The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-11

George H. Doran Company, publishers
 New York City
 No more delightful book has beer l published during the past ten years
 than Isaac F. Marcosson's latest con-
 tr1buuon to the literary world, entitled
 Adventures in Interviewing"
 Crisp, concise, clever. every word
 that he writes is readable and inter
 esting, and this is not surprise to
 those who know that MT. Marcosson 1 has had an unusually varied and in-
 teresting career as a reporter. editor
 and journalist. His activities. begun i in his seventeenth year .unden Henry ] Watterson of the Louisville Courier
 Journal started him on the road which Jed to the throne room of British states manship in Downing street London where he had his historic interviews
 with Lloyd George in some of the dark
 hours ofN the world struggle.
 Gifter with sympathetic vision. rare insight and a keen sense of the dra- 1 matic, MT. Marcosson has made this Ids intimate history told in fascinating terms of personalities
 Among the celebrities revealed at close range are: Lloyd George, Wood row Wilson, Sir Douglas Haig, aMr- shal Foch. Lord Northcl9fe. Lord French, kerensky, Winston Spencer Churchill, Maj Gen. Leonard Wood, Sir James M. Barrie, Mark Twain. James Lane Allen, Geore Horace Lorimer, O.
 Henry H. G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, Frank Norris, David Belasco, John Drew, J. Plerpont Morgan, Andrew Car negie, John Hay, Theodore Roosevelt, General Pershing, Ciemenceau. General Smuts, Sir Eric Geddes, Marconi. David Graham Phillips, Walter H. Page, Rich ard Watson Glider. Henry Watterson, F. Hopkinson Smith, Sir Arthur Wing PInero, Ethel Barrymore, Julia Mar lowe, Thomas F. Ryan. E. H. Hartman. Charles and Daniel Frohman.
 MT. Marcosson. who is perhaps the best known of recent years for his books on '.The Business of War and
 5 $, Americas Miracle in France was full-fledged reporter at IS, and IS an interviewer of many years standings In this book he goes back over those years, picking out the fla nous and interesting folk whom he ra studied at close range. and pre- senting them to us with quotation, sso@s, 1rief character sketch. He be- gins with Henry Watferson. under whom he worked and who was his good friend years ago in Louisville. He ends. in point of time, with the great men of the war. And he gives us statesmen, soldiers. writers, actors, financlers and other famous folk be- sides There is scarcely a man or wo- man mentioned in Adventures in In- teryiewinS" whose name is not for some reason-or at some time has not been household word Many of MT Mar cos5on's ''sub ubjects" are British. but they are Britishers-for example. MT. Lloyd George and Sir James Barrie-who are thoroughly well known here
 The pictures are drawn in a few brisk strokes. Mir Marcosson tells of his first meeting with President--then Gov ernor-Wilson in 1911 and says: linen. as now, he was precise, dignified, agree able. He tells in the same chapter or his association with Colonel Roose- welt, and at the end Of an interesting personal record sums him up. He was a great American,' and he taught America a supreme lesson in patriotism" His Impressions of Lloyd George he set forth in more detail:
 Foremost among the war personafi- ties that met-and his star shines with equal brilliancy in peace-is David Lloyd George. I have ranged the gal iery of the great, the near great and the wouid-be great pretty thoroughly. Yet no ofie--not even Roosevelt--stIr- passes the little Welshman in vitality. and interest. No one can explain Lloyd George. doubt if he could do it himself if he tried. .. Lloyd George can ap- parentiy be as simple as a chiid. ana as complex as a mathematical problem. This is one reason why he remains the most difficult man in England to inter- view. |
 He adds, in relating some of the sif- faculties of Interviewing him: .Iloyd George, I might say, is no respecter of 
 Lord Northciiffe, however, is declared oy this chronicler to be the unofficial premier of the British people, MT. 1 Marcosson calls his chapter on n.m 1 'Northcliffe, the King maker He gives | IS some pertinent statements, however, | 'n the supposed close '.com bination. be- 1 .ween Lord Northcliffe and Lloyd [ George prior to their break last year. | Mentioning the strong impression cur | ent that Northcliffe controlled" Lloyd | George, he declares:
 ''The truth of the matter is that Lloyd | George was never Northcliffe's man in | his sense. though he conferred with him bout many important matters Each of