The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13
A Yachting Party Dissects ''Lady
 Roses Daughter"


 A social party of well-known New Workers. with no knowledge of professional book-re- viewing, sailing recently on Q steam-yacht bound for the West Indies. competed for a prize. to pass the tims, by writing twenty | word criticisms ot Mrs. Wards novel. Lady Roses Daughter" These are the miniature 1 eritiaues:
 Here is to the daughter oe Lady Rossl Never her best friend"
 "Julis was . crooked woman bent on matri- | mony. carrying out the axiom, IL Ia not the start, but the Gnish.'"
 'Tha moral tone is unwholOsome. It holds your attention. Julie Is delightful Jacob ts Q fool. Peace to their ashes" Poor, unconventional Julie-havinR horsd- fly to contend with, she didn't contend much. Her own best friend when she married Jacob.' "An unsatisfactory book. portraying a wo- man of false ideas, also other characters un- naturally intense"
 "A wen-written tale of Q fascinating and clever woman, who. lacking conventional stan. dards honestly followed her hearts prompt ings'
 ''story of unusual interest. One rebels against the heFoine's power. but cannot fait to acknowledge the force of her charm" "A clever portrayal of an intense collection of interesting and emotional characters. strik- ing good features in the dialogues; unforeseen plot
 ''An interesting book. Characters we'll drawn. Climax satisfactory. The strongest character NN~NSN@NSe Julie"
 ''Rathsr interesting in places. but on the whole unnatural and unreal.'
 The seventh criticisn won the prize. 
 Elinor Glyn's Cutting Epigrams.
 EIino GIyn's ''Ths Damssl and the Sage" contains some of the keenest spisTams in re- cant nction. Here ere soma of them:
 Women are never eatisAsd; they are as restless as the sea. and when they have re- ceived all the best advice they invariably fol- low their own inclination"
 Most men like the hunt more than the quArTy--therefore the wise woman Is elusive"
 There are always three courses in life the good the bad and the indifferent The good gives you calm. and makes you sleep; the bad gives you emotions. and makes you weep; and the indifferent gives you no aatis- faction. and makes you yawn, So-choose wisely"
 "A fool can win the lovs of a man. but it requires a woman of resources to keep it."
 "A man would often be the lover of his wife if he were married to some one else'
 An action committed in bad taste is more curing and disllusionising to love than the cruelest blows of rage and hate
 Tt Is wise man who knows when he is happy and can appreciate the divine bliss of the tangible now Most of ua retrospect and so lose the present.
 seize love at whatever age he comes to you--if you can avoid being ridiculous"
 'It is a good hostess who never inelines her guests uneonsciously to look at the clock" 
 Miss Anne Story Allen, author of Merry Hearts" recently published by Henry Holt & Co.,. is a New Englander by birth. Nanehes- ter-hy -the-Sea being her native town. She has lived In New York for so long, however that the tie of sentiment is the only claim that Massachusetts now has upon her. She de- votes herself to writing. A small fox terrier is her constant companion, and Is, according to her mistress. "the heroine of almost the first stories ever wrote. and quite tho first to be accepted" Miss Allen says 1t Is almost impossible for her to write a story without putting dog in somewhere. Merry Hearts