The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17

Miss Annie Bozeman Lyon has done such exquisite work fin prose that her | reputation should be great. Deli cate, fine unobtrusive like the odor of hidden violets is the spirit that per vades her stories
 The late Caroline Herndon Inge wrote with rare feeling, and perfect taste. the world would have known of her genius had not death claimed her at the very prime of life. The late Mrs. D. W. Beilamy wrote before the war the novels that won her most fame. She grew with the times and the work of her latter days was excellent and always abreast of the | times.
 Mrs. Mary Friends work is well known and appreciated by large au- dlence.
 Mrs. Harry TutweiIler Inge does pralseworthy work for leading period l icals.
 The editors of Chat" are both win ming iaurels in literary fields as well as Journalistic.
 Mrs. M E. Henry Ruffin ,has done great work. Her identity and gen. ius promises yet greater things. Her story The North Star a tale of Nor | way in the tenth century won great popularity which 1t holds. The novel has been adopted in the schools of NorWay. IL IS laIe ol NoEWdy and of its hero Olaf. of whom Carlyle says: He was the wildly, beautifulest man in soul and body that one has evef heard uf the North, is a wonderful one in the light of current events. The author wrote the work before Norway had dissolved it's union with Sweden, yet, by sin- gular coincidence, she seems to have seen it's glorious freedom and to have ftsfI1 Ffyiara The two chief male characters of the story are Haakon. Lord of the North Country, and Olaf, known as the North Star, ruler of all Norway. Now if the pa- pers speak correctly, Prince Charles of Denmark whom the Norweigans have called to their vacant throne, has as- stunned the name of Haakon VII. and Of course. Mrs. Ruffin knew the his- tory of Norway's past, but 1t is cer- tainly remarkable that she should have entered. as 1t were, into the glo- rIous aspirations for the future, and have even named the heroes who are to lead her to greatness.
 The story thrills one with it's vivid recitals of impetuous valor and patri- otism, of intensest love and hatred. of Viking powers and cruelty, and of
 woman's deep devotion and treachery.
 The hero. Cdaf, is simply magnificent. and Carlyle's quaint description of him is true in every point.
 This is but a meagre mention of some of the writers that have made
 and are making Mobile known far and wide as a literary center.
 MT. Edward Picton and Ms Nina
 Picton formerly of Mobile, now of New
 York. and Miss Moses. now of New
 York are writers who have. as have
 so many Of our Southern writers,
 found 1t best to make their home
 in the great city that welcomes all; especially those of the South.
 Mention has been made of the
 graceful work of Miss Zitella Cooke
 formerly of Marion. now of Boston.
 That cultured little town is birthplace
 of Mrs. Kate Upson Clarke. Miss L. iElla Byrd wrote several creditable novels. John Trotwood Moore's Sum mer Hymnal" at once brought him fame. Already throughout the South he was known and loved as author of that unmistakeable story of the race track: "Old Miss" A new novel from his pen Is to be one of the features of ] the next literary season.
 : MT. William Garrott Brown, now of Howard, Is a son of whom Marion may well be proud. His work is not excell- | ed by that of any Southerner. His 1 themes are most weighty and im- portant and his treatment of them is scholarly and alternative. His novel showed him equally ready and skill full as a writer of fiction
 Miss Cornelia J. Thompson of Mar ion and Carlisle. Pa. Is known as song writer. writing both verse and muSiei Several oe her songs have