The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
NEW BOOK NEWS
CONDUCTED BY MARTHA YOUNG

nothing else and a good feeling that nothing else will give.
 The reward of giving is not so am pie or so rapidly arising as are the rewards in this agreeable little vol ume. We wish it was always SO What a world 1t would be if all old debts were paidI all obligations met, all good deeds rewarded.
 The finest bit in the story is the gen
 erosity of Peterson. the beSgar whom
 the New Yorker refused to help. Pe- terson recognizes him in his tramps guise and returns good for evil by lending at request all his months s wages. The New Yorker rewards with
 a gift of a farm.
 The stories of the hospital nurses, whose loan of 90 cents increased more rapidly than steel stock, of tho sherln, whose kindness bore such ample fruit
 age, of the payment of Mrs. Ledgley bill. are all delightfully."- told.
 "The Sinner of St. Martin, the sec ond story if the volume, is a little play at wooing 'twixt May and December. The Madigans, by Miriam Nicholson, We are glad when writer can bring
 back for a day the glow of youth to the heart. That is what Miss Mlchcl- son has done in the story or the mad- igans and their fun, furtes and follles.
 The Madigans are the llveliest set or youngsters ever let loose on the world
 Their Pagan pranks and Puritan re- solves. on a crumpled piece of paper, are all told with fascinating realism It would be hard to choose the most charming chapter of thoroughly charming book.
 The stories have appeared in The Century and now gathered Tn Volume with fitting illustrations by Orson Lowell they make one of the most de- | lightfuI holiday books of the season. More Cheerful Americans, Charles
 BattelI Loomis.-Mr. Loomis's publish CTS have fearlessly done that thing that publishers are most afraid of: brought
 out a volume of short stories May their deserved reward be great! 1T
 there is anything more dehghttui
 than a volume of short stories-what
 is 1t? Here is something for every mood, here is spice, here IS variety here is change, here is charm. It is like a good collection of pic lures, a portrait a landscape, a genre,
 bit of sea, a group of peasants
 child's face a fower-piece. Change and | charm.
 Who would wish a gallery all views in different features of but one lanu-
 scape, all ages and many moods of but
 one face?
 Yet, so the rapid-fre novelists of to-
 day gives us oftentimes patch-worB
 bits of monotouy and call it novel A certain sort of charity is delight fully shown in '"The Widow Callahan's Christmas Dinner" Quite another
 sort that is kind in Dom White. :" .'Poe's Raven in an Elevator" is the
 diverting story of the difficulties of an entertainer. A West Point Start" is another side of an entertainers experiences.
 Miss Flutterhy on What Is Doing" is a fetching as ever. Especially her | soft southern voice that with her is cultivated-for she was born in New
 Bedford. ." The soft Southern voice is very much in evidence in New York. and is to be met everywhere. arrived from anywhere. And truth to tell of ten the imitation outdoes the real MT. Loomis is best known as man of fun. but he goes in for seurries of
 philosophy sometimes, as in this piece of good advice to all women:
 Tt is a well known fact that some