Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-10-27

fuI in avoiding this mistnke.. Her verse
iinsles Of the late Eugene Field. We can
bay Win leaa on n 1bs P9n fo
aid aid enfcrtain@eint. The severes. criti-
esn We eo ns1a rs e Ths author oR Sas
been too modest IN naming 1t. It's con-
tents are more than rhymes and more
f nn u e and hn ns fys Theyp poem.
peal to the imagination as well as to the
heart. There will always be field for
will exert on the little ones who find in
them the charm Of entertainment at
that tender age when Impressions are
deep and lasting, will not fail to bear rich
fruit. We sincerely hope that this first
book Of Miss Heaths may be followed by
others from the same pen.
Shattuck's Advanced Rules For Large
Assemblies; supplement to 1.-THE wom-
ans Manual of Parliamentary Law" by
Harriette r. Shattuck, 1Smo. cloth.
Mrs. shattucks previous book, 1.-THE
Woman's Manual has not only been
adopted as an authority Nv nearly every
neutrality-suspicious. in this country, but
"
present book aims to supplement "Thc
Manual by providing in a condensed
form resume. Of parliamentary ssrincl-
vanced students and large assemblies.
The ready reference table for presiding
officers will be found especially valuable.
Price, so cents.
The Crook Of the Bough. by Menie
Muriel Dowie; New York. Charles Scrib-
ners Sons Price SIZE.
This IL certainly one of the strongest
novels that has come to our table this
year. IL 1t may seem that the movement
Of the narrative IS sometimes interrupted
by too much discussion of social and po-
liticai problems. the fact remains that
such discussion is always strong and well
participate in it. Like most works Of fic-
ton WHICH aim primarily to analyzes
phases of life or character, the narrative
simply the frame work into which is fit
ted the more serious purposes or the vol
ume. The Crook of the Bough is well
ton being admirably balanced. 1t dis
plays to marked advantage the marked
intellectual of the writer:It is strong
without being heavy; entertaining with
out being transient.
The central character is an English
girl-the sister of q young NJ. p; whose
comrade and helpmate she is. Her moth
er had worn herself out in round Of so
cial gayeties. and died comparatively
none of her tastes. She is full of the in
dustrial spirits files her brothers papers,
keeps his clippings. does bis type-writing
ctions OF a private secretary. She dis
cusses with him the political problems in
which ,n1 be Is interested and finds IN this his
ideal of the fullness OF life. Dress has
little attraction for her. She arrays her
self with the utmost simplicity. nor does
t. f,x.r 1,at Ia ~
ments of their comfortable fiat, though
substantial In character, are lacking in
the qualities of elegance.
During an adjournment of parliament
she and her brother enjoy short trip to
the continent. During this Journey they
become ACQUAINTED with French coun-
whose idea is that every woman should
be n sultana-to be .worshipped and
waited upon. and that the greatest pos
is her one great duty in life. At Constan-
tinople she makes the acquaintance of Il
Turkish Tn, COLONEL member of the Young
enthusiasms, and practical grasp of po-
litical and social problems. a type of the
tinguished from the women of the east:
and is greatly interested and charmed
by her practical views of life. He invites
home on the Bosphorus, and there She be-
comes acquainted with his mother and
sister They urge upon him a visit to
with him. The return TO the old life III
London is something of a disappointment
to our heroine. 1t is evident that her
foreign travels have wrought, changes IN
her. She becomes aware of the plainness
of the fiat in which she and her brother
live, and, forthwith has it refurnished
new and vastly more stylish wardrobe.
She becomes conscious of her own beauty.
The typewriter is hid from sight, and
in the building is given her brother
work
but Is much disappointed in the change
he finds In her. She has drifted toward
the eastern type of women he knows. so
well. She endeavors to make his visit
pleasant one; but he returns to COnStan-
tinople disappointed in what he has seen.
Her brother misses his old practical COM
"a and nrasan snd and bo @
her old place for him.. Here. the story
ends somewhat abruptly, and somewhat
is just a hint that the heroine may pos
sibly eventually find her proper sphere as
the fashionable wife of a fashionable
friend. 1t is an intensely interesting vol
ume even though it is lacking in that
sense of fullness that most readers de-
sire when laying aside a work of this
character.
Off to Klondyke; or Cowboys Rush
to the Gold Fields. BY Gordon Staples,
NJ. d. l vol. l2mo, 327 pp.. Illustrations
by Charles Whymper, s1.25. T. Y Cro-
well & Co, New York and Boston.
The name Klondyke is still one to con-
jure with, and this is the first volume
We have had knowledge of whose scenes
are laid in that region. 1t is a book that
can scarcely fail to be popular with the
boys. 1t is full of those adventures and
exciting episodes SO dear to the juvenile
heart. AT the same time it abounds in
much useful information which makes it
instructive as well as entertaining. DR.,
Staples knows well how to sugar coat his
educational pellets so as to make them
palatable to his youthful readers. and 4
largely because of this fact he has sue
ceeded in giving us one of the very best
boys books of the year. ta5A5.t
A chapter entitled "In Touch With Ma
ture.' and including a DEPRESSION on
keynote. of the book. The scene opens III
England, but is soon transferred to the
far West, from which the heroes are car
ried by their enthusiasm to the snow
bound Klondyke. They have adventures
with grizzlies and wolves and Indians;
they endure great sufferings and hard
ships, but their. sturdy English constitu-
lions. and training bring them through,
and Laurie buys his fathers farm, and
makes it into freehold. and Ernest mar
rieS Leebie and all ends haDOily Theirs