The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-05

was the nrsc. They comprise an epic of the Southern people,
 "savoyards Essays" The Neale Pub fishing Co.,. New York and Washing ton, has done the public a great ser- vice in bringing together under the title "Savoyard's Essays" articles which Eugene Newman has furnished to the press in various parts of the country. They are classical, eloquent and philosophical. He Is without doubt one of the best informed and most in- | teresting writers on public men and measures in this country The man who has this volume at hand has mine of information from which to dig and Is fairly we'll fitted for discussion of great events that have marked the progress of the United States. The Louisville Post, in the course of a lengthy review, says:
 'One of the chief values of this book and one of the reasons for it's exist ] ence-is the fact that. while the older and greater men of our history have been the subjects for biographer and ! essayist, tho men of twenty and thirty years back have their records mainly l in the newspapers of their time and in Congressional reports. inaccessible, | so far as the general public Is concern ed Around sTch names IS those of Washington. Jefferson and Hamilton biography hovers and settles; but the lesser men-senatorial giants of the mid-nineteenth century, men like Doug- las. Toombs, Stevens. Carpenter, Conk- ling, Tilden, Hill, Morton. Lamar--so far as the younger generations are con- cerned, are not more than familiar It Is these men and their like whom Mir. Newman has recalled far us, each fin | hfa hahif ba lfuad ar Iaaak o. he seemed to this quick-eyed corre- spondent, who, perhaps, has as wide a knowledge of the United States Con- gress-Senate and House--as any man of today, except some veteran members | themselves.
 Mfr. Newman has something to say, and he says 1t with viEor and color. Dullness is never one of his defects. He has the very requisites of his calling--the keen eye and ear, the sympathetic imagination, the vivacious expression, the wide knowledge of his- tory"
 Forty Years of Active Service" is a contribution to the literature of the day by the distinguished Virginia sol- dier. statesman and gentleman. Chas. T. o'FerralL It is some history of the war between the Confederacy and the
 
 cences of a Confederate officer, who served four years from private to Lieu tenant and Acting Colonel, in the cavs airy of the Army of Northern Virginia The first half of the book relates to the war, the second half treats of the political history of Virginia for the last forty years, in which the author has played a conspicuous part. Colo res O'Ferrall's style is simple and f a PVVa fFT L. R,,IF and replete with anecdotes quotations and fine pictures of the men who were conspicuous on either side during the war, and the whole is written in an unusually fair spirit There is not a bitter line in the whole volume, and Federal and Confederate alike are writ ten of with just impartiality and un- varying courtesy, The political history of Virginia aad the nation in the lat ter half of the book Is handled in a most interesting manner. It is not a bare record of facts, but is made en- tertaining by the authors personal rem- iniscences as lawyer, member of the Legislature and of the House of Rep resentatives, Judge and Governor of Virginia.-Neale Publishing Company Washington and New York. lt Personal and Pertinent. New York has been almost quiet for one day!
 A day of fierce blizzard one day. Then comparative quiet.
 Snow! Snow! Snow!
 All surface traffic stopped
 Blocks of cars stopped on every street.
 Tracks deep In snow.
 The ow-plows steaming a lonesome way here and there down streets mufrled In snow.
 Tha anow fropa haan,ao.A . sidewalks heaped up on either side of the street high as a mans head.
 The little wheel and sleigh traffic speeding in almost complete stiffness along snow-softened asphalt The elevated still carries It's loads. but in the augmented crowds does moi stop at every station and you may shin several blocks below or above your destination.
 and is blessing, indeed, in weather like this
 Every bum can make his breakfast In times like these, when there's snow to be shoveled by wagon-Ioads from every doorway.
 Even trains going out of the city were stopped for nearly day and com muters had to stay in town.
 Milk wagons and maFketing stopped off short for day.
 But dinners, and teas. and studio en- tertainments and theatres and opera went right on!
 The art exhibits are all open and opening giving New York sights of most beautiful canvasses. One young artist works in reach of me and any hour can see grow under her skilled hand the twinkling leaves of the syc- hut to be exhibited a month hence.
 At another studio yesterday saw the fine, exquiiste painting which makes the design of a window soon to be put into a church in the South. There is a certain rose and staff of full blown lilies that gIeam from the blue early morning background of the dim garden at dawning that haunt ones memory as do dream flowers gathered In the dream gardens of long ago. The main figures of the window are beau | tffuI and tha whole anirif af fho