The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-15

me-nots and daffodils. Seeing them in season always in our own plots ws forget that they are not native to us as we scarcely know that those flowers which we call "Golden Cups and Saucers' are really the flowers that lured Persephone b her doom.
 Mir. Lee Gallienne gives us his deflni- tion of poetry in italics:
 Poetry is that impassioned arrange ment of words (whether in verse or prose) which embodies the exaltation. the beauty, the rhythm, and the pathetic truth of life'
 However, some of his accidental def- ritions seem the happier, as; Poetry ''the nerve force of existence" And again: Tt is life--in words"
 could wish that every young person beginning a library should have MT. Lee Gallienne with him as adviser. taking him as the friend at the shoulder to guide his choice.
 I think many of the new libraries starting up at MT. carnegie's magic hand, all over the Union, would do wei to make this little book their first.
 They might then miss making the H. brary under their charge "a home for dull and decayed authors" He will ad- wise some poets for the collections: "I suppose that a library without a poet might be conceivable-there probably are such libraries-though it is grim thought, and sounds like house with out a woman, or a garden without 1ower."
 It is just impossible to put down the aliurinR volume, irresistibly drawing the eye from page to page. without quoting some of Mir. Lee Gallienne's very unique, and in the main, just valuations or con- temporary work
 Of the historical novel: "It is almost astonishing to think that a literary fash- for. could have prevailed for so long without producing a single book of even moderate importance"
 ''One of the notorious literary features os the time has been the 'historical,' or should we not rather say, the costume novel"
 '"rhis noisy historical fiction has left us nothing but a garlsh mountain of stage properties, and theatrical ward robe already cloudy with the moth."
 No one has written a really anus ing book since Mark Twain stopped writing--amuslng books"
 Of Kipling: Tn the future his name will be known as the brilliant pam phleteer of MT. Chamberlain, and it will be his politics that will keep his poetry alive"
 with the coming of his financial success, the tares have sprung up and choked MT. Caine's artistic wheat"
 MT. Hardy has sufficient purely 'ar- tistic' achievement behind him to al- low him to take diragations into ad- vanced morality" -
 Gabriel D'Annunzio--a hot. tumult- uous nature. a very jingle of passion and Inspiration"
 Through Nj. Bourgeois limpid prose we have seen many delicate secret of the heart of love-"
 But to learn MT. Lee Gallienne's ap- praIsment of Nj. Loti, of MT. Meredith of MT. James. Mir. Mowells, of the American Hardy. of Churchill Town send, Davis. Mister, Wells, Hewlett Corelli, all the rest the reader must go for himself to that most delightful book about books: How to Get the Best Out of Books. by Richard Lee Gallienne. The Baker & Taylor Co, publishers, New York. Price SIPS.
 PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.
 Big generous New York! It is a place where Fairy Tales come true. I have seen one come to pass with mine own eyes. This has been. as all the world knows, a fearful winter. the worst In thirty years, say those who know There has been much suffering. On one of the worst days of winter young Southern girl came to see me. Sunday afternoon 1t was and showing hard. Though she had asked me to let her