The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-01

der the very convent walls. But, presto, magic of today! A determined young author and an automobile res cue the princess.
 Lady Delahaye, a former nance or the author, Mir. Greatson, aids the Archduchess in every way to spirit off the beautiful girl whom she regards as a rival.
 Love, however, wins the victory over all machinations and the Princess Is after all the glory of court life. con- tent to seek the author in his sylvan retreat, a Princess no more unless she becomes the Princess of his little Eng fish paradise.
 If this novel must be closed as the author describes his 'pot-boilers," something: Antony Hopeish, with the sugar of Austin Dobson and the pepper of Kipling shaken in ad lib. we find 1t, his romance as fascinating and more probable than even the events of Fenda, and the pepper as pungently good as Kipling's best. It Is refresh ing to read so finely competed, we'll ordered, wholly absorbing a piece of fiction.
 Red Wagon Stories, by Wells Hawks. 4 thin volume of stories of circus folks as told by the press agent. the old grafter, the bill poster. the candy butcher. the boss canvasman, the side show speiler, the bandmaster. the con- cert manager. the ticket seller, the elephant tanner.
 The press agent tells of his greatest advertising hit when he spread his posters on boards and fioated them on Harlem River before crowd collected for a yacht race. The boss canvas mans best tale is of Jims funeral when 'the boys didn't want to plant Jim without sayin' sumthin'." None were equal to the duty, but the ever ready calliope man played soft like When Johnny Comes Marchin' Home. The concert manager tells of his ghost show, of the buxom ghost of a coun- try girl who did by the aid of mirroT and lime light the gliding over the heads of the audience. In a little coun- try town she glided her last. her home people were in the audience, and, talk ing her for really truly spirit pressed into the show business, their cries broke up the meeting. There is little worth the telling in any of the sto. ries All is told in such distastefu slang with so little of art as to make but heavy reading.
 The Crimson Blind, by Fred M. Whit, I-For unalloyed entertainment commend us to novelists like the author of 'Th, | Crimson Blind. There Is nothin( roundabout nor indirect no pressing ant no fine writing. All Is frank, undilutet storytelling. with plenty of plot ant | varied incidents.
 David Steel is a young man of grea will-power, of "dogged determination and splendid physical courage" wh' begins as a forlorn young autho working in an attic with three pound per week to pay for everything | Gradually he has thrust his way int the front rank of living novelists an, becomes passing rich. though tn taste of poverty is still bitter in hi mouth" At the beginning of tn story, poverty once more stares him fl the face, and unless he can obtain on thousand pounds-the amount an ab sconding brother left him surety for he will be sold out. In no enviabl frame of mind he is pacing his study floor at midnight, when he is interrupt ! ed by the ringing of the telephone bel and someone, unknown to him. but in
 voice distinctly feminine. acquaints hir with the details of his dilemma an promises him the exact amount on tn sulhllment of certain conditions i'm posed. Being slightly Ineredulous h l Is asked to hang up the receiver to