The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-10

N WM(A =--Ega z8EB which is at once attractive as well as l dep1orable.
 Too many young couples starting out
 on the highway of matrimony live be-
 yond their means; too many are dreamers and builders of air castles; too many trust too much to luck and in Dollars and Cents" the whole gamut is run, showing just what mis-
 takes and misunderstanding may ac-
 crue and how vitally they affect the
 lives of young people who have every | right to happiness.
 | The clever author, Mir. Terhune paints vividly; he has a very modern 1 trend of thought which he expresses
 tersely and neatly and his characters
 are drawn with a master stroke, each being recognizable to nearly everyone | of his readers who at sometime have | encountered just such people. l Dan and Madge Hilyer are very hu- l man characters; we follow them | through most thrilling and dramatic l life in which Arthur Crewe, another
 very finely drawn character plays a | big part and we live with them | through their trials and tribulations
 their struggles and their defeats, and | finally we enter into their happiness 1 as If they were our lifelong friends | friends of our real boyhood and girl 1 hood days: friends of our hearts. who have suffered and been through "the l mills of the gods" and come out re- | fined cold
 l The main question in Dollars and I Gents" Is this:
 l. Which is greater-a mans faith or a woman's love? Which is greater-a
 woman's faith or a mans love? In this story a womans love and a mans faith are tried in the crucible l of doubt. Facing the problems which | confront many another young couple, these two work out their destiny in as fascinating story as has been pub lished in many long day.
 THE JOYOUS ART OF GARDENING" 1 By Frances Ducan. Charles Scribner's i Sons, publishers, New York | This is in every way the ideal garden | ing book for the owner of the small place, for those who themselves love to work | among their flowers, and for all most convenient compendium of useful and valuable information. The beginner will , find it the simplest and most readily com prehended guide, initiating him by easy i degrees, containing full and clear direc- | tions for all the operations of gardening l and the cultivation and care of flowers and shrubs.
 l Especially helpful are the suggestions 1 as to how the garden may best be suited | to already existing surroundings; how we may best choose and adapt our flowers | and shrubs to the given situation. The author was for several years gar den editor of the Ladies Home Journal and Is the author of the popular story, My Garden Doctor" This is the first y(rl- -ft,cr h@o sol. the practical results of her long and varied gardening experience PETER SANDERS, RETIRED" By Gordon Hall Gerould. Charles Scrib- ner's Sons, publishers, New York. MT. Peter Sanders is a character new in fiction; IS original as a Rallies and an extremely interesting personality. Many readers have slight acquaintance with him through episodes of his career contributed by MT. Gerould to magazines; this is the complete story of his life. For many years the prosperous and powerful conductor of a famous gambling house-a quiet decorous mansion in which fortunes were won or lost without lany outside dsturbance-this scolarly gen. tleman and book collector of impeceable | taste has been at last bounced upon by zealcus, reforming district attorney and his way of life made so hard for Iii tldl Ho HdS pefIOTce to give It There follow many new and surprising experiences of life and humanity.
 A character so deftly managed and with such an amusing if slightly pathetic philosophy deserves lasting place among the figures of fiction.
 ANCHORAGE"
 By Florence Olmstead. Charles Scrib-
 ner's Sons, publishers, New York.
 Although the same quiet humor that made her two earlier books so popular pervades these pages, Miss Olmstead sounds a deeper note in "Anchorage." She presents a little group of characters
 in a small town whose quiet life is tinged with sadness by the semi-invalidism ol the attractive and talsnted young man. Paul, who is the hero of the story and to whom the principal woman character has devoted herself
 But actual tragedy comes curiously among them with the appearance of beautiful and joyous girl of extreme feminity. Hilda. The story, which comes at last to an ideally happy end ing turns upon the so nearly fatal fascination she exerts upon Paul and he upon her
 It is thronged with appealing char acters. of which the old country doc tor. humorist and a philosopher, is perhaps the most lovable.
 'AT PLATTSBURG."
 By Allen French. Charles Scribner's
 Sons, publishers New York.
 Somewhat as Ian Hay in his First Hundred Thousand" presented the personality and life of the new Eng fish soldier, MT. French, in this de- lightful blending of fact and romance. conveys sngularly vivd sense of the life of the "Plattsburg Rookie"
 By following Richard Goodwin and the members of the eighth squad" in their course of training through drills, range shooting and hikes, up to the-1 eliminating sham battle when the ru- nor of the lost clip of barr cartridges
 is so nearly tragically verified the reader comes to realization of what Plattsburg means to all sorts of men and to his country.
 THE MAN THOU GAvEST"
 By Harriett T. Comstock. Frontispfece.
 Doubleday, Page & Co.,, publishers.
 Garden City, New York.
 When I was a lil' child. I used to dream that some day I would do a mighty big thing said Nella-Rose. In her romance with William True dale. the foreigner from New York; in the marriage VOW which they take together on the mountain top: and in the part she plays in his life after he has been summoned back to civili- zation and to another woman--in these does this simple girl from the hills raa1izo the fulfi11p,apt of be, 15~.ox.