The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-15

Brigadier General Ewing, Is justly and truthfully told.
 How Virginia taught school and patched the soles of her old shoes with pasteboard. how Miss Mamie served | for "colored ladies" how the landlord sought for the most menial work. all l in the Poverty Flat of a new land Is set before the reader.
 How hope and new love came with l the Dove's call, and on a day in June throws stream of sunlight over pages that have not lacked for brightness and gayety and flash of wit In spite of the many true and sad stories that have been told therein. A great book this One that every citizen of our republic can Union should read.
 Order No. II, by Caroline Abbot Stan ley. Century Company, New York Price, $1.50.
 How to Get the Best Out of Books Mir Richard Lee Gallienne writes as O lover to his lass. Like a true artist, he takes for his task not the building | up of a vast pyramid of titles of books to read, but he cuts out with sweep | ing style blocks of what not to read I The artists task being never so much l to build up as to cut away. The arti- san builds. Circumstance rears & tenn pie to the gods, hiding the altar deep | in It's recesses, until men are fain to bring garlands to the pillars of the outer court instead of to the inner most shrine. Arts work is to destroy
 the temple in three days and show to
 mankind again the altar of their fath- CTS Creeds cover truth with garments. cut in the fashion of today. encaseth tomorrow, the artist tears off the cum
 bering garments, sets the truth bare f&,,A nKa fnVs Ia labor.
 Still that Is his work and he can do
 nothing else, and nothing less.
 Therefore bidding the busiest man
 brouse in a library and chose for him. self, Mir Lee Gallienne tells what books
 he has found good. useful and true, and the learner will do well to follow the way this graceful writer went Who ever goes over this fascinating volume and bricks out merely the titles of the books named therein and reads them, will be a well-read person when the pleasant task is done.
 But if the reader goes over these de- fightful pages and bricks out only the titles of good books, he will have taken but the clasp of the chain and let go the golden links, thereby losing the aureant treasure and beauteous orna- ment for whose holding the clasp was intended.
 Though no one person can do what another would do, yet it Is always an excellent thing to know the routine another follows.
 From these delightful pages we learn that MT. Lee Gallienne reads best at early hours: For your true book-lov- CT there is no other exhilaration so exquisite as that with which one reads an inspiring book in the solemn fresh ness of early morning."
 And again reads best in the last hours of the wakeful ones: Person ally, l think that one of the best places to read Is in bed. While ones body rests itself. one's mind remains alert. and, when the time for sleep comes at last, it passes into unconsciousness, tranquilized and sweetened with thought and pleasantly weary with healthy exercise"
 So one concludes that the book-lov- CT has all seasons for his own-aBd the books "A book with you in all places and at all times" writes MT. Lee Gallienne.
 For keeping in memory the good things read he suggests: The common place book.
 Personally cannot care for the com monplace book, moods that make them LID are too evanescent, for the things them in books, so worthless when we go them in look so worthless when we go to take them out. Like the contents of the packing chests in the garret At the end of winter we pack away gar ments up to date, chic, with lot more wear in them. so we think season af- ter season. When we take out those same garments we ind them outre, singular, very queer, not to be worn ~aa1rr fA ha 1A So with our thought garments. Wear them briskly while they fit us, then let them alone.
 Mir. Le Gallienne believes that the best poets are not to be found in the magazines. Surely that must be the fault of the editors. not of the. poets. "A magazine reader must rely for his verse on lady amateurs and tuneful college boys. There he too often ap- breaches poetry, not through the great masters-but the little misses"
 So Mir. Lee Gallienne does not mind a pun when 1t comes in his way.
 This chapter: Whats the use of poetry" will bear much reading and is provocative of much meditation.
 For the average reader their poems are the luxHries GHtlAr than She neces- sities of literature
 Tt Is the truth of life told beauti- fully-and yet truthfully"-and how often prophetically.
 Tt (poetry) and the wild flowers. for all their adventurous fragllity, are as old. and no less stable, than the hills-and for the same reason, because they are no less zeal"
 I have always myself had a fancy that poetry resembled wild flowers in another way. But am no poet and I never found enc who would agree with me or adopt my fancy which is this: That each and every form of verse has it's own native heath. home, its own mother soil. The gay vilonelle belongs to the tongue of the French as the peoples to the fields of France, and so on a rondeau for Province. an ode for Greece. or course we transplant them just as we do forget