The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-27
"HIGHER LIVING"

BY Smith Baker, NJ D. Sherman,
French. & Co. publishers. No. Bea-
con St. Boston.
Higher Living" is really simply
sensible living, and that means Sue
cessful and happy living-only as the
author suggests, good many people
do "enjoy poor health and bad luck"
Ignorant of what they actually 90,
they think they had rather hug their
sins and take the consequences than
read the benefits of giving them up.
So this book would win mankind from
its follies by showing how simple and
really more pleasant the better way
is worth while mentally, morally,
physically--and financially. Perhaps
that should have been mentioned first!
The author. true philosopher, begins
at the beginning. The first right of a
human being is the best practically
possible parentage Kindness and wis
dom later can seldom wholly COM
pensate for an initial handicap here.
And although this is not in the re-
hottest sense a health bulletin, a few
practical hints tucked in just at this
point are worth having.
From that the way is taken through
infancy. childhood-where a most able
plea is made for the treatment and
guidance Of the child as a child, not as
a small adult-adolescence, young
manhood and womanhood, marriage
incidentally divorcel and old age. Re-
ligion, love and passion, as the great
est factors in the individual life, are
given due and proper consideration.
1t is a book for parents who would
know their children. and for those,
young and old, who would understand
themselves and other people for it
brings the world into truer focus and
He1nS a firm nd oh An a
adjustment to it.
THE FORUM OF DEMOCRACY"
BY Dwight Everett Watkins and Rob-
ert Edward Williams. Allyn & Bacon,
publishers, No. 1905 Michigan avenue,
Chicago.
The Forum of Democracy" by Dwight
Everett Watkins and Robert Edward
Williams has for it's theme, according to
a Preface" by the authors, the inspira-
ton of patriotism and to set forth the
democratic ideals of the United States
and its associates in the great war
and at the same time to furnish classes
in reading and speaking with new. in
teresting and stimulating collection of
the writings and speeches OF the master
minds Of today.
Not only are these selections valua BILE
for reading and for study, they are filed
with dramatic appeal and an intensity
| of feeling and purpose which make them
especially suited to classes in declama-
| ton.
| Men feel deeply, think earnestly, and
speak sincerely in times of tragic crisis
Under these conditions oratory flourishes.
Such was the case in ITS, when Patrick
| Henry James Otis, and others called
down the wrath of the people of the new
world on the tyranny of the old; such
was the case in 81 and the white-hot
years preceding. when Calhoun and
Webster. Beecher, and LINCOLN set forth
the conflicting views on slavery and
union.
Today as in the past. mems truest
thoughts and highest aspirations are be-
ing given to the world by her statesmen
and thinkers. Out of this furnace heat
of conflict thoughts have been given ex-
preston, ideals voiced and convictions
stated, SO forceful in character and so
beautiful in form that they deserve a
permanent place in the literature of COM
ing generations.
The sources have been many and
varied. British pamphlets, the bulletin
of the Paris Chamber of Commerce, and
the newspaper reports to the United
States have been freely drawn upon. Els
pecially valuable has been the assistance
of the New York Current History Mag
azine. without whose kind permission to
reprint various copyrighted extracts this
little volume would have been impossl-
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