The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-08
Conducted By martba Ycun0


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 Tn the walIaby" for her love, trans | plants her in his own home-close IT
 the colonies. Miss Selbourne, actress l and newly discovered wife and mother Is an cratic stepbonotic in our Eng. fish Ladies Garden" but good tc | tighten up our plot. bright book for summers bright I hours. The reader is sure not 10 leave | the hammock and this romance till the last page Is turned.
 The Law BrHISerS, by Robert Grant An event in the field of books of ic- | tion for this spring is a new book of short stories by Robert Grant, to be called The Law Breakers" There are seven stories in this volume of a wide variety of theme and scope Some of them pose questions of life and conduct in Judge Grants characteristic manner others are more purely imaginative and even idyllic; but they are all unified by the authors very personal and indi- vldual treatment Besides the title story there are "St. George and the Dragon" An Exchange of Courtesies. ' The Romance of Soul.'' Against. His Judgment" "A Surrender" and Across the Way" The book will be published in the latter part of this month.
 The OpnI Sea, by John c. Van Dyke. The Saturday Times Literary Review, in speaking of Prof. John C. Van Dykes new book. The Opal Sea-" said, recently:
 Tn. The Opal Sea John c. Van Dyke is at once poet, historian. naturalist, artist, and dreamer. Incidentally. also, he is writer of admirable prose. His book Is a study of the sea, as 1t has been in literature from the days of the Phoenicians and as it is in fact and his point of view shifts from the scien- life to the poeticll with no loss of balance. The Opal Sea is, indeed, a fascinating book. Here are all the facts and fancies about the sea-accu- mutations of the ages harmoniously blended, not set down in the cyclopae- die manner. the telr of the sea, and the love of it. Its terror ard it's beau ty, the creatures that, dwell in 1t. and the other creatures that float upon it in boats. it's mystery, it's never failing charm The history of naviga ton and discovery, the development of theories ns to ocean currents, as to the place of the sea in the grs1t uuk 1Owab;c scheme of life, as to the sea as the home of protOpllsR, all have a place in this book. It is not a sailors book, but sailor may read it with enjoy ment. It is not a scientific treatise, but the most unimpressib!e scientist will find no fault with 1t.
 The Fortune Hunter. hy David Ora ham Phillips-Da%ii Graham Fhill'p 'ps has always story to tell. Ho goes right to tho heart of things. The crart of the heart is his as well as the map of his N=w YOrk-thc real New York the three and a half millions who work and play hard and live plainly and without pretense."
 This is th' New York of the story and the refrain t5 which if muses is old Braunuss oGt-r= =3e1tad maxim; "Arbeit and Leibe md Ifei;a.'
 His heroes. heroes though they sell sausaEes over .t delieAtess .n counter, and heroines who tic up the pills in brown paper, never move out of Ave nue A, nor ever get far'h,r up town than Stuyvesant Squar- Their ideal of high social delight Is a table at the Cafe Boulevard or a family picnic at the Bronx. Yet they lcava their loves and thei- hates, their comedies and 
 Tompkins saIars is thair Bysium