The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-05

dent Of today likewise finds an un- varying pleasure in the simple utter anees and perfect formal structure of the epic.
 This new edition of the famous masterpice has been prepared with a view to its use in advanced high school work as we'll as by college classes. Some space has necessarily been devoted in the introduction to a discussion of the sources from which the poet drew the material for his epic, but the main stress has been laid on the fullness of the notes and the com. pleteness of the vocabulary. German questions on the text. for the use of classes in which German is the medium of expression, are included in the book. A constant attempt has been made to explain every difncult and unusual con- struction in the poem. without inter- fering with the students own grasp of the underlying beauty of the work and his conception of it's literary value.
 The book is illustrated with decora- tive headings and full-page drawings by Sears Gallagher
 The Compromises of Life is the title of the first collection ever made of Colonel Watterson's trenchant lectures and addresses. They range from the memorial to George Dennison Prentice, delivered upon the invitation of the Legislature of Kentucky in 1870, to the dedication of the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1892, and an address at the Emerson centenary of the present year.
 Besides literary and biographical subjects including striking papers on Lincoln and John Paul Jones, there are lay sermons of the characteristic kind which have given this distinguished Kentucky editor his renown for elo- quence and downright thinking, The book includes also, in the form of an appendix, the famous strictures upon the so-called smart set" of Newport and New York.-Published by Fox, Duffield & Co.
 The Carolinians. by Annie L. Sloan, is an old-fashioned love story of the stormy times in the early history of South Carolina--Neale Publishing Co.,, New York and Washington.
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 Being Done Good" by Edward B, Lent. Illustrated Edition.
 The chorus of approval wihh which Mir. Edward B. Lent's book. Being Done Good" has been received, has led (O IAS P0OAiCattOH OA dI AAAuStEaIOu CuA~ tion, where the artist has given his interpretation of some of the witty and clever satires which the author has launched at the practicers of the healing art. MT. Lent set forth his ex- periences in the effort made to secure cure for an obstinate and peculiarly malevolent brand of rheumatism, and his exposition of the methods practiced | by the various varieties of healers whom he consulted, was no inexpress- ibly funny that the reading world laughed from one end of the county to the other. MT. Lent did not denounce the practitioners; he simply told what they did to him, and told 1t in such a fash ion that even the headers themselves had to laugh. The book showed that MT. Lent Is a humorist of rare discern: ment and quality. Not every man has the philosophy to see the humorous side of his own sufferings. That the story was well told Is established by the welcome which the book has re- ceived in all quarters. It is unique in character and quality.
 Being Done Good" is now brought out in a new edition, with illustrations, which cannot fail to increase the good impression the book has already crea- ted. The fun of the pictures Is just
 
 fense as the text They ought to add to the popularity of the book Since Being Done Good" was first publish ed, Mir. Lent has tVied another "cure" He has gone to Arizona to test the ef- fects of the superlatively dry atmos- phere of that arid region upon his malady He writes gleefully from the borders of the desert that he has gain ed ten pounds. and is in hope that this increase of adipose tissue will begin to Timber up his stifr and drouthy Joints
 Naturally. he finds life there Is full of new things. and it is evident that he en1oyes conditions which are SO un- like those to which the Eastern man Is accustomed. It is possible the cli- mate of Arizona may achieve what all sorts and conditions of practitioners or the healing art failed to accomplish. Certainly, every one who has read Mir. Lents philosophically humorous ac- counts of his affections will wish him all sorts of luck. The desert windS are abundantly supplied with 'hot air. .'' put 1t seems to be of a different quality from that dispensed by dozen and one healers who offered to cure him "off- hand"