The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-23

runs a golden chord through all the
 story of toll and greed.
 It's beginning like bubbling. spring
 in the wild wood. "As he wondered #
 came to him in a flash: the night at
 the ladder stairs of the backwoods
 shanty. That kiss-that wonderful
 thrilling kiss, to taste whose ike again
 and again he had married the wrong
 woman. He made a step forward.
 Amanda"
 "She was emaciated and frail and
 worn, but her eyes were hume si-filled
 with a fire and feeling that transf1g-
 ured her to absolute beauty; her red
 lips, with their pretty melancholy
 droop, were alluring.
 she drew bac kfrom him. and her
 face hardened quite suddenly, as if
 she recognized all that separated them all the blunders of his mad act
 when he made the miserable choice
 that divided them. Then, with the ca price that made her nature feminine and charming. she laughed little and, drawing near him, she whispered:
 T reckon you-all stole ma pink ribbon; 1;
 you ain't chancet to got 1t nowhers."
 This lone, pure. but by cha.cs refined
 a thing of piquant sorrow to two, lived
 through all change of future. even to the hour of utmost remembrance.
 But reader the very mighty hand of fate and nature laid hold of the plot and led 1t to places of peace and pleas
 antness.
 By the path of flood and death Fate had seen fit to unite the two who sat silent side by side-their linked lives welded. blent through their great love for each other and their human chari- ty should in years to come make this watery desert a land of good things
 "Still marvelling that life, and not
 death, was theirs, they sat, the woman s
 hand fast in the mans. their awe
 stricken eyes upon the flood. And as they looked, the mills, mirage-like, | seemed to rise to their sight, f1lmy. ghostly things out of the deeps. Slowly, warmly, the quiet beauty of sunrise enveloped and possessed the story. Warmly it touched the windows of the houses of Rexington till they gleamed like stars. Warmly it flashed the surface of the level water till the | turbulent mills gave the color back | rise the little boat crossing the flood toward Huston and Amanda was red as a rose. Throughout the whole book the author has shown perfect grlsp ! of situation. a skill in delineatidn. lightness and truth to life in dialogue l that proves her one of America great l est noVeliSts.
 
 The Plum Tree will be reviewed in an early number of The Advertiser. It is fiction, but at the same time It | Is the most astounding representation ever made of modern American poll | ties The whole ssytem from precinct to Presidency is exhibited. The orig | inaI of many of MT. Phillipss charac- | ters must have been known to you in | real life.
 fp rnrn ny11iF F1n book to discuss. The people who know ought to tell the people who don | whether its pictures are true. It sounds | a trumpet call to American patriotism and integrity. With ruthless honesty | 1t tears away the mask from the whole | system of machine politics. From pre- cinct to Presidency all is laid bare. The realism has the force of exposure. It
 is immeasurab1y the best story ever
 written on national politics. It Is
 more than that. Through its love in terest 1t becomes a revelation, an in-
 spiration and hope.
 The first book on the market by | the new publishing house, Moffat, Yard
 & Company, will be Richard Barry s | Port Arthur" The author is the young San Francisco journalist who went to Port Arthur last autumn with l
 since he reached New York on Decem- | Der 9th last, made literally an inter- national reputation by his vivid de-
 scriptions, studies and word pictures
 in the reviews, magazines and Illus | trated weeklies of many countries. His
 article in tho current Century Maga-
 zine created wide interest, as did his | War is Hell' in the March 11th num-
 Der of The Saturday Evening Post. An | important article from him will appear
 as the leader in Everybody's for April. | Beside these, he has been featured in ICollier's and other American maga-
 Zines, and, in London, has had leadin g
 article in The Westminster Gazette,
 Fortnightly Review, Black and White, | Sphere, London Illustrated News. and others. In Paris, L'Illustration and Le
 Monde Illustre have featured him. The Berlin Tageblatt has published much | of his matter and even the St. Peters burg Novoe Vremya has printed some of it, much censored, of course. FeW regulations so wide and spectacular have been made so quickly. It is safe to say that MT. Barry s book, like his magazine articles. Is radically different from any other book
 on this or any other war. so far as We know. It Is described as not only Q penetrating and eloquent review of a tremendous contemporary event, but a piece of world literature that will com mand the widest attention.
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