The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-02

geon of the. 12th Virginia Infantry: Sur,
 geon on the General Medical Stan of ths
 Confederate Army; Executive Officer ir charge of all military hospitals at Peters.
 burg. Va. tssS s's-Fsst
 This volume containing an account oi
 the eventful and full life of the author
 some history of the people amongst whom hls life has been spent, of their charac ter. their condition. and their conduct be fore the war, during the war. and after the war will be read with interest by thousands of intelligent readers Seventy-five Years in old Virginia The Scale Publishing Company. Fuller Building, New York Price. S2.o0 t The Panchronicon.-Thisd dash of wi into the realms of science. this burs of humor Into the dusty places of his tory must win many. readers. Is Those readers win be the more grate' I ful if all those funIsyisms are left un. touched for their own discovery. Imagine an aerial machine fiyins westward at a higher rate, of speed
 than that of the earth's diurnal revolu' | tion. fs5 Such rapid flight would. of course take the air navigators through thi' our day and far into the past. The conception is worthy of Stockton The aathor. is as s4delightfully amusing
 as he is uniquely Ingenious. Nothing could be more humorous thar the picture of the court of Elizabetf confronting the phonograph, the bicy' cle, the modern newspaper, and thu Bacon Shakespeare controversy. There is fun as fresh as the flower. of spring
 The Panchronicon. by Harold Steel, Mackaye. Chas. scribner's Sons. New York. Price. sl.5o. When Love is Love.-In this vita book a new Southern author is intro duced to a welcoming public. This is ( novel pleasing, wholesome, fresh. Int figures do not move and talk by pulling of strings The characters are no' automatons, but are real people, living abreast of the progress of our owr times. The book abounds in atmos' ] phere. The people in it are the people of today The story goes that tho daughters of an aristocratic Virginis family go, as have so many Of oul Southern women, to New York TOT work. They find their efforts crowned with success. Hard work always wins Dame Fortune helps turn the wheel of destiny when willing hands are try ing to move 1t.
 These daughters of old Virginia build a home on the Hudson River. They plant their Lares and Penates in the soil new to them, in environment mate rially different from that of the South ern home.
 We see them in their struggles wher long cherished traditions are outraged where life is essentially different neal this great metropolis from that to wnicr they have been accustomed. They pian' into their Northern Villa the restful sim plicity and delightful atmosphere or the homes of the South.
 Just such sweet spirit of home and rest we find in many an apartment of New York. In many a litle suburban home But all life does not now easily for these transplanted Southern blossoms Of oui simpler civilization. Decisions must bt reached involving questions of right ana wrong that have heretofore been regard ed as beyond argument, answers to whicf may shatter fondly-cherished traditionI
 of centuries.
 The core of the story is reached in tn, decision that must be made by the he
 roine: Will she be justified in smarryint
 A divorced man? Their love Is strong
 His life Is blameless. His character il
 noble.
 Tradition, training lead her to answer No. Love, the mighty tempter, answers Yes. Readers will learn for themselves how and to what decision the heroine came. Mrs. Bosher has written bool of power and interest.
 Mrs, Bosher, now of Richmond, is g
 native of Virginia.
 When Love is Love, by Kate Langley
 Bosher. The Neale Publishing Company
 Fuller Building, New York. Price, $1.5o The Pastime of Eternity-The author of this novel, BeatrIx DemOrest Lloyd has given a book of charm and interest
 to an audience sure to be appreciative oi the artistic workmanship found there. Il
 is a good gift when a good story Is given
 better when that story is well told. A notable group of characters are in'
 troduced into these enthralling pages.
 The scene is laid in New York.
 The central figure Is a man of wealth
 and leisure.
 His life, through his temperament and
 through the misfortune of an uncongenia
 marriage has fallen into a tragic gull
 of isolation.
 His resurrection to the joy of being Is
 accomplished through the love of two
 women.
 The relations of these two women te each other and to himself constitute the