Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-05-13

The seventh volume of Aldens portable
and very satisfactory Manifold Cyclopeds"
is all taken up with only part of the letter
&C. opening with John Calvin ard ending
with Catalectc. 1t comprises over 600 pages
and contains 100 illustrations. This work is
an ordinary Cyclopeda of Universal KnOwl-
edge, and an Unabridged Dictionary of langu-
age in one, the editorial work being in skillful
hands, the mechanical work, paper, printing
and binding, all that one can reasonably
wish the form convenient beyond all pre-
cedent in works of reference, and the cost SO
trivial as to astOnish even those who have
been familiar with the remarkable accom-
plshmen;s of Alden's Literary Revolution"
Is is probably better than any other Cyclic
pedia or Dictionary adapted to popular use.
The publisher sends specimen pages free TO
any applicant or specimen volumes, which
may e returned, bound in cloth for 81 cts, or
half Morocco 90 cents; postage 10 cents.
John b. Alden. Publisher :93 Pearl St
New York; or 2lS Clark st Chicago.
The very excellent paper BY Prof f. w.
Hall of Colby University, on The Teacher
and the Library" which vas read before the
Maine Pedagogical Society last fall has just
been printed in "a edition of one hundred
copies aud we are glad that it will thus sur
vive the spirit of the audience fore which
it was spoken, and will 90 on doing its good
work whenever read. Prof. Hail shows that
the libraries and the schools ara working to
wards the same end, each supple the
other. each incomplete without the other ard
lie believes that the public libraries are as
legitimate an object for support by public
taxation as the schools. The town library
not the library of the trashy novels, but the
hbrary of the useful and solid reference
books, helps to study and education in many
branches-is Il practical assistant to the
teacher, and better assistant often than the
teacher. and ere long towns will be INV Hing
to carry on their schools without the help
they afford
Musical magazines frequently fail of re-
ceiying the notice they deserve from editors,
mainly, We think, because they are so thor
oughy devoted to a speciality in which all
are not interested. There comes to our
table regularly The Musical Record of Bos-
ton edited by Mr.. Dexter Smith; an1 The
Musical journal, published by Gould
Wooley, Philadelphia, each of which are
published at 81 90 per year. They contain
eight pages of new music in each number.
with a considerable variety of general and
critical articles, and many personal Hotes Of
know &c flat from any other octave, We are
satisfied, as journalist. that these magazines
must be found agreeable monthly visitors at
the homes of many of our subscribers, Al the
low price at y hich they are published
We are not a little surprised that the au
thor OF the article on the pleasures of sick
ness in the last number OF the Eclectic Mag
azine. did not enumerate reading as highest
in the list among those pleasures to be en-
loved by the comfortably sick After
the fever has turned and you are well along on
the "mending hand, relish a few mouthfuls
of steak. toast and little weak coffee for
breakfast. and are able to sit up in the
room about two hours in the afternoon,
what a pleasure it is to hold favorte old
volume in your hands, to skip along over the
pages of late magazine, or enjoy the
pictures in the illustrated papers. We know
all about this. and surely count such half
hours as among the greatest delights of con
valescense.
The author of that delightful story Mar
geret Kent. was given as Harry Hayes,
but this was the non de plume of Mrs Ellen
Warner Olney Kirk. the wife of John Foster
Kirk. formerly private secretary to the late
william II Prescott, the historian, She was
the daught of Mr.. Jesse Oluey, whose
biographies the school children eff forty years
ago so well remember. Mrs. Kinks mother
was sister of the late 4 5. Barnes. the
New York publisher. In this case of sue
cessful authorship, heredity counts for a
good deal.