The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-06

level, are traced. The author maintains that past experience, theoretical andy sis and present evidence all point to the conclusion that our war borrowing, sound and admirable in the main, has been marred here and there by serious error, injuring us now and certain if unamend- ed to plague us hereafter. A conclud- ing chapter presents certain positive suggestions with respect to the future
 PROPHECY AND AUTHORITY" By Kemper Fullerton, M. A. The Mac
 milan company, publishers. New York
 City.
 The purpose of this volume is two- fold-to discuss the principles of the interpretation of Messlanic prophecy ia view of the recent revival of Mill leniallst claims, and to reopen the question of the nature of the Bible as a principle of authority in Protestant the ology
 The author seeks to trace the way in which the methods of interpretation and the doctrine of Scripture affect each other in the church's interpretation of prophecy and to show how the scientific principles of interpretation adopted by the Reformers inevitably lead to the abandonment of the Millenialist theory and the dogmatic view of Scripture, and at the same time religiously desirable MILDRED CARVER, U. s. A." By Martha Bensley Bruere. The Mac milan company publishers New York City.
 Mildred Carver, the daughter of a wealthy New York family, runs a tractor in Minnesota with Mamie Epstein from the east side, Ellen Forsyth from Gren- wich village, and ''Winl<les' from Syria This happens when Mildred is eighteen | during her year of required government | service, year which had been dreaded | by all members of her aristocratic fam | fly but which seemed very wonderful | t3 Mildred as she grasped the fact that | she was actually doing her bit in ''the | most important thing in the world.' | Mrs Bruere is not writing about a | Utopia, but is developing an interesting and important idea which has had its | roots in the Great War-the idea o1 universal service for men and women | alike
 The book abounds in incident and | good humor, from the inimitable Mamie ] Epstein, who sees a potential husband ''who rich s''-in every man or boy, tC | the arrival of MT. Carver, bearing as 1 gift for his wnd-tanned daughter a lace and chiffon parasol which, after noting its unsuitabilty for Mildred, he presents l furtively to the hotel maid.
 It would be unfair to give the, plo | away more than to say that MuQreQ Gar l yer. the lovely daughater of an old Nev | York family, runs a tractor in Mime sota with Mamie Epstein from the eas | side and Ellen Forsyth from Green wich village Naturally things happen The book abounds in incident and gooC humor-and in stimulating ideas too.
 WHY JOAN g."
 | By Elenor Marcein Kelly, The Centur, | Company, publishers, New York City.
 We have here the phenomenon of novel without any particular heroine in i
 or any particular hero-at least, non
 recognizable as such-and yet with
 good deal of heroism in it. as one ma. encounter it in daily life, if one has eye
 to see. In fact, the book is daily life lived as it is lived in the still picturesqu
 setting the author knows best: Kentucky | As she points out, there are three Ker
 tucks-one of the open country, one 0
 the little town and one of the city. Wit
 the first she has dealt in her much dis
 cussed 'Kildares of the storm" the sec
 ond is to be found in many of her shor
 tales. and Why Joan?' IS an intimat
 picture Of the third. Hers is more of tn
 Kentucky of James Lane Allen than c
 John Fox, seen, however, through tn
 shrewd medium of a woman's eyes.
 This novel even more than Mrs. Kelly
 earlier works is study of the play c
 character upon character, and of environ
 ment and heredity upon all. Joan, fasc