The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-12
By DOLLY DALRYAiPLE

the record just as well as the some- what different observations embod- fed by Coningsby Dawson in out to" Win Carry On and Living Bayonets.'
 So you see the varying opinions on this most remarkable book--none of which may be yours, can't say that any of them are mine; but one thing 1 can say, and that Is that there is not a dull moment in Three Sol- diers," and that Henry Barbusse's I'll Feu' CUnder Fire') was no more re- sentfully tragic than this exaggerated picture of American youth, wantonly humiliated by the misuse of military discipline.
 In The Master of Man." Sir Hall Caine, who a half century ago was the most popular writer in the world. his Glory Quayle" of 'The Christian and his "John storm" of the same book being on the tongue of every lterat of that day.
 The subtitle of The Master of Man" is "The Story of Sin and the motto is, Be sure your sin will find you out" The moral is that an evil act once done can never be un- done; that it is in the nature of sin that it can never be hidden away; that any attempt on the part of the sinner to conceal his sin only leads to other and greater sins, until his whole life Is wrapped up in falsehood.
 The scene is the Isle of Man. Vic tor Stowelh tho son of the Deemater, the Judge of the Island, at first student at law, afterward an adyo- cate, loves Fenella Stanley the daughter of the governor But Fen ella, a student at Newnham, and much under the influence of the social and political aims of her principal, Miss Clough. decides to renounce marriage, notwithstanding her affection for Stowel, and devote her life to the cause of her sex.
 Cut off from the love that would have kept him right Stowell falls into various excesses, which culmi- nate in connection with rather voluptuous country girl, Bessie Col lister. Bessie, who Is beset with troubles at home, finally throws her self on Stowell's protection, and un- der conditions of extreme temptation he commits the first sin. which is the foundation of the story.
 Notwithstanding the disparity be- tween them in social position and ed ucation, he decides to marry the girl, thinking honor calls upon him to do so, But in order to fit her for he position she is to fill as his wife, he sends her away to school in a distant place. using for this purpose the in termediary tf his closest friend and fellow advocate, Alick Cell, from whom, however he conceals his rela- tions with the girl thinking it his duty to protect the good name of the woman who Is to become his wife
 Then Fenella Stanlty finding her social aims not so strong as her af- lection for Stowell. returns to the island and he finds himself in the position of man who is pledged to one woman and loves another. What is he to do-break the heart of the woman he has sinned with or break his own heart and wreck his life? He decides that to marry Bessie, not low ing her, would be to add a second wrong to the first, and to cut him self off from Fenella, each of them loving the other, would be to commit a sin against both.
 The end is between Stowell and Fenella. The spiritual exaltation which led to his renunciation having gone. he drops into despair and de- scends as into hell. The execration of his little world has fallen upon him. He has lost everything he held dear, Fenella above all, and only prays for death. But then Fenella, by her own sacrifice and an appeal to his love for her, brings about the res of his soul.
 How she does this, how she faces the world for him (though she has suffered more than anybody, with what tenderness and womanly arti- flee, with what courage and faith and unselfishness, forms the subject of the most stirring and important incidents of the tale. The story closes with a great hope-the hope of a gradual regeneration and re- mobilization of the fallen man. of a far better and nobler life for him in the future than that which lies in ruins behind, of his union with the woman who has given up her own life to him out of the greatness of her love, and of their coming together at last out of the darkness of night into the glory of the sunrise.