The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-05

1 ances In northern Spain for a London
 daily. Previous to the publication oi
 his first novel a number of articles
 both In French and in English, ap-
 peared in Paris, London and American
 dailies. They show this author de-
 veloping thougtts around the modern
 movements of the time-the social un-
 rest the woman movement, individual
 ism, socialism, etc. He has published
 few books on these subJects-in 197 "Engines of Social Progress;" 1909
 Labor and Housing at Port Sunlight
 MT. George is a politician and has done
 considerable work on the radical side.
 He is an extreme feminist and has
 done a good deal of public speaking
 for the suffragettes. MT. George takes
 himself little seriously; he has many
 and big thoughts, and he seems to have
 conscience about getting them before l the public. His fiction Is so far largely analytical. but as he develops in ere ative work this author, with his origi- nality and his promise, should show high potentiality among younger Eng fish writers of the present time. Tn "The Making of An Englfshman' MT George has reached the highest point in his literary career, and his
 book will no doubt add many readers to his already large clientele-readers who appreciate things worth while.
 "JoHN WARD, M. D." By Charles Vale. Mitchell Kennerly, publisher, New York.
 No cleverer story has been written in years than Charles Vale's "John Ward. NJ. D."
 It is virile, thrilling, earnest and sim cere, and whether the author has ever written anything else or not, this story ought to put him in plane far above fha auera Uritar of fiction.
 John Ward, M. D." has to do with a young Englishman, the second son of lord who takes mp medicine as a profession, going out to little mining village, where he begins his practice. lie presently meets a woman, the in his 1.fe--Lady Winter, and they re- alize each of them soop after their meeting that this will be the case. The man loves the woman in way an animal sort of way-but the high est attrib butes in his heart she never arouses.
 She in turn gives herself very freely to her love for him, and the tragedy of it all makes a stirring, appealing sort of drama-human and intense, in its 1 qualities.
 Besides the man and woman who are the central figures, theer is very clever character-Lord Daventry-who is not only charming but quite orlg1nal. He makes many observations of meh and thinks and osme of his epigrams ap- pended below my be enjoyed. Among other things Lord Daventry says:
 "All attraction is based on ignorance
 on one side, at least. Single women have always a double charm for married men. and married women for bachelors. Un- married women don't know what a mar ried man does, and married women know what a bachelor doesnt-in theory. For
 this reason the serpent was such nui- sance in the Garden of Eden. He de- 1 stroyed Eyes charm by making her real ize that she was charming. Immediately
 she hankered for fig leaves. Men have
 been paying large millinery bills ever since"
 | Regret nothing that you do. This was 1 Nietzsche's legacy to mankind; having
 bequeathed it, he changed his mind and became insane.'
 "Curaey is really very immoral. One
 ought not to subject an amiable youns man, with his character yet uniformed
 to the perpetual temptation of posing az | a sinful expert, capable of leading the ! blind, strengthening the feeble, disgust