The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-12
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too Is delineated and defined that in- tangible color problem so perplexine to Northerners. so yitally bitter thing to Southerners.
 There are really two heroes in 'aThs Northerner;; but Falls Is the man who gives the book it's title--a Northern Acapitalist who purchases the street railway and lighting plant in a small Alabama town, and goes down there expecting that Northern money and push will succeed where Southern man. agement has signally failed. At first he is ignorant of, later he scorns, sec tional prejudice. to md almost the entire town arrayed against him, with bitterness hard for the Northerner to understand. And. of course. Falls gives all his lovc--the strong passion of strong mans first 1ove--to Joan. the belle of the town, lovable beauty hot with all her races fanatic preju- dice. It is a long. hard fight, Falls, in the dark, almost single-handed battling for business integrity and loans love. Does he win? That is for the reader to discover
 The Northerner" is Miss Norah Dayis's first published book; but, though she has written--stortes, sketches, political articles. book re- views-since she could hold a pen, 1t was to teaching in the public schools that she turned when thrown on her own resources at sixteen.
 But after the first year." she says. T had evolved little theory of living, and saw that 1t is not the work itself that makes the life of a working wo- man the dull tread-mill that 1t usually is, but the deadly monotony, the nar- rowness; and determined forthwith to have at least variety Pursuing this theory. worked my way from Key West in Florida to the Ozark Noun tains, living in every State along the way and having good time, ttoo. It was rather a strenuous life for girl; full, too. of hard work, for with my in- herited tastes for good living. I na- turally wanted to live at the best ho- tels and wear good clothes and go with my own class, and teachers sal ary would not do 1t. So supplemented 1t by work for the newspapers and stenographic work in the courts, and this finally won me. So gave up my work in the schools and took a rost- tion as clerk in the Department of Jus tice, being attached to the Federal Court for the Northern District of Ala bama and stationed at Birmingham. worked in the United States Attorneys office mainly, and learned the utmost ramifications of the prosecuting branch of governmental work. Later I was promoted to be deputy clerk of this district, and came back to Huntsville tmy birthplace) to live.
 Tt was in the courts, of course, that I met my book"
 Five Little Peppers and Their Friends. By Margaret Sidney. Eight illustra- tions by Eugenie M. Wireman.-There were so many interesting friends of the Five Little Peppers. whose lives were only the faintest of outlines in the se- rfes ending when PhronsIe was grown up. that a volume devoted to this outer circle has been written to meet the per- sistent demand.
 Herein the author records many hap penings that long ago Ben and Polly. Joel and David told her. And even Phronsie whispered some of 1t confi- dentially into the listening ear. "Tell about Rachel, please. ''she begged; and Margaret Sidney nodded her head, and promised to write 1t ali down some day.
 And that day seems to have arrived in which all should be recorded and the promise fulfilled. For the Five Little Peppers loved their friends very dearly. and were loyal and true to them. And hand in hand, the circle widening ever, they lived and loved as this history records.
 George Cary Eggleston has written another novel of the war and entitled it "A Daughter of the South" 1t Is a romance of the last months of the civil war, when the Mississippi was again opened to navigation. A refugee South ern girl whose family have all per ished in the war and who Is herself reduced to the verge of starvation, Is rescued by young Kentuckian, en- gagged in buying cotton along the river banks. i, He conveys her on his steam boat to his sisters home in Cairo, H. and thereafter is the means of uniting her with her only surviving brother for all of which he receives his re- ward. There are descriptions of law less speculators and plundering mer- chants, who made the most out of the United States Government and the ruined Southerners. Every one whc has read MT. Egglestons previous war