The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-12

Three Generations of Fascinating Women and Other Sketches rom Fama- ly History: A book by Lady HusseiL If ia ilustrateld by such great artists as Gainsborough, Lely, KueHer, Ange- lica Kaufman, Sir Joshua heyhoIos. Romney, Sir Thomas Lawrence ana others painters of granoe oames anu of famous beauties.
 The writer naturally draws much Sroh Horace walpole. The anecdotes of the dear ladies of long ago could hava m more brilliant narrator. There are many stories of Mary Bellenden, "smiling Mary, soft and fair"
 Many songs were written to fair Mary and Lord Henry declared her 'the most agreeable, the most insinuat- ing. and the most likable woman of her time made up of every ingredient likely to engage and attach a lover" She married handsome Jack Campbell. She is great-great grandmother of the present Duke of Argyll. One of her sons married Miss Sarah Izzard of South Carolina.
 The book takes up straight through the generations of charming women:
 Caroline, flair Molly Bellenden's" only daughter married at fifteen Lord Bruce. Her husband died seven years later and the year of his death Caro- line married Hon. Henry Seymour Conway She was a patroness of the arts. Her husbands secretary was Hume, the historian. She was ac- quainted with Rousseau. Hannah More writes of her enthusiastically. She was herself something of an artist. She was a friend of Sir Joshua Key holds. Ii was due to her that Angelica Kaufman was introduced to English patrons. Mrs. Siddons also owed her footing in London to is noble patroness.
 The daughter of Countess Caroline was Anne Seymour Conway who mar ried John Damer. Mrs. Damer was an artist and executed many busts of her notable contemporaries and friends In marble. Some of those who sat to her were Nelson, Fox, Dr. Darwin, Mrs. Siddons, the Kembles. She spent much of her life abroad, returning to Lon- don her salon became the gathering place of a host of literary parsonage among them were Byron, Scott. Rog- CTS, Campbell, Sir James Mackintosh. Lord Brougham, Sidney Smith Moore Mrs. Somerville. Sir Humphrey Davy.
 Three brilliant women there, mother daughter and grand-daughter. The book abounds in pleasing anecdotes of other fascinating women.
 "ThOmaS Moore by SLepnen GWynu contains many extracts from Moore's diary, poems and opinions of his con temporaries. Its purpose is to give O just estimate of the poets character and of his work as a writer of verses. In his general appreciation of Moore the author writes: "Moore's import ance in the history of literature lies in his connection, not with English, but with Irish literature. It was not for nothing that Ireland hailed him for her first national poet. The other Irish men who had shown great literary talent-Burke, Goldsmith and Sheridan belonged body and soul to English letters. Moore's case was different. Almost without knowing it, he wrote primarily for his own countrymen, and in return they honored him, not per- haps on this side idolatry, but with @. sane instinct. because he had done for Ireland what neither Seaghan Clarock nor Raftery nor all of the Lords of Munster and Connaught could at that moment do for her. He had given g. voice to Ireland; he had put into her mouth a song of her own"
 Old Schenectady. by George s. Rob- erts. History. genealogy. biography Is gathered by the compiler of ''Old Sche- nectady" into a very readable volume. Schenectady has an interesting history Founded by Dutchmen from Albany,