The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-04

1 enough to touch Amidon his gayer al- | teregO's ways, and then to plunge him
 under again. things go nicely enough till an outward movement Brassneid keeps to the surface a little too long. | But we leave the climax for the reader himself to mount to by pleas ant stages.
 In the end all comes right as it should in every good story book. | So Double Trouble" proves itself a 1 for awhile As two negatives make an affirmative, so Double Trouble" IS book which 1t is no trouble but all delight to read.
 The Noahs Ahoat.v by H. Rhea Wood man. Another historical CD romance this one with Noah, Mrs. Noah, Ham, Shem, Japheth and the animals for dramatis personae. Probably the au-
 thor imagines that he is very amusing. but I find it absolutely impossible to
 enter into the fun. or even to under
 stand 1t. Perhaps. though, it will find many readers. and amuse a great many
 people, or why should it have been
 written. It certainly cannot. in my judgment, claim place among the
 best specimens of America humor.
 This account of how the Noah's felt. talked and acted during their long stay
 
 twisted history" They have serious times with the animals. Mir Noah re- marks, because we are so short of help" But, then. as he says. we are not in good running order yet, but we are still afioat. and that is comfort ing He advises shem and Ham to take it seriously, and realize that I've are not on a picnic"
 Mrs. Noah. by way of making con- versation, remarks: How it does raini I did not think 1t would rain so much all the time! And this is only the third day out; that leaves thirty-seven --thirty-seven days more of this dread l full rain"
 shem carries on the cheerful subject ! by saying: We had better take things l as they are."
 | Ham replies. Listen to that!" They listened About fifteen times day somebody cried, Listen to that!' and everybody stopped and listened with held breath, as if it were some new think. The momentary silence made | the roar of the rain much worse-they all knew that. But they all listened just the same and looked at each other and marveled that it could raln sol! Japheth had suggested that they use
 fog horns. but MT. Noah thought fog horns would be destructive to the do-
 nestle tranquility, if not. indeed. fatal
 to the unity of the family. Neither
 in theory nor in practice would he ad-
 init anything that initiated against
 the integrity of the home. We can
 not" that great man had said. We
 cannot be shouting at each other like lost ships" But they had grown used to shouting now. and scarcely noticed the change.
 So much to prove the audacity of the authors attempt to unravel in a purely fictitious way the home life of Noah, It might have been more interesting had there been less of an effort to be funny, and if some of the unnecessary detail had been left out. The gayety Is too forced. and the conversation too jerkily vivacious.
 For instance: MT Noah looks slowly around the table and remarks: We shall have to make new friends. It will be very-er-trving. At my age. one does not make new friends readily. But there won't be any peo- ple," said Japheth. How can we make new friends? We'll have to prey on
 each other" Pray for each other"
 corrected Ham. piously. we needn't
 wait, need we? Cast thy bread upon
 the water. "
 Japheth pointed at the cream jug.
 ''Yes, and it'll return all soggy." You are right, papa" says shem, Tt will