The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-15

love to Elena, the younger daughter, and was accepted by her. The old man for hade the marriage, believing that Tthe German was interested more in the Madariaga millions than the daughter. but the wedding took place in spite of his objection
 Karl secured another position and took his wife to live several miles way. In short time sons and daughters were born to ther-Von Hartrotts and Mar celo's wife, who had been sterile for seven yesrs, gave birth 10 a boy and then a girl, named Julio and Chichi. Then Mis.a Petrona died, and soon after Madariaga
 About this time there are rumors of war and Dr. Won Hartrott, the professor. who is visiting in Paris, calls upon the Desnoyers to bid them farewell saying: War will be declared tomorrow or the day after Nothing can prevent it now. IL is necessary for the welfare of hll- manity. We are not making war in order to punish the Serbian regicides, nor to free the Poles, nor the others&op- pressed by Russia, stopping there in ad- miration of our disnterested magnanim- ity. We wish to wage it because we are the first people of the earth and should extend our activity over the entire planet. Germanys hour has sounded We are going to take our place as the pow erful mistress of the world, the place which Spain occupied in former cen- turies, afterwards France, and England today. What those people accomplished in a struggle of many years we are going to bring about in four months. The storm flag of the empire is now going to wave over nations and oceans; the sun is going to shine on a great slaughter.
 With the departure of this Teuton
 
 France hastens to assemble her armies for the gigantic struggle. The so-called effete France is no longer Her martial spirit has again arisen, frivolous women become serious, indifferent men begin to prepare the defense of the country. It would, be unfair to detail the story further, butt we may say that the climax is reached in the Battle of tht Marne, when the most graphic description is given of ~"The Invasion" ''The Battle, :, and 'The Banner of the Red Cross"
 "The Four Horsemen of the Apoca- lypse" is a superb, thrilling, gorgeous, spectacular account of Germanys world wide ambition and defeat.
 THE GHOST GARDEN"
 By Amelie Rives (Princess TroubetslSeyD
 The Frederick Stokes company, pub
 fishers, No. AS Fourth avenue New
 York city.
 Imagine yourself travelling through, a section of the country where you never have been before. On d country road you come upon a stately old mansion, deserted and aweed-grown, but whose outlines are strangely familiar. With ease you find your way through it's maze like gardens When and how could you have seen this spot before? Memory does not help you; neither does the girl whom you meet in the locality: vision of loveliness whose face and fragments of a faded recollection, which you, strive in vain to piece into a whole.
 In such situation lies the thene of Amelie Rives' new novel, The Ghost Garden."- Here is ghost story that is not grewsome, for it's thrills do not de- pend on any stage effects of midnight darkness or the clanking of chains. Out of the sunlit mystery of an old Vir- ginia rose garden there slowly takes shape ,the~outline of an alluring person. aiitY, by whose uncanny power a quiet romance is turned into a new version of the old eternal triangle-with one of its points deep in the spirit world.
 There is a haunting fascination in, every line of this unusual romance. The reader falls victim to the spell of an accomplished artistry, which plays upon the strings of his owIf half-memorie and fleeting, dim impressions of things that were, or. have en-sometime-some- where--but are forgotten
 WILD APPLES"
 ANONYMOUS" George H. Doran com
 pany, publishers, New York city
 With the seaside meadows of Califor- nia for background, this is the story of a boy brought up under the unwhole- some influence of a mother who molly = IE|. EyEHgEA