The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-09
THE BOOK SHELF
By THE BIBLIoPHmE

really grown up, and she therefore planned an ambitious campaign to overcome her environment; including nothing less than three. what seemed at the time, impossible sums.
 First: How can I make everybody
 Second How can I make myself famous?
 Third: How can I marry mil lionaire?
 Charlotte was almost born under that famous apple tree with the nys- tery. Probably that explains why she was original, quite the newest of new women, in way, since she had the spunk and gun,ption to plan and achieve splendid career for herself You will enjoy Charlotte's friedliness and sfnartness because it's the honest kind. as her friends and neighbors found and ifgyou are man, you will love her as Dr. Neil Kennedy and Perry Graham did. An amusing and charming tale.
 "ssNGs OF THE HEART AND SOUL By Joseph Roland riatt sherman
 French and company, publishers, NO.
 G Beacon street. Boston.
 Songs of auld lang syne are many or these with something of the quality of Eugene Woods prose in the reminls- cences of boyhood and sweetheartihg days-the quality that brings laugh and a lump together to the throat as old scenes and characters dear st1il but Imaginable as we'll viewed through the vista of years, are sketched.
 The author belongs to the brother hood of poets of everyday living, 10 which brotherhood no other than James Whitcomb Riley himself bade him well come His work is the simple, har- monious. sincere. and wholesome sing ing of that cult.
 "ENGLISH B. By Agnes Porter. sherman French asd Company. publishers, Boston Brief records in verse of students intellectual and emotional adventures the first year out of the classroom is the little book entitled "Enblish B." Leaving the friendly steps of the classroom. English B." he blunders abruptly into life, only to withdraw a minute later into the old conceits of childhood. He thinks that by lighting | the blue flame around the Christmas pudding he can banish the apparitions of life. But he has forgotten how to play.
 Turning to the young. he warns | them what queer things happen when | the old nursery door closes forever, with a slam that mocks." Now the | door is shut the adventurer must settle 1 down before the coal-fire of the world | to try and get used to his tenantrs He comes upon many mysteries ahu upsetting things. but finds surprisisg l charms here and there, and Blue Lilies
 And though he finds life to g1 eat | extent
 a yellow jig-saw duck Whose wheels move only when you l push"
 yet he also sometimes sees it in the I entertainment of May moonlight. l IDLE DREAMS OF AN IDLE DAY. l By H. E. Harman. The State Com pany. publishers and book sellers, Co | lumbia. S. c.
 "IdIe Dreams of an Idle Day" hy l Fl. E. Harman, is the popular authors first prose work, but it is really book of prose poems. The contents" vii 1 show you at a glance what wonder full wealth of subjects the author has covered in this closely printed volume Into this book MT. Harman has put not only much of his personal expert ence. but much philosophy which his lsreaders can follow to good advantage r A word about the author is of fnteres since he is southerner and lives in At lduld T1eHTy IT, hdTfIldn WAS DOTH 1T Lexington, $. C., at the close of the war He vas educated in the Lexington Higf Ischool, afterward going to Pennsylvania college, Gettysburg. He was unable t, complete his senior year, but the colieg, later conferred the A. B. degree on ac count of his literary work. After leav ing college he became interested 1T trade paper publishing, spending severa years at winston-Salem. N. C., as pub of ho Tnha a Atlanta offered wider field for thi work, so he came here over 15 years ago land has been engaged in the trade pape Ipublishing business ever since" Of MT iIiarmans books so far issued he has t, This credit, .In Loves Domain Q909) ltsThe Gates of Twilight Qs1o). ant l"Dreams of Yesterdays" G911), "A Ba oe Song d915).
 THE BALFOUR VISIT" I Edited by Charles Hanson Towne l George H. Doran company, publishers I New York,
 T "The Balfour Visit; How America Re ceived Her Distinguished Guest and tn Significance of the Conferences in tn United States in 1917.'' edited by Charle Hanson Towne, the well-known autho and newspaper man. is a souvenir. an au Il thoritative account, and an interpreta ton of the significance of the Balfou
 mission tothe United States. The boo
 .scorers'' the whole visit thoroughly, giv
 ing ill full the speeches of our distin gu,shed guest. It presents, too, warr
 portrait of MT. Balfour as very huma tman, citing numerous amusing incident of his travels in the United States.
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