The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-18

Kilgen people have built an organ for us that is ample in it's range, it's mechan- ism. and it's scope"
 'I had the pleasure, with MT. Charles Galloway, with whom I studied in St. Louis, of selecting the organ and he and extraordinary book. There is much ex- claiming on all sides. The name of w. Somerset Vaughan is new to lot of people, ard there is a growing curiosity as to who and what this author is. To those who have followed Mir Vaughan g work for seven or eight years and have watched this young English surgeon author quietly taking his position at the front of contemporary novelists and dramatists the most surprising thing about him is that his first novel, of Human Bondage" should have been overlooked by so many eager watchers for new and unusual things.
 Without attempting to weigh the rela- tive merits of The Moon and Sixpence' and of Human Bondage it will be sufficient to say that many of the ablest critics here and abroad regard ''Of Hu- man Bondage as among the greatest novels in the English language. Literally a whole page of this paper could be filled with opinions to that effect by people whose names you know and whose lit erary judgment you respect Don't over. l look either of these books. Whichever one you take up first you will turn witt eager expectation to the other. The un. usual power and originality of these two novels are beyond question.
 l ''Thea Moon and Sixpence," by w | Somerset Vaughan, is the most ab. | sorbins story of the yeer. ",rhe Moor and 'SiApence' is.not- only brilliantly written, but also goes upstream against the conventional Anglo Saxor | fiction. 1t is full of surprising turns l and yet each of these is cognized< a! convincing and just as soon as it hap pens.
 Burton Roscoe of the Chicago 1 Tribune says: "A novel which pleased me so much that l should like to b. l judicious as we'll as clear in my us 1 of adjectiyes to describe it. It is ou
 of the beaten path in subject; i charms by it's style no less than b. 4 by what it relates; it's phrases leal and sparkle MT, Maugham is fasci
 mated by his subject This is one bool which does not again serve up tn
 stale story of the pursuit of an unin teresting female by mediocre male.
 Another critic thus comments "4
 piece of realistic fiction, little short O
 a masterpiece. This is new kind o
 
 power of the pen to color: it is thu
 artistic expression of the gen>us tha
 sees in and under and destroys am analyses in order to reconstruct il more iifelike form
 THE MAXIM O JOE.'
 By Louis Matthews Sweet. George H T Doran Company, Publishers, New Tor City.
 "The Maxim O Joe." by Louis Ma: thews Sweet, is an honest-to-goodnes
 down-easI story related with whimsics lhumor ly certain Colonel who ca
 fully qualify for a place beside Sar
 Slick the Clockmaker, Josiah AlleI
 David uarum and other like worth.cl
 His n,mitable dialect adds spice to, m
 laugl,able chronicle of the happenings
 small town, and his richly colored mets
 phors are intersperced with nuggets
 hard Yankee common sense.
 The story of the boy. Joe, the app of tue Colonel's eye, who grew up from sort of Hucklenerry Finn environmes Unto the respect of the community and n heart of the g,rl he loved, adds just LII necessary touch of romance to narrs : tive which reveals tie true essence American life.
 Louis Matthews Sweet, author or TIT : lMak:n O Joe' is professor of Christia Y Teachers Training school He is the a' ] thor of several important books. amor 7 them, "The Study of the English Blpis , land the "Deepcr Aspects of Roman t'i1 pero- Worship now on the press. II "RED AND BLACK" , IBv Grace S. Richmond. Doubleda . Page & Co.,, Publishers. Garden ei' <i N. Y. ,, n Red pepper burns again, Red"
 the flaming hair and sunny smile an
 inc understanding of human hearts and Black Robert Macpherso , , Black. the exceptionally human youn clergyman who came to preach at U Stone Church.
 Red and Black" is story or. u : pulpit and pew. From awkward skel a ticism about Blacks power and att . tude toward life. Red is drawn, by a' hiring recognition of Blacks III }. achievement into active and whol ,. hearted cooperation with his work. s The portraits of the fine ana 10 e ahle woman whom Black loves, al n the, trifling little flirt who makes 0 much trouble. are well dsawn In MI e Richmond's characteristic styfss
 .UNBROKEN LINES
 By Harriett T. Comstock, lilustrate
 Doubleday. Page X Co, Pupiishe' i, Garden City, N. Y.
 "Unbroken Lines"-the straight pat f of life. Some lines never meet : those of Glenn Arnold and Richard ga s rington. Their marriage. the result f q sudden misunderstood attachmel n was an unhappy one. The man $ loved her patiently, not seeking
 loverwhelm her with his passion. figf e linz alone--bis great sorrow is rev ar r ed. With the conclusion of the boo al we are brought to a vista of happine 0 where in the distance his and Gle s Arnold's life lines are seen conversir s THE RECREATION OF BRIAN . KENT"
 j. By Harold Bell Wright. The Bo
 Supply Coompany, Publishers, CT e cago.
 n It is the way of many people to ra