The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-30

New York. August 29.-After months of mirthless mingling with the mis- named merry millions of Manhattan p ore feels competent to express an opin- fen relative to their attitude toward the outsider as well as to the motives they attribute sto themselves-mine is that they are incorrect in both.
 To the southerner for instance, who fails to fall upon his knees in open ndoration of the glare of Gotham. New York says: 70 I know, l know; you were V pretty big fish in a little pond and your egotism misses that recogni- ton which Manhattan fails to accord to you. Now as for me. l am content to remain small fish in big lake that is really worth while"
 That attitude Is very general here and is as un<>t { as 1t is erroneous. '. hile being a big fish in a little pond may have its appeal to the egotistical- lN inclined on the other hand the lit tie pond offers attractions which the Lig lake fails to provide. There are pleasant acquaintances. friendships, etc. there and there are pleasures wherein there is far more of heart nd much less of money Pleasures 10 which the "big lake" of New York is a stranger
 On the other hsnd. when New York Says it is content to be a small fish iii big lake it--tcensored). The aver |age Broadwayite C'averagen to be care fully eonsidered) is not content 10 be anything of the sort. He Is content to coLfess to himself that he is but his pleasure lies in pretending that he is Ia regular sea monster, even in the greatest body of water
 And therein lies the differences: the man from the smaller citv is what
 and is content to be just that 1T public and in private Wade the aver |ago New Yorker is unable to be what he wants to be and therefore pretends to be what he is not, and has his fun pl tending.
 Of course, the foregoing does not apply to every inhabitant of the island. have heard that there are some real human beings here.
 UNKNOWN FRIENDS. As I walk where the throng is thickest, And the lights gleam brightest too. Full many face in the crowded place,
 I judge to be fair and true. Here is an honest fellow
 And one who is lonely, too.
 And there is miss who knows but
 bliss
 And wonder a woman true. And here is a heart that's heavy,
 Though ruled by soul that's pure, And wonder youth who sees but truth
 Where sin and the white lights lure. And my heart is a-throb with pity,
 Though my lips, perforce. are dumb. And nor word nor sigh, as pass
 From out Of my heart must come.  For this is a wondrous city,
 Where each unto each is foe, And alone each day each goes his way, Mid the friends he will never know.
 And wrile the anvil chorus Is still harmonizing sweetly it may be well to add that I met man recently so ature and the culmination of his varied literary activities, is this volume. "My Ogowe," which the publishers hold to be the most important work of the sort yet published.
 OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED (RE-
 VIEWS LATER). "DAVID'S HERITAGE" By Mrs. os-
 mond Young Owings. The Cosmopoli- tan Press, Publishers. New York. TOUCHING IT DE LUXE.' By Irwin s. Cobb. George H. Doran Company Publishers, New York. THE OLD CAME" By Samuel G. Blythe. George H. Doran Company Publishers, New York.
 "I SHOULD SAY SO" By James Mont. gomery Flagg. George H. Doran Com pany, Publishers, New York.