The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-12

der the influence Of instinct and en- vironment- Apart from this 1t offers variety of incidents that have the quality of forceful drama. Mir. Legge sits down much. and much that moves az well as interests one. but he also shows himself the conscientious artist In his reticence. One Is left for in- stance. to imagine what takes place when Paul Gleddayne comes to take leaves of the dying Mrs. Harrod, whom he had loved and lost. The shut door is Infinitely more pathetic, more sug- gestfve than whole chapter or de- scription.
 I've Been Thinking. By Charles Battell Loomis. To those who have heard MT. Loomis in his inimitabie manner give his sketches at the Wal dorf, or at the Pen and Brush or at some of the clubs of New York the tone of voice, the humorous qufrk Of expression will ever afterward pc. missed in his written pages. But there's< fun enough and to spare as 1t is. I've Ben Thinking IS Just what the author intended 1t to pc, book to pick up In the odd moment before dinner. in the first seconds when the smokers pipe draws best, in the minutes on the train when one tires of speeding landscapes. There IS nothing too utterly new in the pages, nothing startling enough to set you thinking. It is the sort of homely, well worn wisdom that Dorothy DIX utters every Sunday, the sort of ai- ready well fit to humanity advice that Ella Wheeler Wilcox so charmingly sends out anew on errands Of good The sort of classified truism that our President utters to national applause.
 These are the things that win the world. Who can tell us wiser things EnnwS WhAra do we find more interesting experiences than those of ourselves? To what thinker do we accord more praise than tc the one who thinks our own thoughts?
 The man who brings to light the new thing under the sun must die for 1t.
 Therefore we all spend happy mo- ments reading MT. Loomis's thoughts replete with sunny, quaint humor. with homely sympathy
 His short dissertations on domestic matters remind one of the sketches from Fanny Ferns" portfolio. That portfolio that made its hit in its day. and is found now. in only our oldest libraries.
 The questions: Should a man give his seat in a car to a woman?" of who. the plutocart, the aristocrat, the scientist, the pugilist, shall enter the kingdom of heaven,' of '"The Young Housekeeper." of the Married people who never quarrel" and of those who do; of '"Toddikuia feet shoes," of the Real Lady," these questions are always with us and call for thinking on. MT. Loomis has touched on them all. The new inventions of our own day come in for their share of thinking on also, the automobile, the multimillionaire, the department store. the suburban friend, telephone. parvenue and all other new products of our inventive time all are touched on.
 All are treated with gentle humor, kindly sympathy and homely wisdom.
 Heretics, by Gilbert K. Chesterton, It is foolish, generally speaking, says Mir. Chesterton in his new book Here tics," which has just been published, for a philosopher to set fire to another philosopher in Smithfleld Market be- cause they do not agree in their theory of the universe. But, says MT. Ches- terton, there is one thing infinitely more absurd and more impractical than burning a man for his philosophy and that is the habit of saying his philoso- phy does not matter. A change has come over the meaning of the word I"orthodox," as observed by the author. In former days the heretic was proud of not being a heretic. It was the Kingdoms or the world, and the police and the judges who were heretics. He was orthodox. He had no pride in having rebelled against them. They had rebelled against him. Nowadays on the contrary the heretic glories in hs heresy. T suppose am very here- tical" he says with a conscious laugh and looks around for appluse. MT. Chesterton does not, 1t may be observ-
 ed. altogether approve of the heretic who thinks he Is a heretic and he has
 some things to say on the measure of
 such men as Rudyard Kipling Bernard Shaw. MT. H. G. Wells, MT. Whistler and others. Speaker of MT. Kipling's interest in militarism. the author says, he is as wrong as his critics, that Mir. KiDling Is not attracted by the ele-
 ment of courage but the element of discipline. The modern army Is a miracle of organization and that is the truly Kiplingite ideal. So far from
 having preached that soldier clean ing his sidearm Is to be adored because
 he is military. Kipling, says MT. Ches- tuition, breaches that the baker baking loaves and the tailor cutting coats Is as
 military as anybody. Mir. Bernard
 Shaw is set down as appearing to be eccentric because of his devotion to the strict truth. MT. Chesterton writes of MT. H. G. Wells and the Giants, Omar and the Sacred Vine, the Mildness of the Yellow Press. Smart Novelists and the Smart Set, of the wit of Whistler and other topics. which he handles in his usual characteristic style.