The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-01
kowsy. Garcia, Dvorak, Bizet. Mous- sorgsky, Cato. Weber, M. N. L Mozart

kowsy, Garcia, Dvorak, Bizet. Mous- sorgsky, Cato. Weber, M. N. L Mozart
 KICK FORMATION"
 By Ralph Henry Barbour. D. Apple
 ton & Co.,. Publishers, New York
 City.
 Jerry Benson watches football practice for the first time at North Bank school and is mighty interested in what he sees. In the spirng his baseball prowess had won him the nickname of Three Base" Benson, and the fall baseball practice demands his attention. But the fascination of foot ball works on him. He practices punt ing surreptiously. He proves an apt pupil when Sears. who is out for quarterback, gives him bit of coaching. The first thing he knows, the coach notices him. There is need of a good kicker; and & football fu- ture opens up for Jerry. It's rat ting good story of football at prep school, written as only Barbour can. Jerry Is a boy who works his way in the school. and every boy will en- joy his grit and good humor in the face of handicaps.
 LEONE OF THE JUNGLE"
 By Joan Conquest. The Macaulay Company, Publishers, No. 15 West Thirty-eighth Street. New York City.
 One follows with breathless inter est the strange. romantic adventure of the girl. Leonie, in her unconscious struggle against her predestined fate and toward her Anglo-Saxon lover--a struggle in which oriental mysticism and mesmerism are vividly portrayed and their subtle but powerful influ- ence startlingly revealed. Tragedy and humor, but above all. love run through the book from the first page to the last, bound with the glow of the orient in moments of tempest. hairbreadth escapes. and a perfect ending.
 Joan Conquest loves. knows and understands the east and her latest book contains some wonderful ori- ental scenes from life. THE AvENGER" By Samuel Gordon. The Macaulay Company. Publishers. No. 1b West Thirty-eighth Street, New York City.
 An angry blow, partly in self-ds- fense. in a hut on the fringe of civili- l zation-and a man goes out Into the world, the curse of Cain in his heart. But instead of becoming a hunted outcast, an ironic turn of fortune sets | him In the seats of the mighty. Here he tries to work out his re- I demption. Love comes. but, instead | of assuaging his bangs. 1t looms up
 as The Avenger of his hidden tres- | pass. How at the eleventh hour, when
 he is about to jettison all that makes ! life worth living, the seemingly in- extricable tangle of fate is happily unrayeled the reader must find out | from the book.
 It is strong and original idea. in
 a wildly kaleidoscopic setting. Sub l tie characterization and soul-stirring 6 incidents, romance and mystery blend l in .nis story which not only enter tains but elevates by its description of | a mans heroic struggle with that
 most elemental of human forces-his conscience.
 MARTHA AND MARY" By Olive Salter. c. P, Putnams Sons | Publishers, New York City. 1 The wise old folk of Sussex have
 a saying that every man in his life has two wives the real and the ideal; and if the one fails him he consoles himself with the other" | Owen Gawne, who was mos, l laughabIy literary" gave up his am 1 bitions for Martha, who is reality itself. Mary appears-with something l in her of the ideal. And Owen needs ] to be understood"
 "A CASE IN CAMERA" l By Oliver Onions. The Macmillan 1 Companv Publishers Now Yorl