The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-02
NEW BOOK NEWS
CONDUCTED BY MARTHA YOUNG

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 Old Ways And New, by viola Rose boro: The reading of Miss Rosehorois stories at the reception in her honor. given by Mrs. George Marsh Judd. has renewed interest tn this volume of short stories. Mrs. Judd herself read Ehe stories No more perfect interpreter or stories could have lead. Miss Roseporo received the congratulations or ner numerous friends upon the artistic per lection of her work. The story of Hu- doiph ia one that burns itself into the memory. To noe Miss Roseboro nas ai- ways been: The author of Rudolph. God makes those loveable, perfect to peo- pie heaven. We meet them at rare in- teFvals. they vanish from our sight The creeks told the story of the van- ishment of their beautiful youth n tne capture of Ganymed by the Easie snatched up to be a~cup-oearer or .ne gods the Buddhists give their oeau- teous perfection feast to the hungry tirer. we say that one perfection or vsuth entirely lost are victims or pima fate. We shall never understand we can never know.
 Many. of these stories picture the struggle of the Southern woman m New York. We all know Miss Nancy uho .fn the kindest, most unconscious
  one of these same ancestral portraits SMiss Roseboro and we know them) done more to the life than this pen pie ture of Miss Nancy.
 "Never out of the South was an un- married woman so generally and sim- ply allowed precedence over all ma- irons as was given Miss Nancy In her own world. It was not that these Soutferners loved marriage iess-far s.-- T. sh,,t thaf fhav loved intellect more"
 Miss Nancy, with her apartments fll- ed with ambitious Southern girls, IS she not to be found to-day in every section of Greater New York.
 But. Southern girls. you can take BeuIah's way of solving the problem of life--right in your own little nome village; therefore don't come to New York to work unless you have genus fand you can never know that. and even your friends never can until you are dead) or a great big income. Even if this latter he your blessed case. let Tom McGrath share 1t or add 10 It, and he c great club leader down south You can have an easier time, ana do as much good.
 Each of these ten stories that form this volume Is a bit of real life.
 I give the palm to the clown and the missionary, Such a story can be writ ten but once. Such 6 combination or character and circumstance can occur but once in century, when 1t does come about (for I do not doubt the truth of the story) blessed are the readers, but its relation falls to a skill ed artist.
 old ways and New. Stories by vio- Ia Roseboro. The Century Company, New York.
 seventy-five years in Old Virginia: What the Athenian was to the rest of the Creeks the Virginian is to the rest of the South. Who of us in the newer States Ia not proud to say: My grandfather was a VirRinian!" We regard it as a sort of patent of nobility-if we tell the truth about it. met a dear Southern woman at work here in New York ike many another. "Of what stateg l asked ''che State," she said. Virginia of course!
 pr. Claiborne has made up one Of these books of interest to all Southerners. The period of which he treats Is one full or such excitement and progressive interest as the world has not before known, may not again know. The rise. and fall of the Confederacy. the upbuilding of that beau tifui and staple structure: The New South.
 Not only to the South are these annals of interest but to all our Union
 The events that have transpired in Vir- xinia in the past seventy-five years are sn essential part of the history of Ameri- ca. with. to no small extent, an import .ent influence upon the history of the whole of the civilized world No man was in closer touch with Virginia affairs during this period than Dr. Claiborne; none enjoyed in a fuller measure the esteem and confidence of her people in commercial, professional. political and military life.
 Living, he lived.
 Seeing, he saw.
 He has known what to say and how to say 1t.
 Nor has he hesitated to fearlessly write Inc truth as he knows 1t.
 Time and again honors have been con- ferred upon him.
 He has been member of the House of Delegates and of the Senate of Virginia
 He Is honorary alumnus of the Univer- sity College of Medicine; Honorary Eel low and ex-President of the Medical So- cIety of Virginia; Corresponding member of the Genealogical Society of Boston; Fellow-elect of the Victorian Institute of Great Britain: Member of the First Pan- American Congress; late Major and Sur