Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-24

let neatly boxed, the whole making
combination of rare beauty and taste Inc
selections from the several authors are
carefully made, and printed in brown INK
on fine cream paper. ~r.
The series includes the following titles
in addition to the one above given viz: +
"Stray Thoughts from John Ruskin,
'Pearls and Rubies from f. X. Haver-
gal, " Selections from Adelaide A. Proc
ter, - "The Quiet Trusting Heart, Gull
ings from Keats"
The Great Composers. Incidents in the
history of music, and the lives of its best
composers. By Hezekiah Butterworth.
A new edition, revised and enlarged.
12mo, 200 pages, Sl.OO. Boston: Lothrop
Publishing Company.
Hezekiah Butterworth has charm OF
style and an ease of putting things that
give great interest to whatever he finds
to write about. His editorial ability en-
bances that faculty of condensation which
he possesses, and enables him to make con-
densation Acknowledgement always an easy
thing, even with editors 1t is this that
has made Mr.. Butterworths excellent
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a fayorite with readers for the past ten
wears, for, while giving glimpses of life
that are, in their way, photographs of the
great tone masters of the world, ana,
while admirably linking statistics and
story, it does all this briefly, judiciously
and entertainingly, and leaves the reader
wishing to know more. 1t is therefore, IN
its way, step in musical education and
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to be wondered at that the book should
have proved popular, and in bringing out
new edition the Lothrop Publishing
Company have almost made of it a new
| book For they have re-edited, enlarged
and brought it up to date, while whole
new chapter, giving brief selections OF
the other great composers besides Handel,
Hayden, Mozart, Beethoven, Mcndelssohn,
Chopin, List, Rossini and Wagner-to
whom the book was originally devoted
is full of interest and suggestion, and
really makes the little volume a handbook
for those who seek to know, briefly, the
story of the worlds "Great Composers. y
1t should be favOrite with all young peo-
pie musically inclined, or those who fire.
quent symphony or philharmonic concerts
and musical festivals. This book is well
illustrated and prettily bound.
Lost on Umbagog. BY Willis Boyd
Allen. 12mo, cloth, IS cents. Boston:
Lothrop Publishing Company. %...
Lost on Umbagog'' is the attractive
title given by Willis Boyd Allen to his
latest book for boys. Mr. Allen can tell
good story, as the young people who
have read his earlier books know full
well. In this story of the winter expert
ences of certain boy campers in the Maine
woods, he has piled up the snow and the
adventures in constantly increasing drifts.
There are bears and tramps, and binding
snowstorms and .roaring camp-fires and
pits, and pickerel enough to satisfy the
most craving lover of adventure, while
the beauty of the whispering pines, the
long white stretch of snow covered I'm
bagog, and all the shapes and sights and
sounds that give to winter in the woods
so different an aspect than their summer
garb make a suggestive background to a
brief, exciting, and well-told story of Incl
dent and adventure. 1t is a book that all
the boys and girls will like-for here is
girl in the story, tOO-and one that will
make them anxious to read the later books
| in the Camp and Tramp Series, of which
Lost on Umbagog''is the initial number.
The Child Amy. BY Julia Magruder.
4mo, cloth, $3.50. Boston: Lothrop Pub
fishing Company.
Julia Magruder's charming presentation
of the redecming influence of childhood
as made in 1.-The Child Amy will appeal
to all hearts. 1t is a sweet natural, de-
lightful and consistent story. 1t shows
how tiny waif, picked up at sea, finds
entrance into stern and divided home,
and becomes the central spirit of that
home, purifying and uniting it. The
theme is one that always attracts, but 1t
has seldom been used more gracefully or
to better advantage than in this story.
The character of the dainty little heroine
is unique. For while natural and childlike
she is so compelling force that every
barrier gives way before her" this child
Amy" as the narrator tells us, 1.-THE very
meaning of whose name is Love" In the
| food of children's books, this is one cs-
pecially to be remembered at holiday time,
| for it breaches so sweet sermon on love
| that no child but will be better for read
ing il, and to many an older eye will come
the moisture of sympathy and tenderness
which is the spontaneous tribute to the
beautiful child love that refnes and bright
ems, and is so often the salvation of the
world. The book is beautifully printed
and bound, and the excellent illustrations
and dainty title-page are from drawings
by Helen Maitland Armstrong
Tiny's Christmas Fairy, new Christ
mas souvenir for the children; A. W. Car
ter, Publisher, Newtonville, Mass. Price
% cents. To Sunday schools $3.50 per
dozen.
The thoughtful friends of young chill
dren, especially mothers and teachers. who
sometimes find it a serious task to select
just the right kind of Christmas literature
for the little folk, will welcome the new
and charming little booklet, "Tiny's
Christmas Fairy" by the author of the
widely read and enjoyed Bunny Stories )"
'Tiny's Christmas Fairy" is not a
timeworn fairy tale, but an original,
short and pretty story of a childlike ex-
perience, told in easy rhyme, with a
fresh and pleasing variation of the old,
but ever new meaning and mystery of
Christmas time and Christmas giving
1t strikes new and strong chord in the
familiar harmonies of Christmas time,
that will appeal alike to all hearts, old or