The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-19

he consfdered--whether rounded or an eular. sIoping or upright--after which the various sizes--from the small, cramped hand to the large. extended hand--will afford brief outline of the | writer's characteristics. Other indications are to be found un- der analysis which are as many and varied as the temperaments reflected. 'aThe elegant and curiously modern hand of paper-sparing Poe, the strong, untutored but handsome hand of Burns and the beautifully lucid script of Thackeray" are alluded to in an ar- ticle on ."The Future of Handwriting" in The Spectator, November 22, 1903. 1t is also stated here that Poe's own study of autography led to some curl ous results of this kind, as when he detected Emerson's mysticism in hls signature, and found in the graceful, yet picturesque quaintness of Holiness handwriting an analogy with the vivid drollery of his style"
 The signature of Edgar Allen Poe is an interesting psychological study, H. frustrating in it's varied characteristics the qualities of this brilliant but un- fortunate poet, of whom it is said: At times he blazed brightly, again went under a cloud, and at every stage of his progress and achievements awak- ened surprise, and after burning in flt- ] full splendor sank into the darkness ot an early grave"
 Examine the signature. The letters are rounded and clearly traced, indl- eating an amiable. agreeable disposi tion, but without angular forms A lack of energy Is indicated and ten dency to drift with the tide"-Iesistive element weak. Artistic grace and beauty are seen in every stroke of the pen.
 The delicate and graceful tracing of the letters harmonize with the harmony and grace of his poetry as in The
 Bells"
 Keeping time, time. time, In a sort of runic rhyme | To the Standardization that so musl- cally wells
 From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells,
 From the jingling and tinkling of the bells"
 Jean Cowgill's Labors Dishonor is leading article of The Reader Nigga zine The article will be eagerly read by all students of municipal govern ment.
 Harold McGraths The Man On the
 Box" grows distasteful with its grow | ing intimacy between the girl and the groom. How was the girl to know the groom was a gentleman in disguise? That queer, to the Southerner, chatti-
 ness with servants mars many pieces
 of modern stun.
 Richard Harding Daviss little hero-
 ines camradie with the groom, owner
 of the prize dog of that gay little story
 The Bar Sinister, one couldn't enjoy.
 The Englishman and the SoutherneI treat their servants in the same sort of spirit. with the English 1t is the good
 old kindly protective, but never com Ipanionable, spirit of vasalage. with the lSoutherner the same treatment is out
 come of ownership. With the North.
 erner there Is still, so it seems from Iaccepted literature. that in spite of the luxury of living immense wealth brings
 there is the old idea of hired help abroad in the land.
 l J.fK K. Wetherell gives bright paper | of cuttings from a newspapers Reject
 ed With Thanks" In many instances
 the columns of local papers, and the
 waste baskets of great dailies, can give
 material for much humor never intend
 ed by the writers. It is a question if
 the rejected authors enjoy their per force appearance in greater magazines
 of which they have never heard. and
 may they never see themselves therein
 "as others see them" there.