The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-14

Westfall Thompson upon Napoleon as Bookiover. and Charles Miner Thomp- son on The Short Stories of Alice Brown, while the genial roundabout essay. for which the Atlantic is now almost the only medium. is seen at it's best in The Ignominy of Being Grown Up. by Samuel McChord Brothers. The stories are highly readable. yet leave one something to think of. They are by Agnes Repplier. Elizabeth Foote. Arthur S. Pier. and s. Carleton. The poems are by Fannie Stearns Davfs, Florence Wilkinson and Lee Wilson Dodd.
 "Tascsv fer July.
 The July number of Tales. just out with its new and attractive cover, is admirably adapted to the wants of summer readers. The fourteen stories are somewhat lighter in tone than has been the case with proceeding numbers. and the proportion of humor is unuku- ally large. The complete novel. Tho Secretary of the Duchess" translated from the French of Leon de Tinseau. is a charming example of French esprit. Incidentally. the story probably pre- sents the best picture in recent fictfcn of summer life in an aristocratic French chateau.
 The short stories in this issue of
 
 ty Of out and out humor there are An Ideal Suicide" a qra,ntly amusing tale translated from the Japanese; The man to- Whom-One-C Could Not Lie" by Edmund Haraucourt, and Anatole Frances delightful conceit. The Lady with the Fan." from the French; and the oddity of Enrico CasteInuovo,s Uneasy Consciences." from the Ita1- ian. There is adventure and rare de- scriptivc power in PeIIe Moiin's "A Midnight Duei.H and q powerful dra- matic climax in Isabelle Kaiser's Monsieur Ia Marquis" Sentiment is the Keynote of Noelle Rogers ''what the Spirits Said" and of The Hilf." by Adelheid Weber. '1rhe Last Tncar- Dutch author. Is a touching story of beautiful Japanese rnousme. Not the lenst attractive feature of the number is the collection of jokes and witticisms translated from the best European comic journals.
 Country Life in Ameriea for July. The July Country Life in America is essentially n midsummer number. The | author of Little Lord Fnunt1eroy, Mrs. | Frances Hodgson Burnett. tells Us about her home in Kent ond An Amer .can Authors English Ha-Ha." We learn of Swimming Pool at Cornish" that IS Dotn pTactlcal ana orndiueHtAts through Frances Duncan. Some Se- crets. of Lawn Tennis Skill" by J. parmly Paret is remarkable for the picture of Fred Alexander volleying at the net. Dr. James A. HenshaIl de- scribes for us The Crawling: The Lady of the Streams'' in his usual entertain ing manner. Cruising on the Maine Coast" by William Lambert Barnard gives a practical description of how to go about such cruise. Dr. van Dykes selection of famous Songs of Nature is, as usual appropriate to the season. Wilhelm Miller tells us of wild Flow CTS Worth cultivating'''-the best flow CTS from every part of the country that will grow anywhere, and the twelve types of wild garden. In Wild Foods in July" by Dr. H. H. Rusby. we read about the berry season. the globe-ei- circling whortleberries and the forty kinds of blackberries. Thomas F. Me- Grew gives us the First Principles of Poultry Culture" in his usual author itative manner The Truth about .Doctored' Rugs" by George Leland Hunter. tells of rugs antique and afi- tiouated. the results of washing Orien- tai rugs, what Is legitimate washing and what Is not.