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

Der of rivals, among them his friend | Worry Frewin and Roy Coykendall, | who happened to be married to a
 woman who wouldn't give him a di- vorce when he asked her for one. | But, of course, 1t was Larrick whom
 the beautiful, unruly, crapsplaying and high-diving Clelia preferred. Thanks again to Worry Frewin, he | was invited to Mrs. Rountree's mag
 nificent camp in the Adirondacks. Now. Mrs. Rountree was Clelia's aunt, and Clelia and Nancy Fleet l the latter self-invited-wer among 1 the numerous guests assembled in
 the camp. Larricks firt attempt at embracing Clelia was not particularly | successful, but one moonlight even | ing they went out together in a ca noe. which presently ran around be-
 meath "a vaulted arch of trees" in the most considerate manner. After some preliminary lovemaking on his 1 part "she pressed her lips to his with soft fire-moonfire," and when they
 returned at last to the house Worry
 seized Larrick by the shoulders and,
 in frenzy. shook him and snarled." l These pleasant amusements were in- 1 terrupted by warnings of a coming 1 blizzard in obedience to which Mrs.
 Rountree and her guests decided to
 leave the camp at once lest they find l themselves snowbound. But when 1 the morning fixed upon for their de- parture came two things happened; the storm began and Clelia disap- peared. High and low they hunted ! for her: soon the air was all afleece with snow"(D the storm developed l into the expected blizzard, and still i there was nossign of Clelia. Several | days and several chapters later her l body was found frozen in the fee of l the lake. great cut on the fore i head and the hands folded as if in prayer
 | It is with the vanishing of Clelia that Mir. Hughes begins the lengthy and meandering narrative he calls | Beauty and the book is indebted to the mystery of her fate for such I little interest as it possesses. Of l course the revelation of what hao actually happened is reserved for the ] very last chapter. after Larrick. having disposed of his first fortune. has acquired a second by means of another lucky discovery of the useful l cinnabar. The determined Miss Nan cy Fleet followed him into the west. ! and Larrick, how -happy-could- l.
 be-with- eitherwere tother dear
 charmer-away sort of person. con
 soled himself for the loss of CleIia I whose beauty still existed, though
 she was dead. For Randel, the sculp- ! tor. assisted by Larrick, had made a 1 plaster cast of her dead body. An { artist tinted the resultant statue. and
 Larrick expended a large amount of money to have it encased as the body
 had been in ice
 "zIZrS CAREER" 1 By Evelyn Van Buren The Bobbs-
 Merrill Company. Publishers, h. | dianapols.
 After reading "zizi's Career" from 1 the pen of Evelyn Van Buren, &
 Reader whose opinion. after all
 Is more disinterested than a crit ic's,' pays the following glowing tribute to the book:
 Let me urge you to hesitate no ] longer if you have picked this novel up from among the many on your book dealers fiction counter and are hesitating between it and something else. Make .Zizis Career your own
 and take her unusual story home with you.
 "I know it's a risky thing to rec
 ommend n novel. for what is one mans delight is another mans indi- gestion; but there is one quality that all fiction readers agree in praising. and that Is truth to human nature ] reality to life. 'Zizi's Career has 1 that quality in an extraordinary de- gree.
 Well, you will find here your wish come true. for zizi's Career defies