The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-11

tall W0rk suggests the snort story writer. notably the tea at the second Mrs. wfnslow's, and the Fairport Art Museum. The whole Blocker tribe might have been left out.
 tis never quite plain why, John Ivan winslow took his mothers name when he became working man. His father, though of good New England stock, had begun with nothing and had worked his way to great success, a thing open to any honest working man.
 A book of great earnestness. of fairly sustained interest. replete with de- lightful detail work.
 Animal Stories. By Ernest Thomp- son Seton.-These stories are of "The Slum Cat" of "Amaux. the Homine Pigeon" of "Badlands Billy, the Wolf of the West" of The Boy and the Lynx" of Little warhorse. the Jack Rabbit" of Snap. the Bull Terrier" of The Winnipeg Wolf." of The White Reindeer" Mr. Seton tells his Animal Tales in a way of his own. He tells little of their habits, nothing of the folk lore concerning them. He gives romances, endowing the animals with something of human qualities. or rather lending tsman fancies into their lives. In spite of his continued writing of the inhabitants of the wild, he has not much carrying quality with his stories when they go deep into the woods or afar over the plains. We don't warm up to "Badlands Billy" or feel that the Little warhorse" is very real The Lynx" nor the Boy seem quite sure enough" to us. Nor do thsir doings make much of a difference to the read CTS: The tales do not seem the work of man who loves like life the breath of the woods and the lash of deep waters on lonely shores, MT. Seton's muse is at her best in urban places. There is a certain little tale of his not in this volume of bold city sparrow over whose joys and sorrows any reader must shed tears of sympa- thy and true enjoyment. So in this volume the narrative of Amaux. the Homing Pigeon, who was nestled in the loft of stable in 211 West Nineteenth Street, New York. Is the one that oulckens the sympathy and sets ting ling every fibre of the readers Inter est, Stories of bravery of little birds. of saving a ship in fog, of bringing fortune-saving news to a Wall Street Banker. of starting by the shortest route to race in a great competing of birds flying from Chicago to New York. Of little wings stamped with the in- delible record of many splendid flights.
 These are the doings that please best a muse that surely loves itself to hov- CT over peopled towers and about as- phalt where many feet tread.
 ''The Slum Cat" story, too, shows the muse in paths that she loves, meeting with the elevator boy, the meat-cart man, the Fifth Avenue millionaire, the judges of Madison Square Garden Shows. It is a very sociable muse and we feel sure she is sad when she goes first hand, if she does so, after Bad lands Billy" and others Of the wild There is a little too much padding even to the Slum Cat. Too much new dust makes a stiff doll.
 "Yow-yow-ow," said the Black One "Wow-w-w." was the slightly deeper answer.
 "Ya-wow-wo-o!" said the Black One
 'Yew-w-w!" was the Yellow answer
 ''Ya-wow-y yow-w!" screamed the Black--and more "Yow-yow-ws" and "Y-a-a-a-a'c."
 A piece de resistance Is good with dressing, "stufing' the old time house. keepers called it. But the stufflng of those good commissioners had to be sharply spiced and richly sarocued. It was never plain dough. And ''Ya- wow ow -ow! Wow-wow-owi Ya-a-a-a" so abundantly used Is just plain dough. The public has much padding served to it in these days.
 Mir. Ernest Thompson Seton always gives note to his readers informing asl to the sources of his tales, and he often strikes on the personal note In the text of his stories. He explains now to us that "A hero is an iiidivid- ual of unusual gifts and achievements Whether 1t Do man or animal, this def- milton applies. etc., etc." He tells us that the tables are composite, that all the events did not happen to each ani- maj to whom they are accorded. He states: The least composite is Amau1. It is. so nearly historical that several who know the bird have supplied ad- ditional items of information" t
 And so the story of Amaux tugs at the heart strings, Truth will always win. More potent line of truth than many volumes of make-believe.
 These stories have in serial form ap- peared in Century and Ladies' Home Journal. The designs for cover, title page and general makeup are the work of Mrs. Grace Gallatin Seton. The full-page illustrations by the au- thor are spirited and fine and are in truth true elucidation of the text. A volume eiaborately and ornately array ed for Christmas.