Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-12-07
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Talks by Queer Folks, by Mary f. BAN
ford Price, cloth, 81 80; boards, 81 % :
Boston: d. Lothrop Company.
So justly famous are the juvenile pnbh-
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their imprint upon volume is, 10 i'seif, a
guarantee of merit. The works of Miss
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instructive as well as entertaining The
latest is no exception to the rnl-. lt is III
cult to conceive of better method of impart-
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Humsnics, Comments, Aphorisms and
Essays, by John Staples White, New York
Frank & Wsgnalls Company.
This book certainly possesses originality.
The author informs us, in his preface, Il .,
7 is a thought journal or diary. These
thoughts expressed in short disconnected
sentences and paragraphs, each complete in
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of misunderstanding as it were, a number
Of skeleton essays. The collection is re-
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ready Judgment in the memory. Along rith
the good things are some that had better
been omitted and few that DO not
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| Bridnm.n, Boston: D. Lothrop Compau, .
| Mr. Bridgman is too we'll known to the
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introduction. He /. az af,isf v no combi0es
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| Juvenile Hiswsila in pencil-thst give the
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Illustrated cover, cloth. 81 %