The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-27

the brilliant but "materialistic" surgeon whom she has married. Noels youns existence he feels that he must guide and govern: and when she announces her determined wish to marry young army officer whom she has only known for few weeks, his sense of the gravity and eternity of marriage makes such a demand seem almost sacrilege
 The incidents of the novel are very largely concerned with Noel, who is not permitted to marry Cyril Morland before ne goes to the war, and who, reckless, headstrong, passionately in love- loses sight of everything save the feeling that they must "belong to each other forever'' before the soldier goes out to face the German guns He never comes back To Edward Pierson, who cares nothing for the worlds opinion. and everything for his child's righteousness and forgiveness before God, Noel and her baby bring a cruel and complex tragedy into life In the unnaturalness, the forcing. house"-as one of the characters calls it of London existence in 1916, Mr Gales worthy shows us a group of people with widely differing experiences phoso- phies, ideas. There is a young Belgian l painter to whom life is "an artist ex pressing himself in millions of ever l changing forms There is the able and thoughtful young scientist who can never | meet Pierson, deeply as he loves him, l without getting into an argument on faith and immortality and the meaning Of the universe. There is the kind and I honest but somewhat battered middle | aged man who loves Noel and there is l the woman to whom love has always been everything, and who sees love pass, ing with the passing of youth There Is Noel herself, and Gratian, and there are others. all with integral parts in | the picture
 As one of MT. Galsworthy's review
 CTS aptly says of Saints Progress"
 Tt is a picture of exquisite artistry,
 to move the heart, to stir one with it's beauty and it's love of the beauty of the
 earth, to. challenge ones thought, and to leave one at last. not with the solu- ton of any problem, but with a deep
 ened sense of the need of sympathy in
 our complex lives, of kindness and
 brotherliness and tenderness
 LUST ME-
 By Pearl White George H. Doran com pany. publishers, New York city
 Most autobiographies resort at some
 point to camouflage. There are very few people who can go through completely
 with stony about themselves. The re- markable characteristic of Pearl Whites
 story is that she is perfectly honest from start to finish. As human document tHlS plt oI SCH TeNeldliOn Will undoubtedly attract considerable attention. It makes
 no pretense whatever to literary style. As
 a matter of fact, it is written in a
 breezy vernacular which is decidedly taking.
 She tells her story from the time of her lchildhod, recounting her rather sordid be- ginnings with great honesty, her un- 1 quenchable desire to go on the stage, her first appearance in amateur theatricals. her experience on the road with trav- cling company and finally her arrival in | motion pictures when she appeared as 1 the heroine in the first movie serial, "The ] Perils of Pauline" The whole story, including rather per- ssonal episode her trip to Europe. is told
 with such gaiety and human appeal that the book is a small gem of it's kind 1 Pearl White has been made famous by her thrilling photoplays depicting fThe l Perils of Pauline" Pearl of the Navy etc. At present she is working for Pathe on the filming of Robert E. Cham
 bers new novel. Tn Secret.'
 l BLUEGRASS AND BROADWAY" By Martha Thompson Davies Frontis- piece. The Century company, publish
 CTS. New York city.
 II The heroine of Marie Thompson Davies
 story. Bluegrass and Broadway" is a
 young and fashionable Kentucky girl
 from Adamsville by name, Miss Patricia
 Adair, who is the author of play found-
 ed on the story of her own great grand mother. which to her intense delight is immediately accepted by noted Broad way producer Godfrey Vandeford. Pa
 tricia had written the play in the hope