The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-23
THE BOOK SHELF
By THE BI BLIOPHILE

only see bloodshot eyes and blood stained lips. But even so. 1t is not wholly bestial; sentiments of mutual respect for desperate foes. somere- gard for courage and endurance, some admiration for sacrifice. remain. Men do not finally lose control of them selves even in battle. nor do they de- part wholly from submitting to the control of others.
 The overwhelming sense of force and the appeal to force which takes possession of the mass in war and war time cannot destroy, may even encourage the higher sense of the spiritual and the mystical. Men have said to me that in the very agony of conflict and while the heavens were darkened with shot and shell and the earth itself shook under their feet. they have been more intimately con scious of the reality and presence of the divine than in the quietude of normal life. I confidently anticipate that many men will return from their I awful and cruel experiences of the war with quickened sense of the supernatural, and with new power to Hay hold" of the eternal things And amid the abyssfnal darkness in. which the elemental forces rage and | tear and slay, and while death--on a scale never before dreamed of-looks  and stand up and challenge.
 | Perhaps the most appealing incident in MT. Copping's book, all of which consists of personal observations among the salvationists, is the chap l ter entitled. Hero and Saint" in
 which he tells the beautiful story of
 the boy Chris and his sweetheart Ar 1 gie, who is in the Salvation Army It ] tells the story of the affectionate link ! hal nd ba Co1v i tion Army. of these two sweethearts
 and what the boys religion meant to l him when he found himself In the 1 thick of the battle. No less beautiful 1 is the final chapter which MT. Coping entities Spiritual Supremacy" which
 tells of a pathetic experience in the life of an "orderly"-a Stepney boy some horseplay arrested by hymns
 and a coekney Climbing the Golden Stairs" and finally the words, q
 know that His arms are around me-" which ends the beautifully told incl dent.
 Souls in Kahki" is well worth
 reading, reading over and over again sort of like you'd read your Bible and it emphasizes and makes you see clearly the real worth of the Salva- i ton ~Army's work in the stressful and disastrous times as well as dur : ing days of peace.
 THE LONG LANES TURNING" By Halle Ermine Rives (Mrs. Post. I Wheeler), with illustrations by Frances ! Rogers. Dodd, Mead &, Co.,, publishers, New York.
 l vivid drama of the new south-a story of conflicting personalities in a romance so charged with excitement that our hearts beat faster attuned to the
 emotions of the people who live in it's
 pages is The Long Lanes Turning" by | Hallie Erminie Rives.
 l Sevier, brilliant young lawyer. loses
 a case. Only one in the crowded court l room realizes that inremperance has caused his failure-Cameron Craig, the
 head of the liquor trust who is deter mined to win Echo Allen, the daughter | of a prominent jurist. from Sevier and to obtain a decision from her father in l favor of the trust. To force the issue Craig threatens to publish an old scan- I dal in the Allen family. st midnight rendezvous, as Echo afgrees to marry
 him to save her fathers honor, Craig is shot by a housebreaker. Echo is rushed i from the scene by masked man whom she thinks the murderer, and an en- l tanglement in human lives ensues so dramatic, so full of action, that thou sands will hail this as the greatest love story Hallie Eminie Rives has produced | 1ObEhSOIOSlo. IIo E1EN ENIlON
 AND PROPER TREATMENT" By Thomas Werner Gibson, Albuquerque N M
 | ..Tuberculosis: It's Prevention and Prop CT Treatment" is the title of d neat. wei i written little book. published by Thoma. Werner Gibson of Albuquerque, N. M IT it MT. Gibson sets forth from the story
 of his own personal fight with the dis
 ease the means of prevention and thu
 nethod of cure as hi. experience ha.
 proved their value. The little book il
 well worth reading by everyone whether
 sick or well. It is particularly valuabl.
 because of the authors cheery note O.
 hope to the sufferer and his assuranc,
 that what he has accomplished other may accomplish by following the sam : painstaking methods.
 sj There are 47 pages in the book. It con tains valuable information about variou climates and attitudes as well as in z teresting chapters on heredity. proven , ton. symptoms exercise, cures and kin : dred subjects.
 Dr. G. E. Bushnell medical director o the United States army sanatorium n < For Bayard N. NJ. has given this book let his indorsement in these words: | } consider it a sensible and well writer l presentation of the case with very~h htt to criticlse." Dr. w. B. Collins, stat ] health officer of Texas. says: Tt is valuable little book and should be Il s the hands of every family in the coun ] given 1t their inducements include Mrs 2 David c. Twichell and w. w. Dill, tn I berculosis specialists of Albuquerque, N M; pr. w. H. Rand of the United State
 department of Labor. Washington. D