The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-29
"rRoS1 NATURE FORWARD

"TRONI NATURE FORWARD"
BY Harriet Iban Prentiss. ]. B. Lippin-
colt Co., publishers, Philadelphia.
Here is a book that will straighten the
path of many, smooth the roads of
agreeable; bring out the beauties in ma
ture, and spirtualize the world now 50
beset by material coarsening and unspir-
itual things.
People in general do not enjoy life as
much as they should, Mental, physical,
financial, spiritual ills near ills. and Il
agined ills make life for one would aim n
say the vast majority of people a hecL Z,
intolerable, stumbling, blind, purposeles5
affair. People living a day-to-day ex-
istence wrestling with the forces of dis
ease, mental irresolution, and heart dis
tress. We want way out! This excel
lent books shows us the way.
From Nature Forward can be fol.
lowed by every man and woman to re-
turn to buoyant physical health, release
of mental tension, and happy outlook,
and this book allows us such gifts
The Christian Scientists will say that it
inculcates their teachings; Theosophista
will claim it as theirs; the followers of
Yogi, and the members of many another
cult will be sure that it is theirs But
more important than any of their claims
is the certainty that the man on the
street., and in his office, the woman at
home and in the shop, just PLAN Chris
tians who want to get happiness and give
it to others. will find it a mine of
Straight stuff of the kind that they can
use on the hot days the damp days the
sick days, and on the ones with cloudy
horizons.
She believes that health and happiness
are the birthright of every individual,
and only broi-en laws produce sickness,
poverty and distress. Unwise training
and false ideas of our life and self are
the things that make us break those
laws Conditions are always ready for
us to grasp them properly and on grasp
ing them to grasp the happines which
comes from living spirituality:
con the top of a wide plateau,
Where my soul in tune with nature
May commune with God and grow
Mrs. Prentiss' keynote is the quiet re-
pose of nature" as revealed in her intri-
cate workings by science. Her interpre-
tation through her power of inspra ton
and personal realization will help those
who need repose of spirit in our day and
genera tion-a period in which it is SO
difficult to find spiritual peace. Those
who are desiring vital power, health and
success should assuredly read this work
POEMS OF PURPOSE"
By Horace c. Carlisle. Williams G. VIII
kins Co., publishers, Baltimore. Love-
man. Joseph & Loeb, booksellers, Biz
mingham, Ala.
Neatly arranged and quite tastefully
gotten up in blue and gold is the little
volume entitled, Poems of Purpose" by
Horace C. Carlisle formerly a we'll
known and popular teacher in the schools
of Alabama.
Mr.. Carlisle has in a very pretty "Ded-
ication' offered his Poems of Purpose
to distinguished and honored friend OF
his in the following words:
DEDICATION
To Dr. Clarence ]. Owens, managing di-
rector of the Southern Commercial con-
gress, whose timely suggestions and adj
ditiona1 helpful hints have been a veri-
table light in the valley to the author in
this, his initial step in presenting the
products of his verse to the literary
world, is this small volume of poems
most gratefully dedicated"
In return Dr. Owens says of the au-
thor in an Introduction"
In the course of his service as a
teacher in the schools of Alabama and
during his residence in the District of Co.
lumbia, the author of this volume of
poems has recorded his Interpretation of
his environment and has given expression
to his choicest thoughts and feelings.
Upward toward the better seems to be
the impelling influence that has guided
his pen. The physical labor, the mental
toll and the soul struggle put into the
production of this book cannot be esti-
mated. Whatever the verdict of the
reader as to it's rank in the republic OF
letters and whatever Of difference of
opinion there may be on economic and So
cial problems it is certain that here is
contained the serious, earnest honest eff
forts of a soul imbued with high ideals,
based on firm convictions and guided by
an unfaltering trust in the Most High.
With knowledge of the successful la
bors of the author as an educator in the
south during the past decade and ac-
quaintance with his hopes and desires to
publish his message to the world in verse,
| have followed his career and his liter
airy accomplishments with sympathtic in
terest. Gladly I express to the author
the appreciation on the part of his
friends for the pleasure he has c>ought
them through his poetry and cheerfully
commend the volume to those who
would be inspired to nobler purposes and
oespeak wide distribution of the book
into many homes and a dissemination of
its ideals into many hearts"
There are a number of very attractive
poems in the list, all of which have to do
with the wholesome, simple things eof life
which after all are the best, and the tall
ented author has handled them with
charm and grace
There is Tilt and a swing to the poetry
which makes it quite appealing and while
II is difficult to mention any one poem