The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-20
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 always displays in his stories.
 It is vital insistent, appealing, for it
 theme is the power of love over the sou
 and mind of a young woman. her reac tion to its influence, and the effect of tn 1 situations thus produced upon the mind and hearts and souls of those neafes J and dearest to her. Gyp Winton is her self a daughter of love. Her mother
 the wife of an invalidish squire, had diet 1 at her birth without shadow upon he
 name, nor had the child S putative fathe l ever doubted her paternity. So whei
 he died while she was still tiny thing l he left her guardianship in the hands O. ] her real father, lately retired from th' l army and passionately devoted to her l He took her to live with him, gave hel l his name and devoted himself to her hap 1 piness. This man Winton as an outright ! creation rivals that of Gyp herself 1T interest, in the reality of his inner life 1 in the whole exquisitely harmonized crea- 1 ton of his complex characteristics l which ought to war with one another l but somehow manage to live together lfi- 1 side his spick and span personality
 without making any outward disturbance l Of him the author says: "Winton was l English to his backbone, English in his l sense OL lOIIfl,L anu III tudL Stt CSi, ] of whole-hearted desperation that will 1 break form to smithereens in one de- l partment and leave it untouched in every l other of it's owners life" Winton had | broken form to 'smithereenS" in the 1 matter of his heart, but had made all | the more whole hearted his allegiance to all the other forms of life as 1t went on l about him in his own circle, accepting and observing every canon of well-bred existence"
 The story opens with Gyp's marriage to famous Swedish vioinist, Gustave Flor sen, then harks back briefly to explain her situation in the world, to outline, with high, warm touches here and there, her life as the adopted daughter of her real father and her meeting with the violinist, and to tell in detail the story of his wild, cratic, sweeping courtship.
 All this takes only small fraction of
 the book, the most of whose space re-
 counts the story of Gyp's ill-starred
 marriage and of the love that came to
 her after she had left her husband, love
 that was compelling, irresistible, that
 swept her along in it's course, ready for
 the sake of it to accept whatever fate
 it might bring. She is always winning,
 appealing figure. There is nothing un-
 usual about her, she is just wholesome
 English girl, with a touch of Italian
 blood in her veins, who loves the out doors, rides with all her heart, likes ad-
 miration, and is devoted to her father. Like him, it is impossible for her to put into words much of her feeling for him. but out of their very dumbness they contrive to establish a thorough un- derstanding. His pride in her, his love for her his delight in her, are all repaid in ample measure by her feeling for him. His confidence in her and his lifelong conviction that whatever she wants it is right for her to have even overcome his disapproval of the violnist and lead him to consent to their marriage, while believ- ing it will not be for her happiness
 The story carries the reader on by the tense interest of it's conflict of souls, their struggles to harmonize themselves with one another, and the breaking out from the self-imposel bonds now of one and now of another. The title is bit cryptic,' but a sug gestion of the authors meanng in it is found at the very end. Winton list ems to Gyp, all but "done away with her" by her two adventures in love. as she says, land yet I wouldn't have been without it,'' and thinks, Love! Beyond measure-beyond death---it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it. Whyg"
 JAPAN IN NoIAl1D Si<i l iSSf'. By K. K Kawakami The Macmillan
 Co.,, publishers, New York
 A fervent loyalty to the Unitel States (the land of his adoption) leads MT. kawakami into this investigation of her friendship for Japan. He shows how this began and how it has been impaired. As an informed internation- alist believing in fair play he patient ly takes up the alleged causes for dis agreement, and shows how unreal they are He then examines the reasons leading toward a restored and le- veloped agreement between the two na tons. and finds them advanced by every honorable mutual interest. He speaks with authority and what he says will be welcomed by all who have at heart the peaceful develop ment of the world.
 In his interesting preface MT. Kaw- akami tells how he began his career 20 years ago in Japan as an ardent be- liever in social reform, and how lit tie later he came to America with pre- of conditions here ideal- ized beyond the possible. But Finally he realized that before such a new age as he had dreamed of can be born many conditions must be changed and that "the foremost of such con ditions is found in the attitude of the powerful peoples of the west toward the backward and weaker peo- ples of the east, whose rehabilitation and amelioration needs assistance" He uses the word peoples rather than because, true democrat that he is, he knows that the peoples of the western nations must see the of a new attitude and de- mand that it be taken before the gov ernments can be expected to turn away from the path they are accust- omed to follow-the time -dishonorel path of preying upon a weaker nation.
 That is the plea that is at the bot tom of the whole book, whose pages are eloquent in the simplicity of their almost pathetic in their pleading, and sturdily honest and downright in their sense of the justice of their cause.-the plea for truth, honesty, justice and in the relations of this coun- try and of other nations toward Ja pan.
 "RAPID-FIRE, ENGLISH, FRENCH,
 GERMAN FOR THE SOLDIER"
 (WITH PRONUNCIATION
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