The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-02
AMBASSADOR MORGENTHEAU'S S
 STORY


 By Henry Morgenthau formerly United
 States ambassador to Turkey) Double
 day. Page & Co.,, publishers Garden City, New York.
 How the German ambassador confessed that the Potsdam conference of July precipltated the war. How Germany strangled Russias mili- tary rover by closing the Dardanelles. How Germany by means of military and political penetration forced Turkey into the war.
 How the allied fleet abandoned the attack on the Dardanelles just as Con .stantinople had arranged to yield How Germany nstigated SO0,0ooOoo Mo hammedans to fight a holy war against a Christian world.
 How Germany refused to interefere with wur tev when she was wilfully murderins more than 100000 Armenians and Creeks
 study Wangenheim and you will get the ! ciearest possible comprehension or the sinister influence which Germans Junk | ar diplomats have exercised throughout the entire world. ,n | Study Talaat and EnVer and you Wii understand the crimes that Germany enr courages and condones to advance her 1 mad ambitions.
 THE MERRY HEART
 P,, Helen Raymond Abbott: the Cen | 'turv company. publishers, 353 Fourth
 avenue. New York city. | "'he Merry Heart" is a first novel; 1 if has a certain freshness and lhten- i sitv that can rarely be achieved mofe than once by an author It Is rove story of New England with a heroine l of unconventional age, who flghts hef | way to happiness.
 There were Anne. her two younger sisters. and her mother on New Eng land farm. Anne was the eldest or tue daughters. but she was not olo' anu 1 she was handsome and vital and ano'- ! tious Her family depended on her ! depended too much, unfairly usng up her years, her vitality, her beauty. ] Chairs in the semhlance of duty bound i her bound her mere heavily as tlms 1 went on. as her youth began oisap- I bearing as her most likely chances or happiness disappeared. Seeing her dan , ger. perhaps in desperation,~ she leaps at a chance of hapoiness-and makes | a mistake And there are more duties for her. and no more iov. than before. | How she finally, with indomitable l will fights her Wav to happiness Is 1 the story. Miss Helen Raymond Ab- bolt. the author. was born in Boston 30 years ago. She was graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1910, since winch 1 time she has done a great deal of | teaching "The Merry Heart" she says, tis primarily the result of work done ' after school It has no war in it-- l thanks he!-because. as Miss Abbett i reports she doesn't know enouSh about the war to use it for material 1 THE WOMAN CITIZEN" By Mary Sumner Boyd. Frederick A.
 Stokes company. publishers, New
 York city. sg Do you want to go well informed to your first local, state or federal cleo tion?
 | Do you want to know just what the {, political parties mean in government | and just what each party stands for9 l Do you want to know what steps re- main beyond the vote to complete wom- ens political equality? | If your state is not a woman suf- l frage state, do you want to know how | women in other states secured the 1 vote?
 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt contributes ! a valuable chapter entitled Passing 1 the Federal Suffrage Amendment" in which she outlines the arguments for woman suffrage as a necessary war | measure.
 Prof. Frank H. Giddins of Columbia | university says: "A valuable book that is needed : ' am impressed with its | thoughtfulness and sincerity"
 ..TOM AND I ON THE OLD PLANTA-
 TON" By Archibald Rutledge Illustrated. | Frederick A. Stokes company, pub | fishers, New York city. i Do you like adventure stories with a Iwiid romantic setting?
 Do you like vivid tales of danger and