The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-05

slave-holding class should be formed for the industrial instruction. the moral teaching of the negro, the work would rush forward in leaps and bounds.
 B6t Mrs. Hammond has not intend ed her very readable novel for a vol ume on raceology.
 The book reaches it's strongest psy- cologicaI point at that day when Mar garet realizes that all she has done for Viry has been wholly for herself.
 For Philips sake.
 And so for her own sake.
 And viry has known it. And her whole soul has resented it.
 All these long years selfshness had been her inspiration. and she had called it love-" With this realization Margaret became wholly the great woman she had ever appeared being. How few even of the greatest souls can tell themselves the clear, distinct truth. When Margaret has done this, when she did not shrink from the duty that this realization entailed upon her to true sublimity. Aunt Dilsey with her wealth of love for her White Folks" her deep affection for her own people, her mother-wit. her deep wisdom is one of the best negro char acters in fiction. Dilsey knows her place and keeps it. There is no steam ing after effect in the telling of her relations to the household She re- mains ever servant. loved, honored, trusted. hut a servant always. Not the little bronze god which SO much of the latter day literature pictures the old nanny as being. but the wise. humble black friend and servant that we all know and love Is Dilsey. The negro doctor to whom the prac- sAA Nf I I-A given is an excellent study. The campaigns. the barbecues, the effort to educate the negroes, Margaret's school for the plantation negroes are all mat ters of interest we'll told. The main strength of the story cen- ters on Viry, the waif, the outcast, who | can find a home with neither race. That newer. higher life was found even Tor her strikes note of hope | in that life-story of completest sor- row.
 The story of the discovery of phos- phate in Tennessee is told with vigor and spirit, how Dick went forth to realize great wealth with the spirit of Sir Galahad after the Grail and 1 how he kept pure his high ideals is also told with strength.
 1 The whole book Rewritten with A. | supporting sense of power, with whole some Judgment, and with clear insight as well as with a most pervading l charm.
 On the whole the best novel as vet written upon the present day South. | Spottsylvanis County-The first vol ume of series of reprints in a set of early county records in Virginia. Each volume in the series, whenever possi- ble, is to be devoted to a single County. transcribed from fhe original records at the County court house. The re- print will include abstracts of wills deeds marriage license bonds, guar dians' bonds, etc. The story of Spott- sylvania County is told from it's for nation in 1724 down to 1900. | These records are of utmost value. Such booklets of every County of ev- cry State of the Union should be &C., ceptable.
 The North Carolina Booklet.-The North Carolina Society of the Daugh- ters of the Revolution are publishing lmonthly Booklet of North Carolina history beginning May, 17O4. The lbooklet can be bound at the end of leach series. The matters treated in Vol. 4 are; The Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina, the Battle of Ramsom's Mill, Historic Homes in North Carolina. Quaker Meadows, Re- ljection of Federal Constitution in 17SS. and its Subsequent Adoption, North ICarolina Signers of the National Dec laration of Independence. Homes of North Carolina, The Hermitage Yer non Hall, Expedition to Carthagena .n l1740, The Earliest Settlement in Amer lea, The Battle of Guilford Court House Rutherford's ExpeditionAgainst the Indians 1775, The Highland Scotch iSettlement in North Carolina, Governor Thomas Pollock.
 A set of such booklets for every State would be excellent work for the Daughters of the Revolution of our land.
 James T. White and Company are issuing Volume 12 of the National Cy- clopedia of American Biography. The series includes biographies of Lewis and Clark, Marcus Whitman, Nathan liel J. Wyeth, Dr. John Mclaughlin and IA. l.. Lovejoy, besides accounts of lover 300 other pioneers and explorers identified with American history.
 What Frances Willard said.-This book is compiled by Miss Anna w. Cor Idon from the published and unpublish- led writings of Miss Willard. Miss Cor don was Miss Willard's intimate friend land secretary.
 Philadelphia's Art.
 The Pennsylvania Academy of the
 Fine Arts has just celebrated its cen-
 tenary, receiving congratulations on its
 noble share in the evolution of Ameri- can art. The event lends especial in-
 terest to the record in the March Gen.
 tury of "Philadelphia's Contribution to