The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-26

variations of these original plots. Here is a story. however, that comes near having the unheard-of twenty seventh plot. Did you ever hear one to equal it? A successful novelist, woman, breaks down from overwork, and for long time is an invalid, in the care of doctors and nurses, and at times under the influence of drugs. She is taken to secluded country house, and is visited by new doctor who from the first is strongly attracted to her because she is to him the reincarnation of another woman, now dead. Bit by bit, through scraps of letters, through visions seen when under the influence of morphine. the story of that other woman, the doctor and another man come to the writer. At times the ghost of the other woman sits at the writer's bedside, and the two discuss the doctor, and the other man, and the strange. strange love story. For it is a strange love story, very nov ing, very powerful, so gripped by the irony of fate that the reader will not forget it. And the climax is astound- ing.
 The distinguished authoress, Frank Danby (Mrs Franklin), was seriously i'll for more than a year and continu- ally under the influence of morphia. The story she tells is strange con- bination of her own illness and the extraordinary adventures of a young literary woman who had previously oc- cupied the same room
 Frank Danby has done nothing like
 twilight" Nobody has done anything like 1t since DeQuincey wrote his clas-
 "THE NEW COOKERY"
 REVISED AND ENLARGED. By
 
 Health Publishing company, publishers.
 Battle Creek, Mich
 The New Cookery" (Revised and En- larged), by Lenna Frances Cooper, direc- ter of the Battle Creek Santarium School Of Home Economies, head dietitian of the Battle Creek sanitarium, appears in brand new dress in It's third edition.
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 The author states in a Preface" to the present edition that many new recipes have been added, and all the old ones carefully checked and tested. which means that "The New Cookery is thor oughly up-to-date and relia ble in every way.
 In a "Foreword.' the author says:
 "A good cook can vary the flavors of food as a composer varies his orchestral colors and harmonies, getting genuine artistic as well as gastronomc pleasures therefrom. "-Henry T. Finck.
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 We are indebted to Prof. Ivan Pawlow of Russia for demonstrating the relation between appetite and digestion. His ex- Deriments have shown that digestion Is markedly affected by appetite which in turn is stimulated by the three senses, sight, smell and taste. Hence it is al- most equally as important that food should he prepared appetizingly as that 1t should be well cooked. Many food re- formers and faddists have attempted to prepare wholesome foods, but have neg lected the almost equally important re- quirements-palatabil
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 debtedness to Dr. and Mrs. John Har- rum. who first inspired her with love for the study of foods, and their sci entific preparation and who have since been constant sources of help and en- couragement. She would also acknowl- edge her indebtedness to Miss Clara B. Lambert, wko for several years was as- sociated with the author. and has con- tributed to this volume both by helpful suggestions and by numerous recipes To Mrs. Estella F. Ritter and numerous other assistants, to many friends, students, and members of the staff of cooks at the Battle Creek sanitarium, she is also grate- full for contributed recipes and helpful suggestions. D
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