The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-29

lustrations are from the document and from family relics in the possession of Miss Julia Clark voorhis and Miss Eleanor Glasgow voorhis.
 Juliet wilbor Tomplins writes one of the literary stories so much in vogue now, a fairly bright one, but what a pity to bring even the meekest mouse into the life long clutch of a lion that can pronounce literary amanuensis "She- block head" and can kick rugs into covers. But what a delicious pic- ture of the little girl with her first successful book who "did not for a moment believe the beautiful things said to her; but she never suspected that the speakers themselvs did not believe thema"
 The Undercurrent continues a strong piece of real life with real people nov ing about in real places to create and hold strong attention.
 This number of Capt A. T. Mahan's 'srhe War of 1922" relates the story of action between Constitution" and Java"
 In "The Point of View" in discus sion of The Civil War and the Novel, ' | Is this valuation of one of the best of | the war time books: Mir. Fox, for in- stance, has given 1t tthe spirit of the tinne) in describing the outbreak of the war in Tennessee in The Little Shep- herd of Kingdom Come a book so | good that its success is an encourage ment to every optimist concerning the I public judgment"
 & Harper's Magazine. | Mrs. Wards 1cw novel, ''The Mar l riage of William Ashe," promises to be | an enthralling piece of work. Father James. the constant doubter. is a fine l old type. Lally, his educated daughter is of the gold that cannot be changed in the mint" Mary Applewhite Bacon knows the hill country of the South and writes of it with tender under standing. Her story, "A Little Candle | is a gleam of the slow progress that lightens up little by little our noun l tain regions.
 EmmaBeIl Miles in Some Real Amer. ican Music" gives songs of the Noun. 1 taineers. These songs hardly seen | folk music, they are more the adapta. l tions of the music of the old countries l Ireland. Scotland. England. I do no | think even in the mountains can req | American music be found. Being al I descendants of Colonials or emigrants | how can we have eNfolk- music of Amer. lea. All these scores are of great in. | IeTGSI. however. NaIIaHIG or Ine SOnRs | that Miss Miles quotes are found al over the South. The song for tho Kissing Game" have frequently heard. The negroes of the far Soutf | have a favorite song:
 | Coffee grows on white oak tree, Rivers all stun wid brandy; Miss Cora she love sugar an tea, Miss Cora she loves candy! Miss Miies's Mountaineers sing al most the same:
 When coffee grows on white oak trees I The river runs with brandy; The boys are made of Jumps of gold And the girls are sweet as candy. l Other articles are: ''The strang, | Cycle of the Cicada," by H. c. McCook | "A Vatican Sermon" by Booth lark ington: "Radium the Revealer." by | w Sarlaeley; "The Invisible Philoso l phers," by Edmund Goose. l Algernon Charles Swinburne hal | written a notable poem which appears | in Harper's Magazine for June Englisi | friends of the poet who have read thu manuscript pronounce 1t MT. Swim burne's greatest work. Following Is { brief excerpt from the poem:
 Ages and creeds that drift
 Through change and cloud upiif The soul that scars and seeks he
 sovereign shrine. Her faiths yelled altar. there
 To find. when praise and prayer l> Fall baffied, if the darkness be al
 vine. r Lights change and shift througl F star and sun; @ aYathad xvtfb might Of trnu1 am
 orial years, Is one.
 Day, born and slain of night, Hath hardly life in sight
 As she that bears and stays hin
 and survives,
 And gives us back for one
 Cloud-thwarted fiery sun
 The myriad mysteries of the Jus
 trous lives
 Whose starry soundless musi'
 saith
 That light and life wax perfect evei
 through night and death.