The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-24

 tributed to a man. It is understood. l however. that the frequent references to MT" Baldwin Sears imply a mlsappre- hension.
 Auguste Sabatiers Religions of Au- thority" is being adopted by the theo- logical seminarles as a text book in their courses on dogmatics.
 It Is reported that Guy Wetmore Car ryl rescued the manuscript of a new novel on which he is working from the fire that recently occurred in his home. Single Blessedness." at Swampscott. Mass. Mir. Carryl will be recalled as the author Of ''Zut and Other Parisians" and "The Lieutenant Governor"
 Kate Douglas Wiggin, author of Re becca of Sunnybrook Farm" etc, has re- turned to New York after a short visit in Boston. She expects to san about April 1 for England. where, as usual. she will spend the spring and early sum- mer
 Miss Mary E. Waller Is said to have created a very original character in the hero of her new book. '"The Wood Carv- CT of Lympus." Hugh Armstrong. while felling a tree, meets with an accident and loses the use of his limbs. He finos 1t impossible to adjust himself to his shut-in life until a friend suggests wood- carving to him. A great change comes over him through work and love. @As
 The oldest of the Louisiana Purchase novels, Philip Nolan's Friends" by pr. Edward Everett Hale, has been more widely read in the Southwestern States than in the East, having found favor there during the days of it's magazine publication, and the demand for it has lately been renewed. It is the longest and most elaborate piece of fiction in all pr. Hale's work. and its presentation of two thoroughgoing American patriots by way of contrast to the Philip Nolan of "The Man Without Country" makes it noteworthy.
 Still another book, MT. Albert H. Tol- mans '"The Views About Hamlet" is to be reckoned among the new Shakespeare books. two-thirds of it's contents being criticism of the dramatist and his work, the other thiI d being consideration of the authors comment in Vanity Fair," Of Lanier's Science of English Verse; of English Surnames." and other matters removed from the commonplace, but not so lofty as to appeal only to the schol- arly. It is a book to read and annotate.
 A bookseller relates the following: A lady entered his store and looked around inquiringly.
 T want copy of the Memoirs of Oil yer Wendell Holmes.
 T am sorry. madam, but we haven't it."
 "oh yes you have" said the lady, pleasantly. My sister bought one here yesterday, and you had a number of them. Memoirs of Oliver Wendell Holmes. She looked at him doubtfully. Don't you know-Holmes. the man that came alive again7'
 The bookseller was somewhat startled l not having heard of the genial auto crats reappearance on the scene of his earthly experiences. He was wondering how to get the evidently demented lady | politely out of his snop, when she sud l denly exclaimed, There's the book now on that shelf. How odd that you shouldn't know about your own books
 IL was the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, | and the customer carried it off in tri- umph, serenely unconscious of her mis- take.
 The title of Mrs. Humphry Wards new | novel, which begins serial publication in l the June Harper's, Is The Marriage of | William Ashe. The scenes of the story | are laid in time previous to that of Lady Roses Daughter.
 Basil Kings new novel. The Steps of | Honor, wos published by the HarperS | oa April IA. Mir. King is known as the author of the divorce novel Let Not Man | Put Asunder and an idyllic Nova-Scotian | story, In the Garden of Charity, which |