The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-23
THE BOOK SHELF
ny THE BIBL1opHILE

Russian authorities called an illegal
 person. and had to live under an as-
 sumed name. My first jailer was called
 lrotzky, and the idea occurred to me
 to take his name.
 | Tn 1910 I went to Germany, where my revolutionary activity incurred the
 displeasure of the Prussian authorities. was arrested and sentenced to im- prlsonment but escaped. Three days
 before the outbrealx of the present war found me in Vienna. On the advice of | Dr. Adler, the, Austrian socialist lead- er' l left Austria Hungary and was III serbia when that country was in vaded by the Austro- Hungarian troops ana was present at the Serbian parlia- lneht, the Kuptchina, when the vote TOT the first war credits was taken.
 returned to Switzerland, and was Iater summoned to Paris to edit tine russian socialist paper there. Here in New York 1 lived with my | Wiie and two children in three rooms in Bronx tenement. wrote for the NoVy Mir the Russian socialist daily ana spoke at socialist meetings. I do not expect my stay here to be very iohs' however for a revolution is pound to break out in Russia in snort time, and as soon as that hap pens l shall hasten to my home coun- try and help in the work of Russia's s liberation"
 CLEEK; THE MASTER DEFECTIVE" b| Ihomas W. Hanshaw. Illustrated Dy Gordon Grant. Doubleday Page 6 Co, publishers, Garden City, New York
 Who was the man in black with his oiack garbed crew and his black-sailed mourning ship?
 ] Wno was Her Laughing Ladyship'' m the picture gallery, the Gipsy Girl death?
 Who was the little old lady knitting, aiWays knitting from her yarn of ruby aolored worsted?
 Who killed the Hindoo, Gulam Singh. before the shrine of Kali, and drained the blood from his four dead compa- triots?
 Among the clues which helped solve the riddles of Cleek, the master detec- tive, are these:
 HOW the spinning of a gold piece re- yeaied to Cleek the mystery of the CaLphs daughter and the murdered mummy
 biack magic! necromancyi witchcraft! they cried when Carboys vanished into thin air wearing the wizards belt. 1t gave Cleek clue to the Riddle of the Slumbering Nymph."
 TWO men killed, third paralyzed wnlie guarding the steel cage which held Black Riot. the horse that was slated to win the derby. The patagonian plant hid the mystery to the Riddle of the Steel Room"
 me skeleton hand with the mysterious extra finger was dealing slow death to It's unsuspectng victims.
 iron Ceyion and Patagonia, Java and sne orlent, come threads of mystery ana crime to be unravelled by Cleek tba master detective of Scotland Yard all of which he does.
 This book, the work of Thomas w Hanshew, in his prime, is now published In America for the first time.
 COMRADES IN couRAGE.o By Lieut. Antoine Redier (Translation
 by Mrs. Philip Duncan Wilsono Dou-
 bleday, Page & Co., publishers. Garden
 City, N Y
 one or the three truly interesting books that the war has brought forth in trance, both as literary achievement and as popular success, is Comrades in Courage" by Lieut. Antoine Redier, excellent translated by Mrs. Philip Duncan Wilson.
 Heroism and adventure are here. but greater still is the unfolding of the soul of nation through the reactions of a cultured French officer as he views the horrors of world conflict His noble faith in ultimate victory, his passionate devo- tion to France are an inspiration to Americans about to undergo the bap- tism of fire.
 "A VOICE IN THE SILENCE" By Anna B. Bensel. With an introduce
 tion by Bishop Charles H. Brent Sher-
 man-French Co, publishers, No. Bea-
 con street, Boston.
 A sustained note of triumph is the 1v~ct ir%rr, irtH Of< even of the legions who have found satis- faction in them upon their appearance in current magazines, have been aware of the peculiar circumstances surrounding their writing. Since early youth the author has been shut out from human society by absolute deafness and by dimness of sight so great that she is unable to move abroad alone. That in itself does not make her work poetry; it simply increases the wonder of her sing ing. Bishop Brent. speaking of this in his delightful introduction to the volume, writes:
 I have such reverence for verse that it is marvel to me. whenever I lis- ten to a new poet how it can be done this saying things with common words in such combination as to re- veal the unseen and to impart to the raind the ineffable. But when it is done by one whose experience of life has been nearly all in the minor key, it is incomprehensible. Even the sky lark demands his dome of blue into which to pour his song It is only the human singer that can make the clouds re-echo with praise"
 And now this book, wherein for the first time of her scattered work is gathered between covers, becomes Tan artery through which she consciously passes on her experience and vitality to others. "It is,' Bishop Brent adds "a brave venture for sensitive na- ture to allow men to look in upon ones soul"
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