The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-08

| hotel for some news and he casually answers by saying that If you are real hard up for news, you might an nounce that Miss Maude Leveridge is
 to marry me tomorrow" Miss Lever 1 idge the high spirited heroine of the narrative).
 | In brief, the story is a scream from beginning to end and has to do with a couple of newlyweds, who find them selves suddenly involved in an unex- pected entanglement which appears sc serious as to menace their idyllic | union. Indeed what young bride would relish the appearance on the scene of 1 a chorus girl who claims the young brides husband as her own by right i of conquest?
 That Maude Leveridge. blondined and painted, came so near to breaking up happy home was really no fault of hers. And if the whole situation arose from a practical joke. it's re- suits came close to being no joke at all for at least four people involved. AT THE WAR;.
 By Lord Northcliffe. George H. Dorar
 company, publishers, New York. The strongest voice of England speaks in this book of the war and Britain outlook. It is needless to say that voice is Lord Northcliffe's.
 daring, cordial, discerning, optimistic pronouncement by the man who has beer back of mighty beneficent and fruitful movements and what must now be recog- nized as one of the real rulers of his gen. eration-without portfolio.
 "A VISION OF THE FUTURE.'
 By Richard Marvin Chapman. The Cos
 mopoltan Press, 40 Fourth avenue
 New York.
 
 In this optimistic and constructive es- say on the essentials of human existence, Mr. Chapman abandons all precedent and in bold fight of ina agination foretells a condition of society in which the high est of the mammals will use wisely and enjoy all that earth holds that is condu cive to his happiness. The argument is conducted on a purely physical plane deals with material and ethical problems apart from all metaphysical and super natural or mysterious phenomena, al though such considerations are not an tagonized, since the work is wholly posi- tive in it's adopted plane of specula ton. It is concerned only with familiar facts.
 The volume really comprises a human bill of rights, and shows that society has the power to give to all it's units, as well as to the body polite, all that man through countless ages has slowly won for man. It shows the economy of man g HufnanlIV to man, the utter needleSSneSS of that inhumanity that makes countless thousands mourn, and shows how the old order of inhumanity may be swept away now without waiting for man to reach any higher moral plane than he has already attained.
 MT. Chapmans plan provides for the scientific registration of all persons and the means of keeping them under expert observation and authoritative restraint for their own good and safety. Automati- cally would follow the removal of the natural causes of poverty, disease and the greater temptations, while the bur den of life insurance and pensions would disappear as the need for them would be removed Although everybody from the cradle to the grave would have the back ing of the collective resources of the whole human family, there would be no place for either drones or misers for criminals and paupers. for they woull l cease to exist. Nor would there be any violation of the rights of property, nor impairment of the rights to life. liberty and the pursuit of happiness. At present mans happiness, both individually and collectively. is limited only by his stu pidity-rather, By the stupidity of the prevailing units of society.
 Every alert mind looks for better con- ditions than those that now prevail-in- deed, looks for the fulfillment of the