The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-19
NEW BOOK NEWS
CONDUCTED BY MARTHA YOUNG


 Master and seer and priest and king yea, all
 Receive of him their daily dole of bread.
 Let him but stay his hand, rust
 would corrode
 The ponderous engine, every buoyant Decay at desolate wharves. dense peo- Be the inheritance of the starved wolf, And all the light and joy escape the Where then. o bard. your roseate hills Your pipes. o minstrel. and your silver O sculptor, artist, your transporting
 dreams?
 Immperial ,ips man! co-worker with the And rain and light and heat and cold The agencies of God to feed and clothe And ,ol,d render beautiful and glad the What mission loftier. holier than
 Henry Jerome stockard.
 Apropos of the March issue of s. Weir Mitchelrs new novel, Constance Irescot. 1t is interesting to note the A ventures of Francois" issued in 1S9S is In It's sixth printing (and the latest printing was 25.000). "Dr. North and His Friends" tpublished in 190O) has been printed five times, and three edl- tons have been sold In England. Cir cumstance' dssued in 19O1) has been printed six times;, Characteristics tlSsz). nine times; Hugh Wynne," the most popular of all, has been printed seventeen times.
 Ihe German translation of Carl Sny- ders successful book, New Conceptions m science" will be published by Johann Anoroslus Earth, at Leipsig, in the early part of March. The firm of Earth IS weil-known in Germany as the pub fishers of authoritative works on science, and the fact that they have un- 'uertaken the translation and publica- tion or this work shows that the book mas been as we'll received in Germany as m tnls country. New Conceptions III Sclence' has also been translated into Italian, and is in the hands of the Messrs Bocca of Torino
 some interesting comments on Shake speare's art made by Maurice Maeter- iink, apropos of the recent production or King Lear" in Paris. are contained III the current Harper's Weekly. "It IS safe to declare" writes Maeterlinck
 arter surveying the Iteratures of every period and of every country, that tne tragedy of the old King constitutes 'ne mightiest. the vastest, the most
 IrihS' the most intense dramatic poem that has ever been written. Wer. we to be asked from the height of an other planet which Is the synthetic pIay representative and archetypaI of tne human stage, the play in which Inc ioeai or the loftiest scenic poetrv is most fully realized, it seems to me car- tain that, after due deliberation. all tho poets of our earth-the best iudpes Jn enls exlgency-would with one voica name King Lear" V'ioe
 Herman Whitaker, whose new tales oL the great Northwest. The Proha-
 snr omer ana other Stories" is just off the press, mas had a strenuous and eventful early life. He was intendad % Tor doctor, but to escape tbis re r away rom home and joined the Rrit- Isn army. After a few years militarv serVice' he went to Canada with bis brother, working arduously at farmins m one Of the widest regions of tbS nuoson Bay country, hundreds of miles . .noln c,VIiization. To make matters s ., S AhS uil eu the enmity of Somo or the savage half-Indian settlers yybo burned his barns. killed his cattle and Iofced him to leave his farming and on to california with his wife and fan,iI,r ~Here ne had at first. hard struppIe to make living. But, to quote bis own words: Somehow we managed to lve' took everything that came aiong. l worked at carpenterinp. naint~ ins' gardening, wood-cutting. ranch ing, ana turned my hand to forty other occupatlons-not without success" If is out Of his Canadian experiences that MT whitaker has given us the new vol ume of stories-stories vibrant with i'ie' against the bleakest of settings. After a long silence. AmeIie Rives. Weil-known as the author of "Virginia or virginia. The Quick or the Dead ?'' ana other stories and poems has writ ten a dramatic poem entitled "Selene, " Ine theme Is the love of Diana (Selene) for Endymion, and it re- lates the struggle of the beautiful god dess against the love which finally masters her. The poem Is admirably | conceived and developed in the classic l style suited to the theme. and will in- terest even those who do not usually read poetry. Amelie Rives returned