The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-07

Ol the TOOHl aIlQ Wcllt tJ tI1AlP Iiio lOeto5 of spring out in Gods green world. And after awhile Kenny, homesick for the boy, followed him, and they both found Joan. Afterward strange things hap pened, some of them exciting and mys- terious and finally Kenny realizes that the time has come for him to be A years
 old and for Brian, at last, to be 9
 years young.
 "THE MASTERY OF NERVOUSNESS" By Robert S. Carroll, M. D. The Mac
 Milan company, publishers. New
 York.
 The man or woman, suffering from nervous debility, will find this book an ever ready. practical help in the way back to health. Dr. Carroll gives
 in simple, fluent language, apt in ex- pression, the causes of nervousness, it's relation to contemporary conditions of living and efficient methods to over come it..
 The physician who recommends this
 work to his patient will find 1t a val
 uable assistant to supplement his
 treatment.
 THE GERMAN FURY IN BELGIUM By L. Mokveld (translated by c.
 Trieme.) George H. Doran company, publishers, New York.
 MT. Mokveld was the correspondent in Belgium, during the German inva- sion, of the Netherland newspaper, De Til, and viewed from Liege to the , Yser the fury with which the invaders swept the country. His account is calm and impartial, and whenever he saw a deed of kindness or consideration by Q German soldier or officer he is scrupu- ] lous to mention it. But these are few
 and so swallowed up in the torrent of shootings, killings, burnings, lootings, 1 and other atrocities that they are 1 scarcely noticeable. He wrote so truth 1 fully to his Journal of what was being
 done in Belgium that the German au- thorities did their best to get hold of him that they might punish him, and l finally drove him out But much evil Idence of the atrocious conduct of the Germans in Belgium he cays cannot be published until after the war because lit would turn their fury upon the heads of people still held in the coun- l try. His accounts show that the men l of the German army, officers and sol diers alike, were horribly afraid, and | that their fear kept their nerves at
 hair-trigger tension and increased the
 cruelty of their actions His evidence substantiates also what has been all | ready well proved, that the horrible
 and terrible deeds by which the Ger mans hacked their way" through Bel gium were a part of a definite pro- gramme ordered by military authority. 1 THE LONG LANES TURNING 1 By Hallie Erminie Rives (Mrs. Post 1 Wheeler) With illustrations in color | by Frances Rogers. Dodd, Mead & ] Co.. publishers, New York.
 | The gloom. the flaring candles the 1 tense atmosphere of crowded court l room color the opening pages of this drama of tha new south-a story of conflicting personalities in romance | so charged with excitement that our hearts beat faster attune to the emo tions of the fascinating people who live in it's pages.
 i sevier, the invinc!bls, the brilliant young lawyer, has just lost a case. In despair. he realizes that his client is ! innocent. The persuasion with which | he so often checkmated justice has 1 failed. Across the benches he meets 8 woman's puzzled gaze, the shadow o1 ] pain and inquiry deepening, if possible, l the beauty of a wonderful face. Echo { Allen, the daughter of a prominent southern jurist, who came to hear Se- vieres fine handling of another criminal case. stands bewildered before his fall ure. Only one man suspects that the secret of Seviere's weakness lies in in- | temperance-Cameron Craig, head of the i liquor trust, and Seviere's implacable enemy, who is determined, at any cost 1 to win Echo from Sevier, and to obtain decision from Judge Allen in favor | of the trust. Sevier, in an agony ot l spirit, vows abstinence. In the mean 1 time, Craig, to force the issue, finds a l powerful weapon in some fateful old letters of Judge Aliens which he threat. l ems to publish. At midnight rendez vous, as Echo offers to marry him te secure the letters and save her fathers 1 honor, Craig Is shot by housebreaker Echo is rushed from the house by masked man whom she thinks the mur- derer, and an entanglement in human I lives ensues so dramatic, so vivid, s, l thousands of booklovers will hail thi, as the greatest love story Hallie Ermini' 1 Rives has produced.
 1 "TIEALTI FIRST
 By Henry Dwight Chapin. M. D. Tn l Century company. publishers, Nev l York.
 l pr. Chapin believes that human If ! can be greatly prolonged as we'll a made more comfortable and efficient 1 men and women will observe the rule | of right living from infancy to old age This book Is sort of first aid t the we'll" The author, one of the mos | eminent of New York physicians, fo years a professor in the famous Post l Graduate Medical School and Hospital makes the point that to be ailing an unwell is positively immoral unless on has done all he can do to make him self healthy and wholesome. And on
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