The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01

Y .. r...s Ahout Toina.--A novel of ~,odern life in New York. By ber.na Rnnkle A gay comedy. kinoiy tnins thst lets us believe that after all New Work is not so bad as Mrs. Wna,.on. with her House of Mirth. anu M s Glasgow with her Wheei ol would have us think.
 r,an patriot singing grand opera, the very idol of the metropolitan. spend- srr all his easily earned fifty thousand dollars a year upon his bleeding coun : frv. He is said not to speak word or F.nx1ish. tho he is known to talk Tn some very English idioms Of French al teas. man on his beat with good United States talk"
 The blot is light but well drawn ana deftly handled. with pleasing It. fie surprises all the way through. Per- haps the society into which Mis- Run kle introduces us is somewhat ting ed with her own genius; maybe there are not quite so many musical geniuses hidden In its glittering meshes as her pen has put there. Her New York Is the New York of everybody, not that or and one particular set.
 sNew York" as her characters put If, srhis great heartless, money getting city. Tn. these days of divorce. and and trusts. you know"
 And flatiron buildings. and third rail accidents, and ticket speculators.
 "A city of stylish girls.-giris or certain elegance which one finds no where but on Manhattan Island.--a city of clever girls, Of attractive girls. Du' hardly of beautiful girls"
 New York of rapidly changing fads ana fancies. Why not the language or Doucet--and Maeterlinck" Maete,- Iinck?' vaguely. as if the name haroly conveyed a meaning to her. That was Inst winter
 "And now he has gone with the snows and sleeves of yester-year!
 "T have the vedas now on my night stand. They are an ever present help when one suffers.
 New York Engagements of Beauty to Wealth: I think he means bus mess. He seemed to be In earnest. and hc was perfectly sober. don't see tha. he can get awa. now. Mothor aren't you pleased?'
 "The tears rained on. and Honor found herself thinking. mother must be upset. or she would never rum her party muff.'
 The breaking of the news of the en- rarement to the athletic father went in pretty much the same vein as 1t mad gone with the soulful mother of liter- aty tastes:
 You don't mind marrying a man ycu think silly?' It doesn't matter docs 1t? get the position and he gets me for the position. We shall both be polite and nice to each other, because we are both pleased
 |" You are honest. at any rate. am not sure that such honesty is qufte---decent.' !"
 We have the New York beauty by her own confession: T am a public character. I am a ballroom success Men tumble over themselves for the privilege of having people see them dancing with me. But none of them except when asked formally to dinner
 We have the limit of the New Tors men:
 q suppose there must be men in New York that do something and know something, and are something, but you don't find them at dances and teas"
 Best of all. we have a society woman (of a set) licking rich outsider into good New York shape.
 Thus and thus Is the New Yorker made by women like Mrs. Nortie Burn ham. He didn't know enough to ge out of the way of the tro!leys. Ht wore a soft hat and a frock coat. ant white tie with a dinner jacket He didn't know the difference bewteer .Anheuser' and Tannehauser.' I gues! he thought they were both aldermen He ate his oysters with his salad-fork and buried every r. in his head, anC never wore gloves when he should. anC always when he shouldn't and said well, must be going now and re marked to the butler No. I wouldn' wish for any He used to write to m' on postals, answer invitations that way end leave out all the Is.' And he talk ed about the 'drammer.' and his full dress suit and his mamma and h, thought to live at the Waldorf wa; swell and he'd never had a valet il his life. It was months before he stop ped saying ,'Yes'm.' and calling lunch con, dinner"
 Did it seem hopeless? But trust ever this Herculean labor to Mrs. Norti, Burnham.
 The best part of the gay book is tha the author puts good in everything ant good in everybody Mrs. Nortte adorel her own husband. think of that! 'tht he be both old and wealthy.
 Her sister Hyacinth of the Vedas. tn, First Empire-Greek skirt, and the Ear ly-Italian winged sleeves. had a warn heart under her queer attire.
 Mr. Hammond father of the Beauty