The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-12

the most romantic ana the most "lh-
 ming of them all.
 ssThe Deep Seals ToII."-By James B. I Connolly. A series of short stories. l written with no little skill and sympa- | thy of men who go down to the sea in ships. Half story, half study of the | conditions of life surrounding these men on shipboard, some of the experf- | ences, real and imaginary, are vividly realistic and impressive and others amusing by virtue of the quaint phil- osophy they contain. Wouldn't many men and women. too. l suspect--sub- scribe to this? How came 1t he got it into his head to go fishingg" asks one fisherman of another. oh, 1t was what the papers'd call a little matri- monial difference. I expect that him and his wife air't got real we'll ac- Quainted with each other yet. He's pretty young yet. and she don't know too much about the world. l know, because she's my first cousin. Young married couples. I s'pose. got to have bout so many arguments before they find each other out. I ain't married myself. but ain't it about that way, Peter? Well. gen'rally, Dexter, though not always. You see. Dexter, it's a good deal like vessels. You don't al- ways know how to take them at first There's some sails best down by the head. and some by the stern. There's some'll come about in the widest gale under headsafl alone and others you have to drive around with the trys'l or bit of the malnsl and that. too, when mir ute too late meano the ves- sel gone up on the rocks. Some you c'n find all about how they trim the out about, and some fine day they rolls over or goes under and the whole gengs lost" Isn't that a clever pre- sentation of life matrimonial? And wouldn't some of our sailing go trife smoother if while we are find ing each other out. one or the other could go flashing" for awhile? So much for the first tale, The Sail-Car- riers," though It contains other bits of philosophy equally plain and pungent. In strategy and seamanship there is suggestfvcfess O. the recklessness Of seaman. Night and a northeast gale with falling snow making the night even thicker, makes one man hesitate 9 trias about rit king the trip. until hailed by another with What kind of man he holds himself that's afraid to make a harbor tonfght?" Reckless ly he risks the"Black Rocks" and other dangers, and follows where the other leads. The whole scene Illustrating finely WI at pride of race, or family, or
 
 ed from long line of men equally dartng-can lead men to do.
 The pathos of the many hardships the fisherman must endure in their calling. as well as the sacrifices they are will, Ing to make. for each 'ther are all skilifully woven together n ''Dory- Mates" Two fishermen, a man and a boy. arc afioat In an open boat during fsarfully cold and snowy night The | boy succ cumbs first to the cold when l ths older men takes off his jacket to wrap him In. Urging in aDswe er to the boys feeble protest, Flush, lad, hush. weren't me and your father dory- mates l for many the loEg year together?" Half l delirious. half asleep. the lad muttered in his sleep something of his dread of his fate. and the efforts of the old I man to comfort him bring out the full strength and beauty of character un- deriving that rough and rugged ex- | terior
 The author ceems to have held a mir
 TOT up to aid him in his delineation of these characters, ard it Is done with conmendable fidelity, the gloom. the l grandeur of their struggle with the un- conquerable sea, their sufferings from the danger and exposure, his sketches faithfully portray.
 The Ford. By Arthur E. J. Legge | Author of 'Mutineers," Both Great and | Small" Land and Sea Pieces"
 Arthur E.. J. Legge. author of "The
 Ford" is one of the small company of
 literary novelists who add to their gift
 Of expression both insight into hu- | man nature and delicate sense of the
 beauty of things. In his latest book ], The Ford" he concerns himself with | two families, the one representing the old order of rank and breeding and the other the new order derived from business and passable ideal of be- havior. To both he is kind. He does
 not elevate the proud. reserved Lord | Gleddayne at the expense of the frank
 prompt and pushful soapmaker whose
 wealth enables him to become his Lord-
 ships neighbor. Both types are left for
 the readers Judgment. It is one of the merits of the story that 1t thus | induces out once more to tackle the
 everlasting problem of character un-