The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-29
Conducted By M1artba Young

glory of having Ardea love him in | spite of bad report.
 A book which gives surely one of the | finest, most pirt, most true and most enchanting pictures of Southern Life, On Tybee Knoll. A-story of the Geor- | gia Coast By James B. Connally. Twenty? My, but that's the age. l I'd give all ever earned to be of your age and with your outlook. What do you intend to do for your living? I'd like to be an electrical engi-
 neer-or good steam. engineer at | least?"
 Take my advice and go in for the | electrical engineer if you think it's higher. Try for the highest thing you feel equal to "lways the highest with | in reach. You might as we'll make a | good try as a half-hearted one.' That is the gist of the story. liv- | ing to make. An ambitious boy not afraid of work. good friend Mc | Laughlin to advise-and help. It's a | poor friend that advises without help ing. steady fight with sea and for l est. A hard fight with 1umbermen and | disgruntled contractors who may lay | our boy with bullets and false stories l of hidden treasures, who cut his pole | rafts adrift and scheme to steal his 1 fathers log rafts. But this Tom is agood fighter and chance is on the side of right this time and after many
 fearful plunge into the sea with leaky l tub of boat one few ruins the day. His first contract with Gray brings | him enough money to take the coveted 1 engineering course at University. There is much to be learned in the | book of the "vagaries of mules," the construction of jetties," of shack" and Humber camps" "dipper poles" E1rAd doro nf nA4a a~ | work" of tornadoesi of the Southern Coast. of saving yachts with fair lady and wealthy father aboard and much else told in stirring style.
 There is everything that young folks | dote on but love. Imagination can add | sequel when Tom has graduated and
 Miss Cutter of the yacht remembers
 the grave youth who saved her from | the sea
 | A vigorous story, interest never fails | In the fight men make to clear the
 way for ships with dredge and Jetty. On the coast where the story is laid
 and land. Whether in camp. on land | or afoat, on tugs or scows, the lives of men who make way for commerce on the seas are crowded with pictur-
 esque incident and there Is always the
 intense interest of a fight. It is thiS
 story of fresh. strong life that MT :, | Connolly has written.
 His tale is fresh in color, pulsing with
 life, full of vivid human interest. His
 hero is tested by extraordinary ex-
 pressions and adventures whose out
 come hold the reader in suspense.
 The Day Dreamer, by Jesse Lynch i Williams. The blessings of being ab-
 sent-minded are set forth in this lively
 romance
 This novel Is an enlargement of Mir | Williams's most noted story 'The
 Stolen story This is not unusual.
 Several authors have, in the quickening
 of the moment put out their favorite
 plot in q short story and later found it
 growing out of its little fiower-tub and
 ready to be set a wide-spreading tree , upon the lawn.
 | Billy Woods is an energetic genius
 who Is also a newspaper man of action. | The saving of a beseiged garrison by | personal prowess is a mere episode to ! him. As a war correspondent 1t may | be readily believed that he out did l even Richard Harding Davis accounts | of his own career on the march and 1 field,
 But Billy Woods loves best the bat