The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-05

maiden ladies set the value of love
 above that of mere millions. Across the Way let's us know how a college belle can treasure few with 1 cred roses for the sake of young l lover wno spoke of love and not of l marriage, and who can refuse for tune pequeathed her by an cratic old
 neighbor Across the Way. It is a re- I lief to the overstrained mind of the I reader when the Quixotic maiden finds a lover and occulist in one also Across I the Way" Like the friends in real l life of such a maiden we are glad when
 she is safely married and settled l down."
 | "A Surrender Is probably the
 best and most finished piece of work in the book. It is mans choice guid- ed by his wife's known desires, be- | tween work to bring ease and wealth
 and work to bring fame. The ordi- nary reader must perforce agree with the wife and the Kendalrs. A man | who can deserve and win fame on a petty sum can more easily win both on twenty thousand year. I A group of stories pleasantly told of commonplace people. Not q char ] acter in the whole series has individ- uality, originality, or charm enough to rouse the readers interest, or to finger
 a moment in his memory. They are l very good pegs on which to hang the authors pleasing philosophizing and his
 entertaining observations of life in
 general.
 Poems.-By Meredith Nicholson. In the poems of novelist there Is rarely
 found the dramatic qualities that a
 writer who is not prose-romancer puts into his verse. The novelist uses the medium of verse as carriage for his fancles and philosophies rather than for stories of action.
 These poems of Mir Nicholson have
 many of them appeared in .c Aslan..c
 Monthly, Century Magazine, Harpers $ New Monthly Magazine and in The
 Reader The opening poem is the ded-
 ication to James Whitcomb Riley It
 is must graceful and most appreciatiye
 of Riley's genius.
 The wind inspires the poet witn . many of his most fanciful images. There are several to this earth's re- fresher: The Winter Wind in the i Rockfes;" "The Wind Patroi; The , wind at whitsuntide;" Where Four windc Meet"
 |. The last named is one of the most : satisfying poems in the volume: : "It is not there the winds are foes, Though some bring buds and some
 bring snows;
 l For they divide the earth's estate 1 AS friendly kings might arbitrate, , And each is sovereign any hour . The mighty land iss in its power. . They find delight in bold surprise, And would defeat mans prophecies. . Ships put not forth, seeds are not sown i. Until the favoring gales have blown
 The destinies of nations wait , The winds that ruin or create.
 These secret things he learns whose
 feet
 May find the place whose four winds
 meet,
 Many of the verse voice the poets religious thoughts and connmunings. . as: "The Prayer of the Hill Country. (and the Strength of the Hills is His
 Also) and 'Tn the Great Pastures. 5 Jour cattle also shall go with us); 'The z Psalms in the Mountains;" Grace : Chimes:" from Bethlehem to Cavalry; . "The Valley of Vision" and "A New ' Years Collect"
 The several quotations are good:
 Labor and Art.
 'sWith bits of metal. ivory and woo, Man makes an instrumeut and calls i v good:
 But he that wrought with joy the fai 2 design
 2 Can not evoke the hidden chord divine.
 Q This hour the fateful tide runs up tn beach,
 ]. as the sea wills It; . It seeks each hollow cave of yesterday Finds it and fills 1t. : There are charming verses upon tha 2 elusive, indescribable thing we cal . Charm"
 : Several of the poems relate to tn ! Spanish American War A poet if an, 2. one should be allowed to speak for him = self. Therefore without more common g upon a very pleasant treat will neithe t add to nor detract from MT. Mereditl ) Nicholson's reputation as one of ou : most successful novelists we will quot one of the attractive poems entire; Simplicity. z If power were mine to wield control r Of Time within my heart and soul, y Saving from ruin and decay s Q What I hold dearest, I should pray: 7 That may never cease to be ~ Moved daily by expectancy; i. That evening shadows in mine eyes e Dim not the light of new surprise; y That I may feel till life be spent, . Each day the sweet bewilderu1ent ]. Of fresh delight in simple things,-- . Tn snowy winters. golden springs, And quicker heart-beats at the though . or all the good that man has wrought But may I never face dawn
 | with all the awe anu "OuuCA 6SAAo' y Or in late twilight fail to see y Charm in the staid old ivory"
  2 "The Opal Sea-" by Prof. John c. Va . Dyke, is in a way a pendant to hl o s "The Desert" and is fully as remark z able and original as that extremely in .t dividuaI and striking book. The opa z sea is just the universal sea, but thu ., designated on account of it's irridescen ' reflections and the epithet suggesti '. what is the fact about the volume, tha s it considers the sea in it's aesthetic t we'll as on its scientific side. No sue = sustained paean and panegyric abou 7 the sea has ever been written, but tn = poetic element of the book rests upo ' the solidest scientific structure in a U exhaustive exposition of the seal o depths, tides, currents, winds, denizen - and other natural features.
 The Writings of St. Francis of Assist . Father Paschal Robinson. in his nev
 translation of the writings St. Franci
 of Assist, has added valuable bool
 to the literature of the Roman Catho