The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-14
NEW BOOK NEWS

The Double Garlen-This volume by
Maurice Maeterlink is composed of es-
says already familiar to magazine
readers. The Belgian mystic has ar
rived at that blessed state of popular
/, ity In which he can say what he pIeases
and please the world. In this Double
Garden. mystic title that sets the re-
viewers guessing, he discusses or rath-
| er sets forth as a monologist different
phases of the world of sense and SEN
timent.
Wherever there is a flower and a
stream we have a Double Garden. The
| garden that we tread, whose flowers
we GULL under whose trees we enjoy
GOODNESS and shade and the eerie. wav-
ering garden of reflection, where in the
stream are repeated the glow of fiow-
| ers we may not pluck in floating con-
lAuent stream surface where we may
not tread, where wavering images OF
trees spread their tremulOuS wives
cence. So in all living we have the
real, simple yet mysterious and its re-
Election cast in the continent medium
Of our own sensations.
The person we see Is real, we can see
with our eyes. touch with our hands
yet often the picture of the person in
| the OI It's cntlli6s
seems more clearly defined to us. There
brighter than the actual as the flower
by laws of refraction shows brighter
from it's inverted likeness in the
stream than on its own uplifting stalk.
After all 1t is rarely the actual person
that we know and love, but our re-
Election of what he is, our conception
of his character. "What Is thy be-
loved more than another beloved?'
Only more as we think more into our
continent reflection of him or her.
The essay on THE Dog" holds a
charming telling OF what we all know.
Sir Walter Scott knew all the virtues
of the dog and DR.. John Brown was
the good fellows fine biographer. not
to speak of the modern dogs of liter
ature that have won their way to many
hearts.
recall a wise old physician who had
the greatest faculty of training dogs,
| and the best part about a dog is that
he needs no training to teach him ut
| most faithfulness to it's master. Il
| have learned many lessons from my
dogs" said this good old doctor. IF
| ] had only held unfailingly to the best
lesson to serve my Maker as my dog
serves me, / had been a happier man"
| Maeterlinck gives the dog a destiny
more enriched than that of a man:
when ! saw him thus. young, ardent
and believing, bringing me in some
wise. from the depths of unwearied
nature. quite fresh news of life and
| trusting and wonder struck as though
he had been the first of his race that
came to inaugurate the earth and as
though we were still In the first days
Of the worlds existence. / envied the
gladness of his certainty, compared it
with the destiny of man, still plung-
ing on every side into darkness and
said to myself that the dog who meets
with good master Is the happier Cf
the two" But why draw such despair
from the lesson of the dog? Did we
serve as faithfully, love as unfalter
ingly the Power that holds all. what
| ever we choose to call 1t, would not
| we be the happier inasmuch as we
have our reason to enjoy and appre-
ciate with as well as our instincts?
In THE Temple of Chance" what an
insight the author gives to Monte Carlo
| and the players:
This, think, is the spot in which
more nervous force and more human
| passions are accumulated and abso-
iutely squandered than In any other
| in the world"
He who plays of his superfluity t:,-
day will risk his all tomorrow"
Those little heaps of smiling gold
those fimsy scraps of paper which or