The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-12-26


fetching. 1t is holiday book in spirit
as well as in name; it carries q mes
sage of beauty, JOY and happiness. II
you have not time to read it your
self, send it to a friend as a Christ
mas gift and win sincere gratitude
REALLY TRULY FAIRY STORIES .
BY Helen s. Woodruff; with decorations
by Griselda NJ. Clure George III. Do
ran company, publishers, New York.
The friends of Helen S. Woodruff,
who is equally popular in her native
southland and in the north, will be
books in her characteristic style are
presented to the reading public this
season-"Really Truly Fairy Stories,
La book for the little ones with the
same delectable sentiment in it as APP
peared in her Really Truly Nature
Stories,' and the other is Mr.. Doctor
Man., which is, as the title indicates,
a jolly little fiction story. Yet behind
the fictitious interest there is the serious
theme of proper care for children, and
all her profits for the story will go to
hospitals for children.
A Columbia college professor has said
if Mrs. Woodruff's Really Truly Fairy
Stories,'' that the book is q second
Peter Pam and will live long after
hioot VI Tue PFC udy poOhS dlS utdd'
than which no greater praise could be
accorded literary work.
Little PIXIE, the heroine of Really
Truly Fairy Tales is the Really Truly
Fairies God child, and lives in a big.
old fashioned farmhouse. The fairies of
woods and streams and fields are her
playmates. and have told her all their
secrets: why the Laughing Brook is al
ways happy; why the little perfume ed
flowers bend down to gaze at them
selves in the mirror-like water. The
world is a beautiful place to live in,
If you believe in fairies.
IRRATIONAL FLOODMARKS: WEEK BY
WEEK OBSERVATIONS OF
AMERICAN LIFE"
By the Editors of Golfers" Headed
by Mr.. Marx Sullivan. George II. Do
ran company, publishers, New York.
T. From business to chess, politics to
patent medicine, Golfers. in its famous
editorials, keeps watch on our Ameri-
can tendencies and this compilation of
it's greatest utterances gives a genuine
vision of America in this critical hour
Only such editorials are chosen as have
a permanent value. They have been
written by all sorts of people, from the
editor in chief to civil engineers, but
they were weighed and reweighed by
the whole editorial board for inclusion
In National Floodmarks" The
book commentaries Golfers eMaga-
zines twentieth birthday.
"HEMPFILED."
BY David Grayson; illustrated by Thorn
as Fogarty. Doubleday, Page & Co.,
publishers. Garden City. New York.
That David Grayson, author of "Ad
ventures in Contentment," Adventures
in Friendship" and 1.-THE Friendly
Road" would someday write a novel
has been the hope of thousands of read
ers of his sketches of country life and
it has for sometime past been known
that one was on the day, the result be-
ing "Hempfleld.'' The title "Hempfeld
it is said, is taken from the name of
the little New England town in which
the various adventures of the author
took place while on the staff of that
bright luminary in country journalism
the Hempfield Star A romance of the
proprietress of the Star and one Of her
editors runs through the book, it is
announced, and among the characters
are many of the same country types
found in Mrs. Grayson's earlier work
The book is illustrated by Thomas Foo