The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-21
Conducted By Mlartba Young

@&~<~~~~%~ of my Lord Godolphin, oueen.s Pease Beaver the gobels think he has the Pease dangling to him by its string! A rescue by young Harry Rochester and the redoubtable sherry An ad- venture for fortune and fame in Lon don. meeting with the great And the great forget their promise of aid. A kidnapping by the tools of an enemy. Off to sea, bound and gagged brave Harry Rochester. A marvellous rescue. Work in Holland close on to the army of Maribrougn with the rich Jon Grotz who feeds the forces. Res cue of fair ladies which makes our English boy officer In the armies of Holland. Netting now. again, again with Marlborough. These are but the beginnings of list of adventures which did we but give their headlines would demand column. All are pos sible. but barely to best bravery. All are exciting.
 Battles of Lindenbaal and Blenheim and skirmishing fore and aft are wig orously put in the pages
 Love too has its share. But a busy fellow like Harry Rochester Is not easily led by loves chains Yet in the end faithful and successful lover he is
 The English villager and village life of the day is fairly done.
 Old Gupper Winthat of Waiten St. Mary garrulously talks of the rulers under which he has lived his eighty odd years:
 King William dies. and Queen Anne sits proud on the gold throne. I was born three year afore Scotch Jamie died; no sort of a king was Jamie a wombler loon, so I've yeard tell And Charles One, he was well-favored be- fore the Lord. true, but not a man of his word. Nay, Noli Crum'ell was the right sort of king; I mind him well. was trooper in his regiment, and we was as fine a set O men as ever trod heats leather, true. we was I rode in on to Marston Moor in "A. nigh six ty year back. Ay. right king was old NolL And I fought in Flanders when Noll was friends with the French king: but left that line O life when Charles Two came back wi his French madames; and now we be a-fightin' the French, so 'tis said: twas what us Englishmen were born for, to be sure; ay, that 'tis."
 The first Duke of Marlborough is thus described as young Rochester first saw him: He saw tall. singularly hand some man, with short. curved upper lip, firm chin, long almond-shaped eyes, and a calm dignity of expression"
 A brave. merry. roilicking tale, with the clash of swords. the singing of bull lets, the tang of adventure all througr.
 MT. -Strang has fairly won his audi ence of all Enslish-speaking. sport loving boys.
 They will follow his pen now as de- votedly as ever patroits their country's standard
 The great army of boys will be as eager for his next as gay young sol diers are for battle.
 Tales From Dickens. Bv HaIfie Erminie Rives.--Dickens himself, the great story teller of the English tongue, broke the bread of great older writers to give the portions suited to them to children. For his own little ones he wrote ''The Child's History of England" and stories from the New Testament.
 Surely this little volume would meet his sanction could he turn the pages Miss RiVes, in a most sympathetic man. ner. tells the life-story of the great author Of the happy childhood days at Chatham and at Rochester Place, which were to appear frequently in his novels. Of the wretched days of poverty in the mean suburb of London; of every work in the blacking factory; of his fathers life in the debtors pris- on; of school, much like that when David Copperfield sat under the iRno- rant MT. Creakle. She relates his ap- prenticeship to lawyer; his deternni- | nation to become a reporter. Of his | success in this work and his first print 1 ed sketches of Boz" Pickwick Papers | followed and Dickens was most famous l name in England. It is pleasant to | have told afn aP ! came In steady and increasing volume | after this. The founding of newspaper. ! and journals, helping young writers, | Journeying to America and foreign | lands, reading from his novels before | enthusiastic audiences.
 It is a sure index of the mad rush | we live in that we should have a | Tabloid Dickens.
 It Is convincing proof that we live in | a day when 1t is press the button" and | have all wanted that the condensed" Dickens should appear at the right mo- ment
 We have had sugar-coated pills. But | now 1t Is predigested sweet meats. Our | very mental pleasures are given to us | in compact, easilyhandled form.
 The work of acquiring knowledge has | long since been removed from the pupil 1 to. the teacher. The scholar no longer delves for his learning It must be handed out in tabulated packages by | the teacher. Now his very mental | pleasures can be derived without effort at mastication. Mental food today is all served, boneless, stoneless. seedless. coreless. , And it is we'll
 The child of today. rest assured, will never, as did we, pour over the many volumes of deep, fine, double columned print down the vast number of pages that filled the volumes on which the name of Dickens shone.
 Yet should not the matchless stories be lost to youth. The humor. the pa thos. the beauty, the truth and good of them must be preserved It Is this that Miss Rives has done. She has gotten the glst of the tales in fine, condensed form.
 She has made the long short, the simple the intricate under standable. She has at the same time retained the charm, the pathos, the hu- nor of the great original
 So long as fifteen years ago great woman whom we all know said: We