The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-12

that brought the little group together in a curious fraternity fated to affect several destinies profoundly.
 "The Woman Gives is painted on a broad canvas, with many and diversi- fled characters; but two in particular, splendidly drawn by the novelist's mas terly pen, stand out above the rest A resolute woman determines that the life of a talented man, now crushed by ad- verse circumstances, shall not be wrecked. Has she undertaken an inn possible task? Women are the givers of this world, and men take their love, devotion and beauty with carelessness, give more. So Inga Sonderson, subtly gifted, beautiful, having much to give, gives much, and counts not the price so long as she gains her object-the regeneration of a man. And you read, you joy in the youth and love of Bohemian life, you are enthralled by the mystery of Dangerfield's past and touched to the heart by the greatness of Inga Sonderson's sacrificial spirit and you feel that "The Woman Gives" with it's bitterness, and sorrow, and the gaiety to balance both, is Owen Johnsons most splendid achievement. THE RISING TIDE" By Margaret DeLand; illustrated by E. Walter Taylor; Harper Brothers, pub fishers, New York.
 Margaret DeLand, chooses for her present novel a title quite suggestive of the times, "The Rising Tide" which has carried many women on the brisk feministic movement out to the old fashioned cloistered moorings into the swift running tide of modernism The heronine of "The Rising Tide" is nomed Frederick Peyton, but is known to her friends as Freddy" and "Old Fred" and is marvellous exponent of just how far out The Rising Tide" can carry a young, impressionistic crea- ture today.
 Margaret DeLand has had the temer- ity to strike out from the conservative custom of authors and dared to make her heroine plain; she speaks when she first appears on the scene of "her sell fish, unhumorous young face, path etic with it's hunger for life" and then later on describes her thus:
 "She was plain. but she had one of those primitive faces which, while sometimes actually ugly, are under the stress os certain emotions. extraordinarily hano- some. She was never pretty; there was too much thought in the jutting lines of her brow and chin, and her cheeks. smudged sometimes with red sometimes rigidly pale, had no dimpling suggestion OI d SIHlle. I1eI gray, uHHunOrOuS eyes held one by their nagedly direct gaze even while bludgeonlike truthfulness of speech made her hearers vince away from her."
 Frederick is a gallant young figure. pathetic because she does not realize her own crudity, irritating because of he. impenetrable egotism. repellent because she is hard and selfish, but yet always q gallant figure figure that interests and | inspires tenderness because she is SD l young and brave and eager eyed and avid of life. She is wild young rebel upon whom the constant talk of her 'rela- 1 tives about her duties inside the four
 walls of her home makes no impression But she is quite ready to do no end Of disagreeable things, even going to jail which she finds an interesting experience if she thinks that she can thereby bet ter the lot of the women workers in factory.
 She smokes cigarettes, sits on tables
 and desks. uses much slang, and talks