The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02
"BENTON OF THE ROYAL

MOUNTED"
 By Sergt. Ralph S. Kendall. The John Lane company, publishers, New York | city.
 The story of Benton embodies the | authors personal experience of bygone life in the 'Old Force" It is founded | absolutely on straight, crime-report l hard bitten facts. The scene is laid in | and around the Calgary district in the days when the old Post" the Hudson l Bay store and few scattered log shackS | (some of which stand today) were the 1 only landmarks of the present town The | story, in way, will commemorate the l passing of this once famous force, as 1 it is the Canadian governments inten- 1 tion to dsband the present 800 or so of | ficers, noncoms, and men included, that l comprise it's present adequate strength, l allowing them to enlist voluntarily in various cavalry units. Sergeant Ken dall is, perhaps, the only ex-member of 1 the old force who has portrayed in fictiol -truthfully and accurately, leaving no l loopholes for regimenetai or legal deri- | sion--scenes and incidents connected with it. What Charles Russell-the most faith l full reproducer on canvas of virile west ern scenes-has done in pictures, Ser geant Kendall has done in print. For young and old alike, this true tale of thrilling adventure in the great north . 
 FAMOUS PICTURES OF REAL AMI | MAILS"
 By Lorinda Munson Bryant. Illustrated The John Lane company. publishers New York city
 Mrs Brvants story of Famous Pi1- lures of Real Animals begins with tn. donkeys and cranes pictured on the tomo of ri, who died in Egypt about 4oo0 B. C.. l toll nf ha
 the palace walls of Nineveh-pictures that Jonah must have seen in his three
 days journey through the great city These are followed by animals in stone
 and mosaic from ancient Greece an Rome and then pictures of owl, bat anc
 falcon, dog and pig by artists Of the
 Renaissance in Italy, Spain and Ger
 many. Then comes France, England and America with animals from brush ana
 chisel that prove the modern artists ap-
 preciation of the artistic value of man | best friend-the beasts of the field, the
 fowls of the air, and the fish of the sea-
 Mrs Bryant convincea us that to Know
 and love animals we must turn to the ar-
 list and read his story of them--a story
 that began thousands of years ago 1T
 pictures on bone and ivory and SUI. continues with pictures in stone ane
 paint.
 THE WORLDS DEBATE.' GA HISTORICAL. DEBATE OF THE Z ALLIES)
 By William Barry George H. Doran
 company publishers, New York city.
 With poetic fervor and scientific ex-
 actness the distinguished English Scho'
 ar and historian, pr. William Barry
 tells in sharp outline what were the con
 trasted ideals and the facts of history
 out of which the worlds most searcnln'
 but no less hopeful, situation has come
 to be-
 doomed, and that democracy and Chris tianity ought to recognize each other D. origin and spirit of the same nature. M masterly summary of the war 1tsef an' an aid to discernment on our part wheth CT the future is to be in the freedom o the Sons of God or under the Germa' yoke.
 The whole method of handling bear the stamp of originality.
 GIRLS OF '64"
 By Emile Benson Knlpe and Alden AT thur Knipe. Illustrated. The Macmil Ian company. publishers. New York. Dorothea Drummond young Scotc girl on visit to relations in the sout during the civil war, learns that in tn = household there is a member of the Re IString," a mysterious society pledged t
 work against the Confederacy and to hel
 escaping prisoners. Who is it? Beautifu April May, a rebel through and through > who has parted from her lover because h did not volunteer? Quaint Miss Imogent ' with her memories of a favorite suto from the north? Mrs. May, an avowe suhmissionist? Val Tracy, care-fre
 Irishman. fighting for the love of goo !. fight? Or Is it one of the servants. dal
 ing much when freedom is near?
 MT. and Mrs. Knpe tell story of tar
 gled fortunes in Girls of '64," that n j. girl of '18 Cor '19) will put down befor " it's happy ending is reached.
 50 "W. F. FORD: A BIOGRAPHY"
 By J. D. Beresford and Kenneth Ricf ', mond George H. Doran company, pull F. fishers, New York city.
 Of w. E. Ford: A Biography" by le D. Berescford and Kenneth Richmond g. the following comment from Edwin Pug "a in the London Bookman gives perhar i the best insight into the book of any
 thing which has been said about it. 1 This in substance is what MT. Pug n says:
 II "It is called biography. It might | 2 called anything. Personally l woul Al rather describe 1t as a pow-wow Bu d T, is a great book, all the same. Tn originality of it's conception and executio
 cannot be denied. You feel, as you ris 8 from reading i.. as if you had been hay