The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-19
NEW BOOK NEWS
 CONDUCTED BY MARTHA YOUNG


in the woman womanliness. T think that any man who takes an interest in this great country of ours must realize that the one all-important necessity of our social, industrial and political life Is the necessity of the realization of what brotherhood means" The in- terstates anent these sentences: They are typical of 1t (the Presidents style) today and on the day when he left col lege. It Is well known that any large, Iunapplied, non-committal and undesir- able moral sentiment can travel unpro- tected from one end of the country to the other without encountering the least rudeuess and that thousands of them do travel Mir. Roosevelt's writ ings and speeches abound in an unnec- essary fearlessness. He will say, God bless our home with the air of Luther at the Diet of Morms."
 Considerable and very delightful | Comment" is given to MT. Bliss Peary's new year greeting in the Atlantic Monthly. The Bookman heartily com mends this personal word from MT. Perry: "The reluctance of editors to recognize one another's existence. and the consequent absence in one periodi- , cal of any comment on the pages of an- other, is natural reaction from past excesses, but 1t is carried too far. They are afraid to praise lest 1t ad- yertise, and afraid to blame lest ii look like jealousy-there is no chance of profiting from published criticism | there are many little editorial happy ' families, who have no more idea what their equals think of them than the members of a college faculty. We have visited many an editorial office which seemed as snug as a nest oi I nAN tf.s have led such sheltered lives that tC tell the truth to them now would seen like striking. a woman. On the othei hand, there are many editorial deed; | which other editors honestly admire but dare not mention"
 One would, like to quote What arr Facts" but let us hope that man. readers will take up an enjoy th' whole which Is good in all its parts
 "Confidential! For Story Writers Only" should be real by every aspiran in letters. No need for the writer Clara E. Laughlin, to assure us '1ti true," the pages of many magazines have already proved 1t to our full dissatisfaction.
 Amanda of the Mill" increases fl interest in spite of the fact that W, are expected to believe that a per fecly untutored mi1l-girl became in few years a woman of exquisite re finement, culture and intellectually This Is mettmophosis that fire quently takes place in romance, rare ly. if ever, in real life.
 Other articles of this very readable number are: Brenetiere and Bour get before the Ecclesiastical Question Animal Stories of the Future; Twen ty Years of the Republic; Janauchek Mid-season at the Theatres: An Ital ian Impression of Salvini; The Trick o Euphemina and Some Recent Books Six Books If the Month; The Scab; Tn scab Is a story Of tenderness and in tensity
 Birmingham is the only place il Alabama from which sales of book are reported in '"rhe Book Mart
 The report from Birmingham is as fol lows
 Beverly of Graustark. McCutcheon
 The Sea Wolf London.
 The Man on the Box.
 The Prodigal Son. Caine.
 The Masters Violin. Reed
 The Castaway. Rlves