The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-15
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The Ellen,' and here is the lady" Did you bring them both to me-, laughed the Commodore. "No, sir, you may have the privatecer. The lady re- serve for myself.
 The Girl on the River" is love story, also. with a very beautiful young Southern girl for its heroine. She Is oftenest presented to us on horseback. as riding seems to be "a second nature to her." She has ridden to a rendez- vous with person in the employ of the Yankees, but selling their secrets to the Confeder i.es. Young Sears, a captain in the Federal Army, who has followed the spy, because he suspects him, rides up just in time to save the young lady from insult at the hands of the spy. whom he kills on the spot. Being surrounded by Confederate troop the young woman prociaims that she has just married Sears. The Con- federats leader insists that the cere- mony be performed again. a parson Is produced. and the two are really mar ried. HOW this strangely united pair finally come to love each other make thoroughly good yarn.
 The most interesting story of the three is the last one. The Maid of the Valley" There is more of a period and background of real events. Stone wall Jackson figures prominently Tn IL, and the tale Is stirring and picturesque ly told. @
 A dramatic moni>pt in it Is the in- terview between Colonel Trent, a Union man, though a Virginian, and his sons and daughter and young Herrick. a Confederate officer. who has just saved him from the hands of mob, infuri- ated by the sight of a United States flag floating from Colonel Trent's porch on the very day that the Act of Secession is proclaimed. The irate old Colonel demands that his children shall choose between him and following the cause they love. The settling of this question divided the son from the fa- ther, the daughter from her lover. and furnished heart-ache in abundance for all concerned for the next four years. '
 Mir. Brady furnishes very readable introduction to this his latest book, commended to all as a good old-fash- toned love story.
 Lady Penelope.-By, Morley Roberts. This delightfully."- breezy novel has for it's heroine an up-to date young woman. Lady Penelope Grading, who decides that 1t is 'her work in the world to improve her suitors," whom she num- bers by the score. They are all fine men. but it is curious that every man ! know thinks every other man more or less fool, or an idiot or a cad. They are dreadfully one-sided. when they come back they will be much in- proved" Thus soliloquizes Lady Pen. who has just found out that most men agree with Benedick in wondering that one man, seeing how much an other man is a fool, will, after he hath laughed at such shallow follies in oth- CTS, become the argument of his own scorn by falling in love" Certainly. if love of her did not transform Lady Penelope's suitors to an oyster. 1t changes them to utter idiots, and the ridiculous things they agree to do to prove their love for her furnish mirth- full incidents and delightful situations throughout the book. She has only to say Do this deed for me-" and straightway 1t is done. Moreover, Lady Penelope seems to have a native capacity for discovering every mans real weakness, and immediately the thing he hates most to ap is the thing he is commanded to do.' She sends one man up in balloon-he has been afraid heretofore to trust himself or of terra ffrma. Another is extravagant. Lady Penelope fixes upon a certain sum, and intimates that he might live upon it. and he enters upon the experiment cheerfuily. sending her his bills that she may judge of his honesty. An other. who hated talking to anything or anybody but Penelope, was made to