The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12
FULL sWING''

| u!ne or general mSanlty--ln a time When
 people are wasting their poverty and honor in wild commercial dissipations FULL SWING"
 By Frank Danby; J. B. Lippincott, pub 1 lisEers, Philadelphia.
 Full Swing" by that very clever writer, Frank Donby, is a remarkably strong novel, in whose rushing current glow two love stories of heart-gripping | interest. Frank Danby has done a very | fine and big piece of work, and one that , is distinct advance over those suc- | cesses. 'The Heart of Child" and Pigs ! in Clover" The characters are very real and for the most part are people one would like to know The scenes at the | English country set of Marley. at the old | ruined castle in Ireland and especially those in the Transvaal during the Boer war stand out with striking vividness The story centers about Agatha Wan stead, woman of noble character and 1 It Is her peculiar influence oyer her | friends which holds us fascinated to the 1 end. With the best of intentions the | heroine yet has a gift for misjudging ! herself and others, not understa nding | Der own needs nor those of the people who are dearest to her In consequence her blunders cause infinite trouble and l nearly wreck the lives of her family and | friends. Neverthless Agatha Wanstead ' is very real and lovable-a new type of
 heroine, incredible as that may appear, a new type that is credible as your oldest friend
 1 The other characters are scarcely less absorbing-the hard drinking, hard-living | Irish nobleman who married Agatha and | carried her to his tumbled down castle in the county Fermanagh. the faithful family lawyer, Andrew Mckay, who loved l Agatha and understood her as no one else did; her son Desmond: Andrews son | Michael sharply contrasted in character | Vet each fine natured; Eunice a girl who | is brought up by Agatha-these are only l the most important of the many inter- | esting people in the story Such q book | as this--so broad in it's scope-so vivid in the telling-so realistic in it's portrayal
 of humanity becomes a part of one s ] knowledge of the world, as all real strong 1 books do.
 THE MILL ON THE CREEK"
 "A Romance of the Hudson,' by Fred erick Thomas the Broadway Publish ing company, publishers, New York
 The Mill on the Creek" by Fred erick Thomas Is the story of family
 Hans Shufelt Alma, his wife, and Wal ter, the younger brother of Hans, who emigrated to North America from the Netherlands. "when Pichegru, Scan kons rolled across over it's grassy levels with the loud voice of invasion.' | In the early lives of the two brothers a complication in the business affairs had come about which prejudiced Hans the elder, greatly against Walter whom he thought had been disloyal and unfaithful to his interests and had caused an arrangement between them but what afterward was patched up by the kindly graces of Hans wife, Alma The story opens with the family set ting at Wappinger Falls on the Hud- son where they bought a mill. This is the scene of the tragedies that follow in which the unfortunate Walter is again suspected (by his brother Hans) of duplicity.
 | Walter is the unlucky one from be- ginning to end and when the flour is missing from the mill and band of bad fellows get in their work and make way with it, finally setting fire to the mill. poor Walter is accused by his brother of all the dirty work and is in consequence very unhappy about lit.
 l The "rear williams are made known in the end and Walter is vindicated and descendants of the villagers who lived there so long ago, will tell today | the stranger who may loiter about it's lovely precincts the old tale of its plum dering and of the fire that flashed the | dream through Hans troubled mind, and tricked its daring kinder down to | tragic death"
 THE TRUE ADVENTURES OF A
 PLAY"
 By Louis Evan Shipman Mitchell Kennerley, publisher, New York. II Perhaps you remember Henry Miller in ''DArcy of the Guards" Its author MT. Louis Evan Shipman, has written Il this unique book about "D'Arcy," in which he tells exactly what happened to the play from the very moment the manuscript left his hands Letters, con tracts, telegrams, etc, are all given in full and there are many interesting H. 1ustrations both in color and in black and white. "The True Adventures of a
 Play will prove of almost inestimable
 value to all those who practice or hope
 to practice the art of playwriting, and it abounds. furthermore, in bits of fine ] criticism of the contemporary theatre OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED (RE- VIEWS LATER)
 NEW MEN FOR OLD" by Howard | Vincent O'Brien; Mitchell Kennerley.
 publisher. New York.
 GREAT DAYS" by Frank Harris.
 Mitchell Kennerley. publisher. New | York.
 "PENBOD,n by Booth Tarkington: Dou bleday Page & Co. publishers, Garden
 City, New York.
 SON OF THE AGES." by Stanley Waterloo: illustrated/by Craig Johns;
 Doubleday Page X Co., publishers,
 Garden City, New York