The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-28

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 Pam does the suffering. Little gay, careless. ever thoughtful Pam. ever trying to it the inaccuracies of her in- innate home experiences with the ac- curacies of larger life outside, and all ways failing to find the fit.
 If the author had a theory to evolve,
 1t would have been the old one; the
 parents have eaten sour grapes Gin this case finding them very sweeD and the children's teeth are set on edge. Pam Is one of the most unusual and attractive heroines of today.
 Her piquant individuality stands out from the printed pages like that of q real living being. The poor little Pa gan philosopher has wrought out of her odd pieces of experience more noble and Christian code of life than many a soul claiming more stern philosophy.
 Her parting with her lover at the little station of Panyance Is scene that, with its variants. follows always in the wake of the joy-lovers- Those who take all joy for themselves surely leave their share of sorrows for others to bear.
 The story shifts scene rapidly from Southern France to the old English home of Lord Zealand, to Monaco, to Penzance, and to Paris. and to London.
 It is a book the reader will not put willingly out of his hands until the las. line is read.
 It is a book that will unheralded find its way to many hearts. A novel writ ten with sanity. dignity and charm.
 Billy Duane. By Frances Aymor Mathews. Reading this book Is ike walking up Fifth Avenue and down Broadway.
 It is real New York. The places to which the people go read like an ad- yertising sheet for the city. It is ice cream soda at Hylers. Flowers from Fleischman, Fleischman's little green and glass flower wagon can be seen any day out with its odorous loads. It IS dinners at the Waldorf and looking up from Cosmos at the "electric colors on top of the Flatiron." It is the French Quarter, Chinatown. the Ghetto and AbI-esh Shemal (Litt1e Syria), all of far down town New York. It is tho Bowery Saloon where ward bosses talk politics. it is'a reception in the Madi- son Avenue House, 1t Is a party on a palace car, with several reporters on hand! It Is buying lace. and lingerie at Arnold's and toys for Laddie at Schwartz. It Is a boy to grow Into n Bishop at Seminary in West Franelich Street, 1t is the string of crowded boarding houses in West Twenty-first Street.. 1t is the tiny apartments in East Fifteenth Street near Stuyyesant Square, where the real old New York CTS still do live. It is having box of a room top floor the Waldorf and eat ing at Macy's! The New York places are in the book all right.
 And the New York people. There is a Mrs. Proper trying to get divorce that she might marry her old time low CT Jack Stowe, who has already gotten his divorce There is Mir. Proper. who hasn't really quite gotten his divorce, except in Mexico. but who is married. probably in Mexico. to Mrs. Trooper two. They afa meet at social functions and dear old Bishop" gives to all. There is m Eng fish Earl who Is in love to desperation with the Child" of the divorced Prop pers and their love making is the jol- Hest part of the pages. There Is handsome sister Proper who wears the OLeary's gowns for attracting custom for the most fashionable, exclusive and extravagant dressmaker in the United States;" while the mother Prop per accepts velvet gown and "a lit- tie nun and toque of the cloth and the ermine en suite with the coat" for 1ur- ing the Mayors wife and the young English Earl to play in the great room upstairs, hHoWn only to the select row where keno and roulette and the bridge that carries us all over CT un- der are to be found.
 There is winning the negro vote by West Side stunning and the Ger man by sluming on the East There is a crusade against Noise which stops the factory whistles, the church bells, striking clocks of a small city of Vest ern New York, and makes noise in the about the wife of the wouldbe governor of New York and