The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-11-29

It's characters are interesting and Mrs.
Atherton has done marvellous bit of
word painting.
Ida Hook and Ora Blake will go down
in history as two of the most interesting
types of modernity that have been drawn
in many a day.
Patience Sparhawk and her Times"
Julia France" Senator North" and
the rest of Mrs. Atherton's stories arc
gcod-exceptionally good
But
Perch of the Devil"-is masterpiece.
LORRAINE.
BY Robert w. Chambers. Harper
Brothers, publishers, New York.
In his novel 'Lorraine"-that pictures
the horrors of the German invasion and
loss of that province-Robert w. Cham
bers attributes the evils that befell the
country to that indescribable disease that
ragged in France in 1s7o-1-that malady
that cannot be termed paralysis or apathy
or inertia. 1t was all three, and 1t was
malignant, for 1t came from a befouled
and degraded court. spread to the gov
eminent, infected the provinces, sparing
neither prince nor peasant, until over the
whole fair land of France 1t crept and
hung, a fetid, miasmio effluvia, till the
nation, hopeless, weary. and despairing,
bereft of nerve and sinew, sank under ii
into utter physical and moral prostra-
ton" But he prophesied rebirth as
. follows:
$50 Yesterday shall live again,
And the steel line along the Rhine
Shall cuirass thee and all that's thine.
France lives-thy France-divine Lor-
raine!''
Mr.. Chambers has written a very good
story in lorraine timely story, a vital
story
1t has none of the ''Chambersesque'
qualities that we are won't to associate
with some of his novels, such as THE
Firing Line" Fighting Chance" 1.-THE
Streets of Ascalon"-and others.
Lorraine" is much more serious, and
from literary standpoint much more
creditable than anything else he has ever
done.
"A FOOL AND HIS MONEY"
BY George Barr McCutcheon. Full Page
Illustrations in Color, by !. A. Keller.
Dodd, Mead & Co.. publishers, New
York.
Has any one in this country ever writ
ten more entertainngly about European
castles, or presented the fairest of their
denziens more attractively to the Amer
lean public than George Barr McCutch-
con? One remembers "GrauStark," the
| Princess Yetive. Beverly and the lady who
captivated Truxton King, and answers no.
| In his novel. "A Fool and His Money"
by the creator of these immensely popu-
lar heroines there Is again castle, gray
and anoinet and lofty. this time on the
Danube. There are dungeons. hints of
buried treasure. whispers of mystery, an
odd family Of stout retainers. and finally
| locked up an isolated tower. with pad
| locked door and a secret entrance-a beau
| tiful countess, Austrian by marriage, but
American by birth. The story never
stands still: iecident crowds on incident
for the author has lost none of his skill
as an expert teller of stories. A few
| writer's know how to write a wholesome
| and absorbing romance with the happy
ending which most readers desire. Nc
| Cutcheon is one of them. Aren't his read
ers numbered by the hundred thousand?
SCOUTING WITH DANIEL BOONE
| BY Everett T. Tomlinson. illustrated
| Doubleday Page 4 Co., Publishers, Gar
den City. New York.
| The first Of a new series of books for
boys by Everett T. Tomlinson. Scouting
With Daniel Boone tells the lives OF
some of our great pioneer scouts.
| To any boy, the name of Daniel Boone
Immediately awakens the thought of ad-
venture. They think of him as havine
thrilling escapes from the Indians, OF
defending log cabins from the savages
and leading settlers across the noun
tains and through the wilderness to the
broad. fertile plains Of Kentucky. Such