE WOMAN'S LIFE'
BY Robert Heirick. The Macmillan
COMPANY New York.
When the reader meets MILL Ridge the
heroine of Robert Herrick's "One Wom-
ans Life" she is a strong willed girl
in her early teens who is rebellious at
the middle-class home in an unfas shion-
able section of Chicago which her father
has leased. In these first few scenes of
the novel there is clearly revealed the
principles, as yet not wholly formed,
which in time become the guiding forces
OF Mllly lie. mat SHe VIII not remain
all her days coope1 up in a house that
is barely habitable, that she will meet
people and be i'm touch with and a part
of the really worth while society of the
big city, that she viii do things, In
short be somebody. are among the
points on which she has quite made up
her mind.
1t is the old story OF the struggle to
cut a dash. to live up To- appearances and
to make those appearances very much
larger than the pocketbook iustifies. that
Mr. Herricb tells. And Milly succeeds in
a way, too She does get an entry into
what she thinks is the best society, in
the course of a few years, and she soon
becomes the feted of particular group
of rich people. OF course, all this time
Millv had had her eyes open for a mar
riageable man and the result of her many
social maneuvers is a proposal from a
wealthy, if somewhat brainiess, gentle
man.
Right here Mr.. Herrick shows his skill
not only as a novelist. but as an inter-
preter of feminine character. Zone
Woman's Life" is not story of do
nestle difficulties resulting from a union
with money as its only bond, for Milly
Intimately rejects her suitor with the
millions for a dashing newspaper artist
of the book following Milly's marriage
ent trend from most of the fiction which
has hitherto portrayed an ambitious
woman. Mr.. flerrick has not written
that the experiences Of his heroine might
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