The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-22

child's quaint imaginings and fetching speeches fall from her pen as naturally as from the brains and lips of wee folks.
 It is a book that cannot fail to cap tivate every little reader.
 Twelve full page illustrations in beautiful colors make the volume in deed a treasure. Each picture by Ethel Franklin Betts Is a delight to the eye. There IS such vigor, and beauty. and such gorgeous color in each that the eye feasts equally with the mind. Whenever I hold in my hand book of Mrs. Burnett's making, I recall kindly letter from her to a little Ala bama girl of II years. The little girl had sent her a story written in child ish hand with a request that the popu- lar author read 1t. Every author re- ceives hundreds such letters. This story was read and kindly were the criticisms. Mrs. Burnett prophecied a future for the little girl in the literary world, and the little girl IS never for gotten the hearty pra'- f long ago. This was before tv of Little Lord Fauntleroy" Crewe, but l feel sure f little children file heart then as do her richest a.t the dear Ii.
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 story of many lives that mysterious life
 .tage.
 ers are as thick in the orns in autumn when the
 mises to be cold.
 tagon with the weak heart
 fine opinion of herself" Her Daughter Juliet. Her posty
 .sil. Juliets lover Cuthbert ., to ybecome Lord Coranby. The
 detective. Jennings. The Susan Grant, with the story U> murdered father. Loquacious cook, Mrs. Rhil. Thomas, man of all work and accomplice in coin making. The lawyer, Jamey Hale, "a bounder," whatever that may be. Maraquito. the Spanish woman, keeper of gambling room. Professor Lee Beau, teacher of dancing, and Madame Lee Beau and Peggy; Mrs. Herne,> alias Maraquito, alias Balksticka Saul; Clancey, who can make the cries ring clear; Emelia who for half a life time masquerades as dead. Selina; Lord Coranby, whose dying confession unseals the mystery. There Is secret passage through the Rose Cottage to the walled in castle opening into the Hollow Oak Tree. For those who love the story of vari- ous crimes and sundry mysteries the book will give many a thrill of grue- some pleasure. Mir Hume leaves lit- tie spaces in his unwinding of the mysterious plot and counterpiot. If the characters had not the kindness to wait patiently by till the author gath cred up the threads we might have had Criss-Cross of the String Game of Cats Cradle.
 of Hikui, mystery, millions, for those who like diet of spices.
 The Seats of The Mighty. By Gill bert Parker. This special edition of the popular novel of Sir Gilbert Par ker is in sumptuous holiday attire. It is profusely illustrated. The illustra- tions are many, in color and exquisite ly fit and Illuminating to the stirring text The beautiful love story is too we'll known to need reviewers com ment, one can only call attention to scenes of the storming of Quebec, of the glorious deeds of Montclam and of Wolfe are told with q vividncss to cause them to appear as transferred with life before the reader. The very din of battle is in his ears. The set of old favorites in new form as offered by Appletons, this holiday will find many new lovers. .a For Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus, by Joel Chandler Harris A. B. Frost and E. w. Kemble have made their best illustrations for these stories told in rhyme by the matchless story teller of Georgia Mir. Rabbits giggling place and his further advent ures, his cunning, and his jokes are told in jingle gangle measure to delight children. This forms a good holiday addition to the library of Uncle Remus folk lore tales.
 "The Song of the BanJo," is in some what a different measure from tint that we have in our fields, and cabins, when the jolly instrument Is touched by the care free hand of the darkey. You couldn't pack Broadwood half You mustn't leave fiddle in the
 damp. You couldn't raft an organ up the Nile, And play it Tn an Equatorial swamp travel with cooking pots and pails-- | I'm sandwiched tween the coffee and l
 the pork, And when the dusty column checks and |
 tolls. You should hear me spur the rear With my "Pllly- willy winky- winky |
 popp!" co it's any time that comes into my 1
 headD So l keep 'em moving forwed till they | drop.
 So I play 'em up to water and to bed. By the bitter road the Younger Son
 must tread. Ere he win breath and saddle of
 his-ow
 Mid tbe riot of the sheaver at the shed. In the silence of the herder's hut | alone,
 In the twilight, on a bucket upside
 down,
 Hear me babble what the weakest
 won't confess
 [ am Memory and Torment-I am
 Town!
 I am best that ever went with even
 ing dress!
 The Seven Seas. by Rudyard Kipling, An Edition de Luxe of these ringing verses. The decorative cover, silk things. end pieces and eight full page ,olored illustrations make the book one sf the most attractive of App1eton's Gift Books These well-known poems. with the swing and go and the