The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-02
"THE RAINBOW sTRINGo

Anna Brewer. The MacMillan
 Company, Publishers, New York
 City.
 This is the book of the six prin- cesses. But it Is not only for little girls. An oaf and white mare are in the very first chapter, so little boys must surely come along, too. It was princess who found her lost yesterday. But it was Boots who made the sky blue, and what a brave boy was he, who fixed up the old man in the moon for good. These are ideal bedtime stories. Mrs. Brewster's lively sketches interpret them cleverly.
 SELF UNEMPLOYMENT" By Fl. Addington Bruce. Funk and
 Wagnalls, Publishers. New York
 City.
 elf-Development," the new book by II. Addington Bruce that repre- sents such an honest and ambitious effort to assist in the personal re- construction of those who need Ire bullding"-or, at least. t"refur nishing."
 As you know. MT. Bruce next to Frank Crane, is our most popular in- spirational writer and while the pub lie Is familiar with his work and teachings, Self Development is so very different from anything he has written before that it will be read with interest, even by MT. Bruce's disciples.
 In one part of the book the author chides us in his gentle, discoursive way for our faults. failings. and fraii- ties. visualizing the high cost of bad manners and the penalties of thoughtlessrfess.
 But he never fails to point out choicer line of action that is easy for us to take-a mode of living that will bring us in touch with that fuil- rounded success which he describes and which any one with ambition would prefer to achieve rather than continue lingering at the common level of mere mediocrity.
 THE LOST GIRL" By D. H. Lawrence. Thomas seltzer
 Publisers No. 5. West Fiftieth
 Street, New York City.
 D. H. Lawrence has written most powerful and appealing story entitled "The Lost Girl" which grips the readers with hooks of steer from beginning to end.
 The story centers around strik- ingly original heroine. spinster and going through the gamut of life the author tells the various incidents ana episodes connected with the heroine's history with rare genius and force.
 The novel is emphatically not a book for the young person; but then neither is 1t one which the young person--if such an individual exists in these ultra sophisticated days would probably find interesting. It is very long; it's story develops very slowly, with much detail of subtle psychological analysis; it has very many beautiful descriptions of scen- cry. especially toward the close-de- scriptions written to demonstrate the effect which her surroundings. In their strangeness, their overwhelm- ing force of mighty pagan past
 ''The Lost Girl" is not a pleasant novel; very beautifully written, there are moments when It's beauty is ac- dislike it, many will find 1t distaste- ful. But those who are interested in the subtler reactions of human na- turc, as well as in its occasionally profound and startling variations from the stereotyped when set forth from vulgarity. will find The Lost Girl a thoughtful artistic and ab- sorbing novel.
 JULIA TAKES HER CHANGE" By Concorda Merrill. Thomas Seltzer
 Publishers, No. West Fiftieth
 Street. New York City.
 Among the many encomiums of praise which have been heaped upon