The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-22

| ana an intense loyalty to those SHE | loves. She has found sort of fairy godmother in certain Mrs Rose, rich and generous. who has staked her to | an art league course in New York, and who also invites her to Thanksgiv- | ing house party At this gathering. Ellen Is snubbed and rejected of girls | less pretty and less fair-minded. But as she prepares in all wretchedness to leave the gathering. which has killed fond hope of delight, she comes | face to face with Gibbs Josselyn. So, l besides fairy godmother, she comes | into possession of fairy prince. Ellen is 21 when she falls in love- l For six years. an artists wife in l France, she lives in Paradise. Then, on her return to America, she falls | into the period of tribulation precipi- tated by the beautiful, flirtatious and iunscrupulous young stepmother of I young Josselyn. We must let Mrs | Norris tell the rest of the story, which | involves murder and a courtroom ex- | she had been content with a telling free from that added, unnecessary cli- max of grief
 | THE VALLEY OF THE GIANTS" By Peter B. Kyne. Doubleday, Page and tors as MT. John Mccullough, MT Edwin | Company, publishers, Garden City, New | York.
 1 In this novel of the California forests strong men battle for section of coun- try as big as a principality The fight of the Cardigans, father and son, to l hold the Valley of the Giants against the treachery of Colonel Pennington, and the unexpected part played by the colonel's niece in deciding the issue, make tale 1 to keep the readers interest to the last page.
 The exhilirating breath of the big woods is present on every page. The reader l finishes with sense of having lived with big men and women in big coun- l try.
 | This Is the story of the big, wholesome men and women who hewed the path way of civilization through the track less depths of the northern California
 redwood forests. It Is a story of life and love In the open that is invigorating in it's very freshness. | Bruce Cardigan's struggles to keep his Valley of the Giants, the treacherous l schemes of the Michigan lumber magnate
 to smash his rival and the part played 1 Bruce win out. make tale to keep ad- ] venture-lo loving hearts throbbing fast VOICES FROM THE vALLEY."
 By Warren Wood The Cornhill Com : pany. publishers, Boston. | A little volume of verses called ''Voices From the Valley.' by Warren Wood, in- 1 cludes number of readable and at
 tractive poems. not the least of which
 Is the initial one, from which the little ] volume takes its name. | There Is swing and Tilt about the
 verses which is appealing and the sub ] jects chosen are all interesting.
 Below Is appended the first of the ''Poems," in the collection:
 VOICES FROM THE VALLEY"
 hear the voices of the past I Amid the trees,
 l Stirred by the breeze A% From far-off seas, Whispering of hands that nurtured. Souls that strived.
 And loves that last.
 hear the voices of today, l From palace car,
 And from afar There comes the jar
 or dull. discordant sounds, the moil l Of mart and mill Life's strife alway.
 I hear the voices of afterwhile. As in dream,
 And things that seem
 To catch a gleam
 From distant shores. declare there'll be l No carking care l Where angels smile.
 CAPE SPLIT CHICKENS AND OTHER
 STORIES
 By Nellie Clayton Nash. Illustrated by Mabel Rollins Harris. The Cornhll
 Company. publishers Boston,
 If you want a charming little volume of stories for the children do get Nellie
 Clayton Nash's Cape Split Chickens and Other Stories. j"
 It really is very clever and quite unique I-different from nearly any other stories for children that you've read in long, ilcng time; so clever and so original. The barn-yard is the scene of all the Interesting little stories and the Big I Gray Rooster and the Little Red Hen are the principal characters, while the l"Old White Rooster. chesty and con ceited. is a character not soon to be for lgotten
 l The anfhor1 nroceeds to show the chiI-