The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-11-12

Anonymous" George II. Dor

many. publishers, New York city.
sThis young man is out 81 the
ordinary" That is ones first thought
or sensation regarding the anohy-
nous author of Hoax" There's
distinctive. detached flavor about the
whole thing. What is more TINS man
has the subtlety Ct humor that In
cludes himself in the Joke.
The book is written from the
roint OF view Of an amused father
and it is a chronicle of the love af-
fairs of his son. First there is
Leila. Then and Mary Louise and
Claudia. 1t can not be said that any
one dfsplaces the other In Eugene's
yeering affections. Perhaps there was
so little reality to the place of one
of them. But it is useless to specu-
Tate. Tho unique charm of the book
resides in the casualness with which
this very modern young man ac-
cepts the buffets of fate.
THE KINGFIsHER."
BY Phyllis Bottome. George H. Do
ran company publishers, New
York city.
Jim Barton had an inconvenient
way of seeing things quite simply,
as they were. He could not gloss
them over and he didn't try. Looked
at simply, Jim's world. the, lowest
slum of London, was unprepossess-
ing and the simple principles he
learned from 1t as boy were the
kind that put iron dust into his soul
when he WAS man.
Jim's career began unpromisingly
enough at the age OF II with prison
term. He accepted It philosophically
just A. he accepted the books the
desperately earnest young minister
brought him. ~ he accepted the long
hard days Of grinding work on =
barge that followed his release. But
these things alter ones point of
view and whom the young minister.
recognising remarkable ability in
Jim. entered him In = first GLASS
preparatory school he was ~ strange
being ~ . man from Mars would
have been. He simply did not see the
same world that the sons Of pros
porous England saw. At Oxford, too,
his standards were as different from
those of his associates as they were
from those of his sister Eliza who
had become a very successful little
thief. The story u Jim Barton is
the story of a man who bent his
world to his will, a powerful and
stirring presentation of the cause of
labor in . moving love story.
THE MOON OUT OF REACH
BY Margaret Pedler. Gerge H. Doran
company. publisher, New York city.
i promise I won't drop you,'
he assured her quietly.
He gathered her up in his arms
and as he lifted her the rough tweed
of his coat brushed her cheek. Then
holding her very carefully, he step
ped from the bank into the stream
and began to make his way across.
Man had no fear that he might
let her fall. The arms that held her
felt plant and strong A. steel, and
their clasp about her filled her with
a strange. new ecstasy that thrilled
her from head to foot.
Am awfully heavyr' she asked.
nervusly anxious to introduce some
element Of commonplace.
And Peter looking down at the
delicately Angled face which lay
against his shoulder. drew his breath
hard.
NO." he answered briefly, You
are not heavy"
The above IL the situation chosen
at random from the Moon Out OF
Reach" romance Of Z girls choice
between the three men who loved
her. each with . very different
quality OF love. It has the appeal
that reaches and touches an answer
ing chord In every heart, the appeal
Of sincere romance.