The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-03
NEW BOOK NEWS
CONDUCTED BY MARTHA YOUNG

- " ~sN~SSsS~S~sN~ verted-into food"-left him 'but the bleached bones of a Christian It made that Paris, Mrs. Pocock have delightful time, though she later re- sented 1t deeply. It gave Jim lots of fun and Jim never resented nor regretted.
 It taught its lessons to its own also. gay Paris, for it is the fascinating Coun- tess de Vionnet, herself who declares in her hour of confession: 'What I hate is myself-when think that one has to take so much, to be happy, out Of the lives of others. and that one isn't happy even then. It's never a happiness, any happiness at all, to take. The only safe thing is to give"
 But the guidance of the gospel of giving had only brought her to the conviction: 'rhe only certainty is that l shan pc the loser in the end" It Is book of fife. real life, not too eventful. not too full of sequences. Heaven be praised. there are in life itself, many interrup- tons to ward off forgone conclusions; and many a theorem that life puts forth to its classes fails of finding its mathe- nautical demonstration and its summing up quod erat demonstrandum.
 It is life, the book embellished with an exquisite illumination of skill in the telling, It is easily the novel of most import in all the years output.
 1t Is a novel that not only invites. but conpels reading and re-reading. The Am baesadors, Henry James, Harpers, $2.0O.
 A BOOK FOR ALL BOYS. The way to learning is today fiowery path. The boys of yesterday had to delve in many a heavy volume to learn what IS now put before them i'll concise and ln- teresting form. Guin and Company have had compiled a book that every boy Ill the land will love. The Ship of State. by Those At The Helm. The opening article, The Presidency, by MT. Roosevelt Is one written for The Youth Companion when MT. Roosevelt was Governor Of New York 'We have had Presidents. to quote from that initial article, "who have acted very weakly or unwisely in partic- uIar crises. We have had Presidents the sum of whose work has not been to the advantage of the republic. But we have never had one concerning whose personal integrity there was so much as shadow of suspicion, or who has not been ani- mated by an earnest desire to do the best possible work that he could fo1 the people at large. We have never hitherto had In the presidential chair any man who did not sincerely desire to benefit the people, and whose own personal ambitions were not entirely honorable" Henry Cabot Lodge writes of the life of a Senator. Thomas B. Reed of the life of Con- gressman. Judge David J. Brewer. As sociate Justice of the Supreme Court Of the United States, writes the Supreme Court and enlivens his paper with many humorous incidents. Quite one of the most readable of the uook's chapters are those of ex-Secretary John D. Long on How Jack Lives and The Naval War Col lege. He tells of what Jack eats, of the arrang sment of the mess-cloth, of the process of distilling sea water made pal atable by aeration of ice-making on ship board. Each flagship carries its library, it's barber. it's band. its printer and often paper is printed aboard ship. The War Games of the War College Men are graphically described. Ex-Secretary of State William R. Dav writes of DipIo- macy. The book is full of information. A nature book. full of fascination. In the stories of A Little Brother to the Bear. K'dunk The Fat One, A Woodchuck Genius and the rest pr. William J. Long takes his readers to the depths of the wood. The book is full of the freshness | of woods and streams. The stories are 1 true, the observations personal insights | into the ways of forest creatures. Think of coons having play-things! Yet Dr. Long assures us that in every respectable coon house there is found little knot of wood with crook, all rubbed smooth Mooweesuk. as the Mllicete Indians name him, is Q great rogue and often steals the dinner of clans and snussels that Mus quash gathers for himself. Mooweesucl 1 Is very clean fellow and souses in run ming water everything that he eats, a commendable coon. A very pretty tale Is told of his heroism how he hastened to I H. H.a | dropped into the midst of the dogs, we are glad to know that the hunters re- warded his heroism by dragging off the dogs and giving him life. Young folks must read for themselves the story of the Kingfisher's Kindergarten, of K'dunk' S many bites at a bottled lightning bug and the rest of the good and true stories of this book full of the everlasting enchant- ment of the Woodfolks.
 Tho illustrations by Charles Copeland arc spirited and delightful. the marginal drawings are little gems of art. The Lit tie Brother to The Bear. William J. Long, Guin & Co.,, $1.5O.
 Voices and Visions-Franklin Baldwin Wiley has cheery way of marking his ways with Roadside Rhymes for mile stones. Milestones of many woods and many memories.
 1Ho Ienuer story or HnOuolpe VIII LOucn a cord in many a heart, there is always d sweet bunch of rosmary for the child love the first little sweetheart. Dream verses are remarkable as being com posed in sleep remembered at the mo- ment of waking and immediately written iown!' The Grey Lodge is charming. With a Bouquet of Roses, which is below quoted gives a fair view of the poet:
 Though near the nineteenth century's | close
 Since Christ was born.
 | There never yet has bloomed a rose
 Without a thorn.
 But though the thorns have always grown | Upon its stem.
 The rose has budded, ay. and blown | In spite of them.
 Be love thy rose; though life has thorns 1 Love will perfume
 And beautify thy nights and morns | While roses bloom.
 MT Wiley is we'll known to many thou sands of readers as the literary editor of The Ladies Home Journal and a con tributor of both prose and poetry to the magazines as well as the author of | several books Voices and Visions" is his second volume of verse. His first one, according to pr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. was full of pleasing poems.' and this new 1 collection Is much more comprehensive