The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-29

pay for the two from Bonny Brook that fed the cat.
 A lightsome. gay little story, full of the pungency of the pine and fir. the ripple of waters, the slime of still pools and the joyousness of sweet love-mak- ing.
 Mir. Henry wysham Lanier Is son of the South's great poet. Sidney La- nier. His work is rapidly coming to the front. He loves the forest and field for his theme. A short story from Lippincott of a hunter hunted--and snared-has been lately reviewed in The Advertiser. The Romance of Pis- cator H. W. Lanier. Henry Holt & Company. New York. Price. $L25. A little book of the fineness of dreams has just been published. It is by young native of Alabama, Miss Nena Picton. The book is for those who find in life of today something of the magnihcence of the life of the large tomorrow The book with its cobweb tenuosity of fancy and subtle ty of thought will not appeal to the mind of the materialist. But to those who find in the present moment not only all the good that 1t holds but promise of all good to come. there will
 
 The book Is beautifully illustrated. Miss Picton and her brother MT. Ed uard Picton, both formerly of Mobile, have been for several years living In New York busy with literary labors. Miss Picton has been for .some years identified with the work of the Phil osophic Society The Parmania of Sleep, or Soul and sympol. by Nina Pic ton.
 Much notice is being attracted by the publication of a book by a Southern woman, Mrs. Jeannette Robinson Mur- phy For several seasons Mrs Murphy has been featuring before leading clubs of the North. She has remarkable collection of negro slave songs. folk songs and African music scores In her lectures she has steadfastiy en- deavored to show the North the true Southern viewpoint. She Is grace fuf sneaker an unusually attractive reasoner, petite and pretty and always holds her audience. Her book, Sonth- ern Thoughts for Northern Thinkers
 has met with much appreciation, large advance orders having gone out 10 tnt publishers from the millionatres or the North. This plain statement or trutns of the negro question VIII douptiesA have much weight.
 Most important to artists is the lat ter part of her book: African Music in America" This will comprise about thirty of the very best African slave songs which she, in her old Kentucky home. has taken directly from the lips of the ex-slaves. In this latter part there also appear valuable essays up on the origin of this barbaric music and how 10 sing 1t.
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 This is important since there is now on the stage and platform so many inn itators of old plantationn songs, none of which would pass muster minute with a Southern audience. It Is Joy also to note that the Northern audi
 ence is rapidly learning to culi the l truth from the false and to require only the best in this heretofore much abused line of work.
 Mrs. Murphy has been ever on the platform the spokeswoman of the an cient order of things at the South. She tells in moving terms how the slave l holders of the South were nation of | missionaries, the greatest missionaries the world has ever known. Think of | race just from barbarism of Africa l brought to civilization and Christian- l ity in three generations. This was | done by Southerners taking the black | people into their homes and teaching
 them faithfully and painstakingly the l arts of civilization. / Bondage was a
 necessary kindness. for how else could these children of the worlds races have been taught the valuable lessons that have made them so far in advance of their tribes in the old country? Mib- lions spent in foreign missions have not