Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-09-25
EDITORS TABLE.

Famous Leaders Among Men," by Mrs.
Sarah X. Bolton. One VOL, 12mo., cloth !;
4O4 PIP. with portraits; $3.50. T. Y. Gro
well & Co., Publishers, New York and Bos-
ton.
established a reputation, as a writer of
popular biographies that she needs no in
PRODUCTION to the reading public. She knows
how to impart to her work the fascination
of live interest. 1t is this rare faculty that
gives her books special value, aside from
the comprehensive scope of the sketches
they contain, and the careful accuracy of
the admirable pen pictures which they
present. Works like these are valuable adj
ditions TO any library. With young people
especially, their influence for good is al
most incalculable. Mrs. Bolton avoids
didactic preaching and is content to let the
facts she so wildly and entertainingly sets
forth teach their own lesson and bring their
own inspiration. In Famous Leaders
Among Men," she gives us excellent
sketches of such men as Napoleon Bona
parte, Lord Nelson, General Sherman,
Phillips Brooks, Henry Ward Beecher,
Spurgeon, John Bunyan, Thomas Arnold,
Wendell Phillips and Charles Kingsley. A
moments study of these names shows the
motive of the volume. 1t illustrates and
contrasts the characters of men famous
in the ranks of war, and the characters
of men equally famous in the church mill
tant. 1t is an admirable volume, and one
worthy of place in every intelligent home.
THE Building of Character" by the
Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D., author of
"Silent Times" making the Most of
Life" THE Every Day of Life" "Glimpses
Through Lifes Windows" l vol, viii
273 pages, 16 mo. White back, gilt top,
boxed, ST. 90. T. Y. Crowell & Co., Pub.
fishers, New York and Boston. :
"Nothing else we can do or make in this
world is so important as that which we build
along the years in ourselves. What we are
at the end is great deal truer test of living
than what we have or what we have done. "
Extract from the Introduction.
1t is difficult thing to invest subjects of
an ethical character with popular interest.
Many it is true, essay the task, but few
succeed. Among the latter, however, DR..
Miller, holds foremost place. He has
been conspicuously successful in this line
of work, and has won to himself large lit
erary constituency of which he has just rea-
son to be proud. 1t would be difficult in
deed to estimate the great good which has
been accomplished by his works, stimulat-
ing as they do, to self.assertiveness, what
ever is truest and best in the characters of
his readers. "Silent Times" "Making the
Most of Life. ""The Every Day of Life" and
"Glimpses Through Life's Windows" are
all works that have met with merted success
and exercised wide and elevating influence.
1.-THE Building of Character" seems
also destined to win large degree of popu-
lar favor, and exercise an equally potent in
fuence for good.
1.-The Able Daniel" by Andre Theuriet
translated by Helen B. Dole. Photo
gravure frontispiece, fabricated title
page, and twenty five exquisite half
tone illustrations. Daintily bound in
particloth with printed wrapper. One vol,
l6mo., 1o4 pp., gilt top, Sl.OO. T. Y.
Crowell & Co., Publishers, New York and
Boston.
"The Able Daniel" is charming idyl of
French country home-life, in. which the
interest lies in the romantic love of the
Able Daniels protege for the daughter of
his former sweetheart, for whose detection
he had, indeed, out of disappointment,
entered the church. The characters are
most wildly portrayed, and, from the very
beginning, arouse the keenest interest and
sympathy. Nothing can be cleverer than
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practical able and his successful rival, the
bold, bluff, hearty Beauvais, father of
Denise; nothing sweeter than the manage
ment of the denouement, which happens as
Unexpectedly as it is satisfactory to the
doing abba just when he had given up all
hope of seeing bis pet scheme accomplished.
The scenery is painted with a mastery
hand, and the style is simply exquisite. 1t
Is book W hich cannot fail to give new
idea of French character; for, while it is
absolutely free FROM any suspicion of
characteristic French liberalism, it is also
| free from that NAV kish affectation of virtue
50 common in books written for the 'syoung
person." 1t is a gem in every way, and
the illustrations are in dainty accord with
the crystalline style. The translator to
whom we have already been indebted for
excellent versions of Baumbach's "Sumner
Legends" and Victor Hugo's Ninety
three" has acquitted berself of her task in
way that leaves nothing to be desired.
Wanted" By Mrs. G. r. Alden
(Pansy). l2mo. cloth, illustrated, Sl.5O.
Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company,
Publishers.
Every Pansy book has a charm pecu-
liarly its own. She always writes with a
purpose, and is one of the few authors who
have the faculty of making every page
of their works breath the great lessons of
Christianity and still maintain their hold
upon the affections of the reading public
This 10 a remarkable achievement in an
age that has seen the old-iime Sunday
School books" with their didactic preach
ing, their celestial atmospheres. their I'M
naturally precocious heroes and heroines,
ard general flavor of morbid unreality
relegsted to the junk shops. Iconoclasm,
even in literature, is liable to 20 to ex-
tremes. The books of Pansy have held
their place in the public esteem primarily
because of their absolute realism
They are never lacking in live hui