The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-19

begins to guess dimly of what marriag ge really means. her whole nature draws back in unconscious revolt. But her sis ter-in-law. without actually meaning to be cruel forces her Into Keeping the compact. The ceremony takes place and the bridal couple are to motor to the bridgroom's house, some 30 miles away On the way the husband is killed by an accident, and, neither maid nor wife she becomes a widow. As for the rest of the plot, the reader will prefer to have it unfolded by Mrs Warren her self
 ME: A BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE The Century Company, publishers, New
 York
 Me; Book of Remembrance" Is the anonymous autobiography of a well known woman novelist with an almost uncanny fascination of personality. Its serial publication in the Century Mag azine was pronounced success.
 It would be more accurate to say that the book is autobiographic rather than an autobiography for 1t covers the period from the time she left her home In Canada, A girl of II, almost hysteri- cally alive, until she came to New York to win her laurels as writer
 As matter of fact the time GOV cred Is little more than year and the events recorded in the 100000 words of the book crowd thick and fast upon the unsophisticated girl push Ing her way desperately in the busi. ness field of men and. with the daring of youth and her peculiar tempera. ment. into whatever other fields seemed to promise adventure.
 As revealed by the book Me" the author is the daughter of an impe- cunious English-Irish artist and a tight rope walker and dancer who spent her youth. too. wandering about but in the far-away country of her birth.
 A self-revelation is difficult thing to do and Is therefore a thing done well rarely. Me is a self-revelation astounding in its transparency, work that could not have been done per haps except by person of the author heredity and peculiar gifts And in re- vealing herself the author, with the frankness of race far removed from the Anglo Saxon and with the seeing eye of an artist, reveals also some typical American individuals and insti- tutions.
 Me" is peculiar not only because oI the matter and manner of the book which are colored by the ancestry and temperament of the author, but also because of the extraordinary circum- stances of its composition. It Is a tour de force. Though still a young woman the author had not had time until last year really to take stock of that tre- mendous time when she ventured pen niless out of Canada alone and ready to undertake anything. In hospital last winter, following an operation she called for pen and paper and in two weeks wrote the first draft of the book of about 100000 words which Is called Me"
 HARDING OF ALLENWOOD." By Harold Blindloss. With frontispiece
 in color. Frederick A. Stokes x Co.,,
 publishers. New York.
 Allenwood is an exclusive colony of fox hunting English aristocrats. found ed by Coloney Mowbray in a pictur- esque part of Saskatchewan. Much tc the disgust of the colonel and his friends Craig Harding. an enterpris- ing young man from the states. takes Up land next the colony and proceeds to make money by ranching on a large scale. In addition to the difficulties oI putting in his first crop. Harding has to contend with the opposition of the people of Allenwood. who consider. him an outsider, and resent his modern methods.
 Harding's level head and ready cour- aSe III piiHzatu, prairle Ire ana other frontier emergencies. win his neigh bor's respect and the love of Beatrice Mowbray How he saves Beatrice from 1oveless marriage and Allenwood from the clutches of a land shark is a tale of character and incident through Which blows the keen sweet air of the boundless northern prairies. It is the story of the new type of pioneer who goes armed with modern machinery against the wilderness and risks-and gains-more than his forefathers dreamed of
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