The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-20
'THE SECOND LATCH KEY.

THE SECOND LATCH KEY" By c. M. and A. M Williamson. Double day. Page & Co., publishers, Garden City, N. Y.
 There's never let up in the action Of this new story. "The Second Latch Key" by the Williamsons. The reader who can put it down unfinished has something wrong with his reading fac ulty. It is the romance of an English girl and an adventuring American mill lonaire who, entering like a Galahad wins her, and then assumes what ap- pears to be his real nature-a cad How the mystery which makes him act this part is solved, and enduring love comes to them. will be memorable in this sea- sons fiction.
 THE LIFE OF GENERAL LEONARD
 WOOD
 By John c. Holme. Doubleday, Page X Co, Publishers, Garden City, N Y Ever in the public eye since his first emergence in the Spanish-American War, today Leonard Wood is a figure of Nthc highest national importance. This book comes opportunely to present comprehensive view of his career.
 The author is well known newspaper man widely acquainted in Washington. He has had access to sources which make his work thoroughly authoritative. The spur to his writing was an en-
 
 revealed by a study of his work. With career so full of incident and achieve ment to work with and his own en- thusiasm. Mir. Holme has given us here a stirring and informative book.
 Of the many compliments paid to Gen. eral Wood, none is more significant than that expressed by the late Col Theo- dore Roosevelt, who said:
 His rise has been astonishing, and it has been due purely to his own strik- ing qualification and striking achieve ment."
 THE GORGEOUS GIRL" By Nalbro Bartley. Doubleday. Page & Co.,, Publishers, Garden City, N. Y. 1.-TWO bank accounts will beat as one," was the way the marriage of Steve O'valley, and the gorgeous grl' was described. While she was teaching Steve how to spend money with elegance and aclst, Mary Faithful remained behind managing Steve's business, and trying to suppress heart bangs. But Steve a plain man at heart Feeling uncomfort- able among Vorticists and Swams and The Return to the Primitive, Steve exc cutes return to the primitive himself discovering how gorgeous a plain girl can be.
 TALES OF MY NATIVE TOWN" By Gabrielle D'Annunzio (with an in- troduction by Joseph Hergesheimer). Doubleday, Page & Co.,, publishers. Garden City, N Y.
 The D'Annunzio who has startled the political world has long been the most picturesque personality in the literary world. Writing with fire and vigor, he has become an outstanding force in Italian 1etters-poet, dramatist and master of colorful and ringing prose. These tales with his native
 
 his own people for characters are semi autohiographical They paint the hard living, sensuous and sensitive Italian men and women among whom D'An- nt.nZio learned of life. But apart from their personal interest, they are vigor- ous tales that show the art of the great master at it's best.
 1.-THE TEMPERING" By Charles Neville Buck; Doubleday, Page & Co.,, publishers. Garden City, New York.
 memory of the past, a reflection of the present, and prospect of the future of our country, is given here in the career of the hero. It is the story of the power of love over boy whom strong men of two generations cannot influence. He aspires and suc- ceeds, but in the moment of his triumph loses love. How through the christening of his unhappiness, he wins it again, makes this a stirring and significant book.
 THE INSIDE STORY OF AUSTRO-
 HUNGARY INTRIGUE" By Joseph Goricar and Lyman Beecher Stowe; Doubleday, Page & Co.,. pub fishers, Garden City. N. Y.
 In 1908 Austria Hungary tried to precipitate the world war by annexing Bosnia and Herzegovina. She failed.
 In 1912 a series of atrocity charges against Serbit ended in an admission of their falseness Serbia. neverthe- less. withdrew from the Adriatic coast, and the world war was averted. In 1913 Serbia and Montenegro, on the advice of Russia, evacuated Du- razzo and Skutari and once more the world was was averted.
 In 1914 the death of the archduke afforded the pretext for which Aus tria had waited fifty years-and the world war began. These merely convenient dates , in half a century of Austro German in-