The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-12-08
Literary Notes.

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L'ENFANT DE LA .LUNE. BY Jeanne
Malret, Edited for school use by Edith
Healy. Cloth, 12mo, 126 pages. Price,
90 cents. American Book Company,
New York, Cincinnati and Chicago.
These simple and interesting texts are
intended for elementary reading, and
contain complete vocabularies, and notes
explanatory Of difficult idioms. In dddi-
ton, v Enfant de la Lune" has appended
to each chapter questions in French for
conversation exercises in that language
and summary in English Of the contents
CT the chapter, to be retranSiated into
french. The hooks are neatly bound
convenient form, and reasonable in price;
and VIII no doubt be welcome TO teachers
who desire elementary texts for class
study.
LIE VOYAGE DE NJ. PERRICHON. Com
edy in four acts by Labiche Martin.
Edited for school use by G. Castegpier,
b. es s., b. es l., of the A. II. Cutler
School, New York City. Cloth, 12mo,
1870 pages. Price 80 cents.
PRESSED FLOWERS FROM THE HOLY
LAND; 80 mo-, by Harvey H. Green.
Lowell, Mass.
Nothing could be more beautiful han
this little book containing twelve flow
ers from the Holy Land, together with
description and scripture reference. TO
true Christian there is 4 precious in
In Il 80.
grew upon the plains or hillsides where
our Saviour trod, and in every lilv from
the field where the Redeemer of the world
said: Consider the lilies how they
grow" Few can go in person to see that
land, and Mr.. Green has made it poSsi-
BILE for all at home to own one OF these
volumes containing a pressed flower FROM
the Holy Land
THE BILLY STORIES BY EVA LOvETT.
illustrated. Price, $1.00. Publishers:
J. f. Taylor & Co., and East Six
teenth Street. New York.
This amusing set OF stories told from
the boys point view is dedicated to
Every boy and girl in the United States
who hates to go to bed When bedtime
comes" Billy is a real boy, whose eXper-
fence as pirate, author, rough rider etc.
will please every boy in the land, as
well as delight many boys grown tall
WILLIAM McKINLEY-His Life Works,
by +. T. Rose. Price in gold and colors,
$1.50. in cloth binding. IS cents. Pub
fishers Laird & Lee, Chicago.
Mr.. Rose was a class mate of Mr.. Nc
Kinley at the law school 1T Albany. and
has given an excellent and appreciative
sketch of the dead President. The story
OF the rise of Mr. McKinley reads al
most like romance. 1t is not possible
in any other country that naa can
rise from the every day life Of poor
boy to the Chief Magistracy OF the great
est government in the world The illus
trations tell of his early life, asGassaa-
tion burial. scenes of triumph and PIC
lures of the Mckinley ancestric house
at Dervock county. Ireland, and Coleraine
Market Place, Ireland, where McKinlcy's
great granduncle was shot, June I, l79S.
THE COLBURNIs PRIZE, a Story OF
Girls for Girls, by Gabrielle f. Jackson.
Price S1.00. Illustrated by Mabel Hum
phrey. Ornamented cloth cover. Pub
fishers: ]. F. Taylor G. Co., 81 Z. 10th
street, New York.
This is a day when books for children
take precedence. Mrs. Jackson has a tai
ent that amounts to positive genus In
writing books that please children. She
has written much for st. Nicholas and
won a warm place in the hearts of girls
throughout the country. The Colburnis
Prize is charming story o. mental
sacrifice by two school friends. Nine full
page illustrations add to the charm OF
this exquisite gift book.
A new volume of poems by B. f. Sledi,
Professor of English at Wake Forest Col
lege, has just been published. The col
lection is entitled The Watchers of the
Hearth. 1t is expected by the authors
friends that this new volume will be even
more warmly welcomed in the literary
circle than the one which appeared two
or three years ago. The book has an at
tractive appearance as well as containing
verses of genuine poetic merit. Prof.
Sledd is one of the accomplished lien
in our Southern college faculties.
The October number OF the North Car
DINA Law Journal Is an excellent num-
ber 1t contains an able article on "rax-
alton of Private Corporations" by Mr..
James II. Pou extracts from DR.. Man
nings Law Lectures; portrait ard
sketch of Nf. j. Crawford Biggs. secre
tary of the State Bar Association, Ole of
the ablest young lawyers in the state,
and other valuable articles.
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