The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-23

would read h1S story. To cOnceal my surprise and humiliation was diplo- without reading the story itself was that he had named it That Printer Of Udelrs."
 The writing of his first book was the beginning of his real life ministry and from that time it has been my pleasure and good fortune to supplement- his work by making it effective through large circulation.
 After the publication of The Shep- herd of the Hills.' Mir. Wright felt he could widen his sphere of usefulness if he were not hampered by what Is un- derstood in the present day as pastoral duties" and after careful consideration he quit preaching.
 ! Harold Bell Wright at the age of 42 can claim a larger number of readers than any other living author. There are more than 30000,0o0 in the United States. Canada, England and Australia"
 NO. IS WASHINGTON SQUARE," By Leroy Scott, with illustrations by
 Irma Deremeaux. Houghton- Mifflin
 Co, publishers, No Park Row, Bos-
 ton
 Leroy Scott has written a perfectly dandy story in his latest novel. entitled No. 13 Washington Square,
 It Is brim full of action from first to last, dashing, thrilling and always en- Itertaining.
 It fairly throbs with excitement and is really one of the best novels that has come out during the year. At first glance the reader may think that "No. 13 Washington Square is a detective story, or worse still. story of old fashioned conventional New York life, written around those who harp on family" and good pedigrees, while moderately stalks at the door. But
 The reader is mistaken. Instead
 "No IS Washington Square has to do with Mrs Carrie DePyster (born De- Pyster, if you please), a very charm : ling widow who Is great belle in New York society in spite of the fact that she has only a moderate income, ests- mated by New York standards. She is very clever and amusing, and of course has to turn and twist like A good one" to keep things going, but this she does with all the grace and charm of her kind and you can't help liking the attractive widow, even If she inst measured by the millions that New York usually demands as the price of popularity.
 What small amount of wealth she possesses is invested in the New York  that road passed its dividend the widow vas in the middle of a mighty bad fix. Her plans were all laid to journey to Europe the next day.
 But
 It couldn't be done. and what she devised was that while her spirit might be trayeling abroad her alert booy would still be abiding in New York and in that case she would save her money o,d aIso ber social pOSitlOn.
 Mrs DePyster's son Jack Is an in- teresting character
 The widow disinherits him and what happened out of the melee MT. Scott makes an amazingly clever story out or, and one we'll worth reading.
 "CLARKS FIELD
 By Robert Herrick. Houghton Mifflin company, publishers, No. Park Row, Bos-
 MT. Robert Herrick is again at his best in his latest novel entitled "Clark Field"
 It is story of modern American hfe' dealing with subjects which are attrac- tive to the average reader and or Wn1ch MT. Herrick writes with amazing ineui- tioh and charm.
 The story concerns a girl who has some property left to her-the "Field' being a 20-acre plot about which thriving and growing city arranges itself and of course the girl has money coming to her
 The scene is supposed to be laid in Boston. and here the heroine who IS honely. unattractive and has practically no education, makes one acquaintance and from which point her story moves thrillingly and with far more adventure and color than the lives of most ordinary human beings
 The land increases in value and the girl is entitled to her share of the large estate. but complications arise such as the title to the land being obscured py legal tangle, and the child is repeatedly almost cheated out of her rights These are saved to her, however by the shrewd- ness of a kindly and honest old judge or probate He commits the child and the estate to the care of trust company. Mr. Herrick thus has the opportunity ol showing how inhuman and senseless the impersonal guardianship Of institutions nav be: The rise in value of the land makes the girl rich She Is taken from inc public school and sent to a finish inc school on the Hudson where 1t IS inpossible to learn anything. Against this tyne of school the teachers, the girls. their morals and their worship or wealth Mir Herrick writes with spirit One feels sorry for the girl who has no chance and has come to believe that
  good thing on earth.
 Then she goes to Europe to profess sonal chaperon, who exploits rlcn glris under the pretence of providing them with home and social advantage The girl spends money recklessly. She falls in love with another common and un- pleasant type of American, the shiftless shirker. who calls his disinclination to work the artistic temperament. She marries him offhand, and they return to America with much ostentation of wealth When they appear before the judge of probate on the girls coming age, he almost regrets his interference in her behalf. He induces her, however, to visit the property frNn which her millions come, and she finds 1t crowded with tene- ments that are filled with foreign work men,
 They go to California, where the hus- band rapidly goes to the bad; he is nagged by his rich wife, wastes her sire for show, takes to drink and to run ming after other women. She is equally extravagant, but in constructive way, again a. mark of her New England in- heritance, and is engrossed in her little boy She takes to talking with a mason who is working for her. an American workman with advanced ideas about property the rights of labor and other matters thereby demonstrating that the old New England stock recovers its vigor when transplanted to a new soil resembling that in which. t throve first. 1 After a while she discovers that he is | one of her long lost cousins, those whose l disappearance had tied up the land till | the courts quieted the title. She be- l lieves she must give up her property, hut says nothing till her child dies.