The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-23

nothing serves letter to show the ge- mus of this bixarr8 and great man than the fact that II is an interesting book today; though { is permeated with dis- suite meaningless now to most per-
 Sconingsbyf shows us . real world. If shows us. loo. In quite unconscious his Oriental barbaric love of giit and tinsel; his ernest philosophy about basic things. and his contamptuous dis- regard of principles in political war; his evn genius as mocker and his vanity and his insight; his love for grand phrases and his sense of humor that made Jim laugh at them; his the- ory of ideaNsm and his actual worship of success: ana his wholly fine love for lenged the Jew w-despising English world ----1is English world that he served 50 eagerly, whose fiesh-pots he liked so we'll and without whose admiration he could not have lived.
 IL was In that unloveIy time in Eng land when the burning-out of the great consagrstion, Napoleon. had left men. no less than cities. in ashes; when, though there was q mighty seething, it was but the seething of eaabers a time Of uuack eaviore. clay heroes and ideals of brase. 1t was a time when men tried Co cure sel1shaeas and dishonor by Par liAxaentary enactment. when they meas- ufed policies with the yardstick and Felt convinced that prosperity was prin- cipiA.
 It was as if the generation stood like aa old forest blasted by the Corsicari lightning g--dead at the core though still grsen. Ard struggling haughtily against Ene new vigorous generation that was wrestling life from It's destruction.
 Men sought eurs for the evils, but they shxank from the knife. They strove nightly to build 6 government out of political pills and plasters They thought fo remedy sfck social system by changing the name of the sickness.
 me nation suffered uoisily but heip- iessly. It did not know what was the matter. IL knaw only that it's workers were poor. that tta. poor houses did not have room enough for the crowds that thronged Into them. and that It's rich had more money than they could spend, though they squandered it from the mountains of Scotland to the Golden
 The political doctors offered it dose after dose---some intended honestly to cure the disease and others that were intended craftily to allay merely the noise.
 A little medico- political faculty of tho latter school of practitioners was gathered around Lord Monmouth in his splendid Monmouth House. My Lord Monmouth was so pertnrbed by the sit- uation that he had hurried home from Italy at the grave risk of being bored in London.
 The only thing that can save this country. said Mr. RiEby. chief of the Sen faithful Members of Parliament who sat for Lord Menmouth's ten borougfa. ''is coalition on sliding scale" 'sYou had better hnY up the political fac. tons" said Lard Monmruth. We must make fresh boroughs." said Taper, who had lost his seat in the House of Com mons at the last election. we need d good church cry" said his feIlow-suf- ferer, Mr. TadpoIe. Peel is the only hope" said the Duke of Beaumanoir.
 The Duke of Reausnanoir was a con- servative of the conservatives, and ar. aristocrat like the Marquis of Mon mouth; but. though he was sadly per- plexed by the nwekenfng voices of de- mocracy. he was eager enough to right their wrongs ik he could, In this he differed from my Lord Monmouth. who demanded of Rigby and his other chat. tells in Parliament only that they for nulate policy not for emptying the warehouses. but for preventing any ats tack on the sacrednessf of the propar- ty that he was accommodating and spend ing on himself with holy seal.
 In his fervoF for the divine right of property and aRistocraey Lord Men- mouth was not even aetuated by the de, sire that other noblemen had to ner- petuate c great name and great estates What Lord Monmouth had and hoped to set he wanted for himself He hated his eldest son and was determIned to leave him nothing except the estates that would pass to him by law. He had not only quarreled with his other son, the younger. but actually had driveI, him to pauper's death by a coiaIv ax- ecuted system of persecution becaiass he had married against his wishes.
 Tn an unGccountable At of generosikK he had pensiened his sons widow ar condition that she retire to an obscure part of England and give up her in. 1aAt son. Enc only issue of their mar, Tie@e. entirely. He sent the boy ts echeol and never saw him or thot~hi of him, having detailed Mir. Rigby i, Sook after him.
 He happened to think of the bo, now that he was tn London. Belng 1T w&pt of amusement, and perhaps feel, ing q little more kindly toward hi, Grandson since his mother, whom n, had so hated. had died while he wa. abroad, he told Mir. Righy to fetcl young Harry Coningsby from Etou.
 1t was the boys first entrance intG the world. He looked with awe at tht vast circular hall of Monmouth House adorned with busts Of the Caesars: ai the glowing vestihule; at the panels 1T the salon. painted with pictures oi beautiful women; at the splendid Yists of state apartments and the room, filled with the choicest things of th'
 Hs was stlli more awed by the ownel of aIl these rnakniicepces, who rsceiv' ed Mm with the grand air that wal natural to him. The face of Isor6 Monmouth was as sagacious as 1t wal volu1tuous. the face of a prince. Fol his part. he looked apprOvtngly on hi. grandson with the thoughtful sand res, oluts face. the deep blue eyes. tn. chestnut curis and the strong, gracefu figure.
 Whsn Harry coningsby returned tc Eton it was as the acknnvIedged fa varits of the Marquis. much to the de. light of his little circle. in which b. was ths unauestioned and admired leader. They were young men wht appreciated keenly what the favor ol Ford Monmouth meant for they were all sons of nobIemen thounssIves.-Irort We're. son of Whig peer; Sir Charle, RuclEAurst. Henry sydney. younger sor of the Duke of Beaumanoir--alI young ariEtncrats. but of new generation which was growing up impatient o the fAchens of tradition that incum bered their elders. and looking witE perpIexSd hut eager young eyes to { new sunlight and new ideals.
 Coningsby was most ardent of then all. and under his inspiring leadership thay dreamed of a new England Whar.