The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-07
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 By Hal G. Eyants. Little Brown and
 Company. Publishers, Boston
 K Lovers of the great American out of-doors and the wild life that is rapidly passing have discovered in. Hal G. Evarts a writer of animal stories that wildly recall Jack Lon don's "The Call of the Wild.D Ills first novel, The Cross Pull" re- vealed him as one of the few living authors who can successfully dramd- tize the life of the animal without departing from the truth. In .'The Yellow Hordt' he makes the adven ture of the coyote so vivid and en- crossing that the reader closes the book with feeling that he has be n transported back to the great open spaces of the west and northwest and understands the free, wild ltfe of the hunted Collins the wolfer, of Sand Coulee Basin, heard the CO., votes bowling. "The little devils"' he chuckled. Men can't wipe 'en out Therell be million coyotes left to howl when the last man dies, And then it was that Collins caught a new ho wl--that of a breed wolf, a cross between coyote and wolf possessing the cunningssof the coyote and the strength of the wolf. The coming of Breed brought changes in the wild, for The coyotes learned to run with him and thus to hunt in a pack Collins swore he would get Breed, but bullet and trap and poison failed. Collins owned a hah-wild pet, Shady, cross between coyote and a dog, and Breed won Shady away from Collins. Their ensuing life together their encounters with wolfhounds and with the big grey wolf Flatear, and their northward migration far into Canada are SC, forth in a manner most enthralling, but with a scrupulous regard for facts. M
 THE GALLANT ROGUE.'
 By Burton Kline. Little Brown and
 Company. Publishers, Boston.
 In the days of the Great King Louis there roved at large, MT Kline relates. an audacious rogue, Candr din, who defed the police of Paris but was secretly admired by half of France for his magnificent bravaao The first thief of France he wf.s called, but he did not separate, the rich and undeserving from their treasure for mere gold; he. simply adjusted a few inequalities or an ihi- perfect world One night, in eluuin ns the police. Canardin entered the room of poor notary. Armand La vallais, who was contemplating sui-
 
 good the money he had lost, whica belonged to the uncle of Cecile dS Grammont, the girl whom he was about to marry. Canardin gave the desparing notary a slip Of paper which would enable him to secure the necessary amount In the mornlnS when Lavalias awoke, his guest hao disappeared and with him all Of the rotary's clothes. But Lavallais, I'll Canardin's outlandish garb. pro ceeded to collect the money which had been stolen from other uncies as the witty. brigand said.
 This escapade of the renowned Canardn, is but the beginning of his adventures which the readers or Mrs sKline's spirited romance will fol- { low with avidity. Finding from a note in his pocket that a woman has joined in tho attempt to capture hir'- sCanardinss curiosity is piqued, and he seeks to discover her identity. Can ardin's appearance at a night revei at the Pa1ais Royal. where he meets Julie Lecoigneux the merriest little minx at court" his narrow escape from capture and his encounters with his arch enemy the Due de Morbihan are set forth with the zest of an eN perienced storyteller. MT. Kline mas created fascinating character in the rollickinS, intrepid Canardin'
 "PCORN MANS LUCK. By Gertrude Sinclair. Frontispiecs.
 by Frank Penney Johnson. Little
 Brown and Company. Publishers,
 Boston.
 Poor mans rock sunlxen menace at any stage of the water. lies off SQuitty Island, in the Gulf of Geor-