The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-20

Il6 currency SUCCESSFUL HlySACtS
stories, The Blind Mans Eyes" and
1.-THE Indian Drum"
TRAILS FOR TWO MOONS
By Robert Welles Richie. Fronts
piece by Anton Otto Fischer Lit
tie, Brown & Co., Publishers, Bos-
ton.
This is a dramatic western story
dealing with the efforts of the cattle
barons of Wyoming to GUST the sheer
herders, who have gradually en-
croached upon what had been consid-
cred hitherto an exclusive cattle ter
ritory. Original Bill Blunt, inspec-
tor for the cattle stockmen of Broken
Horn range, while attempting to cap
ture Gang Wheeler, the leader of a
gang of cattle thieves, incurs the en-
nifty of Hilma Ring. Hilmas father
was a sheep herder, who was killed
by a man evidently secretly in the
employ of the cattle barons. and she
knows but one desire-to avenge her
fathers death.
Cold, selfish, self-centered. Hilma
focuses all her hatred of the cat
tie men on Original" whom she
would kill unhesitatingly and gladly
She would almost marry Fang Wheel
or, whom she does not love, could
she thereby attain her object. But
she fails to take into account her own
human frailties, or the strength OF
both Wheeler and Original, and at
three are quickly caught in the whirl
of the conflict between the sheep and
cattle factions that surges over the
plains and even into the little town
of Two Moons itself.
~.Trails to Two Moons" depicts all
= ! - ITO af of fhe
period, without any sensational over
drawing of its lawlessness. The au-
thor's style is rather more restrained
than usual in book of this type, and
his characters are sharply individ-
ualized. Trails of Two Moons" is P
good story in itself, which needs no
reliance on its purely western
flavor to win it popularity.
FLOOD TIDE
By Sara Ware Bassett. Frontispiece
by NJ. L. Greer. Little, Brown &
Co., Publishers, Boston.
The lure of Cape Cod is strong for
Miss Bassett, and for the setting OF
her new story, Flood Tide she has
returned to the little seaside town OF
Wilton, wherein lies the Harbor road
and where dwell zenas Henry and
the captains three, luOsc w ~
and well-liked characters of her ear
lier books
Flood Tide" relates the develop
ment of Delight Hathaway's love
story-that Delight whom Zenas
Henry adopted when she was saved
from the wreck of the Michleen. But
Its main character is Willie Spence,
an incorrigible optimist. with an I'M
trained genius for inventing. Willie.
who according to his housekeeper.
Celestina, was "doctorin' and ffxin'
up things for the whole of Cape Cod.
from one end to the other, day in
and day out" gets "kitched with an
idee' fairly often. Suddenly he is
seized with the desire to help out
Zenas Henry by devising something
which will prevent the seaweed from
catching in the propeller of his
friends motor boat. and Miss Bassett
has woven a charming story around
Willie and his invention.
Celestina and her nephew. Robert
Morton, Bob's rich and influential
friends, the Galbraiths, and the win
some Delight combine in the devel-
opment of the tale. which has the true
Cape atmosphere.
THE WALL BETWEEN"
BY Sara Ware Bassett. Frontispiece
by Norman Price. Little. Brown &
Co.. Publishers. Boston.
THE Wall Between" Miss Bassett
has chosen for her locale farm just
outside a small New Hampshire viii
lage. Here dwells Ellen Webster. a
narrow minded, disag reeabie spinster,
as hard and bleak as the hills tower
ing behind her fertile fields and rich
pasture lands. Her next-door neigh
bors are the Howe brothers and sis
tes-Martin. Jane. Mary and Eliza =
and between the two families for
many years feud has existed be-
cause OF certain tumbled down
stone wall marNing the boundary be-
tween their two farms.
This is the state of affairs upon the
arrival from the west of Lucy. Ellen's
orphaned niece. But Lucy is charm
ing young woman. in whom the Web