The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-21

was afforded unusual opportunities for 1 meeting with all the outstanding char acters of the day who are molding the fate of that country; so that we have here not only his vivid, fresh iIn pressions written down day by day as events occurred and as circumstances permitted, but facts impossible for the ordinary observer to get at, presented i with all the picturesque detail and tlie convincing precision which has 1 p'ade for this great writer already so
 many thousapds of admiring readers
 THE VOICE OF THE NEGRO | Py Robert T. Kerlin E. P. Dutton & Co., Publishers, New York City I The negro has suddenly discovered tEe power and importance of his own rress. It is a rapidly expanding in- l fIuence, consisting even now of two l dailies, a dozen magazines and over BOG weeklies. In it may be found "Tfe Voice of the Negro and his heart and iuind.
 It has seemed to Professor Kerlin l that in the interest of national unity l ard harmony it is essential that white Americans should know what Afro Americans think and feel on matters of national importance, as we'll as what Fare their grievances their aspira- l liens and their demands. | In this ompilation The Voice of the
 
 knowledge from the colored press of America for four consecutive months. various angles are presented of the ! negro mind, which will he admitted | of primary importance in the vital
 and necessary work of getting to know the negro and of giving him justice and rights of citizen.
 BY-PATHs IN SICILY" By Eliza Putnam Heaton. E. P. Out ton & Co, Publishers, New York City,
 Sicily, the island given by Zeus~ to
 Persephone in classic legend, is land Of ancient tradition and ancient TO- nance, and probably less affected by the march of modern progress than
 any locality in Europe. Here met and here still survive--the influences of pagan Greece and imperial Rome, Of the medieval. Italian states, of Spain and of the Saracens; and here roo is some of the most superb scenery in the world.
 Among it's primitive folks Mrs. Heaton-one of the pioneer newspaper women of America--lived and traveled for several years, her wonderful gift Of tongues and no less wonderful capacity for making friends enabling Ter to get under the surface and again
 the confidence of the Sicilians of all
 classes in way permanently denie j to the ordinary sightseer.
 By Paths of Sicily" material for which was practically complete be- fore the authors untimely death, is illustrated by photographs selected from many hundreds taken on the spot
 for the purpose by Mrs. Heaton her self.
 1.-TWO LEONARD MERRICK NOVELS
 E. P. Dutton X Co.,, Publishers, New l York City.
 No writer of the present day presents more charming stories than Leonard l Merrick and the new edition Of his novels with 'introductions" by his various au- thor friends which is being published 1 now. is a contribution to literary circles | whose value cannot be estimated. This edition has so far brought out many of his best works. yet with each new novel the discriminating reader finds new joys in Mr. Merricks works and his two stories, The Worldlings' with an !'When Loves Flies Out O the Window 4 "Introduction by Neil Munro, and Robertson Nicoll, are certainly among the most charmngly written of any of his many novels.
 l Mr. Merrick knows his literary world and his theatrical world as few people know these exotic climes and he writes Of the vagaries, the obstacles. the tenn peramental people who inhabit the liter dIy- anu tnedlIlCdl IlIHidiiicHt oS "" other authors have ever written. In the introduction" to "The World lings' Neil Munro says:
 "The worldlings has in it almost ev- cry element of Mir. Merricks attractive ness as a tale-teller save perhaps his l humor here kept severely under restraint I as a quality out of key with story 1 founded on one of the passionate cruces of life where duty and inclination come lnobly to the grapple.
 1 Maurice Blake, the hero of 'The Workings" is in an interesting set ting kimberley--and the diamond fields the hope of possible Koh-i-noor or 1 Cullinan-and MT. Merrick performs the difficult literary task of capturing and holding the readers sympathy for q man engaging in deliberate and rather despicable scheme"
 l From South African gold diggings to the leisure and refinement of English society. forms the setting" of tnis charming story.
 , When Loves Flies Out O the Win dow" according to the testimony of Sir 1 William Robertson Nicoll, is one of MT. l NIerrick's finest stories.
 Again he comes into his own in th's | recital of the ups and downs of an author-the, writer--and the young girl who becomes his wife and to whom tragedy comes because of poverty: the stage the literary world-again present themselves to Mir. Merrick's fertile mind l in this story which is delightfully."- tq2P showing his keen insight into human mature and a splendid literary power