The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-24

you know how slowly they go and-at length here am"
 "Drenched with rain and" .'Expefience." t ls, "oh. that's cheap stufr," No. It's common, but 1t costs. that experience"
 "Is that all you hayer' Wait till the checks come in. If re- porting pays better than poetry, a re- porter am" Now, coffee?.''
 "No. I'd rather sleep. Good night. Goodbye"
 Get dry"
 It Is these sorts of little serio-comedies one Is always coming upon in New York.
 Enough of them come up each day to grow of themselves into novels. Novels where chief motives would be work, and heipfulness and comradie. The bachelor SfrPs life in New York Is full of pleasant things. but-not 50 full but there are cracks left for much of anxiety. and care, and despondency to creep in. Think well, you dear Southern girls with ambi- tions. before you leave the sweet com- forts of home to enter the rush.
 An a-cornt of one of the first success ful attempts to blow up war vessel by a torpedo Is cpe of the incidents lr Rev. Cyrus Townsend Bfady's new novel, "A Little Traitcr to the South" The blow ing up of the Housatonic is quite the perrallel of Cushing's famous torpedo at tack on the Aibermarie. Martin Hume, has written two new chapters for his book called Court slips of Queen Elisabeth" in which he endeavos to throw more light on the req. nature of the relations of Eliza beath and her admirers
 B A story comes from Messrs Harper & Brothers. publishers of Sir Mortimer" that orders from the South for Miss Johnston's new novel. are not only nu- merous. but are apt to be accompanied by letters eloquent of sectional pride and enthusiasm. The attitude of the South toward Miss Johnston is a rather curious one. Among her own people. rather given to leaving their native literary prophets without honor. she enjoys peculiar eminence of general interest.
 
 Elliott Crayton McCants, author of Tn the Red Hills" was born in South Caro- lfna near the village of Ninety-Six-a name said to have been given to the noted Revolutionary town on account of a ride of ninety-six miles of a Cherokee girl to warn the settlers of an impend- inc Indian attack. Mir. McCants was educated at "The Citadel" of Charles ton. and for a number of years after ward he taught school among the 1'Red Hills"
 Helen Kellers book, "The Story of My Ldfe," published by Doubleday. Page & CO to knf1 tv.n,. ,.-tA koA t.A- It is to be brought out in an edition cheap enough to be within reach of the poorest Bohemian peasant. the aim of translator and publisher being to inter- est the poorer classes in the possibili- ties of education for the blind, deaf and dumb. It Is also announced that the autobiography is being put into Hin dustan for the use of the pupils in the School for the Deaf at Bombay. It was recently referred to as The Epic of the Blind"
 Miss Margery Williams, author of "The Price of Youth" is young English girl. She is only twenty-two years old. She spent the year before last in a New Jer- sey village; this visit resulted in her new novel. She will be recalled as the au- thor of The Late Returning"
 Henry Hariand, author of My Fraend Frospero." has left America for England. He declares that he finds it difficult to work in the atmosphere of this country, and it is understood that he returns to England to begin a new novel.
 A volume of short stories by the late Henry Seton Merriman will be published 5oon under the title of "Tomaso's For nfhnR stood that Merriman also left a novel In manuscript. which will be published later.
 The heroes and heroines of today, like the young man called John when he lighted the cheroot. are afflicted with the of 8 former state of ex- istence, and this trait appears in three of the personages in Mir. John R. Carl ing's new book, The Vikings Skull" Poison. assassination, theft on an enor- nous scale. buried treasure, murder. shipwreck and ghostly appearances also figure in 1t and for those who love &C., horrors 1t will be a formid- able rival for ''The Jewel of Seven Stars" although its ending is less sym 
 Judge Edward Abbott Parry, author of novels and plays. has written a histori- cal novel of the time of Elizabeth, the Queen being the heroine. It has to do chiefly with Ehzabeth's affection for the Earl of Leicester.
 It may or may not be a tribute to the force of new writer that the author ship of the novel of Southern life. 'The Circle in the Square," which is causing