The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-24
Conducted By
 martba Young

f and an alien in the settlement of Gal lilee.
 ! He lived loved but yet never feeling
 the touch of the love of his brother, Nation, or his sister. Naomi, "a person
 of ceaseiess acts. and of sparse and crucial speech" l He was possessed often of the wan
 dering foot" and his wanderings led him afar, a true dreamer it led him to
 fortune. Immense fortune, miraculous | iy. made in boom of the mountains
 and lost as quickly as entering. | He returns to Gallilee as he went
 empty handed. The shares have been
 powered at home for him. The old place is his and Fizah has been faith
 full to her love, waiting to welcome him. l But when or where can the dreamer rest? He harkens to another call and F'izah again waits alone.
 'She caught her breath and laid ther hands on her heart at the first lcomprehension of it. But when he | spoke further, with true assurance of | light illumined her, until she listened
 with smile whose radiance eclipsed her shining eyes. "'Ye told me once when I asked ye that leavn' father an mother and
 kin, ye would come unto me; an I for
 
 than loved ye then, sorrow to think that ye may never be to me what have dreamed ye sometime might be- "She still smiled at him with a face tear-lit and radiant.
 "T'l go for a Dunkard preacher.
 dearie--if I may be choscn-an It'll be best for me to abide in the early faith of our founder, Mack O Schwarz-
 enow. that he who breaches the Word should be single "'Perfect love casteth out fear. Benoumi: and this is love, that we walk after His commandments.' Hand and hand together. or with cheek pressed to cheek, they talked into the sweet June night, until the moon had 1 faded to a pale disk and the morning star swung in the far blue spaces" A good novel, an unusual one. It's
 style pure poetic and ever pleasing. The warm human interest is sustained | to the end.
 Andrew MOrreI-Biography of the poet by Augustine Burrill in the Eng fish Men of Letters Series, edited by John Morley.
 Andrew Morrel was a poet. scholar, traveller. diplomat, wit and active
 Member of Parliament, from the Res toration to his death in 1878. Among
 his better known poetical pieces are
 
 His Coy Mistress" Young Love-" "Fhe Garden" "Horation ode Upon Crom-
 wells Return from Ireland" He also wrote rhymed political sa- | tires As a prose writer he was per
 haps too long drawn out to suit mod
 ern taste.
 The Amethyst Box, by Anna Kath- erlne Green-This book belongs to the
 pocket book" edition of clever stories brought out to represent the three aspects of American TO- mance-adventure, mystery and hu- nor, and is a detective story of a New port wedding.
 The author. always ingenious in her
 plots, has hit upon an equally inge- nious scheme here. Sinclair, on the
 eve of his marriage, exhibits to the guests assembled for the occasion in Mrs. Armstrong's Newport villa Ve- | netian curiosity, & box formed from a single amethyst and holding tiny flask of old but very deadly poison. | While he is explaining the nature of
 its contents, a quickly suppressed cry
 escapes from the lips of some one be- hind him; but he does not know from whom. whether from Gilbertine Mur-
 ray, his prospective bride, or Dorothy Camerdine, her cousin, both of whom
 were immediately behind him. Before
 the company have sufficiently admired
 the quaint bauble, Sinclair receives a
 peremptory summons from his hostess. and having no time to return the jewel to his room, hastily thrusts the box into a nearby cabinet. Returning
 he finds the amethyst box gone, and | immediately he is possessed with the l idea that some one very miserable and
 unhappy has taken the box for the pur-
 pose of taking the poison 1t contains, haNw L.
 members now the cry heardl while he
 was exhibiting his cuTio, and is rem dered miserable by the possibility of its being his betrothed who may thus | be seeking release on the eve of her marriage. He conhdes his unhappi- ness to his friend and best man, to be, and they resolve to watch all night, to
 ward of, If possible. the threatened
 disaster. In the middle of the night a piercing scream sounds throughout the house, rousing every inmate of tho villa Who had uttered that dreadful shrlek, immediately became the con- cern of the frightened inmates. Upon search, Mrs. Lansing, aunt of Dorothy and Gilbertine, Is found dead in bed, cannot be found. When she finally appears she faints upon finding her aunt dead, although she can scarcely bear Mrs. Lansing much affection so ! cruelty has she been treated by her; 1t Is Sinclair who picks her up and
 finds the amethyst box in her posses sion, though empty-the flask contain ing that deadly drop of poison has dis appeared.
 Before the mystery is finally solved. the reader will find that many inno-
 cent people are suspected. that the in-
 terest increases continuously, and that the book contains an original situation
 which the author has devised and cleverly made much of though he may feel inclined to question the consIs- tency of the attitude of some of the characters when the climax Is reached
 Nevertheless, If not convincingIy real. the tale will be found altogether df,