The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-30

Qe6pGbt cAPCiiChCCo tdhc tAt mold of ourselves. and so we miss com pleteness. dream of some perfection in music, in art, in purity, even in love and when the time comes for that idoa thing to touch my life, my own person. ality pops up and lays its disfigurine hand on the faultless vision. All I gel out of 1t is a caficature of myself. always stand between my soul and tn, ideal" t. Mature never did betray the hear, that loved her, neither the hand thar ,, labored for her. yet to the improvident as to the unpoetic, she is a bitter task mistress with a sardonic smile always upon her mobile lips"
 Nature punishes a mistake in mar. riage more heavily than a crime." Every man Is desperately afraid +oi the woman he loves-at least until ht is sure that she loves him. Its your nature to make every hole that has an opportunity in It. little larger, and it's my nature to make it smalle: I'm an onlooker and not q doer"
 "self-control. the Greeks said, is the highest of all virtues. and comprehends all others"
 There Is something better than self control-self-sa sacrifice
 "Nothings are like ciphers. How much they mean depends on whether the man. like other units, stands in front or behind them."r
 The Lords hero-mill isn't large one. but He is still turning out few of the genuine old brand"
 T never caught fortunes forelock."
 Return-By Alice MacGowan and Grace MacGowan CookeA These two Southern sisters have written the best Colonial novel of the South ever writ ten by an American. The heroine of Return" Mistress Diana Chaters, is the belle of the Colonial city of Charles Town, South Carolina. The time of the romance Is the early eighteenth cen- tury. and the time is portrayed with an actuality that carries the reader clean into those by-gone days. Steam, elec- tricity. wireless telegraphy. all are for gotten, and we move in slow caravans and in o1d-fashioned stage coaches through primeval forests and over In- dian trails.
 The hero is a young virginian of the histronic name of Marshall, a very conquering young hero, and lovable one.
 The loves of the beautiful, capracious Diana and the noble, single hearted Marshall is the chief interest of the reader?,it is that that keeps him peep ing pages ahead. A very good Ameri can version of a Tanning of the Shrew.
 Other romances also fill in the niches of the mail love story.
 The loves of Mistress Martie and her Ulysses, a bit of "Lavendar and Old Lace" perfumed. as 1t were. with old rose leaves from gardens of the long ago.
 The sad romance of Agnes O Gleskie falls from out the brave pages like a poor pressed flower of last summer
 Tit" Buckaloo and Baunermonteh have a happy ending to their long, drawn wooing.
 General Oglethorpe treads through the story. a truly noble figure
 The contrast between the early be- ginnings of Charlestown and Savannah are distinctly put.
 There are excellent pages concerning whitffeld's missions to our State The Indian life, games, rulers, habits. wars, customs are all portrayed. The au- thors show exceptional strength in handling a well made plot. The purity and finish of its literary style Is re- freshing.
 The book is womanly human and full of loving kindness and joyous spon- taneity.
 Return" ss a book which should be in every Southern home, school or city library. ~, .4.
 "The Rose of the World" The books of Agnes and Egertu Castle have come with a fair degree of regularity from the press, for they are facile and pro- life writers. Yet never should one be more welcome than their latest, "The Rose of the World" for in 1t the writ CTS enter new field. and present q plot of great originality. Think of q new plot in this day and time when al most all the plots in the world seem to be old and all the situations thread bare.
 So full of the color. the charm, the mystery of India is The Rose of the World that the seething Oriental life seems fairly before your eyes. That East whose secrets are guarded with such jealous care that you never do more than lift a corner of It's myste- rlous veil. Then suddenly India, dream like. fades away. and the scene is shift ed to England, mist-enwrapped, rain swept Englani, cold and bleak and grey. so different from the blue skies and fierce sunshine of India.
 The story Is briefly this:
 Lady Geraldine, the wife of Lieuten- ant Governor in Northern India. has married at sixteen a certain Captain English, merely to escape the inconve- nience of living with relatives who do not want her. Captain English is kill ed during a siege in terrible India" and after 4 short period his widow be- cones Lady Geraldine, very brilliant. rather blase. mol ling herself as if in a dream, refusing to let herself be awak- ened by any knowledge of life and its troubles. For this reason she had not read Captain English's papers. kindly sent her by a 'riend, after his death.
 Enter at this point Captain Bethune. friend and comrade of Captain English. who wishes to write a life of his friend, and seeks the cooperation of Lady Geraldine. supposing, of course that she Is thoroughly familiar with her former husbands papers Lady Geraldine refuses to comply with this request. preferring to continue to dream out her life. Her husband pompous tyrant. who early in life has been dubbed the ass with the seraphlc smile" Insists. and Lady Geraldine be- gins to read her late husbands letters. and finds among his papers journal. which he kept for her during the days of starvation endured by him and his men while they are beseiged In the little mountain fort by a horde of na- lives. Then comes the awakening, when she finds that she Is being won by her husbands letters, and finds only hatred in her heart for Lord Arthur. How she mourns for her dead and how that dead husband comes back, when he has satisfied himself that his return Is necessary for his wife's happiness, makes the story interesting and human, and full of the artistic and dramatic essence and well worth reading.
 The dramatis personae are exceed ingly interesting. Few young girls in the fiction of today are as attractive Otrt irh fttI