The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29

poems Divided and Watching. It is bit surprising, but the poet or Timrod's State, upon whom some think Timrod's mantle has fallen, should sing so little of Nature and Natures beauties. For all we see of our south ern landscape, rich in beauties, and of our native overs in these pages might be put in a nutshell. No reader could from his song guess his home land. We tread the very woods and valleys of Southland with Timrod in his Spring In Carolina" and Cotton Boll" With Balton Grey we wander as happily on Average Hills or un- der gorgeous Orient skies" true is no hint of the soil that gave him birth, the fields and woods and flowers of Carolina.
 Most of the younger books run too much to nature praise. We have for gotten the old-time theme that long ago reached every poets lyre--Love. Not so .Barton Grey. His almost every verse deals with the drama of love. His pages are full of:
 . Blanche or Ethel or Clare or Ruth. Christine, Tolande, Justins, Cerise--'
 There are Countess Maude" and Cousin Claude" and Glare" with heart ''as pure and true as the snow un- der wonder trees"
 It Is refreshing to hear the old theme sung again in modern measures.
 The poet reaches his most sublime notes in The Crown Unicorn" and these heart-thrilling lines: "Lo, these Many Leora." It Is not every con querer who wears the laurel.
 "Who so endureth to the end"
 So lOnQ Ra the word was gnolen. Hearts fail. and bowed heads earth
 ward bend,
 Yet who shall say the pledge is Brtve eyes may read the promise still,
 Though writ in lines of pain and loss: The path lies onward up the hill.
 Though every milestone be cross. Long time ago my soul and
 Converse and counsel held together. When clear and bright youths morning
 Flushed rosy in the summer weather: Soul, said l, many a pathway fair.
 Waiting thy choice before thee lies: Think long. choose well. then proudly
 Thine utmost might to win the prize." And so we looked, my soul and
 And. many fair. false toy refusing. Beheld at last, serene andshlgh,
 The crown of her supremest choosing And on it fixed our steadfast gaze.
 While the bright, joyous wizard,
 Hope,
 Through all those bounteous summer
 days.
 Drew one delicious horoscope. So on I press up that steep slope,
 Behind whose brow that sun is set walk with Faith. and not with Hope,
 Despairing not and not forgetting; But. when the last brief breath Is sped. He strove-he failed-and he is dead.
 True always to hs highest light"
 The patriotic poems. '"The Confeder- ate Dead" Robert Edward Lee" and ''The New Song of Charleston" have lines in them that should be graven on every Southerners heart.
 Tennessee History Stories, by T. c. Kaws.-The writer of this book of stories designed for the children of the public schools, rightly makes the claim: No State has a history of more absorbing interest than Tennes- sec s'=..
 There are stories of sevier, of Cath crime Sherrill, of the Tennessee Poca- hontas," of Robertsons long journey after powder which in a few hours af- ter he returned to his home and fort was tHSdHS UT saving rom the indians his family and friends. Boys will read with thrilling intent the story of Hood. the Boy with Nine Lives who called fame Bullets, Indian Knives and Scalring. There are stories of Boone Crockett, the Tailor President" of General Sam Houston, of Jackson. of Polk
 It Is a book to teach Tennessee chill dren laudable pride in their glorious State. So thrilling are the adventures herein related. so typical of our pio- neer and progressive days. so teeming with intent are the stories of this volume that it may well be trcas- ured volume in every boys library. Reading it they may learn how brave. trustworthy boys grow noble men and great sta tesmen.
 It will be we'll for the youth of Ala bama when the stories of our State are put into just such fascinating form. Good histories we have. but none as yet exactly suited as is this volume to the third and fourth grade of our schools.
 Personal and Pertinent.
 One of the mos table book reviewers of the Northern nresS has 0f late ha