The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-11
Conducted By martba Xcun1

{, Realizing that he must clear him. { self he remains the apparently docils
 tool of the conspirators, even enter.
 ing the capital city of Budavia as its { rightful ruler.
 1 In the end he clears himself in the | eyes of his friends and marries his | sweetheart. The end being, you see
 quite diyllic. The book Is really anus | ing and in its way well done.
 The Man of the Hour. By Octave Thanet. Miss French in this volume puts forth her first long novel. Her short stories have already won her a large audience.
 A story of man yand varied inter- ests The hero is a child of an inter- national marriage. John Winslow manufacturer of the Old Colony Flow had made a journey to Russia to intro-
 duce his chilled blows. There he met | the Princess Olga Galitsuin; after Q very brief courtship they were married and made their home in a town of the i Middle WI st, a town made by the plant
 of the Old Colony Flow The princess was deaply imbued with sociaiistic ideas, had made her own the cause of
 the anarchist and the bomb-thrower The picture of the idealist, hoping
 working. giving all for the advent Of brotherly love in contrast with the an- archists who fatten on her generosity and impose Gn her the task of wardins Tfrom them the punishment of their deeds is very striking. Under the al- ways futile task of trying to fit stern
 repellant reality to lofty ideality the princess breaks in body and spirit. I Expecting 70 find In America the spirit of fraternity. equality, she found
 only bitter disappointment. Josiah Camen Winslow became personifica- | tion to her of all that was successful | oppressive. dominating.
 l Her ill-kept home, and foreign usage and wild missions wore on winslow's s love till 1t was broken asunder. Then | followed a separation, The Princess Olga going to Switzerland with for- Hume bequeathed her by a princess sis- | ter. This was squandered on the group of socialists who surrounded her there
 an ample allowance from Winslow suf- feed for her personal needs till death
 released her from world wherein with purity she had been always apart, mis- understood, unhappy and a cause for unhappiness. The son, John Ivan, in- herfted the traits of both parents, those of the mother predominating. He IS early initiated into the Order of So- ciaiists, a profound secret that he must keep from his father at all costs.
  consorts with anarchists. He Is early consumed with desire to right the
 world, to lift the working man. to be himself one of the people, to step out
 of line with his class and kind. He makes a long. Quixotic. unreasonable light to lose himself and all his for | tune He gives the last fifty or more thousand of his patrimony to help the
 Pullman strikerc hold the strike. That gone by the terms of his fath- CTS will he seems penniless, but there | Is a saving clause that comes to his rescue in the latter pages of the ro-
 nance. The childhood love affair with a little Southern are-eater. Peggy
 Rutherford, two years John Ivan's se- nior, runs the way of all love and l they marry after John Ivan's senses come to him.
 l Tae core of Miss French's problem | seems to be in this sentence from the farewell letter of Winslow to his son | 'I trust you, my sen; you are going to | be a better business man than l was You've got my head; but head is not going to be all the great business man of the future needs; he will have te have heart or he can't understand and manage men: you have your mothers heart, and ycu will have learned tt know the best fellow in the world, tho | American workingman: you'll know him and respect him and you won't bt fooled about him. And you can hell bhim and he will help you better thar I could manage"
 Yet Miss French has not convinced her readers that Windows heart was a
 round and good as that of his errati'
 son.
 The hand that has showed its cum