The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-06

the soldier-workman after the war There is an exquisitely beautiful call to the rehabilitation of stricken men. And there is some very Galsw orthyian satire. There are two important pa- pers, too, upon the English land stua- ton in 1917 and then in 1918. This is not the entire contents of the book, but it shows the general tone and signifi- canoe of Another Sheaf." "SIDELIGHTS ON SHAKESPEARE" By Edwin Gordon Lawrence; the Strat- ford company, publishers, Boston. "Sidelghts on Shakespeare" by Edwin | Gordon Lawrence, is not an abstruse. | dry-as-dust academic dissertation on | Shakespeare, but a readable, interesting and intimate study of the works of the 1 greatest dramatist of all ages by one who approached his task in loving and reverent manner.
 1 The author was director of the Law renee School of Oratory and Dramatic | Art of New York for over 30 years, re- | tiring from active work as a teacher in 1916 on account of impaired health caused by exposure attending his duties in Eu- rope on behalf of the commission for relief in Belgium.
 "Sidelight on Shakespeare is probably the greatest of MT. Lawrence's works, the fruit of lifes studies and analysis of the work of Shakespeare. As teacher of oratory, actor and student of litera- i ture Mir. Lawrence has in this book made a study of Shapespeare which has re- suited in an intimate knowledge of the meaning of the author such as few ever come to have.
 | THE RED COW AND HER FRIENDS" f By Peter McArthur decorative illustra- tions by Lieut.. Fergus Kyle), tho John | Lane company, publishers, New York | City. ~ l MT McArthur yields prolific pen in a number of influential journals and has made himself famous through the length and breadth of Canada by telling people l in humorous s-serious strain of the sim pie charms of rural life. This is the | theme of his present volume. 'The Red Cow" which, with it's appropriate and attractive decorative illustrations. will appeal to all lovers of farm and country l life.
 The literary position to which this au- thor has attained in the eyes of his coun- l trymen is seen in the following eulogy from a recent issue of the Montreal- Jour nal of Commerce: Canada has never produced Carlyle, an Emerson, Thoreau or a Bret Harte, but in Peter l McArthur she has produced combina- 1 tion of all four with a few additions 1 thrown in
 FROM BASEBALL TO BOCHIIS' By H. C. Witwer: Grosset & Dunlap
 publishers, New York city.
 "They's a sign in Jeanne's grocery l store that handed me giggle. so l'll pas it along to you. This is what it says: English Spoken Here," American Understood"
 But whether you speak English or un- derstand American. here are nine innings of breezy, rollicking, fun-provokine' let
 ters written by Ed Harmon, famous baseball player (who just s'slid home from the big game out there), to his pals
 in the States. |
 Full of pep and philosophy, keen closer vations, some satire, and a great deal of scrapping, it's like three on-none out and Ty Cobb up to bat-a riot. regular l rioti
 A bubbling, cheerful, stimulating book
 of fun. Full of the spirit of joy and Iyouth.
 THE BOOK OF DANIEL DREW" By Bouck White. George H. Doran
 company, publishers New York city.
 ''The Book of Daniel Drew by Bouck
 White was first published in 1910 and now appearing, it is well worth reading again.
 It is perhaps the finest piece of sus- tained irony in American literature; in
 fact, one must go to Auatole France's
 ''The Revolt of the Angels'' or to Hill laire Bellocs Emmanuel Burden" to find q match for it. Intrinsically, Its thesis
 is precisely that of ''The Profits Of Re-
 ligion." That is to say. it displays
 the inner workings of the immemoria
 alliance between the church and the
 Pharisees-an alliance already SD fast and ancient in the time of Christ that he