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

porations; of banking institutions, financ-
ing or investigating their operation, or
ganization or physical property: of local
communities and of industrial or mining
corporations seeking to better existing or
procuring new transportation facilities;
of a traffic association in special freight
rate work. In addition he has investi-
gated specifically the rate structures of
certain important traffic territories and
published traffic maps. showing graph
ically their rate adjustments, for the in
formation and use of the traffic officials
of the larger commercial and industrial
corporations and railroads. 1t is hoped
that this experience, in such diversity
of service, may give some assurance to
the reader of his impartial attitude in
making the statements on what he be-
proper Interpretation and relations to
each other
'MAROONED IN THE FOREST"
By A. Hyatt Verrill. Illustrated. Har-
per Bros, publishers. New York.
"Marooned in the Forest, a book Cor
boys by Alpheus Hyatt Verrill, is very
readable and clever. When his upturned
canoe and his guide disappeared down
the rapids, a young man found himself
thrown upon his own resources for food
to civilization. His only asset were a
handkerchief and a small penknife. He
learned how to make a fire, how to fash
ion primitive weapons, to fish without
hooks. to snare animals, to make clothes
for himself, to care for his own wounds.
and at last, after a winter in the woods,
to find his way out to the world again.
This tale of adventures hould appeal to
every lover of outdoor life, old and young
to every Boy Scout and to everyone who
is interested in doing things for himself
BLOW THE. MAN DOWN"
By Holman Day. Harper Bros, publish
ers, New York.
Novels of the sea usually suggest a
vision of unbroken horizons and adven-
turous days upon the trackless deep, but
Holman Days new book, BLOW the Man
Down." while assuredly sea tale, takes
place very largely on land.
When the story does "set SAIL" it is
for the most part, through sounds and
along coastal waters, those fringes OF
the deep which, it may surprise the reader
to discover. have life and people dis
tinctively their own. These near-short
sailors who crowd and jostle their way
into Mr.. Days pages, are an interesting
lot.
| One is impressed by the striking individ
uality that the author is able to achieve
with such gallery. They are, most o.
| them, bluff, sturdy, honest souls will
| that childlike simplicity of heart which
| sat water seems to preserve in the hui
| man breast, and the vitality of theil
| creation is attested by the fact that M
| two of them are alike. Their peculiarities
| all the little traits that make for hu
| maness-are hit off with surprising We
! racity and commendable art
| But the story is far from lettering over
| its people. Mr.. Days remarkable fer
| tilty of invention has never been more
| signally demonstrated. He crowds Incl
| dent upon incident. and sweeps the read
err along on the full tide Of his narrative
| At the same time he preserves the sym
metry of the whole, and achieves a large
and moving result while working through
| an infnitude of detail.
| BLOW the Man Down" has something
| of the full-boded and satisfying pro
portions of a 'five-reel' production, ant
is similarly full of thrills. Four vessels
for example, meet disaster at sea IL