The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-17
FOR WRITERS AND READERS:

i known magazines recently, are only very few in long list of excellent
 stories by Katherine Lelser Robbins, whose successful writing career Is ! uudisputable argument against the | bugbear luck"
 There is no state in the uu,on richer in history than Alabama. And as the days pass. and old landmarks
 arc plotted out; as old faces give way to new, it is but httlng that the story of that which has gone be- fore should be preserved for coming , generations.
 1 George M. Cruikshank's History of | Alabama is one of the most com
 plete works Of It's kind ever pub lished. Mir. Cruikshank not only ranks high as a historian, but has an enviable reputation az news paper man and is the author Of other
 valuable works.
 Most people have a pretty good
 dea of what Tho survival of it. test means. There is nothing mys- I titying about it. One Georges Car penticr could write several volumes on the subject and then do a couple of feature articles. Even ex-Kaiser Bill might throw some light on the subject
 But it remained for David R Solo mon. Birmingham writer. to explain
 what The Survival of the Unftted"
 means. And he has made this ex-
 pianation In his story under that 1 title which was accepted during the
 past week by Top Notch Magazine l
 1 It really doesn't matter a great deal what David k. SoIomon's stories are called. "A rose by any other ! pame" Is aptly applicable in this i case. as he has never written ono i which Is not well worth reading. i Every one likes to read of the cid time plantation negro. the old nanny whose love for the children
 she nursed was often as great as that
 for her own, Of the old white haired uncle who told stories about Bre'r ! Fox and Mister Dog. All these char acters are found In Minute Dramas," ! by Miss Martha Young of Greens boro. This book. which has just ap-
 pcared, contains some of Miss Young's best work. and will In all l!klihood prove as popular as "Plan-
 tation Songs" by the same writer. | Her hook Somebody's Little Girl" i has made a distinct hit, and bids ! i"ii tO tHJOg even d WlQtT CiICuld- i ton than some of Miss Young's i earlier books. all of which are ex ceedingly popular.
 | In addition to her books a great deal of Miss Young's work has ap peared in such magazines as Pic torial Review. The Bookman and other high-class magazines. ! Possibly because it is different sort of story--possible because he 1 likes that which Is different. or it may be some other reason, but Warped" the title of Artemus Cal ioway's latest story, placed with 1 Argosy- All Story Weekly on Monday last, sounds just the least bit out l of the ordinary.
 MT. Galloway is one of Birming- hams writers whose work is rapidly 1 becoming known wherever flstion ia I cad. and this is only one of many stories he has placed with this mag
 azine during the past two years. Stories by Mr. Galloway are appear 1 ing with reasonable regularity in
 many of the fiction magazines.
 The land laws of many states are more or less complicated which is perhaps one of the many reasons A
 
 | With Land Other Than Covenants l for Title" by Henry Upson Sims of l Birmingham. has proven so popular with lawyers everywhere This book. | which is considered one of the most l valuable of it's kind ever published,
 is on file at many libraries and con
 tains some helpful facts not to be | found elsewhere
 "Chancery Practice by the same author, is also valued highly by law
 yers.
 A certain MT. Webster, who was usually correct, gives as the denni- ton of "ogic," "the science of cor rect reasoning" etc.
 The same gentleman says of fir resistible," Not to be opposed suc- cessfully." etc.
 Couple the two together and it ap- pears as if one should have a pretty strong combination.
 It is a safe bet that this is true of Petersen Marzonis story under that title which was accepted by Top Notch Magazine on Monday Of the past week
 Petersen Marzoni is one of Bir- mingham's writers whose efforts the deceased MT Webster might well have had in mind at the time he com piled his very necessary work. as acceptances have long since become the regular result of his stories.
 There are but few people who do