The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-11
Archibald H. Grimke, on the negro question.


 The authorship of the popular books: .'The Garden of q Commuters Wite. .eThe People of the Whirlpool. "A Wo. man Errant" end At the Sign or the Fox" has been as Jeaiously guard ed in this country as ever the identlty of Miss Fiona Macleod" was guarded in England until the recent death or William sharp.
 It can be positively stated this r orning, however. that these hooks were written by Mabel Osgood Wright. Her authorship will be authoritative Iy announced by The Macmillan com rany on the qualification of new oook in the series, "The Garden. You-and l, within few weeks
 Mrs Wright Is the daughter Of the late Rev Dr. Samuel Osgood. for many year a conspicuous figure in this city and the wife of MT. J. O, Wright, a well known collector of and dealer ih rare books and a prominent mempeF of the Grolier Club She has been known as charming writer, ana hsr 'eTommy Anne" books have been wide Iy read She has written much for the magazines. and she writes about ma ture books" for The New York Times Saturday Review. Her country nome is at Fairfield, Conn. and there may be found that now famous garden Of g commuters wife. Only few or MTS. WTlknIS lflNtiuS I0NS BoNSSf0 sA'N secret of her authorship of these books. To a Times reporter yesterday she said she had no objection now to public announcement of the nutnorship.--New York Times.
 Tn the February number of The Critic. Joseph McCabe unveils the Venality of Tal- leyrand. No great character in modern hls- tory has been the subject of such mysticism as the diplomatist Here the author has done hls best to get at the truth especially concerning the Frenehman's relations with America at the time of the Louisiana pur- chase.
 Julian Hawthorne has written an article on Journalism the Destroyer of Literature In the February Critic. He argues conelu- sively that every society uses a charaoteris- tic utterance of the spiritual plane that should be literature. owing to our present unspirituality literature lanEuishes, whtlo at the same time journalism, the mode Of speech of the material plane apes the higher tone with a result that always ap- pears counterfeit.
 Adele Marie Shaw has written an essay in the February Critic on What We Read to Children. She attacks modern priggish- ness and old-time foolishness with iudts- criminate good nature, for she explains that the normally book-loving boy or girl gets pleasure beyond our comprehension from what he does not understand as we'll as from the simplest of reiterated jingles.
 Tn the February Critic Anne Warner writes an admirable satire on the modern stock costume" novel in her article. Three Generations of Romances. where she pre- sents consecutively the tales of the grand mother the mother and the daughter of today Tn tho first instance. an 1S40 lady was tatting In the niuliloned window when Edward Merton. flushed with the wine-cup started to embrace her Tn the second case Mama sat In bower working red roses and white beads into a three-cor- nered shelf mat Here were the hoop skirts. and rineiets, and Clement, her child hoods piayfellow. The third section deals with the girl. herself. frseh from her physi- cal culture exercise and her two-milea swim.
 Francis Grierson, Tn the February number of The Critic. has written an attractive es- say on The Making of Books Therein he considers the principal qualities of volumes which have attained success. both those written for local application. and those that appeal to a larger audience The ua- thor's conclus sion Is that iu the long run a widespread personal experience of the world will put an end to the superfiuous in litera~ ture. for when can travel at pleasure and hear and see the original marvols of our | planet. we will find scant desire to read | about them. ..