The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-07
NEW BOOK NEWS.
CONDUCTED BY MARTHA YOUNG

SSsSeessSsasAsssssSssss' ssss' the crop has been sold for over s1ooo per acre, and lemon ranches are equally prof itable." W. F. Massey of Raleigh. N. C., North | Carolina Experiment Station. writes of | profitable bulb growing in Carolina, es- pecially the tube rose and the Eastern l Lily bulbs.
 Julia R. Tutwiler writes of the Southern Women in New York in the February | Bookman. Southern women have won great success in New York in literary | fields. in painting. in many arts. Mrs. Tutwiler gives this chapter especially to the writers of Southern birth who now make their homes in New York: Miss Viola Rosebofo, Mrs. Martha McCulloch Williams. Mrs. Ruth McEnery Stuart. Miss Beatrice Sturges, Miss Sarah Barnwell Elliott, Mrs. Charles W. Wet more (Miss Bisland). There are so many stories told of coming up from the South with but fifty dollars to the good, of hav- ing "one's weight in MSS returned" of a change of editors hIrling one out of a, place considered permanent, of magazines changing hands, and publishing houses going under, that one wonders that any are left to tell the tale. Wonders still more that others come (unless they
  real estate rent roll behind them). But still they come. and still they win success. It is wonderful story, and true, the story of the success of Southern women. Other interesting articles are HenryWat- terson. The Cancellations of Minor Quill Driver. Some Truths About Amer .. ican Readers, The Revelation of Herself, | with sustained strength holds interest | Best Selling Books.
 | According to the foregoing lists, the six l books fhich have sold best in the order of demand during the month are: Points, 1. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom , Come Fox. (Scribner). .$1.5O ...234 ?. Rebecca. Wiggin. Houghton. Mfr l. hin). $l.2S .....-.... ....................16 .16S | 3. The Call of the Wild. London. Macmillan). $1.5O. ...................... 96 4. The Courtship of Miles standish, Longfellow. CBobbs-MerrilD, $3.oo... 96 l 5. Colonel Carter's Christmas Smith, | (Scr1bner). I50 ........ ...... ........ 91 The Fortunes of Eff. seawell. obbs-MerrilD. $1.50 ............., 3 The midwinter announcement of Har- per's Magazine for the ensuing year is | full of promise for the reader A num- Der of the leading American writers will | write exclusively for Harper's: Mark A. sJd vier. Robert w. Chambers. Stories from many Southern writers will appear during | the year. from James Lane Allen, Mary | A. Bacon, Alice Hogan. Rice, VIII N Harben Ruth McEnery Stuart.
 | Ellen.
 | Look at Ellen. In her eyes is all t;Ie pity or a thousand little. homely. gentle deeds. and I tell you believe 1t is doing | those things that has kept her happy m | her lot She's been of use in the world
 and it kind of comforts her. and vixen
 go home at night and see her eyes shr- | ing, know she's been up to something
 that wasn't down III the calendar 1 When I hear girls laughing at old fashioned things I say to myself: 'WeiI,
 if it's the wax flowers you're a-Iaughing | at, and the hoop-skirts, and the shut-up
 parlors with the haircloth chairs, we'll
 ana good, my dears. say I, and laugh, 1 too But if it's the old way of being poor
 and not being ashamed of it, the old way Of putting up jell with your own hands and sharing it with your. rieighbors-tne l old way of working and loving, I mean,
 and being kind over the fence-if that's | your little game, I can't laugh with you l or at you, my dears. When you get od
 and the wrinkles come, as they've come | to Ellen, what will there be to make y9u | lovely in husbands eyes unless it's
 some Of the common things that make
 my Ellen beautiful to me?"
 You'll think I am queer, I guess, md maybe little-sentimental about Ellen
 I am You see, Ellen's not very well,
 not overly strong just now and the doc
 tor. Is that columb1ne growing over l there? No. cont be columbine this time of year. Well, just the bare idea of not
 having Ellen around makes other things
 seem mighty small to me-
 Nights when Rob, our eldest boy, was Just little chap, in the sitting-room af- | ter supper, Ellen would be mending and
 Rob would be on my knee. He was just
 learning to talk then. and had a way
 of saying over the words he knew in a
 little singsong string:
 | a-Teacher-Annie-"
 But I noticed that he always began
 with Mamma, and if you started him with
 any other name he couldn't remember the | string at all
 we'll my string begins with Ellen; and
 then come the boys; and then my work,
 l guess; and then my newspaper and my
 pipe; and when Ellen goes. I'll be like
 Aobbie-and find it hard rememberind -
 Roy Rolfe Gllson, in Harper's Magazine for February.
 Eliza R. Scidmore, the writer of some
 books about the Orient. sends from To- Klo to The Chicago Tribune some odd stories concerning Koizumi Yakumo. oth-
 erwise Fafcadio Hearn, whose new vol
 ume of Japanese goblin and fairy tales.
 kwafdan,' will be one of the new books of the early Spring. Mir Hearn, it seems.
 resigned hS office as lecturer in the To-
 kio imperial university last snrine. and
 has disappeared. His acouaintances are
 not alarmed, however, and believe that