The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-26

, defect for the general reader who wishes to get the mass effect" of whole chapter or book, and who finds his eye and his mind interrupted by these mechanical aids to phrase by phrase study. No one can attain the full-rounded doctrine of the sacred | teachers, nor enjoy the ful! beauty of the Bibles ina gery and its mates- tic prose, who does not read a whole book at one sitting. And this is pos sible, with comfort and freedons. only i'll a Typographical form which the habits of the reader have made fanil- jar.
 MELLOW SOAP" By Katherine Haviland Taylor.
 Doubleday, Page and Company, Publishers, Garden City, New York.
 Yellow Soap by Katherine Havl- land Taylor, is the story of boy who grows up out of an atmosphere of yellow laundry soap, throlgn ad- ventures with knights of the road" and other strange and -Timsical characters, by which he acquires strength and experience, to a place of Lower and pleasure and social posl- tlon.
 The~parallel story of the little gir, witl' the pink hair-ribbons, is quite as interesting.
 THE LOVE OF LONG AGO" By Marie Corelli. Doubleday. Page &
 Co., Publishers, Garden City, New York.
 To the wide following of Marie Ccrellfs American readers, this latest collection of her stories will be welcome arrival There are 12 in all, and each one of them is a new au -A ..rfk the heart of her ability to portry the intimate moods of life, and the romance that reaches everywhere.
 Whether it is story of old-fash- toned love, The Love of Long Ago" which gives the book its title and the material for which came from a mlsty old diary; whether it is the story about the clean sunny minded Boy and his adventure with the painted lady, which led her to her 'one good deed in bad life;" wheth- CT 1t is the tale of Lord Francis Markham, and how he followed an American girl from Paris to New York and found out something of "Claudia's business" and his own too; whether it is the story of The Sculptor's Angel" who gave a peni- tent man a new vision of the trans forming meaning of love; or any other of the stories. the reader, man or woman, will find an equal rich ness of sentiment, and a revelation of the passion and tenderness of life. In her work, Marie Corelli touches all stations of life, and all times: her stories of olden time recreate the at- mosphere of former days; her stories of youth have the spirit and inno- n nrdA spring time: and her people. from whatever class they come, are vital and alive.
 IA BUILDER OF THE NEW
 SOUTH"
 By George Tayloe Winston. Double
 day, Page & Co.,, Publishers, New York City.
 D. A. Tompkins is known as the fath the cotton oil industry. It Is In the potential indus tri ndence of the south that has possible the great lndus- tria. elopments and consequent prosl lelity which have characterized that section of the country for the last decade. The story of his life is an intimate record of the 50 years of southern history.
 George Tayloe Winston is an edu- cator of note. He was formerly president of the North Carolina Col lege of Agriculture and Mechanic al Arts and had been for many years a leader of intellectual life in the south.
 JAPAN AND AMERICA"
 By Tone Noguchi Published by Keio University Press Tokio. and Dis
 tributed by Orientalia, 22 East
 Sixtieth street, New York.
 The Age-Herald has received di- rect from the author in Tokio copy of this unique volume which bears the Japanese touch. printing and binding being entirely different from volumes usually issued in this coun- try.
 MT. Noguchi who writes beautiful pi ose and poetry in English in hts latest work has assembled a col lection of essays and addresses by himself designed to bring Americans and Japanese into closer understand ing. Many years residence in Amer lea enables him to discuss his sub tects from the broad point of view of each nation and the volume as a whole Is an important contribution to the literature on a subject which becomes of more and more interest as Japan and America come into clos CT contact with each other across the Pacific. The purpose of the vol ume can be gathered by the titles of some of the more important chapters: Japan Today" Literary Co-opera- | tion Between America and Japan" ITO The Americans" "Japanese Poets | end Poetry"
 It Is only necessary to say that Mi. ] Noguchi treats his subjects with the 1 friendliests of attitudes toward hotii Iepan and Anarica his ohiecf hafntr