The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-31

The unusual thing begins to be the usual with some of the publishing houses. In several 'closed seasons" novels have been brought out which bave had sales beyond the limits of any but those quoted from end to end of the earth as "best selling. Doubleday, Page and Company have just now brought out The Deliverance, Miss Ellen Glssgow's latest novel of Virginia. The whole world reads it and talks of it today. Miss Glasgow easily takes rank sa foremost of the women novelists of the South. There is strength, beauty, truth in her novels. The review of her book will be given next Sunday. Here are some gems of her philosophy. wit and keenness of observation of life and nature that flash with brilliancy of new found treas ures into the readers eyes:
 "A woman who can make over dress the sixth time as cheerfully as she did the first has the spirit of a Caesar"
 "The person who has to have outside props to keep him straight must have been made mighty crooked at the start.
 "A domineering woman is like a kicking COW.
 i've never been able to see what sat isfaction people git out of being ill-man- nered. It takes twice as long as it does to be polite, and it's not nearly so good for the digestion afterward.
 There's some comfort in knowing that you'll never have to face the worst again."
 'It's lucky man, I tell you. who can keen the same desire for more than thirty years.
 "'Tain't no harm to hope. = e-
 Money Is a mighty good thing, but you can't put it in the blood like you can meanness.
 ''Thar ain't much sto' set by honesty in this here world, sah, an you kin buy bigger chaw of tobaccy with five cents than you kind with all tine virtue oi Moses on his Mount.
 'Faith and doubt are dry and inanimate forms until we pour forth our hearts blood, which vivifies them,
 "A man can't be a hero without being a bit of fool as we'll.
 '.But for the one instant of courage-l myself might have known the world only as vegetable knows the garden in which 1t fattens.
 My soul has iived-though I have been hungry and cold and poorly clad.
 "He was very devoted husband: but to this day have not ceased to be thankful that he was never placed in the position where he had to choose between me and his dinneri ~s
 "A man is not half so satisfactory g domestic pet as a cat, and far less neat in his habits.
 Surely if there is any wisdom upor earth, 1t is simply to do right.
 "An honest laugh never turned sweet deed sour since the world began.
 "In love an ounce of mystery was Torti a pound of morality. 'There are some people who are borr with A downright genius for honesty.
 'oThe fulness of life does not come iron the things outside of us-we ourselves must create the beauty in which we live "Remember to be a gentleman. and yol will find that that embraces all moralit! and a good deal of religion.
 'There are souls which do not yield tt events but bend and shape them into th' likeness of themselves.
 "Dat's de trubble wid dis yer worr; w'ei hit change yo' fortune hit don look te changin' yo' skin as well. ''I've watched a nestful of young wren take flight from under the caves. There not a play of Shakespeare's greater thai that. "When a man gets along past his fif tieth year, he begins to understand Una there are few things worth botherini about, anl the sins Of ms IehOW mortat are not among them.
 If a man steals my money, that's hi affair, J can't afford to let him steal m peace of mind as well.
 "A man must be very far in his dotage indeed, when he begins to wear a lonl face over the sharp breaths that he d. V 2 in youth.
 ITO have had one emotion that was big ger than you or your universe is to hay had life.
 ''When a man aint got wife or chil' to nag at he's mighty sho' to turn righ round an begin naggin at his neighbors an that's why it's the bounden duty o every decent woman to marry an say the peace.
 There's nothing in life, when you com to think of it-not Columbus setting ou to sea nor Napoleon starting on march X more wonderful than that brave littl blossom putting up the first of all throug the earth" The Deliverance. Ellen Glas gow DoubIeday Page and Co,