The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-15

unusual one, touched with an almost weird poetic fancy from the very first page, when over the sandy wastes sounds the clear, sweet whistling of Pan of the desert, to the very last paragraph when the reader, too, hears the cry and the call of the wild geese flying south. THE GAMESTERS" By H. c. Bailey; E. P. Dutton & Co.,, publishers, New York city. Another delightful novel of adventure and romance by the author of "The High way man."
 Laid in Europe in the first quarter of the eighteenth century, the story deals with the escapades of the slim and be- witching Eve de Ros and her brother, Adam, in their efforts to make a living by their wits in the various small German states of the time.
 Anyone who likes to read of the in trigues of pretty women, the flicker and click of rapiers, the galloping of horse- men after fleeing spy, the rattle of dice, in the days when gambling was a royal amusement and royalty done-will enjoy the brilliant description and the sparkling dialogue of Mr. Bailey's story.
 Incidentally, the striking picture given of Frederick the Great of Prussia as young man is now of real historical in- terest.
 1.-THE SONG OF THE SIRENS AND
 OTHER STORIES"
 By Edward Lucas White; E. P. Dutton &
 Co.,, publishers, New York city.
 Having shown himself in his two re- markable novels as a master of the diff ferent art of historical fiction, MT. White now reveals in this volume of tense, gripping tales that he is even more master in the field of the short story.
 The peculiar vigor and majesty Of Rome, the very life of Greece, of Carthage and of medieval Italy are flashed before us on moving picture screen, with ac- ton of thrilling human interest, modern in it's expression and utterly convincing in it's intensity.
 THE SONG OF THREE FRIENDS" By John G. Neihardt. The Macmillan
 company. publishers, New York City.
 In this narrative poem of the uprer Missouri river country in the early POS. John G. Ne.hardt tells, with fortnight simplicity and with an economy of force, rare in poetry and scarcely possible in prose, an his- torical tale of three trappers and their boatmen; of their love for each other; of their adventures in saw age land. and of the fate that uiti- mately awoke discord among them. until leach went stumbling to a bit ter end-a threefold doom" Owing to the authors. easy mastery of tech nique, the narrative, in which com edy and tragedy are mingled, may ec read as one reads a popular novel solely forsthe story. But discriminate ing readers are likely to grant that its significance is far greater than merely that of thrilling tale. Like it's predecessor. "The Song of Hugh ilass." it deals accurately with the great American epic which developed n the vast region between the Mis- souri and the Pacific during the first l tour decades of the nineteenth cen tury.
 THE WHOLE TRUTH ABOUT
 ALCOHOL
 By George Elliott Flint. Introduction |
 by Dr. Abraham Jacobi. The Mac- |
 milan company, publishers. New
 York City
 In "The Whole Truth About Alco- | ,or George Elliott Flint takes up the | following subjects. being the "con- ents" of the book: Human Psychol- | 'gy and National Prohibition: After | he Prohibition of Alcohol, What [ Next; Do Citizens Need Nurses? The