The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-03
DEAD MANS PLAcK AND AN OLD

DEAD MANS PLACK AND AN OLD
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 By w H. Hudson F. P Dutton & Go,
 Publishers, New York City.
 Seated on stone among the quiet pine trees of Hampshire wood at the very spot where the Saxon king, Edgar, $ reputed to have slain his bosom friend, Athelwood, MT. Hudson from day to day saw as in a vision what had happened there over a thousand years before.
 He has here described for us with that beauty and exquisite simplicity of which he alone has the secret these pictures of a bygone day which came to him.
 While essentially one with MT. Hud- sons previous work in it's unhurried charm and it's distinction of language, it introduces a new note which is as inter esting as it is unusual in MT. Hudson s work.
 ''POTTERISM
 By Rose Macaulay. Boni and Liveright, Inc. Publishers, New York City.
 ''Potterism" tells the story of the great newspaper magnate, Percy Potter, his wife Leila Yorke who writes third ra te sentimental novels (one of the most de- llcious characterizations modern f.c- tion), of their twins, Jane and John and pretty Potterish sister Clare. The twins just out of Oxford, relentlessly superior and determined to remain above Pot terism, form The Anti-Potterite league. Other league members in good standins are Arthur Gideon, whose Jewish father changed his name to Sidney when he married a Christian 'lady," Katherine yarick, new woman with a very old ache in her soul and the Honorable Lau- renee luke, "a radical of moderately aristocratic lineage. Jane, thes heroine of the book in that she is so much like all of us in our own Potterism, is much attracted to Gideon, but when she meets Oliver Hobart, the editor of one of her fathers Potterish papers land perfect Gibson type her true spiritual side comes to the surface. The Nation says: "Potterism is both brilliant and skillful. a notable story and an mcisive criticism of life. It's narrative technique shares the keeness and distinction of it's intel lectual outlook" Lewellyn Jones writes in The Chicago Evening Post; One hopes for our credit as reading nation that this we'll written novel will reach it's 100000 mark in America" Aud The Philadelphia North American says: < < 'Potterism sweeps through the mind cloyed with sentimental fiction like a wind from the north.''
 "SIx SECONDS OF DARKNESS By Octavus Roy Cohen. Dodd, Mead k
 
 During quiet evening at police head quarters comes word that a prominent reformer has been murdered. Within an hour of the report of the crime three people come to Kheadquartrs and confess the murder. The first is the niece and ward of the murdered man; the second IS her fiance; the third is half-crazed man who declares that the reformer swindled him. No one of the people knows that the others have confessed. and their stories agree in only one particular, that fo rsix seconds the roo min which the crime was committed was in darkness.
 The chief of detectives arrives with a prisoner whom he charges with the mur der-a burglar found hiding in the house of the murdered man. Three police re- volvers of exactly the same caliber and pattern are found on or near the scene of the crime.
 From this point "Six Seconds of Dark ness from the clever pen Of Octavus Roy Cohen, moves forward at a rapid pace, baffling. breathless to the de- nouement when the crime is shown to be the deed of
 ..FAGoTs OF FANCY" Gn Free Verse;. By Scottie Mckenzle Frasier. With an Introduction by Helen S. Woodruff The Progressive Publishers, Wheeling, w Va.
 In .Fagots of Fancy written so charmingly by Scottie Mckenzie Fraser, in foreword the author says:
 Once an art critic said; The Realist paints thing as they are; the Impressions st paints as they seem to him; and the Futurist paints things not as they are nor as they seem but as the Artist feels the reaction upon the Artist5s heart" So