The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-16
NEW BOOK NEWS
CONDUCTED BY MARTHA YOUNG

I daily use in loving and giving. "A
 Marriage de Convenenance" is a study | In relative responsibility.
 "A Glimpse of an Artist" is as excel | lent a temperance lecture as was ever uttered. If temperance advocates would read the literature of today, or | yesterday. for that matter, and get | permission to reprint such stories as | true for decimation there would be
 more good done than by a thousand | made -order tracts, for the most part | poor writing. dull reading and futile | congregations.
 Let the good people take this hint. | An arrow of truth barbed with true art | goes faster than the clumsy weapons
 refo"mers so often use. Beauty of | thought and grace of diction give truth | wings.
 'Players and Vagabonds" should have a fine summer sale. It Is just the l book for mountain. yacht, or sea-shore reading aloud
 Miss Rosebud is a writer of whom
 the South feels justly proud. The Weird Picture: Mir John R. Corling. whose Vikings Skull was ] noted some months ago in The Adver- tiser, Is author of a new romance, The Weird Picture"
 MT. Corling sprang into fame at a bound with The Shadow of the Czar." The duel in the Cathedral in that book is one of the most impress | sve and romantic scenes in modern | fiction. His second story, The Vik- ing's Skull" strengthened the reputa- tion he had achieved. and the great ingenuity of It's plot and sustained in- | tent received the highest praise. His new novel is equally thrilling. | The man of the book Is summoned
 home to attend the marriage to another
 man of the woman he loves, the bride
 groom is his brother, the situation is | striking.
 The wedding does not take place. | The bridegroom is murdered. | All this and more of interest is dis
 closed in the opening chapter. The
 story becomes more intense and in
 teresting as the plot is developed.
 Justin Wingate. Ranchman. Mir.
 John H. Whitson has given to his ad .
 mirers another string Western story,
 with spirited and graphic picturing of | local conditions, the agricultural de-
 partment of a Western ranch section.
 and the farmers.
 The story has three remarkable
 scenes of danger--a high grass fire, a
 stampede of excited cattle. and a ter
 rife storm and cloud-burst.
 
 There is an element of political in terest, the fight in Colorado politics
 between cattlemen and irrigationists to
 control the legislature, of which the
 hero becomes the centre.
 Virginia Frazer Boyle, whose first novel.
 "serena." is soon to be published by Messrs. | A. & Barnes & Company is A member of | the Ladies Confederate Memorial Associa- l ton, member of the Colonial Danes. l Daughters of the Revolution and of several | literary clubs. She was born near Chatta- 1 nooga, Tenn, but has always lived in Mem | phis The romance of the South and its | fall has always been her strongest and most | sympathetic field. and the readers who have | known and loved her short stories and l poems will not be disappointed in her first 1 departure from and folklore to the | broader theme. While 1t is novel of the l wartime. 1t is not of swashbucklinG or ! along any of the familiar lines The pie ture or the old South before the war Is 1 touched upon in Hopkinson Smiths | Oliver Horn-"the civilization which was 1 shattered in night" with the firing on | Sumter. But the story is that of the honor l of a noble name and involves a curious | psychological phenomenon familiar to sci- | ence. In this connection one believes that the author might say something in regard to the original of Serena. but she prefers to let that character be treated as fiction pure and simple.
 Strangely enough. in these days when noveIsts have ransacked every nook and corner of the globe New Greece, which car ries still about 1t the romance of Old Greece. has almost escaped attention. There was "Phroso." to be sure. But George Horton has had virtual monopoly. During his period of service consul to Athens in President Clevelands second administra- ton. he gained material for two volumes of verse and several novels, including the popular Like Another Helen and the re- gently published Monks Treasure" His book on Greek country life. Tn Argolia," as we'll as his novels on Greek subjectA were favorably received by the faculties of the different universities of America, who sent a petition to President Roosevelt ask