The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-02

to lead up to Fairyland. Also we are accustomed to think that fairies thrive only out in the woods ana fields. but here they are equally at home in the city. on Oxford street, at market. in the garden and sing ing In the chimneys of London house. Miss F'yleman's happy. deli cate verses will appeal to all who would see the world through the magic eyes of childhood.
 MORE LIMEHOUSE NIGHTS" By Thomas Burke. George H. Doran
 Company, Publishers, New York
 City.
 In More Limehouse Nights" Thom- as Burke, whose "Limehouse Nlghts containing that wonderful story, Ths Chink and the Child.' which David Wark Griffith, the great moving pie ture producer wove into the exquisite screen play, Broken BlossomsP again gives to the world more prod ucts of his remarkable brain, More Limehouse Nights" are grim stories, most of them, all the glimmer for their irony and their occasional hu- morous touches Sometimes there ar dark hints of horrors unseen, som . ! times the tragedy is enacted before | our eyes. Now and then comes bit | of comedy verging, 1t may be, almost l on farce. and for all their grimness | and it's ironies there is tenderness as well as pathos in these stories, a l pathos which only once slips over | the extremely fine line dividing l. from mawkishncss-th in the ent- l ing of the tale called The Little ! Flowers of Frances The place or honor in the book is given to The ' Yellow Scarf" whose scene Is laid 1 in a little shop in Shadwell. that ! circus of harsh. unavail'rG en- ] deavor," a furtive little shop, the description of which reminds one /, strongly of certain passages In Joseph 1 Corad's novel, The Secret Agent" Here lived "big, distracted man. who had married. "a wastrel of the alleys" thereby making her his fixed property" The psychology of their relation. his disregard of her, her | quickly growing hatred. and the en- trance of the other man, one Tom ] the Toff." is admirably developed to it's dramatic conclusion. This is one ! Of tho ''all- white" stories in the book ---stories into which Chinese do not f enter.
 i "A Family Affair brings east and i west, Chiuamen and London Cock ney. into direct conflict. but this time the conflict takes an amusing rather | than a gruesome twist. The Dumb Wife" gruesome in its appalling eli max is still more gruesome in its 1 suggestion of the years which fol lowed The smiling. implacable Chinese husband of this story has his counterpart in the smiling. implacable father of Big Boy Blue" More thar anything else. perhaps, it is this bland imperturbability of the. oriental. and especially of the Chinese. that makes the occidental squirm and shudder I But it must not be supposed that Mir 1 Burke holds any brief against the Chinese. "rhe Scarlet shoes" tells the exquisite and touching love stor. of Chinese maid and a youth of hei own race who practiced chivslry il he did not profess it, while the con. cluding tale in the book "The Sons of Ho Lung" shows a young Chinese doing his best to fulfiil his obliga- tions. and pausir.y only when these obligations come into direct confl,cl at the close of the story, which, like ''The Lady or the Tiger ends witl a question.
 As collection these short storie, of MT. Blake's have a force and vivid. ness alike impressive and unusua. n'~~nt ---;' q ian,i~ ,s ~~d '''s'na.ic they are lacking neithe- in psycho .. ,i-u.'. in suuts.y
 GET YOUR MAN
 By Ethel and James Doryance. Tn,
 McCaulay Company. Publishers. No
 l5 West Thirty-eight Street, New
 York City.
 Through, this double -barreled mys tery of life as lived today in tn, Alaska-Yukon two people wear thu Kiis's scarlet but with diverse eff feet.
 Sergeant Sure" Huxelby, Ameri can born of the Royal Mounted. wear it grimly because of life-ques whlch rules him by this one law "gc your man."
 Not at all Erimly. but as gallant ! ly as he, a daughter of the. constabu lary wears the uniform of tn
 Mounted'-Yukona Bruce is ruiet