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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23

Miss overton. who is a now conner into the field of fiction, having made her de- but about a year ago with the strong story of frontier life called. '"The Heri- tage of Unrest" has gone to the soil of French Canada. ever fertile in TO- nance for the setting of her latest story. Miss Overton is a young woman of no mean equipment for the writing Of nov els. One has not proceeded a dozen pages in the story of her unfolding, be- fore one feels a delightful certainty that she has something to say and pretty good idea of how it ought to be said.
 Alongside the feeble, colorless stun that makes up the very major part of the fiction output. a book like Anne Carmel breathes an extraordinary vividness and vitality. It is not a great novel in any sense, but it is a piece of earnest work presenting a story of strong hupanstD- terests Miss OVerton has a niCe Acon- bination of the artistic and the philo- sophie in her endowment that gives her story value beyond its mere inherent dramatic power. She is more than bit of a poet in feeling, and one of the most grateful things about her book is the atmosphere it conveys so palpably. Either Miss Overton is very fond of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23
Health and Sickness.

Professor Meyer suggests that the Ire escapes be utilized for the open air treat- ment of consumption in tenement houses.
 The value of x rays in the treatment of cancer depends upon the fact that the rays induce fatty degeneration of the cancer cells.
 The mysterious tropical worm" dis ease which has attacked 20,000 Westpha- Han miners. is being treated and inves- tigated by 150 physicians sent by the German government. H~
 Dr. Yamane. a member of the House of Representatives, proclaimed In ra- cent debate that more than 10000 per sons succumb annually to tuberculosis in Japan. and the number Is constantly increasing.
 Three persons believed to have been submerged twenty-five minutes. two flf- teen minutes. one fourteen minutes. and one three minutes. have been resusei- tated.
 The Riforma Medica states that with sixty-nine pulse beats to the minute the blood flows distance of seven miles an hour &
 Surgeon General O'Reilly has received a report showing a steady decrease in the death rate of the city of Manila as a result of the work of army medical officers. The death rate has decreased steadily from 46.s0 per 1000 for the first quarter of 1900, to 2217 for the first quars ter of 1908. "
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23
M ROBERT BROWNING M

ever written about Browning, but as inn- portant as that is. it is perhaps of secondary importance. in many readers minds. to the fact that the little book is a remarkable revelation of new man of mental. and spiritual power. Mir. Chesterton is not of those who ostensibiy write about someone else in order to air their own opinions. but in spite of his tremendously earnest study Of Browning and the solid worth of his critical inter pretation his book must be chiefly inter- esting to many persons on account of what 1t reveals of one, Chesterton. That MT. Chesterton should help the world to a better understanding of Browning, is much to be thankful for. but that MT. Chesterton should promise the world a new man very much in the mold of Browning's own greatness as to strength and courage of soul is a matter for still more fervent gratitude. We have had great deal of phosphorescence from young men of late years, but 1t has been true phosphorescence in that 1t efninated from decadence Mir. Chesterton Is no sickly fadist crying out, Gods left his heaven, ail's wrong with the woridr but a man of faith, sublime faith. and staunch common sense, and a sweet, winsome hunnor that is born only of a fine humanitarian spirit He is as keen as a Damascus blade. Is this man, but it is not disagreeable keen ness for 1t is expressed in terms of fun or reverence as the ocasion necessitates. The temptation to write on and on about this man and his book is great; one longs to quote pages and pages from his reveia- ton of Browning. and to give free rein to ones admiration of Browning's new biographer. But it must suffice to say that this is the most stimulating book of several seasons, and on no aoount to be missed by any one capable of enjoying a genuine literary feast.-(The McMillan Company, New York.)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23
BECAUSE OF POWER.

suits in her appearance as a violin artist in New York. Because of Power" her own inherent power, Marita conduers the musical world as she has heretofore con quered herself This triumph ultimately leads to the happy solution of all difficult ties
 It is a novel attractively presenting the counterpoise of character and fate. Broad in conception and true in tone, the story is handled with distinct style. The spark of life glows on every page, the atmos- phere is vital electrified by the quicken ing currents of humanity.
 Most assuredly 1t Is not book which wisdom would direct being placed promis- cuously in every hand. but discriminat- ing person can gather much good from its perusal. To those strong enough to re- sist it's insinuating poison and appeal to the reason of the heart rather than that of the higher power; there Is in 1t many valuable lessons of humanity-lasting and striking. (G. W. Dillingham; Company, N. Y. $1.50.)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23
BY e. K. cHEsTERroN.

that has attached itself to a splendid se- ries. and present something electric, mys- terious as the workings of the submarine cable happens and here and there and the other place. people are sitting up very interestedly and asking each other ''Who is c. K. Chesterton?' and telling each other he has written remarkably bril- liant book and seems to be very much of a man. Think how many men, year in and year out, put the most honest and un- stinted labor into books that the world reads and takes due note of, and forgetsl Such admirable books, many of them highly creditable to their authors but alas! quite dispensable to the world. But young man goes forth to glean in a field already well harvested, and there is something in the way he goas about from the outset, that his work will be worth while; and there is a weight and a worth to his gleanings. at the days end which makes it seem that the harvesters can scarcely have done justice to their work at all. Or if there be no grain left for the young man, he may be trusted to discover a wonderful new use for stubble. Perhaps 1t is this latter thing that MT. Chesterton has done, for he has taken deal of Browning that other biographers and critics have dismissed or explained away as waste product, and has shown 1t to be the richest part of his harvest. The chapter MT. Charterton writes on ''The Ring and The Book" is one of the most luminous chapters ever contributed to the literature of criticism. and there is almost as much, praise due the chapters on Brownings philosophy and Browning as a literary artist. Indeed. there is not line in the two hundred pages that is not fairly sparlxling-and that with no mere brilliance of literary style, but with clear cut many-faceted gems of thought and feeling. It is altogether the best thing
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23
noOKs.

See the pubiishsrs' announcements of tAA
 Story Books.
 Cory books, Books for high apd mighty ladies. hools fss Books for -IaddiesS5and for Isssles. Books .intendod,for the masses, Books deslgned to please the classes. Books fin yellow paper wrappers, Books concerning scouts and tappers, Books of war and books of rhyma. Books at which the reader mArvels. Books that have some later CaTveigs Dancing through them all the tfmel Historical romances by the score, Books the like of which were never writ befo9 Books for incoming, spooning lovora. Books in gay and sober covers.
 Books galore s
 An avalanche of b001si kh the world is being buried under boolra, Under Himalayan ranges of new boola. Books. books, books, books oooks pooka See the lists the papers publish of the boahz that they receive.
 Fairy books
 Aery books Books that somehow shall achieve Books that perished on that day
 That the presses gave them birthg
 Books of mirth. Books concerning far-on corners Of the eaftns Books brfmful of dash and gos
 Books of woeS
 Unintenfionally so- tsooka hv Rudyard and by Winston, and the rest of them you know, Piled in windows, on counters, everyWneres oh. inc millions and the billions of the books
 For the coming holidays.
 How their numbers do da1el The world is grooming under all the books.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23
With Makers an0 Lovers of Literature
JAMES LANE ALLEN
 AND HIS LATEST BOOK

Few have the audacity to criticize the writings of this unusual genius And ad- mirers of Mir. Aliens delicate workman ship and deep insight into character; besides moral enthusiasm and love of beauty. will be more than pleased, yes. delighted, with "The Mettle of the Pas ture." It Is. indeed. the largest drama of life he has yet given us. Its preoc- cupation with question of casuistry in the relations of men and women does not prevent the gathering together Of actors wfio are not merely types but real people described with not little quiet humor. Indeed, hero and heroine are, on the whole, the least interesting people in the book owing to their submergence under the floods of sorrow let out by an ancient sin as . preliminary to q declaration of love.
 Rowen Meredith's high sense of honor which compels him to preface his pro posal of marriage by the story of an ended chapter of his own misdeeds sug- gests the meaning of MT. Aliens rather too recondite title In a fine passage the author tells us that he would like to sec America distinguished for some one crowning and characteristic virtue-and that one. truth. We do not mean to argue the point of obligation. we can only sug- H11b tAA1b ~ AAady 8oA&s0eAAAA~0 " %'~Aet1sA ~ a man to clear his own conscience by sharing the knowledge of his sin with . woman who believes in him and Is not concerned with his past The ideal, of course, would be marriage in which neither husband or wife had ever had . thought for another.
 Readers win take sides on this ques- ton and the more 5udicious will probably agree that the duty of truth telling and true dealing are not always so simple as they appear to Rowen Meredith, and that even such Q sin as he confessed need not always 20 fearfuily cloud dozen lives.
 Mir. Aliens women are conspicuously better than his men. Even the wicked old grandmother is drawn with remark able skill and insight But the heroine. as we have hinted, by reason of her moral preoccupation and sense of wrong, seems . little overstrained, both in her forgiving and her unforgiving hours. The sketches of Kentucky life are idyllic and delightful and reward the reader, quite aside from the study of the difficult quea- ton which takes . foremost part in the book.
 Mir. Allen has cut a new path in fiction which he treads alone. Besides being a master of the English language. he is also possessor of one of the finest cre- ative minds of any of our present day writers. His work ia new. original and bright at all times.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23
BY ELLA STRIKER MATES.

American characteristics mingle in the most engaging way. Within her nosom and blood is the fire and passion of Sunny Italy, and her brain is her fathers Amer ican self-control. Grant Hamilton, the hero. to whom Marita gives the great love which is the keynote of her being, Is a descendant of Alexander Hamilton. Living in the old Hamilton Grange built by his distinguished ancestor. he meets a crisis in the library of the Burton home. which few men could have met and sue cessfully sailed through.
 Opening in the country home of Judge Burton, the story at once attracts by its strong love interest and the hint of mystery which is finally disclosed in a stirring scene. After this denoument com plications arise that prove Hamilton's mettle and reveal the rare strength of Marita, whose complex character Is fur ther developed under new conditions of life at Palm Beach. Here she passes through experiences that precede the dis closure of secret which eventually re-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23
LETTERS FROM READERS.

Being an idolater of the old, have found nothing in today to recreate that beautiful yesterday, and I. therefore. would fain speak word on behalf Of my beloved old writers. And yet when look the field of these loved ones OCT. find myself like the old gentleman who, when he was asked at the breakfast table which piece of chicken he preferred. re- piled:
 Well. am not particular, as intend eating 1t all before I stop"
 That is what would like to do-talk about all my old writer friends; but I must not. Being restricted by space to one, will write of him who has yielded such an influence over my life and ''bridged a crisis" for me many times. Never were hands so inspired for pie turing the life of the poor and the out cast-bIending pathos and humor so ad- mirably, as Dickens
 In the Tale of Two Cities we have the life of Sidney Carton, iSthA man of good abilities and good emotions, inca- pablo of their directed exercise. incapa- ble of his own help and happiness, sem sible of the blight on him and resigning himself to let 1t eat him away" But the grand sacrifice at its close redeems all of his failings. and proves that every thing is in ones nature and not coiidi- liOl5S tIldt BOOQ LlsIiDCbS once udu can never be wholly forgotten, but will sure ly assert themselves some day. This book is entirely unlike Dickens's others. In the Cruncher family there is a touch of Dickenss old humor, and Lucie the heroine is the sweet womanly woman he has always portrayed. But in all other points "The Tale of Two Cities Is vast ly different from all the other works of Dickens. No better book can be found than "Oliver Twist again proving that mind is triumphant over matter. At one time he was placed with the pick-pocket and the murderer, but through it all he "bore without abuse the grand old name of gentleman" To the general reading public, Dickens appears at his best as a humorist, but to those who go deeper, there is more pathos than humor in all of his writings. There Is an unspeakable sadness attaching itself to the life and surroundings of Sydney Carlton, and the death of Dora. Davids child-wife. She realized on her death-bed what a failure she had been, though I. for one. loved Dora better than Agnes.
 To those who have read and re-read Dickens's productions, let me ask where in all the world do you find such as his? The nature touches of James Lane AL len and John Trotwood Moore are beau- tiful while Barries and Ian McLaren's quaint, homely descriptions of the Scotch people-these are all fine; but they, nor any of the other new writers, can con- pare with Our Charley"
 Annie Lula Bell,
 Ft. Deposit, Ala,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23
Lavender And Old Lace

The title of this unusual story gives a fairly good insight at first glance of it's contents. When one travels in fancy with it's author through musty garrets the weird lights and strange lights of these attics seem of much consequence. And again when Winfield is presented to the reader it is easy to imagine you are reading a fairy tale-but after all you are simply presented with life In it's many phases.
 Could anything be more unique or full of peculiarities of pathetic and humorous aspect, than the life story of two old maids? And yet that is what this story endeavors to portray. One is an exceed ingly eccentric old lady, who is continu- ally hunting her lost lover. At last she finds him in a foreign country-a weak, willy nilly sort of fellow-but she im- mediately marries him. After bringing him home they have a second marriage ceremony performed. because as she says: 'In a way we ain't completely married. We was married by a heather
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23
THE BABY.

BY VICTOR HUGO. Like tiny Elint of light piercing through th@ Comes her little laughing face thrcugA tho
 shadows of my room. And my pen forgets ita way e Ii hears tha whils her treble tones ehass ths tAoushts fsorn
 out my head. She is queen and her siass. ons who iovss sna For she rules her world of houns win snpsrf.
 ous ways. Tn she dances. calls me 'Deaxr' turns ths
 pages of my bo0kns Thrones herself upon my knee, taken nax psn
 with laughing looks. Makes disorder reign supremA. turns my pa~ Draws me cabaiistic signs. sass fron ssar oe
 any frowu- Crumples all my verses up. pleased to hesz
 the creckiing sound; Makes them into balls and then--iiings thsm
 all upon the ground. Suddenly she fits away. leaving ms alaas win warmth Abou. my heart and bssshfrs
 clearer brain. And although the thoughts return. that her
 coming drove away, The remem6rance of her laugh fingers with ms
 through the day. And 1t chances; as write may takea erum- On which God knoweth whyi read my fanasea
 twice as sweet.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23

"A bad book, and yet strong book" Is the exclamation which springs at once from ones lips after reading "Because oi Power" To carry out the teaching of the whole trend of the story from its be- ginning to its end, would be to disrupt society; but to read 1t with the con seriousness that the whole trend of the work is wrong, and that only it's side lights and it's moral interjective teachings are true and just and worth the remem- bering-is to read novel that can but make one better.
 After all it's a picture of life-an ugly one in some parts; but brightened here and there by gorgeous rays coming from hearts on fire with beautiful love and from hearts broken with contrition and sorrow for the past. The heroine. Marita. Is the daughter of Judge Burton, whose youthful romance becomes living trag- edy. She is a woman with only one name-her mother Is unknown. She forms an interesting study between blood and brain; a woman in whom Italian and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23

Concerning this work q leading critic has said:
 'sThis latest issue in the English Men of Letters series. is a real book. about a real man. It is one of the few distin- guished achievements the book world has witnessed in a long time" Mir. Chester tons rise into fame has been very rapid. A handful of persons know something about his poems, a considerable audience rose to greet his delicious essays pub lished only few months ago under the title of "The Defendant" and in London he has been steadily winning a name for himself as one of the keenest witted. ablest men on the London press But his worldwide reputation is a matter of a few weeks. and rests on the instantaneous recognition given this little monograph on Browning. Henceforth Mir. Chester toms will be a name to conjure with in the literary world, unless he makes the fatal mistake of writing too much-a mis- take which nearly everyone whose work commands a market seems to make. But for the present at least. we need borrow no trouble on MT. Chesterton's account, but may give ourselves the pure delight that the reader feels in the discovery of a new personality. The personality may be as old as the Christian era, or older, but every time a reader comes newly un- der its potent spell 1t is new. Or 1t may be a personality that has scarcely more than awakened to consciousness of itself. but its efforts at expression stir an an- swering something in other hearts strange to it, and the thrill of understanding runs round the globe. Somewhere in London a young special writer'' on a morning pa- per sits and writes about a great poet who certainly seems in no desperate need of more biographies. more interpretations, or exclamations or acclamations, or apol- ogies, but the young mans book goes into print under the dignified chaperonage of John Morley and the due need of fame
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23

lees home and gardens rich with the smell of lavender, and her robes display ing the touches of beautiful real lace. showing how she still loved the things ''he loved'-all of this has a tendency for the pathetic, beautiful and vivid.
 The pictured characters of Winfield and Miss Thorne are very charming. and Joes and Hepsie's idea of them and their repetition of the conversations of Winfield and Miss Thorne which they have caught over the fence' are calcu- lated to give a good flavor to the en- joyable picture.
 The book is unusual. very. but hardly overdrawn. Indeed it is quite possible to imagine that there are people in this queer world of ours who fill just such unusual places. A wholesome love story today Is something unusual in itself: and this is one such. containing nothing disagreeable witb an undercurrent of moral teaching hardly apparent but al- ways present.
 Catherine Robinnette Dillon.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23

ter was married and they had big blow out. but not a line appeared in the paper. Later on his wife gave a reception to some visitors, but not a line appeared In the paper.
 Later on the mans youngest child died. but not a line appeared in the paper The next fall a mass meeting was held in town to see about some public improve ments and this business men made a big speech. The meeting was written up in full. except this mans speech. This was skipped. Then the business man called and asked the editor what he had 1t in for him about. You got mad last year, if you remember. and said you were going
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23
THE BUSY MAN.

BY w. H. HIk41Ht If you want to set c fagdF done
 By some obliging friend. And want a promise. cafe and sure,
 On which you may depend. Don't go to him who always has
 Much leisure time to plan. But if you want your favor dones
 Just ask the busy man The man with leisure never has
 moment he can spare. He's always putting of'' until
 His friends are in despair. ', But he whose every waking hour
 Is crowded full of work Forgets the art of wasting tiraa.
 He cannot stop to shirk. So when you want a favor done.
 And want 1t right away, Go to the man who constantly
 Works thirty hours a day. Hell find moment. sure, somewhere. That has no other use, And fix you while the idia man
 Is framing an excuse.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23
BY MYRTLE REED.

priest in a heather country and 1t ain't rightfully bindin', but we thought 1t would do until we could get back here and be married by a minister of the Gospel" It was quite evident she did not intend to lose him, now that she had at last laid her hands on him!
 And the humor of the work Is also brought out through her remarks con- corning the $2O0, which she finds in his pocket and how she intends to spend 1t this section of the work is Imaginable in the extreme.
 The other old maid is a Miss Ainslie and is a very lovable character. Her patience and deep love so strikingly brought into prominence cannot but be admired, Enough the reader cannot but wonder why the author allowed him to marry another woman, leaving her to her lonely estate. The descriptive power of the author is particularly good, and especially so in its pictures of Miss Aims
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23
Apt to slop over.

New HOrk Bun. N
 When a dominant and strenuous pax~ sonality. moving in conditions of uhr8a hitting physical and spiritual exa1tatlon. considers itself to have taken on the afs tributes of genius, and, with frank ana unaffected pleasure, addresses itself to se- curing the license an dprerogative which the world comedies to genius, 1t Is apt. slop overS
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23
Manehurian Methods.

North Chi Herald
 The Manchus themselves seem to con- slider that there is nothing to be feared from the Museovite. and, blind to the menacing movements of the Russians. still continue to order the expenditure of huge sums of money oh the perfectly useless work of repairing. the imperial ancestral tonbs and mauSotea, instead of appyinR the money in organizing a modern armed and disciplined army to hold the land.