The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-06

the little wooden dog so much that he offers to buy 1t for a quarter. but Mar tories having scrupies about selling gifts, cannot decide at once, but nnaliy hits on the happy idea of writing to Luke to make Ferdinand one, for If Luke was going to be carpenter he might as well begin to practice at once So this dear little girl. while she is studying and improving herself. thinks every day of poor Luke. and plans for his advancement. Ii is final iy through her influence that the sar- vorys. who are very much wealthy people. are moved to extend helping hand to Luke. and he really becomes success in the world. For although he is not an artist. in the sense that Mar jorie understands that word. he does become successful sculptor. Through Aunt Maria Wings influence great artist becomes interested in Luke and teaches him drawing and modelling, and even takes him to live in his home. This Is not altogether improbable. you know. because Aaron Burr did much the same thing for the artist Wander lyn. not that he taught him art himself, but he paid Gilbert Stuart to do It. and so out of a boy. poor and urkempt. Burr was responsible for making one of the great artists of our country. 50 little Marjorie by her eagerness to be like her Aunt Maria was the means ot making Luke Saunders into an artist
 The novel is obvious. need not point 1t out. and at the same time the story Is no clean and wholesome It Is story toputinthehaudsofev story to put in the hands of every little boy and girl. and they will be the better for having read 1t. They ma ynot all succeed In making great artists out of poor boys, but they can Ag- l,- = CT ways. and make the world better and brighter because they have lived In It, for be sure each ounce of strength counts in this world, whether It be used for good or bad influence.
 If the children of each generation of age, could have had good books put In their hands. have read nothing but good books, history would need to be rewritten.
 I, am glad to say of this book that it is thoroughly good. That 1t teach- es that there is an ideal ever to De striven for, and though 1t be not at- tained we will be the better for striv- ing.
 AppIeton'a BarIslee's Magazine for | May.
 Charles M. Harvey, in brief arti- cle packed with facts, in the May number, writes of The Industrial | Transition of the United States. He 1 shows how, from being a strictly agri- | cultural country, we have now grown | to be the greatest manufacturing coun- | try in the world. The reasons he points | teresting. Ward Muir contributes a fascinating study of the worlds | greatest gambling place. which he en- titled "The Ironic Monte Carlo"
 The March of the Seasons" by Mary Heaton Worse. and is worthy oi a place among the best of those shor, stories which deal in the analysis oi human circumstances as modified oS T human will and vice veraa.
 l ripping good story by Jamet Branch Cabell. called Actors All,
 takes us back to the days of Yum bridge Wells and the Jacobites, ant
 weaves an intricate plot about a low
 incident.
 Karl Edwin Harrisman writes on'
 of the best of his Tales of the Ameri can Desert" that we have thus fa'
 published It is called The Way O the Land" and is a wonderfully tru' | picture of cowboy sentiment and hne
 feeling. A remarkably strong story
 depicting conditions among the South ern noun taineers, is From the Cell. by Arthur E. McFarlane.
 The great serial, Tn Cure Of Hel Soul" by Frederic J. Stimson ("J. s of Dale''), moves with splendid sweel
 through several more chapters.
 charming and appropriate poem, fh'
 Wheat" by Elizabeth Kemper Adams
 and an equally satisfying sonnet b,
 Abigail James. entitled @4ie Way
 side Brook" have been decorated at
 tractively by the artist and grace th'
 pages of the May Humber, togethe
 with shorter verse by Lloyd Osoourn'
 and Isabella Howe Fiske.
 Personal and Pertinent
 She was author and wife of anotnel
 author. She was speaking of an ar
 tist who was wife of another artist.
 50 glad they have moved into tha,
 newer, larger place. How crowded
 they must have been working together
 in that studio
 "One studio for the workers?"
 "Yes I don't know how they man.
 aged 1t. Artists must be more sociabls
 over their work than artists. Now my
 husband ana I, we would go crazy
 if we were but together into one room
 to write. One writer could write one word"
 Writing Is an unsociable business. Not 90 much the time one does write, but the time one doesn't. The think ing time. The lazy looking time. The time when one lolls in the great cnair and beats slow tunes on the arm with the old silver headed paper cutter. The time when one lifts the eyes rom the page and looks all over the ceiling for the missing word The times when one naces up and down the narrow lit- tle apartment hall mentally watching how the plot sets itself These times one must be alone. The artist seems | to be a more social creature than the l writer.
 The real artist can enter like child into any sort of fun while the writer I -t. taA a0 n VPhathAP 1t Is funny.
 Anumber of artists a few evenings ago had for their chief amusement cut ting animals from white paper, pasting the result (mark you the result what ever 1t chanced to me) on broom pa-