The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-26
A Very Modern Arlutocrot.

MIG. Helene NaScaTeBCO, auInOT OF
| that vivacious volume Kings and
Queens / Have Known, is an aristocrat
to her finger tips, but of the wholly
modern type. Born of a noble Rouma-
nfan family, and maid of honor to the
Queen. she is also a club woman, mem
Der Of that most strenuous guild, the
Women Journalists. She has publish
ed three volumes of poems, one of them,
Chants d'Aurore, having had the great
distinction of being crowned by the
French Academy. Her Roumanian Bal
lrds obtained the much-coveted Jules
Tavre prize from the French Academy
"a prize obtainable by women only,
and rarely conferred. Mile vacaresco
has also been decorated with the French
| order, off1cer de INSTRUCTION Publique,
and the Order in brilliants of the Queen
OF Roumania- She Is a friend of the
Queen Of England's, who is said to be
a great admirer of her works
HamIfn Garland Once ON the STAGE.
Hamlin Garland, whose story Of the
stage. The Light of the Star" is Just
published by the Harpers. once APP
peared himself on the amateur stage. 1t
| was In Usage. Ia. and Mr.. Garland was
then ID years old. The play was one of
the old-fashioned domestic dramas en-
titled. MY Brothers Keeper" and the
| embyro author was cast for the lead
| inR juvenile, his village friends, whom
he organised and carefully rehearsed.
| taking the other parts. The play from
th@ standpoint of the Usage public, was
an unqualified success, and the nmbi-
| tious stage manager moved upon the
| neighboring town of ST. Augur for a
| short, very short, tour. Mr.. Garland
rode to his one-night stand In n lun-
| Der wagon, on the scenery.
Literary Crifacasn la the South.
The South is the only part of this
country where even literary criticism IA
patriotic. and where nearly all the
netion produced represents the life
manners and conditions OF past civil
azation. Between the South of today
and these would-be Interpreters a gulf
Is flxed like the silence that separates
the living from the dead. And 1t is
the purpose of this writer to prove that
there is logical connection between
the spirit OF our criticism and the quail
ity of cur literature.
In the first place, it is necessary to
understand what a new achievement
we should have II the real lire OF the
South were written out in her fiction.
This would require an entirely Dpvv
dehnftion OF human nature, because
the same conditions never before exlst-
ed In the history OF mankind. II Is not
simply that we have recently passed
from teudallsm into a more denaocra no
state OF being. nor that wo have an In
ferior race in our midst-an this has
happened before the alnculty OF the
situation consists In certain ethical an
social problems that have never until
now been thrust upon q people TO SOLVE
MRS, L. H. Harris in the June Critic
Mrs. Cynthia westover Alden, author
or "Women's Ways of Farming Morey,"
just published by Mossrs. A, S. barnes
q Co, as the frat volume IN the wo-
mans Home Library, has been suecess-
full in many widely dlfeeroat calllnSs,
and has praoticod both the arts and
sciences.
! She Ia we'll remembered ns the lead
ing soprano at ST. Thomns's Church on
Fifth Avenue. but her scientific and po-
lttioal knowledge caused her 10 drift
moro ana more tntu public work. AZ
woman Newspaper editor aho ranks
among the frat, and It Is this broad
Newspaper experience which has put
her In touch with many wonaenNa liNeS
and oalllnEs, md glven hcr m0oh Of
her material for tho book, Her work
az President General OF The fntorNa-
tfonGi Sunshine Society, Ia which abe
sSivca hor eNrVlea, hAa alsa pat her IN
touch With womon OF many Interests,
The Panorama at sleep; or soul ana
| Symbol" by Nina Pleton, beAatlfally
Illustrated by flAmtnston ". Lane
was recently proeti, - AFTER many de-
iays and postpeaements on the part OF
the publishers Crhs PAicaAaAA1s Ca