The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-02


flavor. The contents impress US, how
ever, as being fairly diversified in sub
ject and the names of contributors in
dictate material worth reading. Pro-
lessor Laws account of the passing of
the old review reads like the epic of al
most every southern magazine-cn-
thusiasm high hopes, doubt, discourage
ment, and finally capitalization. The
new editor, Professor Hubbell, seizes
the torch, however, and trustfully goes
Onto what we don't know; to a bright
future We hope.
Maud Lindsay of Sheffield, (Ala.,l
already well-known as the author of
numerous volumes for children and rs
Kindergarten bring out shortly
through Lothrop, Lee and Shepard q
new book, "Silverfoot." Miss Lindsay's
newest volume is a tale for children
from 10 to IL years of age.
1.-The Path Found" (Macmillan) by
Robert Quillan is characterized on its
jacket as d" An Idyll of the South" To
d certain extent the contents justify the
estimate. 1t is a pleasant enough story
of a small southern town more full of
hospitality and friendliness and certain
satisfaction in its religion than of
thought or intelligent interest in life.
Into this community is thrown Whar-
ton, formerly q pastor of one of the
most famous churches in America, but
now doubling both his faith and human
ity. He eventually is Saved" through
series of rcvivals held in the COM
munity and sinks, or rises-howevef
one chooses to regard ito the level
where he is ready to sing with "Uncle
Gus" 1.-THE only real bit of characterize
ton in the story that he has the old
time religion which, having been good
enough for Paul and Silas, is now good
enough for him. The hopeless thing.
about the story is that the author should
let a man of Wharton's alleged intelli-
gence find salvation through unintelli-
gent action, sheer emotionalism.
"Metrical Melange" by Charles Max
well Gibbs (Review Printing company,
Savannah) is book of verse undis-
tinguished by anything but platitudi-
nous ideas rather carelessly put together.
Casual verse, casually written, we take
it; the sort of thing probably deserving
newspaper publication from time to time
because of it's local interest and his
torical background, but justified in book
form not at all.
From the University of North Caro-
lima Press comes a volume, Law and
Morals" by Roscoe Pound of the Har-
ward Law school. Delivered first as the
McNair lectures in the spring of 1928,
the essays in this volume formulate
Dean Pounds effort to mark the pro-
gress of law and morals throughout the
ages and to show their relation to the
social ethics of the present Dean
Pound examines his subject from three
points of view: the historical, the
philosophical. Here is an authority
looking at the general subject of law
from an unusual standpoint, blazing
new trails-a book which might well, we
believe, claim the attention of all those
speculative minds interested in the law
and its relations to society.
New books coming to our attention
this past week and of possible interest
to readers in the south are: James
Branch Cabell's "Straws and Prayer
Books" (McBride), which the publisher
announces as IAN autobiography of the
mind" Edward Cheyney's "Scott Bur-
which looks to use like boys book,
teaching forestry and love of life in the
open Charles J. Fingers "Tales from
Silver Lands" Doubleday, Page), a
book of South American legends written
in Fingers more than delightful prose;
Lafcadio Hearn's An American Mis-
cellany'' (Dodd, Mead), another collec-
ton of Hearn miscellanea; Will James
Cowboys North and South" (Scrib-
ner's), a cowboy story told by cowboy
and illustrated by the same cowboy;