The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
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in The Advertiser, Life and Letters or Gen. Robert E. Lee"
 From the Military Institute of Vir- ginia were Hon. John A. Wise, now or New York, and Moses Ezekiel. now SIT Moses Ezekiel of Rome, and many oth- CTS. Colonel Wise has, in his late novel The Lions Skin." given pictures Of the boy soldier. Darlington that will last always; it is quite patent to the reader that the book is as much an auto biography as a novel.
 Sir Moses Ezekiel, knighted by the King of Italy, has become famous as a sculptor. He executed and presented "a statue orthe Virgfnia Military Insti tute of "virginia Mourning Her Dead, in memory of the eight cadets who were killed at New Market and are buried on the parade ground of the in- stitute. The unveiling of the monu- ment was the 4th of July, 1902. The following telegram was read at the ,unveiling:
 gro V. M. l., Lexington, Virginia: Assume atQue illustris complexas lemina porte ct memor ct hdus gra- tutor. Ezekiel"
 CT am with you, and embracing the threshold of your illustrious portals, mindful of the past and faithful, l send congratulations.D4 The youngest of the Boy Soldiers on record is George l.. Lamison, born at | winona, Miss. November 3, 1850. Joined Stanford's Mississippi Battery at Grenada, Miss, August 2. 1881, ana at Shiloh before he was twelve years | old. was badly wounded.
 The saddest of these sad stories or youth sacrificed oh the altars of our | country are those of our boys who He in graves marked Unknown. Touching incidents abound the book: | At the hospital one day there was q poor little boy of fourteen to have his leg amputated at the thigh 1 went to I him and said: My dear, there is great danger attending this operation. Don't | you think you had better make your peace with GodT He answered: have made my peace with God long ago. I then asked him if he was 8 member of the church, and he said. No, | but when a boy dies in defense of his country he has made his peace with God already"
 1 The records here are life stories that | have already broken mothers hearts while they have emblazoned the pages of history with the glorious memorials | of heroes.
 | I must express the wish over and I over again that our Chapters Of Daughters of the Confectionery form h- braries of such books as these that the | glorious records of our past may be ever before the eyes and in the minds l of the children of to-day.
 l Nedra. By George Barr McCutcheon. Mir McCutcheon's romances are the most fetching and the most plausible. | All things, however romantic. seem possible as he relates them. It is just | the most ordinary thing in the world for millionaire Ridgeway and the mill lionairess Grace Vernon engaged to be married in May to elope in ther and sister. Mir. and Miss Ridge. toward Manila. Aboard ship they meet the tall. poor. proud. broad l shouldered Westerner Veath. He l with all the haste and ardor of the l West, falls in love with Grace and l asks her brothers consent to press his suit.
 l Ridgewav finds on board the most beautiful woman he has ever seen. Lady Huntingford wife of the always unbsarable ancient Lord Huntingford. but his loyalty to Grace is unmarred despite his desperate jealousy of | Veath.
 In storm at sea Ridgeway seizes and saves the woman nearest him, Lady Huntingford. Veath seizes and saves the woman nearest him. Grace Vernon. Then some lessons of how to be l White Gods to an island full of can nibal natives. How to convert n heather temple into comfortable apart | ments for two, with all modern appli- ancss of bath. lights, service of a troupe of adoring natives and the rest | of things that make life worth living. A war with a neighboring island tribe. the running up of the flag: of England or America? Which? are incidents to the original and intricate plot. 1 Of loves changeful way with youth | and of how tho sea altered the plot of the life stories of four Is captivating reading. A superlatively clever TO-
 nance, and one that holds the reader
 q captive joyous1y enthralled to the
 very last page. ..+. ... Claims and COuntercIainas. by Maud
 Wilder Goodwin. This is a new book by the author of -Four Roads to Par
 adise," but 1t is not SO good as that
 clever volume proved to be. However.
 Claims and Counterclaims." has a dis
 tinction all it's own, it will entertain
 the reader. and so attractively Is it
 put up that it will make a delightful gift book for Xmas.
 Dr. Dilke is the hero, and he labors
 under obligation of owing his life to
 man he would prefer not to.
 what is your idea of gratitude.
 Newbold?" Gratitude, my dear Dllkn.
 is a sentiment reluctantly entertained
 for a benefit grudgingly conferred"
 These are the opening words of the
 book. Dilke cannot get over the fact
 that he owes "the greatest obligation
 which 1t is possible to incur to a man
 whom he neither wholly liked nor en.
 tirely trusted. One forgives Dilke his
 apparent ingratitude. though. because
 he Is just the kind of a man to make
 no compromises. man who will not
 have success at that cost. He was a
 man who did his work just as we'll as
 he possibly could, but he refused to
 juggle with conscience to gain suc>
 cess So he gives up his practice and
 goes to New York. There he falls In
 with an eccentric rich man and accom-
 panies him abroad as his physician
 Here Brandyce, the man to whom he
 owes his life, crosses his path again.
 and the story is largely made up of
 what happens to them, both being in
 love with the same girl Here is Bran.
 dyce's opinion of gratitude. He and
 Miss Eldridge, the girl with whom he
 and Dilke are both in love- are discus
 sing his affairs. But surely" Joyce
 interrupted hastily. gratitude alone
 will insure you Doctor Dilke's good
 opinion"
 You think so?" Brandyce rejoined
 with smiling scepticism in his glance
 That shows how little you know of
 the world. Gratitude. my dear Miss
 Eldridge, is a repelling and not an at-