The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-04
NEW BOOK NEWS
 coNDrJCTrD BY MARTHA YOUNG
CONDUCTED BY MARTHA YOUNG

are picked off by sharp shooters "as iies are licked from a molasses jug" mighty guns hurling death into the charging infantry suggest to Mir. Bar sry kerosene sprayed from hose noz- gle on the tribe of pests (ants);" de- pioyed lines of the besieging army cast their microbe grip more firmly Into the slope:" a battalion of men is ''brushed of as a handful of flies might be blown away from a heel of bread
 It Is difficult often to get clear con cept out of MT. Barrys metaphor, they let similtude slip through them like water through a seive and leave us staring into a net work of words, won dering if they were woven to hold a meaning.
 Yet the mind, puny as it is, must grasp an incident and cling tight, as q poet to a fringe of metaphor, for comprehension even distant" That is a fair sample of MT. Barry's meta phors. 1t expresses (though that is not what he intended 1t to do) some what of the readers sensations when grasp ing for the meaning of its metaphorical phrases. e
 MT. Barry's pen has real strength, he need not run 1t amuck of crudeness to make his work read vigorously.
 There are many marring repetitions in the volume. whole paragraphs, des- criptions, stories retold almost word for word. A fault due no doubt to the fact that this truly enthralling book is made up from articles which have appeared in Century. Everybody's, Col Hers, Saturday Evening Post, Scientific American, London's Fortnightly Re- view and in many other periodicals of Lonodn, Paris and New York. What is no fault in separate magazine articles is, however. a serious fault in a volume. It Is one that could have been easily remedied. An office reader ought to take in book as a whole as readily as a reviewer, and should leave no marring repetitions for the public to trip over in a book so absorb ing and important
 Yet so strlkingly told is the exciting story of twelve months before Port Arthur lay one of the few war-cor- respondents who was continually at the front that hundreds upon hundreds will eagerly read and re-read the thrilling pages.
 Rabbi Ben Eyra- A Dramatic Mono logue by Robert Browning.
 Grow old along with me: The best is yet to be.
 Ine last or lire, TOT Wnlcn the rest was made;
 Our times are in his hand
 Who saith "A whole l planned Youth shows but half;
 Trust God See all
 Nor be Afraid!''
 How many of my readers know the pleasure of a handmade volume of poem they love. Something that Is not turned out by thousands to be gathered in loads and flung at length on bargain counters of department stores. Something delicate and fine and precious is a handmade volume. the feel of handmade paper is good, there is a difference in the look of | type made lovingly by hand there is an | exquisiteness in the binding, however simple. Such a copy of Browning S Rabbi Ben Eyra is before me. The frontispiece and decorations cut on wood. printed in black and red on French handmade paper. Each copy Is numbered and must always be rare as only one hundred and sixty are to be sold. The work of these little volumes are done in a hand press directly from type designed by MT Cloudy for his own publications exclu- sively. The decorations, typography press work and bindings are the per | sonal work of the printers. who are striving again to unite craft with art in producing books which shall be beautiful, lighter and substantial, and consequently, rare. The printers, MT and Mrs. Goudy. work to please them selves, to carry out their own ideas their work is not known tC the advertiser, and the review. CT rarely gets one of theii numbered copies. The Village Press was established in the village of Park Ridge, Ill. near Chicago, about two years ago, it Is wholly in the hands of the two workers mentioned. The type being designed especially fol
 these little volumes. each Is a thing apart Geographically. the decoration designs, bindings, etc, are also unique Mrs. Goudy sets the type and the ter American devotees to art-craft prin by hand. The books are individua are personal effort from the flat shee
 to completed volume. The printers
 are simply doing well, quietly unosten
 tatiously bookwork in the old-fash toned way, they are students enjoyini their work for itself glad If it please
 a few others.
 There comes to mind so many VII liages of the South where people of ex lauisite taste might find just so mucl Joy from an are enterprise such a! this It Is something outside tn rough, hustling commercialism 0
 today. Something most unusual fo
 America. The books are folded care fully in dim blue covers and are delight to the beauty loving eye. So take and use thy work
 4 Amend what flaws may turk
 What strain O the stuff.
 What weepings past the aim!
 My time be in Thy handl
 Perfect the cup as planned!
 Let age approve of youth, And death complete the same"
 It is a pleasure to have wise word
 that stay in the mind and heart fas tened in such suitable frame. Som colors of the little volume are 9Th , Blessed Damzel, "The Ninety Firs
 Psalm" "The Hollow Land"
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