The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-11

captions as the following: Spanish Ex- plorations, French Colonists, Disputes of Territory, the Passing of the Red Man, Territory and State. Forty Years of Statehood, Alabama In the War With Mexico the War Between the States, the Spanish Am erican War and the World War, Reconstruction, Fifty Years of Political Progress, Agricul- tural Development in Alabama and the States Progress in Education. list of Alabama's governors. senators and other officers is printed in the appen- dix, while the little volume is pro- fusely and intelligently illustrated.
 Many of the stories In the History of Alabama" have appeared in news paper form and the compilation of the stories in book form Is a happy idea and convenience and pleasure to stu dents of history of this grand old state. In an introduction" to History Stories of Alabama" Mrs. Matthews says, among other things:
 All historians agree that many of these stories are legendary, but in or der that you may know they are true to history, am going to tell you where found them-it was in Pickett's His tory of Alabama Although if you should read that interesting book you might say: I cannot find these stories in that history.
 When your mother makes a raisin cake she looks way up on the top shelf of the pantry to find the raisins, in the ice box she finds the eggs, the butter and the milk; then the baking powders and spice are measured out just right; she has all the ingredients of your favorite cake: and she knows how to mix them to your taste, because she loves you she is smiling inwardly all the time the cake is baking, for she knows that youu will enjoy 1t.
 "In somewhat the same manner gathered the facts and the narratives for the stories of Alabama and wove them together, hoping that the result would suit your taste"
 Just how we'll Mrs Matthews has succeeded, the reader will find out after reading her delightfully."- written His tory Stories of Alabama"
 WIND AND BLUE WATER" By Laura Armistead Carter. The Corn hill Company. publishers, Boston.
 Among the attractive poems con- tained in the social collection by Laura Armistead Carter, under the title of Wind and Blue Water" may be men, toned as one of the best.
 THE MOMENT, Could you live each day for this
 As ever each day do- That moment of anguish and of bliss,
 When at last I can think of you? Through the stress of my work each
 day
 I press to my evening goal Oh! Wave of mingled Bitter and Sweet
 When the thought of you floods my
 soul!
 An! what can you know of this hour,
 Or how can I e'er declare The ache of the empty arms of a man,
 Or the heart that has found you fair? |? Child, woman or Spirit--come!
 And lay your head on my breast Let me bend my face OCT your dusky
 hair
 Til the ache in my throat finds rest. Child, woman or Spirit-come!
 And lay your hand on my heart Bid it cease to throb for, a moments And then, if thou wilt--depart!
 SONS AND SONNETS" By Aida Chanler. The Cornhill Com
 pany. publishers. Boston
 Aida Ghanler in her volume of poems. Songs and Sonnets," writes very gracefully and charmingly and one of the most enjoyable of the verses Is
 tE AZAY-LA-MER At Azay-la Mer the great waves fling Their strength on the cliffs that are
 strongest
 While boys and handsome young men