The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-11

1 The narrative of the ''Girl in Steam
 CT Chair" introduces the heroine. and l we have no acquaintance but the new est introduction and gives glimpse of the ''other side of the wal1," of the hard 1 ship. the misery, desolation. death off, l tentimes. but nine inches from our un | witting brains. In this as in the rest of these sketches. Mr. Smith himself ! does as he states his hero can---"uses words as some men do pigments with
 all the force of their contents Makes his description, but so many brilliantly | colored pictures"
 The Dangerous Footpad" relates the adventures of many men with many beggars, tramps. ct als. MaeWheiter
 brings up the rear of the doieful taies | of the charity givers with his story of | treating a beggar to find him become a man.
 l Little moving pictures these stories are, moving the reader to tears and | smiles. Monographs of New Yorks' best Bohemian life. Relations of ex- periences gathered up by many men | painting in many lands. They all have | the veky modern touch. The author let's the vividness of his artists love of color run riot through his pages ne | has done what his humorous Boggs ad- l mires:
 | you fellows are going wild over this Thew French innpressionistic craze--the vague, the mysterious. and the suggest i've. Why not apply it to literature? Ii | a man can paint a figure with three dabs of his brush. why cant a man man | draw a character or a situation With | three strokes of his pen," good deft work have weshere.
 "A Prince to Order." By Charles
 Stokes Wayne. Charles Stokes wayne
 has in this book produced a romantic | tale, told with surprising evenness. Ii
 it lacks the best literary and artistic imprint. it is so perfectly constructed as to hold the attention of the reader | from start to finish. 4 s.. | One has to read quite half through the book, before it dawns upon you | just how the title is obtained. The story is the effort of band or con | spirators to place an imposter on the l throne of a small European Kingdom called Budavia. They are assisted@by one Sehipenbach, a keen student oi phrenoogy and chemist of unusual power He had been tutor to the real Crown Prince in his early boynood
 but dismissed from the position because of repeated experiments he persists ir making on the child. fingered at his dismissal, and hating to lose the et- fleet he wished to produce by his ex- periments, hoping to make prince 10 order, as wise, virtuous and good as ] the future king should be-, Sehippen- bach abducts the young prince. and fiees with him to America, intending to produce him when he has reached his majority, and thereby restore him.
 self to favor. Unfortunately the
 young prince dies, and Schippenbach | is in despair until he meets with Lutz a Budavian, and learns from him some-
 thing of his employer, Casey Gray. 2 new York stock broker. Together they plan. Lutb and Schippenbach. to ab- duet Gray, make him over by Schip- lpenbach's knowledge of drugs, hypno- tism, then present him as the Crown Prince to Budavia. The plan succeeds wonderfully, or rather taking all oi the available funds of his firm. and is then taken to Paris, where Schip- penbach intends to experiment still further in subduing Gray's individual- ity. having already succeeded in chang ing his personal appearance to CO., incide with that of the real Grown Prince His plans are fnteFfered witt by a mortal illness. and every one be- Ling too much perturbed to continue the drug. under whose influence Gray has gradually been molded into ar untonaton, responding only to Schip' penbach's wishes. he awakes to a con
 sciousness of his condition and amazed
 to find himself in apartments in Paris
 How he came there, however, Gray
 does not remember. He only knowt
 that a mother, a partner, and last, bu
 by no means least, sweetheart ar'
 doubtless wondering why he has cross
 months have elapsed since last he saw | Nary Xnrk