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THE BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERALD
VOLUME XXXXIV____ BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 1915 SPORTING SECTION NUMBER 354
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•'MARTHA OF' THE MENNONITE
COUNTRY.”
By Helen R. Martin. Frontispiece.
Doublcday, Page & Co., publishers,
Garden City, N. Y.
| Edward Oliver Potter, brilliant, talented,
author of a dozen successful novels, al
most wished that he hadn’t followed
Baldy’s advice. (Baldy was Mr. Archi
bald Starr, equally famous as the Illustra
tor of all the Potter novels). But here
he was burled somewhere in the heart of
the Mennonite country as principal of the
Adamstown High school in the forlorn
hope of finding for his next novel some
fresh theme that had not been worked
to death since the dawn of English let
ters.
j * Adamstown was not exactly prepossess
ing. had one long village street lined
with signs on either side—"Swan Hotel,”
"Ice Cream Parlor,” "Boots, Shoes, Con
fections,” ‘'Slabaugh’s Drug Store," so
they ran in depressing, unvarying mono
tony. It did not seem a place where
lurked Romance and Adventure.
But then there was Martha. No one
could have forseen the presence of
Martha. She was the one compensating
delight fo rthe other attributes of Adams
town. And having found her—Potter ce
cided to stay. From the first he had felt
strangely drawn to this simple, wistful
girl of the Mennonite country. She was
different—so out of place in that stolid
Pennsylvania Dutch community. And
In the quiet story of her life ns It was
gradually unfolded to him he found him
self attracted as all the brilliant women
' of his acquaintance had failed to attract,
him.
Throughout the book run the quiet
charm and humor of the Mennonite coun
try and its people that Mrs. Martin knows
go well. The author takes us right into
the heart of a typical Pennsylvania Dutch
household. It Is alive with real people liv
ing their picturesque lies out before us as
convincingly as it' we were part of it our
selves. Above all, the quaint dialect of
the region with Its curious turns of speech
will be an unfailing delight to all who
read this appealing story.
"JESUS: A PASSION PRAY.”
By Max Ehrmann. The Baker & Taylcr
Co., publishers, New* York.
"Jesus; A Passion Play,” by Max Ehr* j
*et. and expectation is at a high teu
Ision.
The book is an endeavor to tell what
j probably happened 1900 years ago dui
ng the last three days in the life of
•Icans, as conceived by the author, it
i.~ a big piece of work—the longest,
modern drama that we now recall.
“THE DUSTY ROAD.'*
T'.y Therese Tyler. Frontispiece by Y..
Y\ Taylor. J. R. Dippincott com
pnny, publishers.
Elizabeth Anderson, the heroine, of !
“The Dusty Road," by Threse Tyler,
is the daughter of a Philadelphia wo
man of high social position, but of
little means to sustain it. The r^suit
if a life of scraping penury, and gen
eral discomfort in order to be able to
put on the same appearance as the
richer fellow-society people. This
may be said to be the underlying basis
of this remarkable story by There.se
Tyler. The author climbs to hif,h
achievement in painting the innermost
fharacter of this girl, aesthetic, imag
inative, and spiritual amidst surround
ings, material, tawdry, hopelessly un
mpathetic.
America, we may frankly admit, ha3
produced no such realistic novelties s
have Franco. Russia and England. Our j
writers hav e preferred romance, and i
a veneered side of life. We therefore I
welcome Miss Tyler’s book—it is real- j
ism of a higher order. Elizabeth, ap- |
parently the buffet of fate, and temp
tations. braving the disappointment*
;;nd stooping to build up the remains
<*f shattered ideals of people and of
things. Through It all there is the
dogged belief in the right, the high
idealism of one who loves and believes
in a beautiful life and is bound to at
tain ot it even when the will to hold
on is the only force that remains.
Such books are not written every
day. nor every year, nor eevry 3 0
:• ears. It is stimulating to a higher,
truer life. The “Dusty Raod” winds
up hill for a long and arduous journey
but when the bights are climbed the
whole panorama of modern life lays
stretched before you and you are wiser,
more patient, more sympathetic with
the men and women with whom you
come in daily contact. Elizabeth wins
her batle against temptation and des
pair, her lover. Robert Griscom, wins
bis against cynicism and mistakes.
“RED FLEECE”
By Will Devlngton Comfort; picture
jacket in full color by Modest Stein;
George H. Doran company, publishers,
New York.
In the straight-ahead drama of its ac
tion, in its pictures of modern infantry
and artillery, founded on Mr. Comfort’s
own experience as war correspondent and
soldier. “Red Fleece” is an absorbing
story of the great European war. But
that Is not its chief importance. Because
he has been a soldier and because he has
melted his own experience in the crucible
of a powerful and original mind, Mr. Com
fort has behind all his stories an almost
prophetic vision of what it means that the
v. ould should be drenched with the horror
of war today. Such a realization comes
to the hero of the story, a young Ameri
can war correspondent who goes out in
the adventurous gaiety of youth to cam
paign with the Russians, and comes back
& mature man, with the sorrow of the
peasants making a sombre new glory in
his eyes. And here are the peasants
themselves, fighting, as Mr. Comfort has
seen them. Here they go, the meek sheep
of the war lord, into the red slaughter,
singing the songs of a gentler harvest
and more tender dawn. Love plays a
strong and original part in “Red Fleece,”
for in a girl who has given her life, her
mutinous eyes and smouldering dreams
to the Russian revolution, the young
American finds a love whose nobility Is
in keeping with the drama of the great
war.
I
THERESE TYLER
Author of “The Dusty Road"
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matin, covers the last three days in the
life of Jesus. There are five big acts.
52 characters, and several mobs. In the
beginning of the book we find this state- j
ment, “The persons who founded Chris- I
tianity are here stripped of supernatural |
embellishment: and they are represented I
as simple, real, ardent orientals, in the ,
throes of a great and impending tragedy."
In the play there are no gods or demi
gods. The characters are all plain simple j
Hebrews of 1900 years ago: yet they art
all very much like people today. They j
suffer, they weep, they laugh about the
things that lie close to them, just as |
we do about the things that lie close to ;
us. They are real people.
The first act is called “The Cleansing j
of the Temple.” Here we see before1
our eyes how Jesus and his followers 1
drove tlip traders an money changers
from the.Temple. The accounts in the
gospels, which are s very brief, are
here enlarged, vitalized and rational
ized. We see the greed of the traders
and the fear oft he people. Wc see
the hate of the people smoldering, only
awaiting a courageous hand to stir it
tip to life. When Jesus entered the
Temple he found this sentiment
against the traders and money
changers. He used it. lie had the
courage to vice the hearts of the peo
ple. The .riot that follows Is presented
graphically and dramatically, very dif
ferent from the simple account of the
gospels. Tt is a hand to hand fight,
with all the by-plays and accessories
of a mass movement of this kind.
As Jesus had won the hearts of the
people by his courage, the authorities
are afraid to arrest him. They tliere
fore seek to make him ridiculous. The
second act is called. “The Disputations
in the Teple.” In this act, the night,
the moon, the stars, the milky way, the
gilded dome of the. Temple, the gate
of gold, all intermingle with the
speeches of the characters. The disci
ples are in a state of exaltation. They
are expecting the immediate coming of
the Lord. Their speeches are full of
excitement and . haiuclnatlons and
dreams. On tlie other hand Jesus Is
quiet and sad. Iio knows that his con
quest in the Temple wjll sharpen the
hate of the authorities. The whole
act is a strange intermingling of the
dreams and facts of life. It ends with
the arrest of Jesus In a series of pow
erful dramatic pictures.
The fourth act Is the "Trial Before
Pilate." This is a real trial. The
reading of this act requires over an
hour.
The last act is the "Resurrection '
Here again is an act of poetry. This
time it is mystic poetry. The act opens
:ust before dawn, in that strange time
of night when, as we thought in child
hood, the spirits run away to hide
from the first rays^ of the rising sun.
The W'hole act is hung with the tap
estry of the weird. Mary Magdelene
is the principle character—she out of
whom Jesus had driven seven devils.
There are other characters In the act:
1. ut they are only a background against
which she plays. Her vision of Jesus
and her frantic speeches to him, are
intermingled with the last gloom ot
the night, the fading stars, the shim
mering dew' on the leaves, and the soft
whine of the wind. Through these
pages the mental stage is strangely
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“ALTOGETHER JANET
By “Herself;” Mitchell Kennercly. pub
lisher, New York.
Of “Altogether Jane." by "Herself," It
is said:
This Is not a "literary” book, it is just
the straight-forward, unadorned stury of
a fine, big-hearted woman. Jane gives
an intimate picture of the life that is
lived by most women the world over, and
you will follow her with breathless Inter
est as she shows you her childhood—her
youth—the torment of an unhappy mar
riage—motherhood with Its mingled Joys
and pains, and finally1 the supreme spirit
ual experience of a deep and moving love
affair. And the narrative will Impress
you always with its humor, its kindliness,
but. above all, with its essential truth.
"HERE'S TO THE DAT"
By Charles Agney MacLean and E'rank
lJghton, picture Jacket in color by Mod
est Stein; George H. Doran company,
publishers. New York.
When the uhlans came charging into
Luxemburg, when the engines of the
Zeppelins whirred like rattlesnakes,
when the 42-centimeter guns belched
death, and the midst of gray-clad men
went by, and American man and gill
were caught in the mill of the great
war.
A high-ranking officer wanted the
girl, and It took pluck to escape the
power of the Death's Head huasars.
Tn their dash for freedom, by motor
cab and aeroplane, and by foot through
dangerous defiles, Is an exciting talc,
end a tender love story unfolds amid
the red blossoms of war. and it is all
well told In the two authors of "Here's
to the Day.”
“MILLARD FILLMORE”
By William Elliott Griffis, D. D„ L. H.
D. Andrus A Church, publishers,
Ithaca. New York.
In a "Preface" to the volume entitled
"Millard Fillmore," by William Elliott
Griffis, the following sentiment gives
an Insight Into the book.
"The problems that merged In 1850
before the American people are, for the
most part, awaiting solution In 1915,
and it is to these that Millard Fill
more gave his ohlef attention and en
ergies, as the facts of history set forth
lr thia book will show.
“So far from being the ‘colorless’
man In American politics, which rivals
and enemies, the ignorant and the
copyist have made him, Millard Fill
more was a man of active mind and
deep convictions. He helped mightily
to bring in the modern world. He
killed off one war and postponed for
a decade the greatest. He sent a peace
ful armada to Japan and introduced
the orient to America and the Occident
He waa a xealous champion o fa canal
joining the Atlantic and the Pacific.
He was a union man when sectionalism
waa rampant and explosive. He stood
for the whole country.
During his presidency, the economic
may of the world was altered. He was
strenuous In making the United Sttes
a world power, and our politics cosmo
politan. His aid was potent In changing
cur relatively poor land to one of tho
richest countries, when California's
gold disturbed the economic equilib
rium of the forld.
"Few public men have had a nobler
record of constructive statesmanship.
As stats legislator, hs secured the re
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[(IheenPros. (Xheen Pros. | ^aheen Pros. | (I Pros.|
!■ Ordering Ooo<U Pluw Mention THE AGE-HKHAl.il « ^
peal of laws requiring lmprimonment
for debt and also the abolishment o(
religious qualifications for test oatha
He developed the public school system,
opposed with might the distribution of
state or city funds for sectarian edu
cation, and as comptroller of the com
monwealth. anticipated the system of
national banks.”
"A CADET OF BELGIUM.'*
By Capt. Grant Allan. Illustrated. By
Bayard Jonea George H. Doran Co.,
publishers. New York.
"A Cadet of Belgium," by Captain Grant
Allan. Is the story of an American boy
and hla Belgian chum were In Liege when
the Germane invade!) Belgium and began
to pound at the forts with their tremen
dous guns, and they gave valiant aid to
the allies by carrying messages, sneaking
through the German lines disguised as
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peasant boys, and saw the armored au
tomobiles, charges of TThlans snd other
dramatlo things which have distinguished
tbe war.
OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED. (REVIEWS
LATER.)
••The ADVENTURES OF GRAND
FATHER FROG.” By Thomton W. Bur?
gess with Illustrations by Harrison Cady?
Little, Brown dc Co., publishers, Bos
ton,
‘THE ADBNTRUES OF DANNY MEA
DOW HOUSE.” By Thornton W. Bur
guaas. With Illustrations. By Harrison
Cady. Little, Brown Sc Co., publishers,
Boston.
"THE FINAL VERDICT." SIX
STORIES OF MHXN AND WOMEN. By
Sidney L. Lyburg. J. B. Lippi neon Co.,
publishers, Philadelphia.
‘•PRACTICAL BANKING.” (WITH A
SURVEY OF THE FEDERAL RE
SERVE ACT). By Ralph Scott Harris.
Houghton-MIfflln Oo„ publishers. No. 4
Park Row, Boston.
Indiana’s 4rix« Baby"
From the New York World,
Indianapolis.—It Isn't every baby who
can ho quits as proud as lfabsl Louisa
Dunn. Mahal Louisa is just « days old
and she has 10 grandparents. Her mother
and father are Mr. and Sirs. R. A. Dunn,
No. 3143 Stevens avenue, and her mother
I* Just 30 years old.
The grandparents proper are Mr. and
Mrs. H. H. Dunn and Sir. and Mrs. D.
D. Skoog of BHnneapolts, and four great
grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. A. Erick
son and Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Nichols ol
Minneapolis.
Besides, Mabei lionise lias two great
great grandparents, Mrs. h. A. I .egg,
aged 7$, of California, and Mrs. B. Skoog,
also 78. of Mlnenapolls.
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