The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-13

ELBOW LANE By the author of Altogether Jane
 Mitchell Kennerly, publishers. New
 York
 The most charming fancy of many a day. A delicate story of pure and tender iove-told with sentiment and with pathos brusilla, the little girl who grows up un- der the watchful care of her stern old grandfather and her Aunt Rhoda. and who, later becomes a world-famed scuip- tress, will win friends wherever she goes is Elbow Lane" by the author of the very original and attractive play, Alto getller Jane"
 Elbow Lane' (which, by the way, IS simply the street where Drusilla liVes) IS q very different sort of book, however, from Altogether Jane It shows the author in new light, as creator oi quaint, lovable characters and as weav- CT of the most delightful romance.
 MY LIFE OUT OF PRISON. By Donald Lowrie. Mitchell Kennerly
 Publishers. New York.
 This volume is the successor of My Life in Prison," probably the most not able book on the prison problem that was ever issued in America.
 Thomas Mott Osborne says, in the in- ti tioduction to within Prison Walls, that 1t was reading My Life in Prison which inspired him to a decision to devote ms life to prison reform.
 Mir. Osborne is now the warden at Sing Sing New York, and his work, in which Donald Lowrie plays no unimportant part Is arousing nation wide interest
 Since Donald Lowrie left San Quentin, August l. 1911, he has devoted his time to the interest of prisons and prisoners His new book contains his own story of the remarkable work he has been doing. II Is fascinating narrative written with the same simplicity, earnestness and sin cerity as the earlier book.
 There can be no doubt that the matter of prison reform and the treatment of prisoners is one of the livest issues before the American people today. It behooves every citizen to read what Donald Lowrie has say on this vital subject, for he knows at first hand that about which he writes.
 THE CITY OF PLEASURE" By Arnold Bennett George II. Doran Co-.
 Publishers, New York.
 Arnold Bennett is as superb when he Is writing lively, entertaining tale as when he is hewng out, a masterpiece of realism.
 Here, as in Denry, Buried Alive and The Grand Babylon Hotel, he combines an ab- sorbingly intricate plot, a gay dash of fantasy, and the highest good spirits In a novel that keeps the reader alternately guessing and laughing, to the very last paragraph.
 The City of Pleasure the mammoth amusement park in which unwieldly Joseph Ham ruled, was the scene of an amazing conspiracy against the life and peace of humber of citizens, worked out in dramatic action.
 SPRAY ON THE WINDOW" By George H. Doran Co.,, Publishers. New York
 J. E. Buckrose has, by her gay and amusing novels. won many friends. But never has she shown such sheer human reality as in Spray on the Window It Is the tEVeryman'' of married life 1t is the ambition of every dreaming girl the unexpected power of every marriage changing dreams for reality; the slow, ir- resistible appearance of the forces of life behind every marriage, that with ths pa ssing years more and more sanctify it
 Pale slim, exquisitely virginal agains the expanse of brownish water whicl gleamed with the radiance of a million opals"-snch was Ann, who was to learr life, to know love, to bear the burden o1 the years, and at last to see the firm goal.
 OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED GRE VIEWS LATER).
 THE COMPETITIVE NEPHEW" By Montague Glass. Illustrated. Doubleday Page & Co., Publishers, Garden City, N. Y SECRETS OF SUCCESS IN WAR. By Edmund Dane. George H. Doran Go. Publishers, New York.
 THE GERMAN WAR" By Arthur Go nan Doyle George H. Doran Co.,, Publish- CTS, New York
 THE EAGLES OF EMPIRE" By Cy. rus Townsend Brady. Illustrated by the kinneys. George ii. Doran Gu, utbhiisisii- sii CTS New York.