The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-15

lx Think of comfortable four.room I house with hall and galleries at cost I of much less than one hundred dollars. 1 The chimneys are of stone gathered on | the hills. and the mortar was made l from sand about the door-steps.
 | Doesn't that overtop any of The La i dies Home Journals plans for a house l on little or nothing?
 I Old time flowers are about the front I and back of the house, 4 o'clocks mak- I ing all the air odorous at evening and cape jessamine blooms shining like
 stars at night. Crab apple trees and wild cherries bloom just across the narrow roadway. and the pines .sing
 and sigh about 1t with every breeze | that blows.
 I Would it not be happiness after the fret and fever of the city and Its "sea- | son" to go to some spot like this and live alone with Nature? What odes what epics one could write so close to | perennial things?
 From preface by Prince De Polignac to Madame Hyacinthe Loynn.s book: The result she has attained Is as striking as 1t was unexpected. That result does not consist in the indica- ton of new riches to be exploited in q conquered country. in colony which is but an extension of France. nor in any of those advantages which are the ordinary objects and achievements of our Humanitarian explorations. On the contrary, our author discovers that the Arab, though despoiled by our con quest, has preserved riches of which we cannot deprive him, and advantages
 which suffice for his happiness during
 his earthly life. For what Is to us
 merely optional, or unnecessary, Is to
 the Arab Indispensable. These treas
 -R ,1~ Ix,
 the faith in God--the principles of con
 duct which result from it. and the ad-
 mirable instinct which enables him to
 distinguish. even before a word has
 been spoken, between true affinity and
 hypocritical sympathy. These are the
 treasures which neither moth nor rust doth corrupt The vanquished finds
 therein a source of joy of which none can deprice him: for he has laid up his treasure in his heart"
 The Elder Brother is a book which should prove pleasing as we'll as in- structive. and doubtless profitable, to any reader, especially to three groups
 readers of good literature. the politi- clan and the churchman. Mir. Jervey has compiled his work along the lines of the popular historical novel, but with the avowed purpose of fastening attention to the problems (primary rather than to the presenD of the ra- cial question, and the plight forced upon society. politics. and the church by its suddenly imposed actuality at the close of the Civil War As a novel 1t Is inviting from the start and retains interest to the end; frequently leading to both dramatic and amusing situa- tions. The book has an admirably de- signed and developed plot, likewise purpose, and what Is unusual, neither is made subservient to the other; the strength of the plot giving the best of effect to the objective idea. The story of the two brothers. the elder being the hero, while a fine exposition of character with a moral and a lesson, concerns merely the novel; the condi- tions under which they grew from childhood to manliness, and became leaders of men, socially ahd politically. is a part and parcel of the history of the exciting times. The heroine. if any. out of the multiplicity of stars, is a breezy and beautiful young woman of education and character. who at- tained social position and influence be- yond her birth and surroundings-an- other lesson.
 The practical politician of the ag- gressive present will find much to his advantage in this book. The analysis of the political conditions, and conse- quent exigencies. during the recon struction period. when the life of law and liberty hung on the clouds. is thor ough and impressive. The opportuni- ty of the negro at the date of his emancipation. and the threatened fate awaiting him from failure to grasp tho responsibility of sudden elevation to, citizenship, are treated frankly and 'forcibly. and the reader is sure to