The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-24

training has uplifted above the petty
artificialities and conservative conven-
lions of middle class. How strongly
then, must her words speak to those
who, knowing in life but matter for
energy of function, are further jaded
by the dull necessities of society.
"Of all the qualities of her poems the
most remarkable is their truth. And the
truth is achieved because Laurence
Hope knew-knew perhaps but dimly
by some vague feminine instinct-that
verify lies not in imitation but in Gre
alton. >. She produces an at
mosphere. A background she never
copies.
"In all her poems the subjects are
three-Youth. Beauty and Love. Others
have told of these, though few with the
sincerity and the passion of Laurence
Hope, and none in English literature
through the same medium of oriental
temperament and image
Lost Poems" and STARS of the
Desert" are both brim full of poetric
lore and exquisite diction.
"A CAPITALISTS VIEW ON SOCIAL
ISM"
By the author of From Boyhood to
Manhood" With an introduction by
Benjamin Paul Blood Parke, Austin &
Lipscomb Gnc), publishers, No. 50
Church street, New York.
The anonymous author of "A Capital
lists View of Socialism, says Mr.. Blood
in his introduction which has caught the
familiar and intimate tone of the work,
sis a capitalist easy enough-some think
a multi apitalist-but he regards his per-
sonal identity as irrelevant at this time;
and at best it could but abet the manifest
assurance that this book is cordially in
tended to do some good. He is known to
have had more and other than the COM
mon experience, and to have felt the
rounds of it's ladder at both ends% and
now, when the westering pathos glooms
the fervent hours, he feels it just and
becoming to give as his been given him,
with no more pretension than has come
from rather voluminous and miscellane-
Gus correspondence. The author does not
pose as 'hoghbrow' but to the
judicous who can read between the lines
II there will appear in the leisurely
pages a generous spirit which prosperity
could never spoil. and a native force and
sagacity which, unwearied by the Strenu-
Gus life react and overflow Tor the
good of humanity with the world-wlsdom
which has been at once the grown ana
the secret of a phenomenal success
Socialism says the author in MS lore
word ignores the existence of the two
great principles of human progress, self
interest and the social instinct. III assumes
that there Is nothing in common between
capital and labor, but that these are an
tagonistic. and, since one must dominate
il prefers that this be labor. the more
fundamental of the two. Thus, since
labor is continually creating capital. Is
laid the basis for endless strife ana pit-
4, terness. Ostensibly seeking TO make
| homogeneous the persistent heteroseh-
city of humanity to bring to oirth the
| ideal social order socialism mas neglected.
( the most important maientic preparation
for the event. which is the cultivation IN
the soul of the present society OF tnat
peace and harmony, that good VIII TO-
ward men, which is intended to charac-
| terze the blessed offspring.
| PERMANENT WORLD PEACE
Plans for the Organization of an Amer
| lean Over-Government Comr,'ss'on.
| BY Tasso Vance Orr The EHlclehcy
! Institute, publishers, Memphis. Tenn.
| In the pamphlet book entitled "Perma7
nent World Peace" by Tasso vance
] Orr, at first thought these plans Tor an
over-government commission seem nope
lessly atruistc; but the longer one con-
siders this problem of war; and weighs
carefully the real obstacles in the way OF
| some such arrangement as this the
clearer the way becomes, and the more
! practical an over-government plan De
comes.
| In 'Foreword" the author says:
in presenting these plans for the
permanent maintenance OF peace
! throughout the world / do not deiude
myself by thinking that in them all
| problems have been solved or all op-
stacles removed. We have waited too
long for a perfect peace plan. Instead
of Waiting still longer, let us select
the best that is at present offered ana