The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-26
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sion in sunny Italy. With equal celer- ] ity is the show room model trans I formed into the beautiful and charm
 ing Miss Isoel Dark, who has nothing more serious to do than to enjoy life | in a Venetian gondola and capture with her charms the heart of young l V c. spending his sick leave in Italy. | And this has all come about through gift of money (under curious and unexpected circumstances) which has l enabled the girl to fulfill the greatest | longing of her life
 A fascinating contraditions is Isoel: an adventures and not an adventures daughter of the people and a true | born aristocrat; one who gains her ends by countless petty deceptions, yet in the end risks her future hap piness for the sake of telling the truth. Muriel Hine has never vet | created more Apleasing personality than this. girl who had fugitive dream of the best in life and would accept nothing less. It is rainbow story of love and tears and laughter, and the Joy of life wins out in the end.
 LEADERSHIP AND MILITARY
 TRAINING"
 BY Lleut-CoL Lincoln c. Andrews, U S.
 A j. B. Lippincott Co.. publishers The most urgent demand of the day is Tor leadership-our army and our civil government must have leaders able and wiling to perform this indispensable func- tion-and the quality must be developed Tn our raw material as rapidly and ef- rectlyely as possible. Leadership is not only the indispensable quality to ad- vancement, but to service as well.
 When every fifth man in our military forces must be a leader, is it not strange that there has never been a text book on the subject? That there is one now, written, by man who has been ardent ly engaged In teaching it's fundamental principles by precept and example in our largest training camp for officers, is good news for the men who wish to serve their country to the utmost of their ability, and for the country that must depend upon their work for it's honor and safety
 This is the only military book that ever protends to tell you how to be a good officer or noncom.; how to handle men so they will accept you as their leader: how to arouse in your command the en- thusiacm, the persistency, that will give the discipline and morale that are the one aim of military training. Even ex- perienced regular army officers, who have never analysed the psychology of their profession, have said: .It is the most helpful book have ever read am a different officer since I studied it." TRAINING AND REWARDS OF THE
 PHYSICIAN"
 By Richard c. Cabot, M D. JB I.ippin-
 cott Co, publishers, Philadelphia.
 This new volume in the Lippincott' S series by one of the best known of Amer ican physicians, is a fine addition to the volumes preceding it in the series-vol- umes by such authors as Clifford Pinch ot, Don c. seitz of the New York World Arthur Hornblow. etc. and which introduced the young man to the newspaper, the street railway, the fores- ters profession, and other tempting life activities.
 Dr. Cabot does for the medical profess sion what these other experts did for their professions-giving a clear idea of the preparation of the physician, the fac tors making for success, and what re- wards the young man may hope for if he chooses to adopt the profession. Like his oo-authors in the series. he Is an enthus- fast. believing sincerely that medicine lis a profession which can use the whole of a man as no other profession can. The physician is the child of his age. Such an opportunity as a great painter had in the Renaissance or a great musician had l in the early years of the nineteenth cen turs, physician has today. Its rewards, | as see them, are beyond those of any I other profession.'
 | THE BOYS BOOK OF SPORTS"
 Edited by Grant1and Rice. Illustrated.
 The Century company, publishers, l New York.
 'crhe Boys Book of Sports" edited by Grantland Rice. the well known and popular newspaper man. who has done such clever writing in the deld of sports is a sort of boys handbook of all the sports, rich in pointers and how to do things cleverly, and there is ma terial in it for every red -blooded young American no matter what his special love among the sports may be. More over, the book will exert wholesome tendency toward broadening and round ing out the atheltic- minded boy of to- day.
 Combined in this volume are instruc- tive, up -to-the-ninute articles on foot ball. hockey, track athletics. baseball, golf, tennis. swimming, fishing, aqua plane riding, lacrosse, basketball; on the flying of model areoplanes etc In addition, there are thrilling stories of deeds and contests in the world of sports. The book is entertainingly and accurately illustrated.
 THE STORY BOOK OF SCIENCE" By Jean Henri Fabre. The Century
 company. publishers. New York.
 "The Story Book of Science" by Jean Henri FaHe, is a translation from the nineteenth French edition, for in France this handbook by the great scientist has been immensely popular.
 The information supplied is in story form and in the course of the book the author tells about the metals under the earth, the life on it's surface and the OUR A