The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-08

where love tales are told, there Hilder
 BrauEer listens to tho loyal love of l Alto and the wild fortune hunting play actor prot estarions of Ecu srstein I There Sophie LeibIer lays her ene-
 mics hates for Altos love and Hilda's ruin.
 l Ellda, Cumming Heines love songs
 and playing her guitar. ,irsss to three | fat houses bringing hftsen thousand a year, is just the girl that one sees to- 1 day in many shop in Avenue A. Feuersteln. of to) many nIcc;ages, the good actor of the stage. the block actor on, the dead-beat everywhere, is
 the man to be found in all great cities and in many small ones. The man who
 knows not "Arbeit und Leibe und
 Heine." He is the aristocrat who be- ginning with large loans on Fifth Ave nue comes down before the last drop of the curtain to street begging in Ho-
 boken and drinks unpaid for at Mein- erts.
 Gauser. the brewer. is a protection at the worst of the climber who does not know even the goal at which to aim; whose clumsy social aspirations are heavily incumbered by the heavy wife and born fool Lena"
 FIilda's romance with Feuerstien or the golden locks. but teaches her bet ter love for the loyal Alto, the real hero-in spite of his keeping a shop ;ust like everybody else and making no pretenses
 Like real lovers of life reads the story. doubtless the facts of the arrest of Hjlda and the trial before the mag istrate at the Essex Market police court are excerpts from Mir. Phillips reportorial work of some years agone
 An excellent story of that New York which none but the workers ever see' the real New York that Is the founda- tion ou which all the glitter and beauty of Up Town is reared. The real New York of which all workers, be they re- norters. artists, ie .turars, settlement workers catch at times fleeting gimp ses
 The Woman in the AIcOve, by Anna Katherine Green-Mrs. Rohlfs In spite of the unevenness of her work has lar lv established herself as the greatest writer of detective stories in America She has done especially good work In this latest story. It fairly teens with interest If thrills Tn every line. It winds up every incident in such com plexity that the reader really expe- rierces the excitement of the unwind ing of the plot In most detective tales the reader mas to give his own consent to being fooled dowr false trails so obvio IS 's tha author 8 plot from the first. Nol so with Mrs Pohlfs story. It's surprises are gen nine With the heroine we strongly feel the guilt of the immaculate Eng llshman. only to find ourselves-Well' that is the story
 With the practical uncle of the hero inc we distrus- the lover the diamond expert. only to co lfess later-but' that too Is the story.
 The incident of the arches, doors and mirror ref1ecting the wind Iw IS Very dnc piece of work. Some thriil'hs sensa tiorS come from the fine worklhg up of this peculiar arrangement ol archit ectIre and founding.
 4 pure love story dghtens the Whole and the frai English girl giVes the needed note of pathos.
 The woman In the Alcove IS one or Anna Katherine Greens best novels'
 Truth Dexter, by Sidney McCailL Truth Dexter" has won the heaiI ol American readers. Its appearance IT edition de luxe with exquisite and nt- tinc Illustrations is welcome 70 all lovers of good literature n good form There !s reason to know that the prom ised amusement of the identity or the author concealed md sT the pen name of Sidney Mccall will be or especiAi III terast to Alabamian5:
 So many artists in depicting the characters aud scenes of the DOCKS they fail to satisfy the au'hoFS'