The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04

T = AI- Trezevant Is alive to the finger "the kind of woman who IS so active that the good news would parse nes aS a verb
 yictorfe, the old negress W.n her prayer book forever slipping tnroush her fingers. and her repute as coh- iurer" among those or ner own eooi. :. ;s a fine. tuthful piece of character drawing. .,. A, . CraoIe rentlewoman fine and sweet as a jassamine flower.
 Martin Paradise is the modern, up- to-date saint; his charities, many ana fine. hidden from the eyes 'of the world: and his clothes always of the latest, most approved art. Madame De Marigny, and the Colonel. who is too unreconstructed to eat cod and Mad anne ,Leviandais, and Carmilite are all people worth knowing. The student of folklore will find in these pages many old folk-stories and much of the weird superstitions of the negroes.
 A fetching volume.
 An Angel by Brevet, by Helen Pitkin. The Tar-Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus. In this volume MT. Joel Chandler Harris has put into verse seV- l eraI of the old plantation tales which Uncle Remus long ago told so well In prose. e..
 The story of ''The Cater and the Rab- bit Gizzard." which appears in Christ mas Number of The Metropolitan Mag azine. in prose, is in this volume in verse The story of How Buzzard Be- came Bald" in prose in November number of Metropolitan. also appears herein in verse In these days Of conn merciaIism even genius grows provl- dent. making the same story Tn US time play many parts.
 The 'wishing Song" Is musical ana its refrain holds much of the old stay in i, oualitv that made Uncle Remus's' early songs ring the world around;
 70. ladies all ain't you skeered CT
 hants?
 A-wish.f wish wishin'.
 Skeered CT no, were gwine ter oe oaiee
 Des a-wishin'."
 Rv far the best and most valuable
 mart of the volume Is the latter half or the hook where are reprinted the
 Hymns and Songs of the negroes which appeared some twenty or more years ago in the first volume of 'Uncie Re- mus" a book of Songs. sayings. Stories" every line of which sparkled with light of genuis and glow of fresh- ness.
 This holiday volume of verse legends and reprints is most elaborate and beautifully illustrated by MT. A. B. Frost and MT. E. W. Kemble. Monarch, The Big Bear-A rousing good story A satisfying piece Of work. MT Earnest Thompson Seton is at his best in this story of Monarch of the Tallac. Tn his foreword Mir Seton informs his readers that the Bear is a composite. To this one great Bear that paces his prison in the Golden Gate Park the writer has given the adventures of several of his kind. While every ad- venture related is a true one MT. Seton states the fact that liberties have been i taken excludes the story from the cata- l logue of pure science. It must be- con sidered rather an historical novel of ] Bear life"
 A closeness to truth is what gives | life to a story, but unless genius fits | together many truths and many parts l of truth the story is mere servile real l ism. The seeing eye of genius and the | appreciative touch of genius is needed
 
 ! leaf and burgeon with bloom the bare | bough of reality ere we have a tree of l life. The mere actual soon becomes a dead tree fit for cord-wood only. While the truth blossomed with art lives in eternal beauty and sheds seed of longer | living down the centuries. The art must be of the kind that truth Is, we want no thorns bearing figs, nor bramble- e-bushes giving grapes. MT. Seton has given his readers the right | truth and the right art.
 Jack and Jill the captive bears show | their character at once. Jack wins all hearts and had not adverse circum- stances taken hold of him he had | doubtless been a model bear all his | days. But his masters need sold him
 into cruel hands and he became, a | sheep-eater, a cattle thief, a man-kil- | Ter. Many names Jack won for him. self in his adventurous career "Pedro's
 Gringo," Old Pegtrack," the Placer
 vile Grizzley." the Monarch of the
 range" Each name had many depre-
 dations to its credit, and each bear was
 hunted manfully. It took the hunter
 of the Tallac to prove that all these