The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-13

and that portion the North. The South Is rich in feminine genius which the world Is just beginning to recognize. The Harpers were present at the feast but none called for the song" Tn the matter no severer charge should lie against the South than belongs to the world In all time. ~ Seven cities honored Homer dead
 Through which he living begged his
 bread"
 With AiSbama this fate has not been only to the singer but to other native writers as well. Probably no Ameri- can writer of fiction has so many read CTS as Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson of Mobile. author of Inez. BeuIah, St. Elmo. At the Mercy of TIberus and other novels. Her books have been widely circulated and some have even appeared in French and German trans lat!ons. She has been styled the Char lotte Bronte of America. Uncle Gill; bert" which caused such a sensation is the production of Mrs. Bsllamy, am other Alabamian. And 'Ditty Dumps and Tot" what mother has not brought Joy to the hearts of her little ones with that story of child-life in an ante bellum plantation in Alabama? Who has not laughed at tho obstrepereus goat. Billy. who manlike, occasionally broke from the yoke of feminine per suasion. and caused nasty resorts to strategy. This book Is by Mrs. Louise Clarke PyrneIie of Alabama. Mrs. j.. I. Mckinney Is the author of The Si- lent Witness" recently published and favored by critics and public alike. Mss Belle Moses, the writer of short stories. several years ago won the $500 prize In The Chicago Reeord-Heraid's s contest.
 Hut the work of no writer sheds greater iustrs on the literary annals of the South than that of Miss Mary Johnston, an Alabama woman. Her 'sPrisoners of Hope and ITO Have and to Hold" have met unbounded applause. She has achieved the most remarkable success of any Southern woman.
 Although 1t may not have produced celebrities in every line Alabama mas given to the world a Madame Le Vert, whose apistoiatory ability ranks sec ond only to Lady Mary Montague. Reading her charming Souvenirs of Travel suggests the words ot one oi Dickens cnaraeeeFs. "YouH wisn there was more and that's the grear art O letter writing. .,,,
 Mrs. Adelaide de Chaudron, co Just.y famed for her delightful ana aeousa.s transiation of Muhlbach's "Joseph II and his Court" was an Aiapahs woman. l.
 The success of Alabama women in severer work as critics. bioErapnefs and historians Is worthy of notice. he- longing to this class are Mary La Fayette Robbins, Alabama women m Literature:" Miss Kate Cummings. ''tIospitat Life in the Confedera.e Army of Tennessee" Louise Maniy "southern Literature and Mrs. vir- rinia Clay Clopton'a White and Black Under the old Regime"
 Doctors Josiah c. Mott, J. Marion Sims, Nathan Bozernsr, Jerome CocnFan and John A. Wyeth, all hlustrieus physicians and surgeons belonging 70 Alabama have contributed valuapie work to the scientific world.
 Mir. Montrose Moses, an AapamA famous for his edited version or 'Everyman." the great morality play, with a copious introducticn, Actor Families In Anerica. and 5cokS ana Reading for Children.
 But of those who have helped to ley the foundation of modern literary development In Alabama, no name is more deserving of honor than that os T. C. DeLeon. While he has displayed remarkable versatility ranGing from historical "reminiscences to travesty' Mir DeLeon excels in fiction. Ills first success was Creole and Puritan followed by "Juny," "a Fair Bloekaae Runner" and "The Puritan's Daugh' ter" a sequel to Creole and Purttan; and other works. But in "CraE Nset . romance of the days of "sheEidan's Ride" and John Hilden" . romance of Reconstruction, he attaius the high est level of his art. His recent "Beaux and Bellies" appearing in Town Topics will Dasg into history.
 The various achievement of Ala bamians in the worlds progress have been as broad as the milky way. II they look at tine Delta of the Hudson, it reminds them Of the Alabama River l bottom lands. The vast prairies oi Texas are a memorial of the level fields of Alabama. Alabama is the alpha and omega of the grandest and | best. It's the Kentucky of plaee which the preacher described Heaven to be to the Kentucky eongregation And when the star of her destiny will have set. and the traveller shall wander midst the ruins of her primitive gram | deur, when the historian of the latest generation shall embrace within the range of his mighty compass the land marks of tradition and story. the grandest memorial that shall grace his l guided page will be--Alabama!