The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-20


 Kingdoms crumbIe. empires go.
 Truth the jewel. wrought in rhyme, sparkles on the brow of Time;
 Gods, upon them peace bestoW,
 Byron. Shelly. Keats and Foe.
 Time must have been when the reader could have done without The Bookman, but that time has passed. The little con- nict of taste betwcon the Junior and the sentar Edition has given cause for repro duction of two very beautiful faces. The Junior Editors choice has the merit of possibility, we might ind such face some good day. I have seen just such eyes lifted up to mine as . beautiful girl opened the door of an old bullet-scarred house of one of our once beseiged cities of the South. It was 1 then twenty years after the var and not drop of paint. not . nail of renewal had been expended to cover the ravages of the seige. The memory of those pale exquisite eyes with the black shadow lashes often comes to mo and wonder what life had brought to that beautiful young aristocrat so shut in with poverty's hardness. l think the senior editors choice a dream-face. never to be seen off paper or canvas. The author as critic of the reviewer is a new thing. there are no silent places in literature to-day. every one can have his day and his say. It would be a puzzle to entangie if we triad to do more, author, reviewer and critic than to do our little best whatever it Is and leave to kindly fate the rest The December Bookman has in it a very beautiful picture of Miss Hobson of Greensboro, Alabama. sister of Captain R. P. Hobson. and author of 'Tn Old Alabama"
 Mrs. Helen M. winslow in The Club Woman gives good advice to the women ] who are to be after-dinner speakers, to be witty and wise. certainly witty if oth- erwise. and when we come to think of 1t there is dlrth of wit or merrlment in the Woman's Club. But woman's clubs are comparatively new-all of them-and perhaps later there will be more of laughter in them, there is nothing like getting use to thing, and there is no need for all the merriment Cthe best thing in the world) to be left to the euchre and bridge ladies.
 Martha E. D. White in "when The Good Falls tells charmingiy of how she began to be a club woman, Of how the Duckdom Club women began to "ad- journ" instead of go home" of how they learned to say: Madame President" in- stead of "Why. Moilie." Of how -arotto di Bondone fell to her share" and her difficulty fin making the encyclopedia accounts sound like an original produc- | to and have all the facts about him origi- nal with her" Of how she became @ re- former fin first burst of enthusiasm longed to be a street commissioner. but compromised by becoming Q member of the school committee" Of how she her. self became a club lecturer, until one day she found herself Laughing instead of lecturing." since when she now | makes soap more contentedly at home" {" hn al nf. fer of free library to any club in the United States.
 The Holiday Magazine deserves success. It has well selected articles and it's con- tributors are well known. The Children of the Arctic" by Josephine D. Peary and Marie Ah-ni-ghi-' to Peary, the Snow Baby" is of deep interest, and will prove of value to little readers. Ernest Thomp. son Seton's Woodcraft sketches and In- dian Camp stories seem too much like ready made fun to please children, who usually have wit and imagination enough to make plays for themselves One fea- ture of The Holiday cannot be commend ed too highly, the page of simple music. each month has it's song and score, for It's special season Thanksgiving song, Christmas song, etc. Holiday Magazine. Holiday Magazine Company, New York.
 The Sunshine Bulletin has added many new departments. Christmas gift to It's lsubscribers. Mrs. Margaret 9ongster has the Book Reviews, Mrs, Mary s. Lockwood will have a delightful letter from Washington each month. Mrs. Lein- da Hull Learned will write of Practical Education" Mrs. Christine Perfume Her rick will write of good things to eat and how to make them. Marion Harland, an old favorite with Southern readers. will give a story each month. The growth of she Sunshine music has been marvel lous, it is a splendidly organised msrri- ment. Every state in the union has it's president, and other States officers. Mrs. Harry T. Inge of Mobile. is president for Alabama. Mrs. Inge's special Sunshine work is the founding of a home for in- curables near Mobile. She is a woman of utmost talent and energy and will doubt. less carry this work to splendid success. Sunshine's best work Is often done in the small villages and country towns where social sunshine is ofteutimes needed, on account of the long distances and the difficulties experienced in getting together for the genial talks. lecture, entertain ment that come 50 easily to dwelIers in l larger places. Sunshine Bulletin gives space to an account of good work done | by Miss Weathers in a village of Ala bama.