The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-12
NEW BOOK NEWS
CONDUCTED BY MARTHA YOUNG

JUNG 4 ssstssssstsfsfs4sstsses<s<~<sst SsnsAiae Rrayes. s "out of myself. lift me up,
 To live Fer cthera and in living % To bear . blessine where'er 90.
 To give the sunShine and the clouds conceal. af li'e
 Or let them but the silver side reveal" Do you not think the above sweet l and precious prayer for Gunshinef I came across 1t the other day. and thought perhaps you might think 1t
 worth copying in the Bulletin. It did | me good. and I should like 10 pass tt | on Your for good cheer, Mrs. J. c. Scaich, IT,, Corresponding Secretary, 171s F. ssrd. St., Kansas City. Mo. The Keystene.
 One of the great New York dailies furnishes us with the information that The Women's Domestic Guild of Ameri- ca of New York is prepared to furnish
 temporary help for domestic purposes. This Guild Is ready to supply servants
 for meal or several days on a mo- 1 ments notice This privilege is open
 only to subscribers to the Guild and orders by telephone are filled until nine o'clock at night. The temporary
 servants thus furnished being voucheA for by the Guild. This Is the first attempt along such lines in America and should prove as much a boon to
 the woman who does not regularly keep servant as to the one who 10 temporarily without one. During the two weeks following Labor Day the guild found places for seventeen hun- dred servants-
 The Smart Set. The Smart Set has fairly outdone it. self In the March number, which marks the beginning of the sixth year of its
 existence. The complete novel is 'The Princess Elopes." by Harold MacGrath. an author whose immense popularity Is due to the fact that he is a born
 story-teller. Mir. MacGrath is at his very best in this charming tale of
 European princess anl a young Amer. iacn medical student It is a delight
 ful blending of romantic and delicate
 humor. touched everywhere with the deft hand of an author who has mas
 tered his craft. Nothing better of its Kind has appeared in magazine in many a month. Among the dozen short stories in this number about half are by authors who have been either entirely unknown hitherto to magazine readers or are
 just into prominence. It has always been the avowed policy of The Smart
 set to encourage young authors. and thls issue proves the wisdom of the policy. One of the best stories in the
 magazine is "A venial Offense." bv Norvell Harrison. In marked contrast
 to it's humor is the powerful dramatic
 motive of Beatrix Demarest Lloyd "A
 Man Uniearned" William Hamilton
 osborne's The Transfer of Thorney- craft is strikingly clever and satiri- cal story of phase of smart society
 and The Transit of a Soul" bv Trar'
 ces Aymar Mathews. Is so strange and
 unusual that it defies classifioation
 Other stories, equally as clever. are
 by Kate Jordan, Van Tassel Sutphen
 Clinton Dangerfield, Julia B, Foster
 and Algernon Tassin.
 Maurice Francis Egan has an enter.
 tanning and timely essay on Questions
 or Freceaence, In which he discusses the laws that goven social usages in Washington. Il" The verse in the March Smart Set is lol remarkably fine quality. and includes characteristic work by Madison Cawein
 zina Gale, Arthur Stringer. Florence wilkinson, Gouverneous Morris. Edith
 M. Thomas. R. K. Munkittrick and
 John Vance Cheney.
 If The Smart Set maintains the stana ard of this number even approximst tell
 Tor the coming twelve months the fp,
 ture success of the magazine will ha
 as sure as its past.
 The Worlds Work for March. The splendid illustrations accom- panying Perceval Landons Into Tihet with founghusband Fare what strike nn to~ Der of The Worlds Work. The article
 Is an intensely Interesting and vivid account of the strange people whose
 life centres in the magnificent golden
 roofed temple at Lhasa, called the
 Potala. A brief discussion of The Pe
 riodicals Read in a Country Commun-
 fly follows. The work of the Hague
 Tribunal It's functions. methods, DOW
 CTS and residence, are described in
 Charles Ray Deans article, "Presery-
 ing the Worlds Peace" illustrated with
 interior views of the court room, James
 Davenport Whelpley tells Why Eng
 fish Railroads are Safe" in an illus
 trated article full of suggestive com ments on British railroad methods. The betterment work by which the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company Is im- proving the conditions of life of TO- 600 people Is described by Lawrence Lewis In an Illustrated article Up lifting 17,000 Employees" That th, Government is rapidly working out new system of agricultural develop ment Is the meaning of Clarence H, PoeS article"The Government and tn, New Farmer" illustrated with photo- graphs showing some of the. marvellous work the Department of Agriculture is doing. Zach McGhee writes a sketch of the man who has made tunnel trans portation possible from New York across her rivers--Charles M. Jacobs. the engineer. The condition of French workingmen is described in an article from the first~hand investigation of John Callan O'Laughlin into the "In- dustrial Conditions in France" The newest methods of simplifying office work are described by Leroy Scott In New Methods of once Work" Pladi. mir G. Simkhovitch gives an eloouent account of 'The Peoples Uprising in Russia" showing its causes and char acter. A page is devoted to The Most Important Historical Book of the Win ter"
 The Critical State of Venezuela" dis cusses the condition of the country and the events that have led up to the re- newed strain in our relations with the South American Republic. The article Is fully illustrated. There are two de- partments of unusual copiousness and interest in their fields.--"The Work of the Book World" and Among the