The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-07

-S4E8 z asag8 rope, India, China and Japan. It is series of pictures of brave hearts, liter ally hearts of oak, with other tales all Illustrating acts from motives that make life richer and happier. MT. Gould's story telling is always to the point and interesting, a happy mingling of good things from history, biography and the happenings of the daily life about us. For these are chiefly stories of the real world, not fiction, but tales of things done by worth while people. THE STORY OF THE BATTLE
 HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC" By Florence Howe Hall Harper Broth
 CTS, publishers New York.
 Florence Howe Hall in her book en- titled, "The Story of the Battle Hymn of the Republic" has written a most interesting story of how this hymn came to be written, it's inspiration, and it's purpose.
 It is quite readable and brings into prominence it's ringing words of the hymn, Being well chosen and deftly put together as follows:
 Mine eyes have seen the glory of the
 coming or the lJOTO.
 He is trampling out the vintage where
 the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of
 his terrible swift sword
 His truth is marching on. have seen Him in the watch fires of
 a hundred circling camps; They have builded Him an altar in the
 evening dews and damps; T TTs ..s~~ k
 the dim and flaring lamps.
 His day is marching on. have read a fiery gospel, writin bur
 nished rows of steel: "As ye deal with my contemners, so
 with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush
 the serpent with his heel,
 Since God Is Marching on." He has sounded forth the trumpet that
 shall never call retreat; He is sitting out the hearts of men
 before His Judgment seat; Oh be swift, my soul, to answer Him.
 Be jubilant my feet
 Our God Is marching on. Tn the beauties of the lilies, Christ
 was born across the sea With a glory in his bosom that trans
 figures you and me; As He died to makes men holy. let us
 die to make him freel
 While God Is marching on.
 LEFT GUARD GILBERT By Ralph Henry Barbour. Dodd, Mead & Co.,, publishers, New York
 Ralph Henry Barbour Is name to con- jure with among the boys. His football series, the earlier books of which were Left End Edwards and Left Tackle Thayer' is gaining an ever wider circle of followers. In Ahis new story, Left Guard Gilbert" there Is again described the preparatory school life with it's many adventures and exciting contests The story itself centers about football hero and his final success on the gridiron. Left Guard Gilbert" is in Barbour's best vein and can be recommended with the assurance of its proving a delight full and successful story.
 WHAT TO WEAR" GA BOOK FOR wOMEN). By Belle Arm strong Whitney. The Good Health Pub fishing Co.,, publishers, Battle Creek, Mich. In her book entitled What to Wear" the author discusses women's clothes from the viewpoint of 'art and efti- ciency," as an economic question of tre- mendous importance, as an industry em- ploying hundreds of thousands of men and women, as well as it's application to the individual face, figure, purse, so- cial position, needs, etc. To raise the standard of women's clothes in artistic effects and efficiency, not in the cost, is one of Mrs. Whitney's chief purposes. In word, sane dressing is the keynote of What to Wear
 Mrs Whitney is tremendous eco- homie force in Ames4ca. Thanks to her advice numerous branches of the ready to-wear industry are producing that vol ume of business without which the Amer ican manufacturer, hampered as he is by tremendous overhead expenses, cannot hope to exist Because, therefore, she guides enterprises totaling the sum of $40 900, 900; because she is planning clothes for women all over the world; because on a single one of her decisionA is staked perhaps $1,OO0,OO0 and the employment of thousands of workers; and because she is one of the few who can scan the hori- zon without ever losing a stitch, Mrs. Whitney may be considered the greatest American business woman.''
 THE MARK OF THE BEAST By Reginald Wright Kaufman. The Macaulay Co.,. publishers. No. 15 West Thirty eighth street, New York.
 This is Kauffmans most sensational story.
 In the unfinching working out of its boldly presented problem, one sees with all the vividness of life:
 The descendant of Black Devir' Ridgeley with his heritage of violence and passion;
 A traitor to Southern Chivalry' falsely entrenching himself behind that much maligned code of honor;
 A romantic love story;
 The conflict between the prejudiced southerner, the prejudiced northerner and the unprejudiced American of southern blood.
 The so-called ''Nameless Crime;" The lynching, and
 The Expiation.
 Is the negro always guilty? Since 'Unsle Toms Cabin" nobody has dared to write the truth about him until now Kaufman has done 1t in this really tre- mendous novel He treats, as only he can, of a topic that all other writers have feared to touch.
 "The House of Bondage" was rightly called s'The Uncle Toms Cabin of White Slavery The mark of the beast is greater house of bondage about