The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-25

characters are exceptional, it's inci- cents are fresh and its story ab sorbing. It deprives you of volition and compels your attention to the end. The risk in urging you not to l hesitate Is reduced to the minimum
 THE BoYHOOD OF ABRAHAM
 LINCOLN
 By J. Rogers Gore. The Bobbs Mer- l Till Company, Publishers, Indian | apolis, Ind
 So far as known, no part of this narrative of Abraham Lincoln's boy | life in Kentucky has ever before ap- pared in print. The incidents and adventures were told by Lincoln's playmate, Austin Gollaher, and are l set down in the old gentleman's sim /! pie, homely English.
 i Dr. F. K. Matthews, director library department, Boy Scouts of America, l says of this book:
 The boyhood of Abraham Lincoln, ! as told by Austin Gollaher once his I playmate, through the pen of J. Rog- CTS Gore, makes absorbing reading. i It is book most anybody from nine ninety would read with keen de- light. For youth, it is brimming full of inspiration; people more mature will find in it more evidence to prove that Lincoln thought of the people belongs to the ages, one of the worlds immortals."
 Says E. W. Creal, county attorney of Larue county, where the scene of 1 The Boyhood of Abraham Lincoln is laid;
 "J. Rogers Gore is to me person. ally known and has been for many | years. He obtained his information TOT this book from Austin Gollaher. the boyhood friend and playmate of Lincoln, and he took the trouble to secure these first hand facts at tune when others in the locality 1naoe no effort to preserve the his tory of Lincoln's childhood. Many Of the older citizens of La Rue county heard Gollaher relate some of these l incidents, and all knew him as a mar l or truth and veracity and not in- clined to the least congregation; this Is his reputation among all who knew nm. MT. Gore is without doubt the on4y man living who had many per ] sonal talks with Gollaher for the l purpose of preserving this frs hand information of Lincoln's boyhood.-
 'GUNS OF THE GODS ] By Talbot Mundy. The Bobbs Mer-
 I'll Company, Publishers, Indian Yasmini-To the reader who has ! met her it is enough to say tha. in
 Guns or the Gods" he will meet her agaln. It is Yasmini who plots, Yas- mini whose life is threatened Yas mini who flees. Yasmini who points the way to the treasure. Yasmini lirst and Yasmini last--a wonderful woman in a wonderful setting.
 MT. Mundy's Knowledge and love of India are again brought into ac- ton In TN Guns of the Gods" He knows the land i'll all its vivid volor the people in all their mystery and sublety and he puts them into a TO- nance unsurpassed for beauty ana variety. And then there are two | young Americans.
 MALCOLM SAGE, DEFECTIVE By Herbert Jenkins; George H. poran
 company, Publishers, New York City.
 Probably there Is no type of fic- ton that gives so much pleasure tos so wide a circle of readers as the de- tectlve story. Indeed. its appeal is practically universal. From the er rand boy to the philosopher. few can resist the spell of cunningl gly-woven mystery. And now the distinguished creator of Bindle has moved towards the creation of Malcolm Sage, a keen Drained gentleman whose successes ! Tn government service during the war | lnduced his good friend John Dene once of Toronto and now of London To set him up as a private investi- gator, largely with view to insur ance cases. In this book there are set out seven problems that were put oeiore Malcolm Sage profession " ana the processes by which he reasoned out their solution are clear ly given and explained. It Is a mai ter Tor praise that the problems are nor superhumanly insoiuble but | good solid puzzles. offering certain | tangies and complications through l some of which the reader can see his way, as Malcolm Sage sees it, though as Is fitting, the readers acuteness in spotting the guilty is not always as unerring as the detectives. The solving of the cattle maiming mys- tery is an excellent example of the investigators methods, and the dis covery of the real thief of Lady Glanedale's Jewels certainly deserved something better than the customary gold-mounted walking stick with which the insurance company liked to reward the detectIve's prowess. There are two murder cases in the book, both ingenously worked out. and a theft of an important and in- cendiary admiralty memorandunl. Malcolm Sage will be a popular de- tective."-London Bookman. "BosTwIcK's BUDGET
 By Henry Payson Dowst. The Bobbs
 Merrill Company, Publishers. In
 dianapolis
 There is one unalterabie law of economics-"Them as has-gits."
 This is the slogan" of Henry Pay son Dowst's book. entitled, "Bost- wick's Budget"
 Several years ago there was pub lshed in an obscure paper little story entitled, "A Message fo Gar cia
 People read u. talked about it in the office, ,n the streets. at the din- ner table-ey2.v;v.e'e IL was tran slated into macy foreign languages
 Now, this ,osk has no reut:or to that former little srory-eS,epr lat this also g d Message 10 Garcia" so when yo l. real t, p.ease carry its message to yo 1T many friends. James J. Hill struck the keynots of success which might aptly oc ap- piled to the idea conveyed in "Bost- wick's Budget" when he said:
 If you want to know whether you are going to be success or a fail- ure in life. you can .as.iy fini cut. The test Is simple ami infaliiitle. Are you able to save money? If not. drop out, You will fail as sure as you liv. You may not think so. but you will. The seed of success IS not in you