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had to give up this talented and clever couple.
 At this period the Birmingham Conservatory was turned over to the direction of Edna Gockel, then a mere girl--but a girl with tremen- dous ambition and talent. which ex- cited her to do big things. and while she accepted the dictatorship of the conservatory, she was at the same time hampered In way by her ex- tensive concert engagements-the concert field in which she had been very successful being alluring and fascinating.
 During this time Mrs. Gussen made successful appearances with the Klendiworth-S -Scharwenka Conserv atory orchestra under the direction of recitals with Van Lier, the ia 1, nous Dutch cellist of Berlin, were the first steps. Here in Birmingham we heard Miss Gockel play the Raff I tivaf orchestra and the Scharwenka Concerto with the Chicago Sym phony. Two appearances in Cincin- nati, playing the Chopin E minor and the Grieg A minor with the Gin .cinnati symphony orchestra. also re- citals in Montgomery, Atlanta and Nashville.
 In spite of her triumphs as a concert pianist, Mrs. Gussen retained the directorship of the conservatory, realizing that after all the buildins up of great school of music is much more satisfactory achievement than concert work, so she has never hsd moment of regret for the step she took
 In the mean time-her romance and marriage to William Gussen, whose untimely death removed from Birmingham only a few short months ago this splendid apostle of
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JAW
 By W. Morgan Gibson. Doubleday. Page and Company, Publishers, Garden City, New York.
 Born to the heritage of the wild owens. the carefree, happy go- lucky, lovabie owens. who belonged to the landed aristocracy of rural England, Jan sets out to be modern woman. Her adventures and wooine by her cousin John, himself true Owen also make the theme of the story. The pictures of English provincial Ire, or Johns family, his father whom every one respected and no one loved. his mother who had been model young lady with bit of property, and Sarah, the nurse. are powerfully drawn.
 Miss M. Morgan Gibbon is the gift ed sister of Percival Gibbon, well known to Americans by his novels. ms brilliant work as a war corre- spondent and his Impressions of the united States. This is first novel but 1t is more than promise. It an announcement that genuine author has arrived.
 HE GUARDED HEIGHTS,
 V VI MI N<dAL 1OuDieQaY, Page and Company, Publishers Garden City. New York
 At 70. George Morton was a groom In the stables of the Planter esta tes and daily rode behind Sylvia Planter ieasting his young imagination on her loveliness, Once, for an import inence, she attempted to strike him With her riding crop. From that day he determined to Ego after her. Working his way through Princeton he became football hero and power in college politics. During vacations he worked in Wall street and in few years become a money power. Wealth, education. social position, these he gained. He storm ed the guarded heights. He had vet to win Sylvia vino met him with averted head and anger in her eyes. But George Morton usually got what ne went after so he finally won the girl who had spurred him to suc- cess.
 Wadswerth Camp is the author of many successful detective stories, m n g them, The Abandoned
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{ TFfE% GREAT PEARL SECRET By G~N. and A. M. Williamson,
 Doubleday Page and company, Pub
 fishers, Garden City, N. Y.
 Rare1y have the Williamsons pre- senteds more lovable people or q more enthralling story.
 On the eve of their wedding. the Duke Of Claremanagh. better known as the charming and democratic Pat" tells his fiancee, a beautiful American girl, that the "Tzarina's $ Pearls" a. famous heirloom, and des- tined by long custom to belong to her, have been pledged and cannot be recovered till q certain date.
 Being deeply in love with him, she makes no demur. Only her curiosity 1s aroused. When the time comes for the delivery of the jewels, a box arrfves. and paste replica is en- Cl6yuu-
 v m the meanwhile rumors have heen circulated of Pats relations sfRItn Lyda Pavoya, Polish dancer rsl1nors to which her unexpected sSzrival at this time give color. # Soon afterward, strangely and un- s<eHodntably, Pat disappears. zl5z<NeNer, not even in "The Lions info~seis have the authors spun tale XII such vivid and intriguing threads. 2s| .. Z. THE ROOF TREE"
 ~Csharles Neville Buck Double ;e<2&ny Page and company Garden GUY. N. Y
 d.kc. very breath Of the Kentucky f1II6 ts in Charles Neville Buck 8
 6xo1o In interpreting its elemental {{fx md it's big boned and big heart <1 H9pple, he takes his place beside I6&8 Fox, Jr
 GFo he tells tale, the beginnings z< S1ch are laid several generations j n <&e past. Then the roof tree was ! 4od. token of love to celebrate
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equipped to sift evidence and discover the truth He has here collected, by personal investigation and by consul tation with the best authorities on diplomacy, economics and race prob lems the facts of the Japanese American crisis. and he brings out the deeper forces underlying these facts. The volume sets down the things that point toward stupen- dous war with Japan as the result of American and Japanese conflict ing interests; and it sets down the things that may prevent a war and force the two countries to find a ba- sis of agreement.
 To settle the accommodating differ ences of the two countries. to defeat the elements in both countries that are straining toward war, is proba- bly, the most tremendous and compi- cated and dangerous problem now fac ing the American people. It is all the more dangerous to us because its bigness and its closeness are not real ized on this side of the Pacific, though in Japan it is the subject of impas- stoned speeches, editorials and 'in- spired" news stories.
 The book is supplied with maps. charts and an index.
 Professor Pitkin did not set out to write a book he interested himself in the subject in 1919 and began reading up" on it. But he discov- cred. he says, that everything he could find in print on the Japanese American question had the mark Of some propaganda. Then he started an investigation of his own. He went to California and down into Mexico, interviewing planters. orchardists, business men. newspaper editors and others. He went to original sources, in short, and then he wrote his book. THE PIPES OF YESTERDAY" By Frederic Arnold Hummer ana Mary Christian. The Century com pany. Publishers, New York City.
 'The Pipes of Yesterday is not the conventional love story: it is the story of two writers who loved each other inperfectly-as as most lovers do. Grant and Jamie are human beings usually idealistic. often blind. selfish and so their love history Is that of most men and women, however much individual circumstances may vary.
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Room "The House of Fears" and The Gray Mask" which b h through ;he pages of such magazines as Golfers and in book form have won him wide following. In .The Guarded Heights" he creates a story of larger significance, a startling study of character in the complexi- ties of modern life.
 MISSY"
 By Dana Gatlin. Doubleday Page
 and Company, Publishers, Garden
 City, N. Y
 Missy" is a relation, certainly a first cousin of Penrod for every prank which Penrod left undone she accomplished, and every predicament which he escaped she has fallen into. The story interprets the heart and mind of girl passing through the bewilderfng mazes of adolescence with simplicity. fidelity and sym pathy which make Melissa one of the very few real girls of fiction. Whether she is giving with "em- pressmen,'' dinner parties at which small cups of demi-tasse are served or sitting with her hands perdu be- heath the silky fur of Fifine (poor faithful Poppylinda, the family cat, had no idea that she was Fifinc) lightly exchanging badinage with the suitors which thronged the bar onial hall, or trying to Hook as 'swagger" as the .'swaggerest" mem- Der Of the ''swaggerest" set in Ma con City, Missy is the incarnation of the deliciout inexplicable dreams of youth.
 It was Missy" who first iAtro- duced Dana Gatlin to fame through the pages of Golfers. McClure's, the Cosmopolitan. etc. Since then Miss Gatlin has created other Cherryvale folk such as Steve of The Full Measure of Devotion" and has won an enviable place in the field ot short story writers. But it is in the Missy stories that Miss Gatii7 achieves her most distinctive worx.
 MUST WE FIGHT JAPANe" By Walter E. Pitkin. The Century < Co., Publishers, New York City.
 This is startling book, but not a book of propaganda or sensational ism: it is the result of wide and care ful investigation and of much calm. close thinking. by a man eminently
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the wedding of Thornton and the first Dorothy Parrish. But the same soil held the, blood watered seed of fued war, and now it was bring ing. forth bitter fruit again. in the romance of the new Dorothy Parrish and Thorntonis descendant. e
 Under the name of Cal Maggard he had fled from Virginia, where. with the juries packed against him. justice would have been a travesty. In self-defense his sister had killed her husband, and he had taken the guilt
 He sought only a refuge. Return ing from friendly visit to his neighbours where he met Dorothy. he fousd nailed to his door threat of death if he repeated the visit.
 What follows; the strange reopen ing of an ancient feud, the treachery and hatred--and the conQuering loy- atty and love; and how in it's course. war ends forever in these noun tains. makes story of compelling power and tensity.
 1.-THE WRONG TWIN"
 By Harry Leon Wilson, Doubleday
 Page and company, publishers.
 Garden City. New York.
 Patrica Whipple wanted a brother so her aristocratic parents adopted Merl~. one of the twin sons of phii- osophical printer The "languageous" and white handed Merle is condcs- ccndlng to Wilbur, whose life runs in a far different channel but they are still fond of each other. When the war comes Wilbur is first in the fight. Patricia goes abroad as nurse and all of the Whippics do their share except Merle, who has weak eyas. He becomes a conscientious objector and starts a radical weekly, The New Dawn" with the Whipple money, lon the night of Patricia'S return she
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than may be devoted to an accom- panying fill of tobacco.
 The reader, whether a smoker or not. will find .pipeful' to fit his mood and the pungency to suit his taste in this book by Christopher Morley.
 By those who know the man, many autobiographical bits will be noticed, To those who know the writer merely, it will be interesting to inn agine the experiences that point his sketches To those who know neither the man nor the writer. these enter with rare and charming person. ality.
 CAPT. MACEDoINErS DAUGHTER' By William McFee. Doubleday,
 Page & Company. Publishers,
 Garden City, N. Y.
 The sea stripped of it's sentimental glamour, life stripped of the con ventional trappings of romances. these are the setting for the story of Captain Macedoine's Daughter" Rut the allure of her rich vitality is stronger than the glamour of TO- nance Pretehtious Captain Mace doine with his pathetic bubble, the Anglo Hellenic Development com pany, to be built on the gu)lible sea captains savings; his daughter. used as a pawn. in her fathers specula- tions but growing beyond him into amazing experience; the ships crew that fell in love with her; the writer who played super in the drama until the last big scene when for a few moments he was the hero; these are tho people who make the story of Captain Macedoine's Daughter
 This is William McFee's third novel "C,asuais of the Sea-" although first book established him as a writer of .he first order. Aliens confirmed his position and Captain Macedoines Daughter" is the great est of the three. McFee is not . professional writer. he is a ships engineer at the head of his profes- sion, chief engineer of one of the United Fruit liners, but he knows the seas of Conrad and tramp ships that scutter in and out the shallow harbors of the south
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ested in that study. If they hear the piano literature divided into periods it is much easier for them to understand the music of other i'm of those same periods. And haven't you noticed that the average pro- gramme is all Chopin, Schumann, Weber, Liszt- and Grieg with very occasional Beethoven or Mozart num- Der? The early classic literature is never used and certainly such mod ern composers as Moret, Ravel, Flo rent t-Schnitt. Palmgren, and vnn Mickwitz are rarely heard on con servatory programmes. The 'Bizar- rerie" of Paul Juon's which Beatrice Tate Wright will play this week on one of our recital programmes was sent to us straight from Berlin a few months ago."
 "Of course we endeavor to tnstiii the very best interpretive ideas into our pupils sensbilities The old dry as dust way of playing the classics which we thought had been absolute ly brought to an end through the ia- fiuence of such wonderfully free and elastic performances as have been given all over the civilized world by Paderewslli, Josef Hoffman, Schar- wenka, de Pachmann, Busoni, DIAL bert, Careno, is sometimes heard ana is even accepted as standard. But in general we are making great strides forward"
 Tt may not be generally known but the first community sing that was inaugurated. in Alabama" Mrs. Gussen said. ~and it's beginning on Friday evening. May 19, 1916, when the audience which attended the Ala bama music clubs convention here was asked by MT. Gussen. who was directing and myself at the piano. to sing Schuberts simple but beautiful
 Who Is sylvia?' This came throug
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ance. It would be such wonderful recreation for our music students. All of this sounds like dream but l believe that there is only one thing needed to make this dream come true, and that is an auditorium. Our music lovers here are certainly as eager to hear good music as in any place I know of and the visit ing organization or artist who imag- ines that almost any kind of a per formance will be accepted is badly mistaken. Photographs, interpreted rolls for the many reproducing in struments, the music appreciation clSss@s introduced in our public schools by Miss Kitts have all done much toward making taht old idea a mere myth. Now if we mad the home, the library, and the concerts and opera, the other things needed would just come of themselves. Great teachers are quite difficult to find but if we had everything else as it should be it would not be inn possible to induce some of the very best to come here. They will be obliged to be real artists, for music students here are as discriminating as our concert goers"
 Mrs. Gussen talked Interestingly about the week of recitals at the conservatory which will begin to- morrow, particularly emphasizing the fact that her recital programmes are limited to an hours length the brevity of which interests the average auditor--and the quality be- ing emphasized rather than the quan- tity.
 Our programmes are historical" said Mrs. Gussen and upon inquiry as to why she so termed them, she replied; For two reasons; by ar ranging the programme in periods they serve as a wonderful lesson in the history of piano literature and all of our students are intensely inter-
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from bootleggers and auto bandits From the Washington Star
 T understand that ono of the fig ures In that scandalous litigation has been invited by publishers to Write a book
 Can it be possible" rejoined Mss Cayenne, that anything has been left uRtold?"
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cult matter-for the pupil must qual- fly in so many different branches must be so thoroughly capable of having and holding diploma that hard work, plus talent and energy alons can gain the coveted recom- Imendation.
 With srxty-five pupils in her own personal classes Mrs. Gussen, with 300 enrolled pupils under her direc- tirship, engaging the services of fourteen teachers, besides all this, is the director of three different cno1rs-- Temple Emanu- -El, St. Mary's and the Independent Presbyterian church; last season she was chairman of the Artists Committee of the Music Study club and she is vice president of the Alabama Music Teachers association.
 In talking with Mrs. Gussen few days ago--in regard to the conserva- tory-her aim and object to place it upon the same footing that the con servatories in the larger cities are based upon she said; repeating my question,
 What do we need here to make this Conservatory like the larger and more complete ones in musical cen ters"
 First of all. home for music students; one where they can be com fortable and have good practice fac iAties. Second, q good music library where scores can be studied and the good writers of musical subjects could be consulted. Third. plenty of good concerts at moderate prices ol at least special rates for students, These should be in the form of sym phony concerts by both local and visiting orchestras, recitals by ar lists. both celebrated ones and good ones. and surely we might occa sion- ally have a beautiful opera perform
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l music, this much beloved and much respected artist, whose pupils re- main a living monument to his abil
 ity and his excellence as teacher, took place--and in 1903 MT. Gussen assumed active charge of the Bir- mingham Conservatory as director and efficient head of the institution.
 Until the time of his death none worked more faithfully or more loy
 ally for musicTs progress in this pity than William Gussen; a peda gogue in the broadest sense of the word, with the highest ideals and wonder full energy even during the trying period of his falling health.
 MT. Gussen directed the Treble Clef chorus in some of the most fin
 ished choral performances ever heard here, and directed local or
 cbestras gathered together to ac- company the artist pupils of the Conservatory. Sunday musicales were introduced into the continuity by MT. Gussen, and were given for several seasons. Many novelties wera heard in these programmes, such as Liza Lehman's Persian Garden" Novin's ''Ip Arcadia" sung by Mrs Chandler Mrs. Newfield, Robert Ar mour, Robert Nelson. with Edward Powell as reader; Mrs. Beach's Sea Fairies" and Tho Rose of the Avon town" Brahms Strauss, Franck. Faure sonatas for piano and violin, played by MT and Mrs. Gussen; the Strauss songs, by Raymond Loder; Won Fielitz Eleland song cycle. by Oscar Erghott and Glenn Frierwood; the Debussy piano compositions; Strauss wonderful piano background to "Enoeh Arden as read by James Bowron. with Mrs. Gussen at the plano and the. Lorve ballads, given by Adolph Damn Peterson. All Of these and many others were heard
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in Birmingham for the first time in well remembered event was the lee ture-recital on the opera Tam harser." given by MT. Gussen.
 MT Gussen was particularly suc- cessful as director of music at Monteagle, where he directed the or chestra and summer music school and presented Madame Schumann- Heink and quartet of soloists, Inez Eaurber soprano; Janet Spencer, alto; Lambert Murphy tenor; Wer- ranraath. baritone; Dr. Carl Outfit, oasso Mrs. Gussen accompanied these artists; also Cornelius Van Vliet, eel list; Sol Marcosson. violinst; Grace Kerns, soprano, and Frederick Guns ter, tenor, who have recently ap- peared in Birmingham under the aus pices Of the Music study club.
 Today, thanks to the ambition of " lllidIu &uSS6u anu EuHd NroShSi Gussen, the Birmingham Conserva- tory of Music celebrates it's twenty fifth, or silver annlversary--an in- st:tution to which Birmingham points with pride and which is read fly and eonscientiously recommmend ed for it's high ideals and splendid standards of efficiency.
 As a testimony of the difficult and thorough curriculum followed by the Birmingham Conservatory of Music, it is a notable fact that but three students during the 25 years of it's existence hold diplomas from this in stitution, Edna Gockel Gussen, All len Gray Mooring. now Mrs Thomas Campbell of Tennessee, and Mrs Beatrice Tate Wright of Birming- ham.
 To secure diploma from this in stitution, as is easily seen, is a diff
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Euripides began to write tragedies at the age of IS.
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By Christopher Morley. Doubleday,
 Page X Company, Publishers Gar
 den City N. Y,
 These little essays are as keenly favored, as aromatic. and as agree able as the blue vapor of the good Virginia weed And, as the author says in his preface. none of them will take more of the readers time
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HE RIDDLE OF THE MYSTERIOUS S LIGHT"


 S LIGHT" By Mary. E. and Thomas W. Han
 shaw, Doubleday Page and com
 pany. publishers, Garden City, New
 York.
 Cleek and Scotland Yard appear again in this latest tale of the Han shows.
 Additional interest attaches to it., because it is in the main. Clocks own love story. In desperate effort 10 get out of the way the most formida- ble obstacle to their evil designs. the criminals of two countries organize to bring about his end.
 Through their capture of, Narkon', superintendent of Scotland Yard. through their threats upon the life of Ailsa Lorne, the woman whose love has lifted Cleck out of, crime. into his implacable war upon it, they try to bring him to destruction.
 Finally they capture Cleek.
 How he escapes, how he reaches his haven of love and peace. makins himself secure for all time against h,s enemies makes tale surpassingly swift and dramatic, even for the Hen shows.
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elopes in a Ford with Wilbur and Merle is considerably pained. Threat ened by Wilbur's muscle and the withdrawal of the Whipple funds no promptly ceases to be a radical.
 Harry Leon Wilson has a true American blend of caustic philosophy and keen humor as evident in The Wrong Twin" as in Ma Petting:l!." or ss.rgglss of Red Gap" Mir, W.i- | son was formerly the editor of Puck, but is now devoting himself entirely to writing, He is Che co-editor with Booth TarAington of the perennially successful play, The Man From Home
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-10-06

OF the largest accommodate whole
summer colonies. But the most popu-
lar size for summer houses are those
that comfortably hold a single house,
leaving enough land for yard and a
garden. Islands smaller than this are
not wasted, though. Houses are built
on dots of land so microscopic that
the front yard is under water. To
take walk, they have to get in a
boat at the front door, and go some
where else.
One of the little frame cottages was
even built on a reconstructed island.
| A few rocks with a lone tree stuck up
above the shallow water and the land
was filled in enough to make foun-
dation for small house and even a
few trees were planted in the yard.
! Why all this work should be nee
essary when there are plenty of un-
tenanted islands of comfortable size
lying all about is bit obscure. Still,
islands have gone up, and the two
rocks and pine tree may have been
a bargain. Several hundred of the
islands on the American side of the
river were sold years ago to man
for $4,000 1t is a fact that Pullman
the railroad man, bought desirable
/ island for $25 about so years ago
And it is estimated that the same
island, without its handsome resi-
dence, would now bring no less thar
5000.