The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-05
"A STRAIGHT DEAL OR THE
 NCTENT GRTIDGE''

ANCIENT GRUDGE" { By Owen Wister. The MacMillan O.,
 Publishers, New York City.
 Peace and friendship with all man. may be permitted to pursue it."-Th omas Jefferson.
 [ In a review of Owen Wister's "A Straight Deal or the AnSien& Grudge," Brznder Matthews says:
 ''dr. Owen Mister has written . good book, and in writing it he has done a good deed. He has analysed the ancient grudge which many hattie Americans nourish against the British-the roots of which lie far back in the past, in 1776, in 1872 and in 1861-and he asks if the time has not come when we ought to give the British a square deal.
 MT. wfster sees, as we all cannot help seeing, that tho world is seethng with frightful 'menaces to all the good man knows and he reminds us that there are those who would strip life of every resource gathered through cen turies of struggle Men and women who have ceased to think or who have never thought aim at moro destruction of ev- erything that is' proffering no sub- ] stitute for anything. Down with re. ligion, down with education, down with law. down with property. this is their cry.
 MT. Mister calls attention to the hope ful fact that amid this confusI.i is the Anglo-Saxon race that has brought our order our honesty, our freedom. into the modern world Plainly he thinks, as most of us do, that this order and safety and freedom will be most likely to en- dure if the United States and the British commonwealth shall hereafter cultivate more cordial relations and become mora clearly conscious of their possession of the same language, the same literature. the same law and the same ideals, po- litical and personal.
 ..He declares that there arc two obsta. cles to the establishment of good will on both sides of the western ocean; and it is to the removal of these obstacles that Mr. Mister especially directs his att tention. .
 '.rhe most obvious and the most easily corrected of these two is what MT. Wis ter terms the antHEnglish complex bred in all of us by our school histories, which have failed to tell us the truth, the whole truth. and nothing but the truth, about the Revolution, about the War of 1872 and about the conduct of the ruling classes and of the plain people in the British Isles during the Civil war, lS6l- 1865. We were all of us taught that we had fought against English in 1170 because they had oppressed us shamefully We were not taught that George III was a German king; that he had to hire He's siSns because few of the English would fight against us; that the best and ablest men in England, with Burke and Chat ham at the head of them, were out spoken on our side, and that these men were we'll aware that we in America were fighting the battle of freedom for them in England that our ultimate vic- toN was their victory also"
 MT. Mister has written we'll, accurately and Interestingly in "A Straight Deal or the Ancient Grudge," a book well worth reading and needing.
 LETTERS TO A YOUNG MAN ON
 LOVE AND HEALTH
 By Walter M Gallichan. Frederick A.
 Stokes Co.,. Publishers, New York City.
 Advice and instruction for young men on the universal problems relating to sex. by an authority gifted with ability to present this subject wholesomely and with real practical helpfuiness.
 This volume of. letters from an uncle ~tO his young nephew, the first written when the boy is 16 and the last when he is about to be married tells the facts that every man needs to know about him. self and about the opposite sex; gives . sane attitude of mind to the whole sub ject of sex, with practical suggestions for the control of mind, will and emo- tions; lays down commonsense principles oe conduct before and after marriage, and presents an ideal or love which makes for new code of moral and physical courage anS < finer type of man. hood and virility.
 Societey today demonstrates that in- stinct alone is not enough to guide young men in these matters. Further knowl- edge is essential to sound manhood and permanent married happiness This book gives the reasons why, appealing to the thinking mans sense of fair-play and good judgment
 "QUEENS'
 By Violet Trench. Frederick A Stokes
 Company, Publishers. New York City.
 The right and ability of every girl to become queenlike in the uuest sense by virtue of her womanly dignity, beauty of personality, and influence. is the theme of this inspiring little book fol gfris.
 The dependence of the finest develop. ment of womanliness upon adequate knowledge of sex functions and hygiene b here frankly discussed. It is . vol uno which every mother may place with confidence in her young daughters hands. to provide her with fine and wholesome ideal of sex and the facts she needs to know.
 Friendly advice and helpful suggestions arc given for cuitivating the qualities of oueenliness through self-knowledge, self reverence and self-control. The impor-