The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-12

honor, played chess together, and to-
 gether dreamed day dreams which
 were never to be realized. Contempo-
 rary testimony to my joy in his com
 panionship is borne in frequent refer
 ences thereto in my private corres-
 pondence of those days. Several stu
 dents," says a New Years letter to
 Northern friend, room in the hotel, as
 well as young and very intellectual
 tutor right back of me, which makes 1t
 very pleasant. In later letter: The
 tutor Is a brick. I am much pleased
 with him and anticipate much pleas
 ure in his company" As to his plans
 for the future: The tutor--Lanier--is studying for professorshfp; is going
 to remain here about two years. then
 go to Heidelberg, Germany, remain about two years come back, and take Ia professorship somewhere" It Is needless to add that the destroying an- gel of war wrecked ruthlessly all these beautiful ambitions. Milton H. North rup. in March Lippincotts Magazine. That truth is stranger than fiction, was again demonstrated when critic re- | gently complained that the turing away | of President Grant by the gold clique in Frederic S. Isham's latest novel,
 Black Friday, is both sensational and impossible episode" As mat
 ter of fact, the author found the | episode difficult to handle because | there was so much truth in 1t. Grant was induced to go to a little town,
 remote from telegraphic communication | through the representations of the gold
 crowd, headed by Fisk and Gould. who desired him out of the way on Black Friday. With the President at the
 bedside of a sick friend. it would be | impossible for the government to sell gold or to prevent the corner. So much was cleverfy arranged; only Grant became suspicious of the zeal of his friends, and in the end ordered the sale of gold. The subsequent tn-
 vestigation cleared the Presidents
 skirts of all complicity in the consipra- cy of Black Friday. All of which Street in those days had as many, strings reaching to Washington as 1t has today
 Books may be profitable to author. and publisher and still not figure con- stantly on the lists of books most call ed for and the best sellers" There are Palmer Cox's Brownie books, for
 instance. of which f1fty-five editions have been necessary. Of other popular children's books, Lady Jane" will soon
 be on the press for the fifteenth time. while Mary Mapes Dodge's Donald and
 Dorothy has a steady sale of several
 thousand copies each year. Among
 books for older readers, Miss Scid- more's books of travel are in demand, and seven editions of her China, the
 Long Lived Empire" have appeared.
 When Patty Went to College" the first work of a young writer, has gone through ten editions in two years. ia nf ha few popular poets. His Poems Here at Home'' was published recently for the twelfth time. And Theodore l.. De Vinnes Correct Composition" not book one might think to attract the general reader, has just gone to press for the sixth time.
 Some March issues, as previously an- nounced, will be the autobiography of the Hon. Andrew D. White, in two large volumes, and Dr. s. Wier Mitchell's Constance Prescott" the main Incident of which is based upon a woman's vendetta which actually came under pr. Mitchell's observation. Additional interest accrues to the pub Iicatioh of this book following, as it does so soon upon Dr. Mitchell's seven | ty-first birthday. And the coincidence | attracts attention pleasantly to the ! fact that our American authors have been. and are today, long-lived class. been likened, attained the age of
 eighty-five. Whittier and Harriet | Becher Stowe died at eighty-four; Bryant, at eighty three. Emerson at
 seventy-eight Irving at seventy-six.
 Longfellow at seventy-five. Lowell and Walt Whitman at seventy-two. Of au- thors still living-and with one or two
 exceptions actively at work-Julia Ward Howe will be eighty-six years | old in May, Edward Everett Hale is Ieighty-three. Moncure Conway is seven
 ty-two. Mark Twain Is sixty-eight and William D. Howells will be sixty eight this March. Holmes and Whit tier both did some if their best work
 after they had passed seventy-f1ve.
 How to Work Hard and Keep Healthy.
 It is interesting to know how a man like Ernst Haeckel. author of The Won
 ders of Life, has been enabled to labor
 strenuously for years. produce volumes
 of scientific work, and keep robust and 1 strong. This is his own account of his method of living:
 l T am an early riser. I begin work | at five in summer and six in winter | after the customary light breakfast of coffee and rolls. I do not take a second breakfast at ten or eleven, as many Germans do, but work continuously un- til o'clock, when I have dinner. This,
 with me, as with all Germans, is the
 hearty meal of the day. After dinner
 take half hours nap; then read the
 newspaper or chat with my family for an hour. and perhaps go for long walk. At about four. like all Germans, l take my cup of coffee, but without