The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-25

THE STREET OF ADVENTURE" By Philip Gibbs. (With a New In
 troduction by the Author). K. P.
 Dutton and Company, Publishers
 New York City.
 Few stories of newspaper life have ever been more brilliantly written than Philip Gibbs The Street or Ao- venture"
 Tense. thrilling, vital exciting, The Street of Adventure" written before the war by this eminent au- thor carries with 1t the most charm . ing love story interwoven into the sordid grimy life of the ''pushers of the quill.''
 The author declares in an Intro duction' to the new edition The Street. of Adventure" that he met many old friends during the war when he was doing war correspond- ence for the great London newspa- pers, who spoke to him of The Street of Adventure" commenting up- on it and asking him various ques- tions about why he didn't let the hero and the heroine marry-and why he left his readers in a state of uncer- tainty about the final outcome of these two clever young newspaper people.
 "The Street of Adventure" is Lon don's great newspaper center; and it Is there that the hero, young Oxford man, enters on his life's ad- venture. The story deals with the world of newspaperdom, with the TO- nance and struggle of great daily paper as seen from the inside. or all men now writing Mir. Gibbs is perhaps the best qualified by eNper- fence joined to power of expression to tell the story he tells here.
 Lightning portraiture, picturesque description, sympathy and sarcasm, suspense lively action. and a charm ing, though unconventional, love story mark this off as a book most thor oughly out of the common, apart from the thrilling interest of his subject.
 The story is written in Sir Philip Gibbs best style and will prove of interest to every one who has ever been connected with a newspaper and to those who haven't as well.
 "BEAUTY"
 By Rupert Hughes. Harper Broth
 CTS, Publishers, New York City.
 Rupert Hughes in his latest story Beauty" takes his hero like many others in up-to-date fiction, from the West.
 Coming from Texas, Cad Larrick" with little education, a nice fortune, due to his luck in making a dis covery, is an interesting character and puts himself on the map by saving the life of young Worry Ere win and thus forever and day in- curing the gratitude of that impetu- ous youths wealthy parents.
 So--when Larrick arrived in New York what more natural than that the F'rewins should immediately '"take him up" and introduce him to all their friends.
 Larrick was extraordinarily attrac- tive to people-especially to women, and so, when he met the beautiful worldly wise. rich, popular, and charming, Nancy Fleet. she liked him and the second meeting finds MT. Hughes saying of his hero-"He cor nered her and flung her into his bosom and kissed her full and fair" a proceeding to which she did not In the least object. However, he did not really fall in love with her; at least, not all the way. Presently his friend Worry Frewin took him up to the country home of the above he saw the girld of whom he had all ready heard much--young. exquisite lovely. Clelia Blakeney, over whose beauty men went quite mad. When Larrick first saw her she was ap- bearing in Sbakespearean festival. and wore the garb of Puck. He was instantly bewitched by her. but. as might be expected. he had any num-