Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-12-12

] Roundaho,h Rambles in Northern Eu-
rope by Charles r. King, author oil ~.
Land We Live In This Continent OK
Ours. ete. Cloth, sss ehgfavitlgs Price
sl.25 Roston Lee and Shepard
| This delightful little volume condenses
| into q cninparatively small space vast
| amount of Information that ~ botn ~
| Pertaining and instructive. 1t gives ~. ~,
! reader a good deal for his money. Tor tile
| Illustrations alone are well worth Its puree
| chare price. Ut gives vivid account o.
the traysls Of thf cortger fahlil ber for
| children and govefness. through urs ~.
Britain. Norway, Sweden. Denmark
and Russia. They are natural ,.,IIs a,,,
elers in search Of the be antlffmii'
| their great object in journeylns
being pleasure and education Ine
work is written in the narrative form
and no effort has been spared TO nave
| the information given correct ana up %
| date, so t5at the book may be sale
guide TO Travellers Inc illustrations, oi
which there are TWO hundred and thirty
eight. are half-tones reproduced from
photu9rapfs. A list of the best DOCKS 10
be consulted. as we'll as list 81 poems
connected with the places described, r, ~
sale al c. w. Quimby L Co. Art store
When Israel Putnam Served the King,
by James Otis; ilIussratedi price 10 cts.
Boston: Estes ana isahrlHt
Mr. Otis Is certainly prolific writer;
but one who Is always sure Of q warm
welcome from large ard growing con-
stituencv. No writer for young people
has the happy faculty of lending greater
interest to a narrative than he. and no
where is he seen to better advantage than
when he states the facts of history in the
language of fiction. In the present. vol
ume he gives us the, experiences OF TWO
Connecticut boys under the command OF
Major Israel Putnam--later the famous
general of Revolutionary fame-durina
the French and Indian war. Il is story
repiete with thrilling adventures, ana
while resting upon basis of historic
truth, is nevertheless we'll calculated 10
win the affections OF every live boy who
| reads it. Still 1t Is clean. wholesome,
| tertalnment, and will make a welcome
addition to any boy. library 1t IL print
| ed on excellent paper handsomely illus-
trated. and thoroughly bound in a sub
stantiu quality If cloth.
Songs Of War and Peace. by Sam Wal
| ter Foss, author OF Back Country
Poems" "Whffs from wild Meadows.
Dreams in Homespnn.' etc. Cloth; gilt
top; boxed. price sl...5. Boston: Lee and
Shepard.
No poet of the present day has a more
versatile genius, or enjoys stronger
| hold upon the hearts of the American
reading public than Sam Walter Foss.
| Indeed If we may judge by the frequency
with which his verse Is quoted he may
justly be ranked. 30 fat. at least as his
own country Is coDcerned-for he Is prob
ably H;tle known outside Of it-as the
| most popular poet Of the day. There are
poets of the present day who may excel
| him in range of thought and literary I'm
ish but In depth OF feeiing-in sponra-
| neous beauty and simplicity OF expires
sion. and quaintness of humor. he
has today few rivals and no supe-
~ ,-n reminded f1rrpfril l.
periorE. We are reminded very forcefui-
~ in reading his verses. how close Is the
relationship between humor and pathos.
Both of these qualities Mr.. Foss has In
a striking degree an his work and In his
verse we frequently see how short may be
the distance from smiles to tears. Mr..
Foss keeps abreast Of the times. several
of the poems being on war subjects. The
initial poem of the volume has been large
~ quoted by the press of the country. 1t
is entitled War
| am War. The raptured faces of piled
dead men greet my eye
Anu the sons of mothers perish-and
laugh to see them die
Mine the demon lust for torture. mine the
devil lust for pain,
And there is TO me no beauty like the
pale brows of the slain!
But my voice calls forth the godlke from
the sluggish souls at ease.
And the hands that toyed with ledgers
scatter thunders round the seas;
And the lolling idler, Weakening, measures
up to Gods own ulan,
And the pulling trifies greatens to the
stature of a man.
When | speak the centuried towers OF
old cities melt in smoke,
And the fortressed ports sink Keeling az
my far-aimed thuuoer stroke:
And an immemorial empire filings its last
flag to the breeze.
Sinking with its splintered navies down
in the Implying seas.
But the blind of sight awaken to an un-
imagined day,
And the mean of soul grow conscious
there is greatness in their clay;
Where my bugle voice goes pealing slaves
grow heroes at its breath.
And the trembling coward ruShes to the
welcome arms of death
There are many excellent specimens OF
the poets own inmitable humor in this
volume-poems replete with keen anal
ysis and knowledge of life. Notable
among them are THE Pulling Through
OF Todlum.' A Thinker on Thinkers"
and "Grassville's Great Man" The fol-
lowing vivid picture of a genuine miser
from Tom Phelan's Haunted Barn" is
a fair sample of the vividness of the
poets humorous descriptions:
He said that he could dress himself three
. year for twenty dollars
BY jest renouncin stockin's. Shoes an
under clo'es an collars,
Ai Wedfln meal bag nantdlo0nS-for
they wore jest like iron
Were jest as good as any dood's, an
easier to try on.
So in one corner Of his barn he rugged n
place to stay there,
An in col winter nights he slep' all COW
cred up with hay there:
An II his feet got very col a-sleepin' on
his NOW there.
wy he'd crawl out a little while an
warm EN- on his COW there.
He had an oil tin-b'iler stove he ulster
cook his meal on,
An one pertater twice day Che ct il
with the peel onl
he had an apple once a week, an once
when very sinful
t1e baked a pan of Johnnycake an ct a
half a tinful
The volume is both substantial and ar
tistlc in its typographical features, and
Is very sure to be one of the most pop,-
lar books of the year. For sale at Quinn
by's Art Store.
John Hancock, His Book by Abram
English Brown, author of Beneath Old
Rooftrees," Beside Old Hearthstones. y
etc. ETC.; cloth; gilt top. Price $500; Bos-
ton: Lee and Shepard.
There is probably no man who was ut
All conspicuous in the great struggle for
independence, concerning whose private
NE, so little has been written as is the
case with John Hancock 1t is somewhar
dllncult to account for this lin view Of
the distinguished part which this states
man bore in the early history of our
country, ana the many years in which he
neld exalted positions of public trust Il.