The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-24
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I Sylvia whom he had loved. Not so | The idea, passionate love of his man hood Is to be given to the wealthy young widow Paula Denbeign. But old habit and Sylvia Seniors con stancy win the day and he marries Sylvia and accepts life in the cottage on the college campus with smile; If there was sadness in the smile, IL was of that quiet kind, habitual to
 middle age; a sadness not incompati- blo with an active. wholesome, unaf-
 fected enjoyment of life"
 | Young Sylvia feels but remote in terest in Robinson. She gives her love | to Tom Bent, who is lately freed from loving the always fascinating Paula | Denbeigh.
 Margaret, studying to be tr..ined nurse has her one lover, Bennie Max
 well, a worthy story which readers have barely time to grasp interest in when greater interest is claimed by the older and equally fine love Of the | overworked Professor Maxwell. father of Bennie, and his Southern wife. l Maxwell's hard struggle to start large family on a small salary his
 wife's struggle to keep up with the 1 college exchange of social funcsions | makes strong claims on the readers concern.
 Not even one college community is brought to our regard. Collision, the rival university, shows up in the pages I frequently with its Denbcigh Profes- sorship greatly denied by Dorsay tearfulIy lodged by Robinson.
 | The dead author Denbeigh, whose | widow Paula is by the last wishes oi the dead, is striving to write his life draws much of the readers regard away from the two many living person ages. Material for fine novel IS in this conception of Denbeigh with his talent, his meanness. his bold literary thefts. his large audience of worship pers. his minority of bitter arraigners
 The fnels of deleniation. the grace of dtction, the keenness of observation the success of depletion cannot be toe highly commended.
 Il The only criticism must be that the Il author has too abundant wealth oi material too manifold interest If at- tention had been forced upon one oi Il the many groups the result had beer
 mora artistic. The center of intefes' too constantly drifts from one grouT
 of people to another, the subordinate
 characters are not kept enough in th' background. We have picture Of req
 life, life as 1t is with It's hundreds oi i, varying, manifold, crowning lnterest'
 at the cost of art.
 Yet with all its faults. which art virtues run iuxuriance, power in neet l of pruning, this is one of the very bes } novels of college life ever written. is a book whose pictured people liV' in the memory and attain an immor tality in the constant cognizance of al 3 who make their acquaintance. The False Gods, by George Horae, Lorirner-TIe loro of this more thai . bright parody on the issues of the da!
 and the men who report them is on simpkins He ts "a fairly truthful ant tender hearted man outside his work but in 1t he had accustomed himself t' E regard men and women in a purely in fernal way. and their troubles an' scandals simply as material"
 Ezra SimpkinB is hurled for business e purposes and copy" from the office O ' The Boston Banner to the innermos 5 sanctum of the Royal Society of Egyp ! tian Exploration and Research.
 He must at all costs secure an inter
 view with Mrs. Athelstone into who's t being Madame Blavatsky's soul or an . part of 1t" is supposed to have reincar I mated itself.
 - ''supposedv is said advlsedly for = certain Madame Granchis of Bostol c also claimed that her being held tn 0 reincarnated soul of Theosphy's lead r CT. The believers were fairly divide = between allegiance to Mrs. Athelston 0 of New York and Madame Grandis O : Boston with odds slightly in favor O e tho Boston Beings for it was difficul t for them to understand how any sou ' with liberty of action could deliberate L ly chose a New York residence" h To Simpkins nothing was wort . while unless 1t had news value; an T nothing was sacred that had" s And Simpkins was one to manufac
 ture news in sincerity of heart if new Q was not to be found, hand wrought O c custom made to his use.
 e The relation of how Simpkins made 0 mystery of lawless lore, murder, plo n and counterplot, cipher and hieroglyph
 ic out of the every day life of quiet !. respectable people must be left un 0 told for the reader to entangle. l. There is a lot of interest in the un 0 tanEling. It is the cherry story of lie' 8 insence and food of '@rhe False Gods. D Lies not told for personal aggrandize s ment or personal protection, or per = sonal self -sa atisfaction. Big. round q strong newspaper lies told today an d hurled out of remembrance tomorrow q by bigger ones. Big substantial bust s ness Hes whose bold homeless untrut z he that runs may read. Great boldly - headed, space filling, hurtless. almos . salubrious lies that speed on thei t harmless way like boys skyrocket r And George Horace Lorimer has tol z of this universe to False Gods with r. vim and brillfancy that keeps his read @ CTS alert.
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