Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-24
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1t will be long while before an! "orh
secures such a hold upon the juvenile al
fcctions as is enjoyed by Chatterbox. lts
sale has been enormous.
Over three million Chatterboxes have al
ready been sold in Europe, America ana
Australia, and in spite of the fact that
thousands of new books for young people
have been made since its inception, the
annual sale of ChatterbOx is more than
that of any three books of its class in the
world Every story is entirely new ana
the pictures are made expressly for 1t.
Chatterbox has had a host of imitators; ;
but has always succeeded in holding
place of unquestioned supremacy IN that
| field of juvenile literature in which 1t was
pioneer. Its matter is original, and it
contains a large number OF stories,
sketches, and poems admirably adapted
to young people. All the illustrations
which appear in it are expressly designed
for this work by the most eminent English
artists. Over 200 full page original illus
trations.
This years volume is printed better, and
on finer quality of paper than ever be-
| fore.
This, the acknowledged king of all jul
venile books published in the world, both
as to merit and amount of circulation, is
fully up to it's standard Of excellence this
year. in fact it seems to grow better every
year, and is eagerly looked forward to by
tens of thousands of young people as the
holiday season approaches. 1t contains
over 400 pages, and 200 original illustra-
tions by great English artists, and is not
only most interesting but very instruc-
-, &c l.
ways been acknowledged.
New Streams in Old Channels. Selec-
lions from the writing of DR.. Lyman Abb
bolt. By Mary Storrs Haynes. A new
volume of Spare Minute Series, introduce
ton by Rev. Theodore T. Munger, IS mo,
cloth, $1.OO Boston, Lothrop Publish
ing Company.
The Spare Minute Series, with which
the Lothrop imprint has made us familiar,
have given to the world in concise form
the best and wisest thoughts of some of
earth's best and wisest teachers. To these
selected gems from Goethe and Gladstone,
from Thomas Hughes and George Mac
Donald from Kingsley and Robertson,
| from Dean Stanley and Canon Farrar and
Beecher, has now been added a collection
of wise words from Beechcr's successor
in Plymouth pulpit-Dr. Lyman Abbott.
The editor, Mary StOrrs Haynes, has given
to her compilation the title, New
Streams in Old Channels 1t is an apt
one; for pre-eminently among our Ameri-
can preachers of today, Lyman Abbott
is distinguished as mastery interprete r
of the Gospel in the terms of the present
age, a clear and logical thinker, concise
and practical expounder; he is the repre-
sentative of all that is strong, high, and
deep in Christian thinking, of the charity
that never faileth, and Of the breadth and
tenderness and wisdom and justice of what
is known among men as the new theology.
The selections made by Mrs. Haynes from
the pulpit utterances and published papers
of DR.. Abbott,all bear evidence of the no
bility and wisdom that underlic the
spoken and written words of this remark
able preacher and editor, whose force is
not SO much in his or;tory as in his pre-
cepts, nor so much in his manner as in his
thoughts and observations DIR. Abbott
is particularly quotable-a quality not al
ways present in thinkers and teachers ibis
thoughts almost shape themselves into
epigrams his style is always clean; his
method is never involved; his candor is as
notable as his courtesy; he turns, as this
book of selections implies new streams
of thought into old rhahnels of faith.
The book will please his admirers and
make new friends, by bringing to recep-
tive minds food for thought well prepared
and pure strong, and nourishing, as the
sincere milk of that word which it is Dr.
Abbotts life work to preach to his fellow
men. An introduction by DR.. Munger
acceptably prefaces this new volume in a
popular and notable series.
Little Ike Templin, and other stories by
Richard Malcolm Johnston: illustrated :;
cloth, s1.OO. Boston: Lothrop Publish
ing Company.
Richard Malcolm Johnston has won for
| himself name and place in American
literature of today by doing capital work
in field in which he has numerous com
pctitors, but few rivals-character sketch
ing OF Southern life His negroes are real,
his poor whites real, his plantation life and
his pickaninnies real. There is the know
ledge of son of the soil in his description
of life in the "big house. and life i'm the
Ills SUOTltS art SWttU Will tlc
resin of Georgia pine and vocal with the
songs of robin and field lark and all the
music and hum of the Georgia fields and
woodlands No one has caught better than
| Colonel Johnston the inner life and feel
ings of the lowly folk of Georgia corn
fields and fruit farms, or entered more
sympathetically into their simple faith,
their superstitions, their loves, their jeal-
ousies, and their daily round of monOton-
les. He has written so that '''grown ups"
are delighted with his stories; he has
written just as satisfactory for younger
readers. In Little Ike Templin, Colo
mel Johnston has collected some of the lat
est and brightest of these stories for the
boys and girls, although it may be said for
them that they possess an equal charm
| for young and old Humor, pathos, sen
timent, fun and not little homely wis
dom and practical philosophy CLEAN in or
underlie all these stories and sketches,
while the dialect is so skilfully used that
even the Northerner, unfamiliar with its
clipped and dovetailed sounds, knows it
to be the real thing, and enjoys it cores
pondingly. The stories are all of Georgia
life and character, and not boy or girl
but will enjoy the bee-hunt with Mr.
Wimpy, laugh heartily over the mock
ghosts discontinue under the eye of old
Uncle Pete and feel the pathos of poor