The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-04
scene from Henry sydnor Anga

myself says he. q am here asking for everything"
 Her lashes fell. He was so close to her now that just by putting out his arm a little he could have taken one of the small hands on the desk leaf So he did put out his arm thus. Her hand possessed was as cold as ice but it was not withdrawn. No Marys hand seemed to stay and cling, like a hand come home
 Ah Have I anything to give you, do you think. that hasn't been given? What sort of ending do you want?'
 So Charles told her then what sort of ending he wanted And that, and no other, was the sort of ending he had. THE HONEY BEE By Samuel Merwin. Illustrated by R. M Crosby. The Bobbs Merrill Co.,, pub fishers, Indianapolis.
 Hilda Wilson the central figure of "The Honey Bee" is notable feminine portrait, so faithful and alive that she might have been taken bodily from the ranks of American business women, and the novel itself is one of the finest truest and most vivid pictures of current American life in fiction Head of her de- partment in a huge New York store capable and successful, winning her way by sheef effort and ability, content and happy III the DrlBnt, pussy Su1IdCe or her life,' Hilda Is the very embodiment of one phase of our changing industrial and social order Then the depths of her woman nature are stirred and she knows that she is standing with empty hands on the outside of the gates of life In the working out of the tangles of des- tiny into which this sudden realization quickly carries her, MT. Merwin is too fine an artist to bring her face to face with simple problems. Not thus easily, with bald yes or no, does life let us off from it's questions. As she meets first one then another possibility that, followed up, might bring her the enrich ment of existence for which she longs, she sees that each one is full of its own complications hedged about by doubts and questions, and seeming to have both right and wrong on it's every side.
 But Hilda is not the only interesting person in 'The Honey Bee" Mir Merwin has the faculty of making a character stand out realistically with only a few strokes of his pen. His minor charac- ters must be very completely thought out, outside of their appearance in the drama, so that they carry with them, when they step briefly upon the stage, the vitality which they have for him be- hind the scenes. Ed Johnson. the glove buyer Is of this sort ,and the reader knows Harris Doreyn through and
 
 from the revealing letter which he writes to Idlda. One knows just what Blink Moran, the prize fighter. solid, simple, genuine and wholesome, notwithstanding his vocation, would do under any cir cumstances. Maugre his simplicity, Blink is one of the very interesting per sons in MT. Merwin's large gallery.
 One cannot charge MT. Marwin's novels with being anaemic. On the contrary, one feels in them the stir of full-blooded life. of alert. vigorous joyous interest in the world of mans labors The Edith Austin stories have an extraordinary sense of the throbbing, vivid, crowded life of China, swarming on every hanl even when it is not immediately manifest The people in the Citadel are straining every nerve and having a good time doing 30, to achieve their desired result. The Honey Bee fairly huns with happy, whole-souled | activity.
 TEEN YEARS AT YALE A series of papers on certain defects in the university world of today By George Frederick Gundelfnger. Ph. D.. the Shakespeare Press publishers, IA East Twenty-eighth street. New York. Ten Years at Yale is one of those rare books in which the author speaks the truth exactly as he sees 1t, pointing out faults without malice and emitting sll
 
 tions are typical of the frankness Of style in which the entire book is written: College undergraduates are perhaps, the best examples of lunatics
 A college professor Is nor teacher. Have you ever noticed that the proverb. Hear no evil see no evil, pueak no eviI," has been symbolized by three monkeys (and not three mem holding their paws over their ears, eyes and mouth respec- lively?
 Nine out of every ten optimits Con university affairs in particular) are either looking for a higher position or they gre afraid of losing the one they already nold.
 To him who depends entirely upon others for his own understanding, the col lege education means four of the most valuable years of his life wasted. There is an art called tutoring By means of a certain mysticism la la Anna Eva Fay), they (the tutors) select from their list five of the ten questions which will appear on the students final examination. and they drill him on these until he can answer them backward or forward, drunk or sober, dead or alive. They are gamblers of the first magnitude.
 Yale hires instructors to pass ner stu-