The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-27
"oNE CLEAR CALL


 By Frances Nirnmo Greene. Illustrated. Charles scribner's Sons Publishers, New York.
 Frances Nimmo Green in her third novel, "One Clear Call" has made tre- mendous strides, both both a literary standpoint and also from the standpoint of character building and plot, AA
 Her first book. Into the Night.p was well received by her hosts of friends throughout the south, of which she is ruch-valued product, and in 'The Right of the Strongest she leaped into fame at a single stride. z No book published within. the past de- .ade has been more widely read and more enjoyed than '"The Right of the Strongest"
 One Clear Call'' is worthy successor to this splendid book. although totally cifferent and showing the decided yer satility of the author.
 Again Miss Greene takes her native state or Alabama for the scenario, and she paints the picture of the little southern town with master hand; she paints the picture of her southern people with all their warm, cordial tender feeling to the woman or man who is in trouble with a gerueness that is characteristic of the lovable. sweet woman that she herself is. the finest type of wonanhood-noble, splendid, supreme
 The eternal triangle has to do with the story of One Clear Call" but handled in very different manner from the or dinary triangular story.
 The old story becomes new in Miss Gieenes clever hands, and the entirely different phase of the situation which she delineates is extremely interesting and on taht gives food for much thought.
 Henry Garnett. the husband is the b1a ckest sheep in the little Alabama city where he and his family has been a power for years and years.
 The young doctor is the whitest sheep in the entire flock, his family also being of great social influence and wealth for generations back up to the time that the story takes place-all men and women of sterling character and great ability.
 The wife, woman of beauty and charm, meets the young doctor purely in professional way at first, and from a slight acquaintance the love portion springs in her heart, involving a tangle which is very hard to unravel.
 The husband is the young doctors boy hood friend, and of course neither the doctor nor the husband realize that Faith, the wife, Is Henry Garnett's wife, as the doctor doesn't mention her, and Garnett doesn't know where she is.
 The wife having gone to the old home town of her husband, sick, Is taken to a hospital; the doctor called in, and the story begins. Faith is running away from Henry, and happens to land in his home place, by the merest chance.
 When she finds that the young doctor thinks the wife Is to blame for Henry Garnett's downfall, she leaves, trying to break away from the man she has come to love, and let him retain the ideal that he has made of her before he finds out who she really is
 of Faith, who eventually turns traitor and brings about the denouement of the story, but in the meantime mention must be made of several other characters who make the book a living, breathing, reality The dear, old, patient, blind mother of Henry Garnett, who has been kept in ig- norance of her sons career, thinking him dead. and the wholesome, beautiful Mar gle, a real woman every inch of her, a woman whom to quote an old aphoris1u to know her is to love her." is ideal in the delineration that the author has made of her.
 One Clear Call' is one of the most pa- medically appealing books imaginable but With such a breath of sweetness and gen. uineness about 1t that when the reader has finished 1t he fairly reeks with tie atmosphere of the south, the magnolias and the mimosa blossoms. the moonlight nights, sweet-scented and delicious: the zephyrs waiting tenderness and beaute- ousness like fairy hand over the whole surrounding
 Miss Greene has written a big book in One Clear Call" book worthy of her splendid intellect and delightful person ality.