The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-22
Conducted Fly martba Young

bigness of them, the salt sea air and the hungry nones. the humanity and the grim humor of them are too well known to need reviewers note.
 His lines, "The Sea Wife," depict Eng land, the mother of sailors since the days when Raleigh. and Drake. and Smith and others as brave laid in prim- eva, forest the foundations of our splen- dors:
 There dwells wife by the Northern And wealthy wife is sine;
 She breeds breed O lovin' men
 And casts them over the sea. And some are drowned in deep water,
 And some in sight O. shore And word goes back to the weary wife,
 And ever she sends more.
 For since that wife had gate and gear,
 And hearth and faith and build. She wliled her sons to the white har-
 And that is a bitter yield.
 She wills her sons to the wet pIoushinx To ride the horse of tree,
 And syne her sons come home again
 Far spent out of the sea.
 The good wife's sons come home again
 With little into their hands, But the love of men that ha' dealt with
 In new and naked lands.
 Home, they come home from all the
 The living and the dead:
 The good wife's sons come home again
 For her blessing on their head.
 ,srh The latter halt of the book holds the
 G"a sr and Safk ssor fS the Too Ar"y aaw gaa sS Home" For to Admire" etc.
 The truly matchless "L'Eurdi" ends When earth's last picture is painted. and the tubes are tinted and dried When the oldest colors have faded, and
 the younest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need lt-lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen
 shall set us to work anew, And those that were good shall be ham,
 py: they shall sit in golden chair:
 vass with brushes of cameIs hair: They shall find real saints to draw from
 Mag ialene,. Peter anL Paul: Ahey saaII Work TOT an age at sitting
 and never be tired at alli And only the Master shall praise us.
 ana only the Master shal blame; And no one sh Ill work for money. and
 no one shall work for Tame. But each Tor the joy of the working, and ea;h la his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees if for
 the God of Things as They Are!
 An American In New York. bv Onie Read is as much and no more the series of sketches originally published under that title In The Saturday Evening Post ag 10 Fhs Utrex4 ries of loosely related short stories which Mr. Mister printed in the same periodical. As Mir. Mister took his fragmentary tales and fused them into splendid serial story that went straight to the heart of the American people, so Opie Read has taken the brilliant sketches and absorbed them into d novel of plot, of mystery, of thrilling modern romance.
 The delicious satire of the title is re- fected in every page of the book. It is one of the best stories Opie Read has ever' written-as piece of literary workmanship, undoubtedly the best of all.
 A remarkable Southern Colonel-such colonel as only Opie Read can depict -fs the central figure of the book. He declared to a bell boy that he had lived out in America and this was i4.s first trip abroad
 The whimsical humor, tho quaint philosophy and the fine sentiment of the chivalrous colonel delight the reader while the plot holds with grip that gives new meaning to the words substantial interest" And what a delightful surprise awaits the reader in the denoument of this de- licious romance!
 Not all of Opie Reads stories make sure appeal to tine interest Of women readers; but this will surely win tne most obdurate or critical of the sex and women are said to be far more dis criminating readers of fiction than men
 One of the noteworthy things about this. story is it's atmosphere of protest against the sordid It is instinct with noble justification of chivalry. Of TO- nance and of the old-fashioned things of sentiment. While il is deliciously satirical it leaves the right taste in the mouth. All Americans-and New Yorkers-will find rare pleasure in reading this present-day romance,
 John Henry smith, by Frederick Cp- ham Adams.-That there is nothing in q name is illustrated anew by this book, for 1t Is much more than the title would lead one to suspect. being love story of strong interest, into which is woven an amusing story of golf and its devotees. with enthusiastic automo- bilists a close second,
 The hero belongs to that family of whom Sydney Smith was heard to say: We are all one family. all the Smiths who dwell on the face of the earth. You may try to disguise it in any way you like-Smyth or Smythe. or SmiJth-- but you always get back to Smith after all. the most numerous and most re- spectacle family in England. Our hero Is not disguised in any way, however,