The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-19

or the clean Stau. TneSe are all 8en1H5
 and are full of wholesome and stimulztive thought.-(F Fleming H. Reveii CO, 2. x.1 The Lions of the Lord. This is a thrilling story of Mormonism. thereabouts, and many very true things are said of this vile and wicked system. In the central character of Joel Rae the author has drawn pathetic figure of q religious mystic who. through a wlds- souled devotion to his faith, comes by hard experience to see that it's teachings are wrong and dire in their sigpidcance. especially upon women. His love for his adopted daughter. and the chiids growth into fair young womanhood, when she ia won by cowboy, is admirably depicted Such dramatic scenes as the famous Mountain Meadow Massacre are told with great power. and Brigham Young and other, Mormon leaders are drawn to tho life. The book is at once a moving niece of fiction and a tremendous arraignnaenk of one of the plague-spotss in our Vest ern civilization. Qothrop Publishing Co. Boston.)
 Man Overheard.
 To this series of short stories which
 bear the imprint of the McAffllan Com pany, and which were designed to All thA II cent additions havesbeen made. Mir. Craw- ford's Man Overheard" and Mfr. Church. ilPs MT. Keegan's Elopement." Those who recall Mir. Crawford's narrowing and blood-curdling tale of "The Upper Barths will not be slow to lay hands on Man Overheard" carefully told story, very adroitly managed, less appalling than the earlier tale.. but an excellent piece oe ghost-story literature. Mir. ChurchilTa
 book, on the other hand, Is in q very light vein-a little comedy told with a. good deal of skill, which holds the read- CTS attention to the end. (McMillan O.. New York.) f
 Because of Power.
 If Because of Power is the first long story which Mrs. Ella Stryka Mapes has written 1t must be regarded as a book of real promise. It Is we'll planned, the plot carefully thought out and worked out, and the details of the story well looked after. There Is very little amateurishnesa in its structural quality, very little faluab. ling with materials and situations. The first impression which the reader receives from 1t is that the writer has the gift of
 storytelling. She sees incidents in dra.
 matic oerspective: she knows what to
 omit and what to ernphasize; she Ia not
 afraid of the dramatic. The second im-
 pression is that she has command of sev-
 eral unusual gifts, and among the power ofgdepichng passion This story has pas sional movement throughout. It Is pros found love touched with imagination and with power of self surrender which be- long to the great emotions. This power Is not common in our literature, and when
 1t is revealed is often lacking in restraint Mrs. Mapes not only possesses the pow er of using the element of the strongest
 fiction, but she holds it in control. Her story has, therefore, throughout, a move Ing element; 1t takes hold of the reader,
 too, by its freshness, of feeling The story is not without the faults of inexperience;
 but there is so much promise in 1t that the writer deserves to be encouraged and the emphasis laid. upon what she has
 achieved rather than upon what she has
 q. w. Dillingham; O.. N. Y. s1.s0.)