The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-05

life, including her health, conduct, dress. social and intellectual interests and friendships, are dealt with wisely and sympathetically, with the aim of de- veloping an ideal of womanhood's privi- leges and opportunities that will pre- pare her for marriage and motherhood
 THE NEW CHILDREN
 By Sheila Radce. Frederick A. Stokes
 Company, Publishers, New York City.
 This Eew Montessori book, by zeal ous and whole-hearted disciple, is some thing better than a substitute for the volume which the urge and stress of re- cent times have prevented the great Ital- ian educator herself from writing. Mrs Radice has not merely filled in gaps and brought down to date the growth and ex- panSion of the new system; but, what is moro important, she has given luni- nous interpretation of the vast scope of Dr. Montessoris vision and aims. What the world has to learn from her is not only how to treat little children prop erly-"it is a new philosophy of life" The world is ready for this new phil losophy, because it < colncides with the new centering of the pendulum of hu- man culture, which before the war had swung dangerously near the menace of Germanism- In the world today, the au- thor finds the closest. intellectual kinship between Montessori and Bergson--with this distinction, that "she translates her faith into works, while Bergson lives by faith alone"
 But while it treats of the later devel- opments of the Montessori method, this book is equally we'll adapted for the purposes of a pioneer volume, to be placed in the hands of the growing cir cle of those whose interest has been aroused for the first time. It assumes no previous acquaintance with the "Chil- drens Houses" nor with their creator; and it has the advantage over earlier books in that it introduces us to sys- tenn at a. point of time when it has long passed the experimentation stage.
 ~LINE'S BUSY"
 By Albert Edward Ullman. Illustrated
 by C. A. Voight Frederick A. Stokes
 Company, Publishers. New York City.
 The sprightly, breezy "Goldie" of AL bert Edward Ullman's story, Lines Busy'-the switch board operator in a large hotel, whose slangy letters to her chum make up Mr. Ullman's book has long line of literary forebears in the popular magazines and Sunday Sewell Ford, Helen Green Van Campen, Pelham Grenville Wode- house and dozen other clever writers
  tainers, firmly established the conven- tion of waitresses, bell-hops. chorus girls, barbers, phone girls and stenog- raphers as the owners of hearts of gold and mental endowments greatly tc be envied. And the phenomenal suc- cess of the "Dere Mable'' series by Ed ward Streeter and Bill Breck explain the publishers receptiveness toward the letters of such humble heroes and heroines.
 Of course, to a reader living as far away from Longacre Square as Can ajoharie. New York (yes, superciliaus the Broadway hotel employe who com pines the shrewdness of a city editor with kindly philosophy.
 Goidie is a warm hearted. wholly en- selfish trump of a girl and there Is much enjoyment to be derived from the jazzy chatter with which her crea- tor supplies her. MT. Ullman deser yes full credit for lot of good lines" The wit of Goldie's letters is catchy and largely original-not current vaudeville wheezes warmed over
 The Lines Busy" is aptly .rlus- trated with score of black and white sketches by c. A. Voight the cartoonist who does ''Petey Dink."
 
 HENRY ELIZABETH" By Justin Huntley Mccarthy. The John Lane Company. Publishers, New York City.
 Henry Elizabeth lived in Tudor. Eng land. and he owed his somewhat dis concerting name to the fact that his mother before his birth had greatly de- sired a girl-child whom it was her de- termined purpose to name for the kings daughter. who was likely to be queen. That purpose she would not forego when she learned that she was disappointed in the sex of her off spring. but she consented to appease custom by prefixing the name of the princess father. Elizabeth had been | sovereign for 10 years when MT. Mo Carty opens his story upon the adven- | lures of her namesake. Henry Eliza beth is not prepossessing person | when the reader first makes his ac quaintance. He is lord of the manor of Braiginton, in the west country. he Is possessed of a huge strong body. a great head of tousled red hair and not uncomely features. but he is unde niably loutish in appearance and man. l ners and he Is also very drunk. All his youth and young manhood have been spent in eating and drinking and hunting and dalliance with the young women of the countryside. But when a company of stranges comes riding through the village and his eyes fall upon woman of different world