The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-28

three times what 1t cost to live-~I could move serenely among these millions or people, for did not envy them their possessions, and could escape their feltees; but I have walked the streets all night. listening wistfuliy to a null titude of voices, unable to sleep for the haunting echoes in my heart. For months I yibrated between the Waldorf and the Mills Hotel. tine Metropolitan Opera House and the music halls, MT. Rockefeller's Bible class and Tim Sul- leran's saloon, Ocean Grove and Coney Island What bewildering. pathetic sightsw
 Then on the thirteenth floor of a sky scraper on lower Broadway he found a copying office and, Nancy. Here love, the sincerest. soFest love, that Is tore- ordained and predestined friendship,- sprang into being in two hearts as swiftly and as sweetiy as ever it oio
 in forests of Arden. Then 1t is over to
 Brooklyn to live and many pleasing Truant's Trips over Long Island and New Jersey with Nancy and Elizaoetn'. Out of these trips was to grow the facts
 that make the two charming volumes by the same author, "An Island Cabin, and House in The Woods. To acquire l this last Nancy declared there must pc seven thousand dollars made and laid | aside. The happy writer suggested that | "there was danger of wasting the pres | ent for some future thing but know | ing Nancys feminess they proceeded | together to make the seven thousand. | They made 1t not in the proposed hve years, but in three. and behold Ihe House in The Words as happy result.
 The latter pages of this volume record alas for the hand of Fate, the burning | of the House" But the ten cheertui ones are back next day in New fork | leaving the ashes to be cleared, and the | foundations built for the new house | for they are at the work again, thls 1 time with the wise determination to l live half of each year in the city Tor ! labor, half in the woods for recrea- tion.
 l "A city. a forest. green held,' each l alike, will become to man according
 to the spirit with which he enters them. The thing he seeks he must be-
 stow. In town or country a man must deal with men. and he will have nls | work to go, but even on the pave /, ments he may see the wood sprites if he thinks of them. and in the silence of the forest he can do no more. The 1 Illustrations are in great part the Ia | nailiar pictures of New York, the in-
 spiring. aspiring skyline as seen from a North River Ferry Boat--a city Of 1 visions, indeed, to those hrst enter ing to take a tilt in fortunes tourna- ment, The Tower of Madison Square Garden Clarement, Central Park Views. Chatham Square. The Flatiron Build ing. Brooklyn Bridge. The City Hall, etc.
 Some adventurous firm might make
 fortune for itself and the author by l selling the book especially as a sou
 yenir of the Great City, for there is no
 better hook to make pleasant memories
 of sights seen in the long avenues
 and shorter streets, or to awaken
 STaasant anticipation of what may be
 seen there by those who plan and de-
 sire to come to the City of Coptimum.
 Hearts Haven, by Katherine Evans.
 Blake. Early in the history of Colonial
 Pennsylvania. It's population began to be increased by the addition of sturdy
 German peasants These brought with | them many curious forms of religious 1 faiths. of which probably the most in- ] terestina was the communistic organi-
 zation founded by George Rapp. of Wurtemburg, Germany. It Is Of this strange community that Hearts Ha- venV has to do with, and the romance } that intruded in the brotherhood. , The 500 peasants have sought under
 their leader, George Rapp, righteous ness and happiness in their new home. All things are held in common ana men { and women of varying gifts and degree , Iabor side by side, and all IS well until 7 love. Iyvho never knows law beyond 5 its eun swest will enters In and all