The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-11
THE FIGHTING MANI

THE FIGHTING MAN"
 By William A. Brady. The Bobbs- Merrill
 company, publishers, Indianapolis
 Everybody loves a fighter Not prize fighter, but the man who, from poverty and obscurity fights his own way to wealth and prominence Such a man is peculiarly dear to the American heart, for the American heart beats high to the song of hard won success. And such man is he whose life story is told in these pages
 From San Francisco to New York the scenes shift; the settings are the prize ring and the stage; the cast of characters, the famous actors in both arenas.
 Reminiscent. anecdotal. humorous, touches only the unfamiliar sides of life and pictures only exceptional men and women. It buttonholes the reader with the first word and grips him, en- grossed and amused. until the last
 "A BOOK OF BURLEsQUEs" By H. L. Mencken. The John Lane Co..
 publishers New York
 A collection of satires and extrava- ganzas, with American Philistinism, chiefly, for their target. There are few phases of our native hypocrisy, preju- dice and sentimentality which are not punctured with sure and incisive thrusts. The book. in many ways, is profound criticism yet there is in it no dogmatism or rancor.
 MT. Mencken wields his satirical lance with arresting shrewdness and precision. Art. religion, manners, poli- ties, philosophy, customs, education all are satirized by a man who not only is master of comedy, but who also possesses deep insight into hu- man nature.
 THE VAMPIRE OF THE CONTI-
 NEWT By Count Ernest gu Reventlow. The
 Jackson Press, publishers, No. 1123
 Broadway, New York.
 American readers are already famiI- liar with the writings of Count Ernest gu Reventlow. They are characterized by keen1y penetrative qualities. The world always listens when this most famous German publicists has some thing to say. His criticisms and com ments on international events are dis passionate, unerring and remorseless
 Count gu Reventlow has just written 8 book entitled "The Vampire of the Continent" which will surely place him at the forefront of the historians Of our time. The work is revolutionary. It d1scloses the naked reality of inter- national politics in Europe
 This book is of far-reaching political importance. Count gu Reventlow has pSSti iioANiCd III ooIiltLy. LII CQ1S BOOK he addresses the world. The work has deeply stirred the foremost statesmen or England. There, desperate efforts have been made to suppress 1t and keep it from becoming known to the world.
 Three hundred copies of Count gu Reventlow's work were mailed to this country. Of these. 299 were abstracted from the American malls by the Brit isn. The sole copy that eventually ar rived, and from which this American edition has been printed, came here on the German U-boat Deutschland" With extraordinary facility in the analysis of the great events of past history. and an even greater insight Into the complex international prob lens of our own time, Reventlow makes the first systematic attempt to go to the root of things, to lay bare the developmental forces that have hitherto escaped the attention of par tial or insufficiently clearsighted his- torians.
 "A HANDY GUIDT FOR BEGGARs." By Vachel Lindsay. The Macmillan Conl- pany, Publishers, New York. These are the rules of the road, says Vachel Lindsay: keep away from the cities; keep away from the railroads have nothing to do with money and carry no baggage; ask for dinner about quar- ter after Il; ask for supper, lodging and \ breakfast about quarter of five; travel M alone; be neat, deliberate, chaste and # civil; preach the gospel of beauty In this book MT. Lindsay writes of "slndry explorations made while afoot and penniless in Florida, Georgia, North # Carolina. Tennessee. Kentucky, New ter M sey and Pennsylvania'-a wonderful 3M Mtramping trip on which 1t Is to be pre- Xsumed at least that he followed the man. #<dates which he has so concisely set down ENfor others. It is book of rare adven- 5zzturei
 M MY MAN." HEY c. E. L. George H. Doran Company, # Publishers. New York. A& The song of the hour in Britain's trenches and in the homes of the far