The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08

 and she opened a letter entrusted to her. and started train of circumstances that made two strong men enemies and rivali for her love.
 Ellen leaves college eager to reform the world. She is the incarnation of ard ent visionary, lovable youth, uncon- sciously little hard. The youngest ac- tor-manager-playw in London" and a determined, self-rnade newspaper own CT struggle against each other to wake her, and win her away from the cause to which she has resolved to devote heart and soul
 The background of ElIen's father and mother, the firebrand clergyman preach ing to an apathetc English village with the light of spiritual battle in his eye, and the frail, gray, tender woman who
 smilngly lets her daughter go away out of her life, is an exquisite picture of | married lovers. They are like breath from still garden in Ellens struggle
 to find herself. There are other real people. too-Jane with the plain face and tie sad and frivolous heart; Ingram with lis marrow eyes, narrow mind and use full map of life, and Rose the governess with soft eyes, who disturbs his plans | for success.
 Blu. Ellen is the point of the book, El- l len, born fighter like her father, with her intellect kndled against the wrongs
 
 l and it is big one. She is a real girl, whom one cannot forget.
 1 The author is very clever woman and delivers some very bright sayings on questions of the day Recently she had
 this to say about dress:
 1 'Prudery, as it seems to me. is an at | tribute of one of the most unpleasant I types of mind in existence, and modern women's dress is at the moment raising
 a great outcry from Prudcry. Need any | one mind? There are SO many human | pigs in the world in most respecta ble
 positions, and they cannot give them- selves any bodily satisfaction which would irnpeach those respectable posi- 1 tions. But they can and do, satisfy them
 selves by attributing deliberate indecency
 and sensuality to perfectly innocent con- l captions. and then talking about them in the guise of woufd-be reformers. They
 are able to enjoy the indecent words roll l ing in their mouths in the guise of hypo- l critical and decorous accusation. Is there
 anything more indecorous than excessive decorum? The world will always have
 it's Augean stable and there will always | be prudes to fill it. and it will never be
 absolutely cleansed"
 es FIGHTING. MODERN EVILS ssa
 By Fred S. Miller. Illustrated with orig 1 inal drawings by w. L.. Haskell The | l.. w. Walter Co. publishers. Chicago. Fighting Modern Evils,' by Fred s. Miller has a champion in E. M. Scott,
 the we'll known literary man, who says ] of 1t:
 \ How shall the young man cleanse his
 way?' What temptations turk in the
 path of our boys who are starting out
 in the world to seek their fortunes?" Mothers who are sending their sons to the city in the secret fear that the pitt
 falls that are known to- lie before un- wary feet may after all engulf them, will find much to instruct them in the above II volume. MT. Fred S. Miller, the Chi cago author. has evidently had a wide ! experience in the side of life which is E sometimes called the ''underworld." He | does not blink at the light, but exposes the dark doings of the emssaries of sin. In "Fighting Modern Evils he has in-
 deed begun a crusade for the purity oi
 the home and has waged fight for old
 fashioned religion and the old-fashioned morals.
 Besides a large array of facts. Mod ern Evils contains narrative chapters
 that seem 10 be stories of real life. Onf of these .The Story of the Worthing tons reveals the worlSissgs of the SO called affinity evil Under tne lure o
 ! treat .ity young and happy wife ii induced to move her family there ant
 the attire ctsons of society cause hei tn lose the religion in which she wai husband for an unworthy young mai, | This is painful reading, but such reve lati0ns are needed at this timcs when VI