The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-16

eHCuTSlpIlS lnlO the WOrlu or the Su- pernatural But the best thing about the book Is that it's conclusion is a just conclusion and not the anti-cli max which so often spells an other wise Tirst-rate' story
 "BULL-DOG DRUNIMoND"
 By Cyril McNeile ("Sapper"). George
 H. Doran Company, Publishers,
 New York City.
 Bulldog Drummond. returned from the war, finds civilian life horribly dull. In an effort to relieve the te- dium of his days, he inserts the fol- lowing advertisement in the paper. "Demobilized officer would welcome diversion Legitimate if possible; ; but crime, If of comparatively hu- morous description, no objection. Ex- citement essential" The result well, before he finishes with the scrap into which fate filings him, he begins to think that little affair of 1914-1916 was mere child's play.
 Just by way of suggesting the tempo of the story,-which we wouldn't think of spelling by giving In detail.-take this bit:-Drummond, Tn response to an answer to his ad- vertisement, meets the girl, whom he has never seen before, at tea at the ON~AANNAi. ibCy Stl t duuTeSSeu DIV a man who Is a stranger to Drum- mond but whom the girl evidently knows. As he passed on "she turned to Hugh with short laugh. That is one of the men you will probab have to kill she remarked" You may think that things are happening. a little quickly but this is the breathless rate of the whole book. Not single let-down from start to finish. Hair raising adventure car ried through with delicious non- cnaiance; the very climax of a good adventure mystery tale.
 BONNIE PRINCE FETLAR" By Marshall Saunders. George IT.
 Doran Co.,, Publishers, New York
 City.
 Miss Marshall Saunders, the author of Bonnie Prince Fetlar," is one of the very few writers in the mil lion class" Her first animal story,
 Beautiful Joe" is said to have sold million or more copies. Probably i've times as many children and grown-ups too, have read it, so that she has an immense audience wait ing for her new book They will all be delighted with Bonnie Prince Fetlar,'' which does for the pony what Beautiful Joe did for the dog.
 Prince Fetlar is Shetland pony, who, like the famous Black Beauty and the likewise famous "Beautiful Joe,' tells the story of his life.
 Miss Saunders has written a story of singular vivacity and charm. and has put into it's pages all that wealth of sympathy and understanding of animal life which has so endeared her to animal lovers, young and old, the world over.
 Bonnie Prince Fetlar" is a tale of the animal world which will at once take it's place as a classic of it's kind.
 Miss Marshall Saunders was born and lived until recently in Nova Scotia. Her home is now in Toronto. From childhood she has been a lover of animals and defender of their rights. The story of her experiences with her animal friends reads like romance She has incorporated many of these experiences in a dozen or more books the first of which Beautiful Joe." brought her world wide fame. It was written expressly for the Humane societies and has been scattered by them all over the civilized world. Her latest book Bonnie Prince Feltar,' is written with tke same purpose as "Beauti- ful Joer and it deserves as wide a fcirculation for the powerful influ- ence it will exert over the minds of the young in the interest of kind ness to animals.
 THE ABANDONED FARMERS" By Irwin S. Cobb. George H. Dorar
 Co.,, Publishers, New York.
 Admirers of Irwin Cobb will de | light in his latest enrichment of na- tive American literature, The Aban- doned Farmers" The back to- nature movement is at the bottom of it all To use Cobb's phrase, his theme is o1 one who returns to the soil to zen I joy the pleasures of landed pro 1 prietor,s lot--the word landed be. ing used to imploy one baited. hooked and caught; i. e., landed sucker. | This subject Cobb treats in his in imitable fashion of joyful satire. noi forgetting the Fundamental dignity and worth of the back-to-t -lant 1 passion, but not neglecting it's ram pant humor, either. He leads ths l farming enthusiast from the incep' l tion of his passion through the tor tuous mazes of buying. building. fur