The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-09


ulated upon the magnificent contribution
he has made to the world of books by
his Men Who Are Making America"
as editor of FORBES Magazine" and as
the author of Finance, Business and the
Business Life Mr. B. C. Forbes is in
a position to give out the best informa-
ton and advice on commercial affairs
which he has certainly done in his lat
est very interesting book.
| THE MAsQUE OF DEATH"
BY John E. Larus. The Neale Publish
ing company, publishers, 440 Fourth ave-
nue., New York.
Swiftly moving-as should be a ro-
nance of the torrential days of the ter
ror-runs the current of this literary gem,
which emts the dazzling flashes not only
of France of the old regime, but of
France of the Montagnards; France
hacked and deformed and made almost
unrecognizable by the mad debauchees of
the misunderstood deties: Liberty, fra
ternity, equality; France overrun with
an unbleached band of brutes that re-
yelled in the fete of death provided for
them by the great Jacobn Robesperre.
And it is this very Robespierre the die
tator, that replaced the tyranny of the
scepter by the tyranny of the knife, that
dominates this work.
| However, let no one agine that THE
Masque of Death is but another case OF
an effort on the part of a novelist to
use a great historical character as a
peg on which to hang misfit romance.
Better to express the ''raison d'etre" OF
the book, we will quote the authors own
prepatory words.
IF in this work / have striven to find
and set forth an explanation of him who
us the most inexplcable character known
, to history, it is because none other has
ever been given us that will account fol
tho strange contradictions that throne
, the picture of Macmillan Ropespierre
, +. To attempt to reconcile them were
an attempt too arduous, too presumptu'
, GUS for my hand; yet in these pages
have advanced a theory that seems tc
me to have at least the merit of set
; | ting forth a motive. So far as my knowl
/. edge extends, this has been attempted
by no other. | have not dared tf
do more than indicate his personality, as
it were a shadow upon a blind before &
lighted window"
SONGS OF SENTIMENT"
BY Ida Caroline Harrell Horne Tht
Neale Publishing company, publishers
$40 Fourth avenue, New York city.
, Here, if you will, these lines:
l"In dreams of light when starry nigh
Has lit the quiet sea,
: I roam once more on memory's shore,
In sweet delight, with thee
This is the opening stanza of the frs
, poem Of a new volume of verse, Songs
of Sentiment,"tby a southern writer, lds
Caroline Herrell Horne of Clayton, N. c..
j edited by her son, DR.. Herman Harrel
. Horne of New York university,
These songs all express the life of sen
. timnnt, the feeling Of the soul for thu
., Ideal. They are divided into songs o.
attachment, hopes and fears, estrange
lment and reconciliation constancy me
mories, sorrows and losses, seasonal an6
spiritual.
"HAPPY DAYS"
Bv oliver Herford and John Cecil Clay
Mitchell Kcnnerley. publishers, New
York
!, A charming little volume entitled
! Happy Days" shows Oliver Herforc
and John Cecil Clay at their best witt
l 20 or more delightfully."- clever rhymes
! and jungles apropos of the times.
| Beautifully Illustrated with stunning
drawings, the little volume is highly en-
tertaining and is launched forth witt
the initial verse; as follows:
TO STERN CRITICS
Here's to sterns critics
May they some day learn
The forward lookout's
Better than the stern.
| Among the attractive verses may bt
mentioned the following lines:
/ TO THE TYPEWRITER
Here's to the typewriter.
Health to her type,
Whether blonde or brunette
IL Or budding or ripe;
If she be the right type,
Be she buxom or slight
When she doesn't type wrong
She is sure to typewrite.
Other verses include Here's Looking,
ITO Hope" ITO Liberty" ITO Lad.
Nicotine" ITO Our Sweethearts' ant
ITO Our Readers"
MRS. FIsKE: HER VIEWS ON AC
TORS. ACTING AND THE PROB
LENS OF PRODUCTION"
AS recorded by Alexander Woollcot
Illustrations from photographs TIL
Century company, S53 Fourth ave
nue.. New York city.
Mrs. Fiske. long recognized as TN
foremost artist and most interesting
woman on the American stage, ha
ever been inaccessible to the public
Her extraordinary theatre wisdom
manifest always in her brilliant wori
as producer. director and actress sb'
has. because of her liffidence and he
besetting sense of humor been loati
to expound in any interview or ar
ticles Of her own writing. 1t woul,
have gone unexpounded had it no
been for these entertaining, uncon
ventional and entirely genuine tabl
talks recorded out of the long mem
DRY of Alexander Woollcott. dramati
critic of the New York Times.
III In the stimulating conversations OF her
that he has recalled. she illumines tn
~. @f ~rx&c
| playgoers alike-who are working for bet
ter things in the theatre; and for tn
lyoung actor she provides work that
at once textbook and kindling In
: SEPARATION. Mrs. Fiske is the most com