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

ing the self-satisfied, rebulxing the stiff necked, and intoning melodiously. When he regards his own astounding virtues, he must inevitably fall in love with vice, though he Is supposed to comprehend it thoroughly. You don't learn a thing by simply looking at 1t, by knowing it exists. You must handle it. breathe it, live in the atmosphere It is ridiculous to ex- pect an innocent and blameess curate to help, from the depths of his blameless heart and simple imagination. the sim worn veterans of life"
 HARRIET BEECHER STOWE" By Martha Foote Crowe GA Biography
 for Girls). D. Appleton & Co.,, puolish-
 CTS. New York.
 The author of Uncle Toms Cabin" is the subject of volume by Martha Foote Grove, which will be of interest to many readers, no doubt.
 Much is known already of Mrs. Stowe's life, but much more is known after hay ing perused this latest book concerning her.
 For years poverty was Mrs Stowe's most virile foe. and when she was mar ried at the age of 20 she still had it to con- tend with, though love helped wonder fully along the rugged way.
 When her children came there was still more responsibility and after going to | she found her life completely filled with household cares and responsibilities.
 Nothing, however, stood in the way of Mrs. Stowe when it came to writing, and her first installment of Uncle Tom s Cabin appearing when she was 40, ran in '"The National Era from June until April attracting widespread interest.
 Within year 9OOOO0 copies were sold in America, and 100000 in England
 By l9l3,' says the biOgraDher "there were 66 translations of it.
 The biographer depicts Mrs Stowe as a woman of fine character, a devoted mother and creature of rare soul
 THE ARGYLE CASE"
 By Arthur Hornblow (Founded on the
 play by Harriet Ford and Harvey J.
 O'Higgins and written in cooperation
 with Detective William J Burns.) liar
 per Bros., publishers, New York.
 MT. Robert Hilliard, the eminent actor has made "The Argyle Case" already famous on the stage, but it remained for MT. Arthur Hornblow to arrange it in book form and make it famous in the lt- erray world.
 This he has done with great distinction, for it wasn't an easy matter to take such play and transcribe it to mere paper with all it's tenseness and dramatic effect
 i"The Argyle Case" is a detective story, pure and simple, but one of the very best that has been presented in years.
 There is not dull note in it-not q dull situation, and with a freshness and bril- liancy that is at once commendable, the author has given his readers a very in- teresting story.
 | From the moment when old MT. Argyle, after executing an eccentric will is found dead in his library, expectation is kept tense Interest in heightened by the fact l that throughout the tale modern methods 1 of detecting crime are slxillfully used. l tfngerprints and dictaphones take the | place of disguises and all the parapherna- 1 lia of the traditional detective Kayton, the man who solves the mystery is si | man of forceful, likable personality, with nothing of the poseur about him. By dint of shrewdness, experience and common 1 sense, Kayton clears the woman he be- I lieves innocent, and incidentally rounds up | a dangerous gang of counterfeiters, prov ing as interesting in his way as his broth CTS of the less modern Sherlock Holmes | school.