The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-05
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The ChaIl<nee. By warren Chevey The strongest, purest, sweetest "v'
 The scene of the story ia fresh anf fairly new to fiction: Alaska Ltus Bay. with it's treacherous Whiripoo coming just twice at regular intervais in zach day. is where nature takes 2 hand in the story.
 ivan Egorvitch. though slow lover is mi slow to win love to himself From the first moment when he fiushes under Mikhail Etoiin's mention of the rirI whose love has sent him to the fai trading post Ivan is the man to wir hearts
 The snort summer of the North was tt it's full when Ivan rowed out in his little boat to warn the incoming ship oi the dangerous flow. As he idly waited for the vessel to come in sight he gath cred branches of blossoms, the crisp cool blossoms of the North. crowdina 'fnto ephemeral day a display that would serve for months of decoration in a slower clime."
 It was these flowers and the gentle heart that prompted their gathering that first drew to Ivan the interest oi Motrya Petrovana.
 Ivan's blood brother" stephen Omit reovitch was also on the incoming boat
 That the two should love the one maiden whose home was to be the trad ing post is more natural than novel But so fresh is the strong management of the plot that even the old story oi love and rivalry shines out like newly furnished gold.
 Ivan has been the lover of Motrya'. sister, it was varenka whose love had made a wanderer of Ivan.
 Revenge as well as love is on thu incoming ship. The priest, Simeor Goosdef, Is coming to see his son Mois sci
 Moissee the reprobate of the post hal that day been executed by order Of ths conmandant of the post.
 Side by side run the tales of revenge and love. Full of dramatic quality I. the story. Full of warm. rich human. fty 1t is absorbing In its interest.
 Its characters are marked, well de fined It's tone is wholesome, tonic. In. vigorating. Its charm is enthralling.
 Rarely does so entirely satisfactory 2 novel come up on the flood of present. day fiction.
 The Conquest of Canaan. By Booth Tarkington, author of ''The Gentleman from Indiana Cherry" etc. Mir Tarkington returns to the scene of his first famous book, ''The Gentleman from Indiana" laying his story In Canaan, e typical "incoEgruoHs Indiana town It Is a splendid story of the triumph of character over circumstance. and the readers sympathy is at once enlisted in Jce LoudAn MT. -arkington's char acters are bold, picturesque, and con vincing. and the group of small-towr personages that make up the village chorus add much humor to the tale.
 Told by Uncle Remus; New Stories oi the old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris Mfr. Harris has a very pleas ant way of telling nothing in these pages There Is little folk lore and lit tie nature lore in the sixteen new sto- ries from the old plantation. The nc- gro in reality is a marvellous story tell CT. First he never makes short story long. The pith and the point of story come with him startlingly near the start Just characteristic bit. some thing so like the animal hero that he would recognize himself. then turn and twist of the fancy. and whoop-lai we are at the finish. That is the negro al his best Twelve or twenty lines would very nearly hold good folk lore tale as the negro himself tells 1t. The story may need little extension when sci out for civilized audiences. But there is never needed ten-acre lot to SOW a pocket full of corn. It Is surprising to find these newer tales stretched out so lenEthily. Uncle Hemus of the old days was the most delightful narrator