The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-11-24
nm THE LITERARY WORLD.

THOUGHTS FOR EVERYDAY LIVING
by Maltbie Davenport Babcock Price
$1.00 Publishers: Charles Scribner' S
Sons, New York.
This book contains extracts
from the sermons and address,
es of the late Doctor Bah
cock, pastor of Brick Presbyterian church,
New York city. 1t contains many gems
from the wonderful sermons of the bril-
liant man whose death was widely de-
plored. We make room only for this short
poem
GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY
BREAD"
Back of the loaf is the snowy -four,
And back of the -four the mill:
And back of the mill is the wheat, and the
shower,
And the sun. and the Fathers will
OUR FIRST SCHOOL BOOK.-By Carrie
Sivyer Ferris. 112 PIP. Illustrated In
troductory Price, 80 cents.
Our First School Book presents an
abundance of material that should be APP
preciated by primary teachers who are
used to exhausting the resources of half
q dozen primers and their own ingenuity
as we'll in the effort to keep the children
occupied. AS combination of primer
and first reader, the book should prove
sufficient for the first years work in read
ing.
In the suggestions for occupation with
sticks, crayons and cardboard, it provides
in1n
garten plays. The number pictures fit
naturally into the first arithmetic lessons;
and there are pages that provide the
starting points for talks on birds, butter
flies and other nature subjects. There
are nursery rhymes to be read aloud in
odd moments or given the children for
memorizing. And from the first page to
the last are pictures in profusion on all
sorts of subjects, that may be used for
language work or for story telling by
teacher and pupil Thus are the different
lines OF work in the first school year CO.
ordinated.
The reading matter takes the form Of
story even on the first pages, where the
sentences must needs be limited to very
few words repeated often enough to fix
them in the childs mind For the most
part. the lessons and pictures treat of the
doings of Jack and May. told usually in
their own words. This thread of nara
tive running through the pnges gives an
interest that is often lacking in books of
this class. The child's plays, all his fav-
orite holidays, Valentines and April
Fools Day, as we'll as Thanksgiving and
Christmas, and the varied interests Of his
little world are represented here in due
order through the sea sons.
BY reason of it's simple bright stories
and it's attractive pictures, Our First
School Book is distinctly book to de-
light the children. 1t deserves place
not only in the second school-room but in
every family where there are small chill
rem to be read to and amused.
JACONETTA-Her Loves by Mrs. NJ. E
M. Davis, Illustrated. Price So cents.
Publishers: Houghton, Miffn & Co., Bos-
ton.
Jaconetta was little girl living on a
Southern plantation before the war, and
in the story of her life are glimpses9 Of
old time conditions in the South.
STORIES OF BIRDS-By T. Gilbert Pear
son. II mo-, Cloth. Beautifully Illus
trated. Price so cents. Publishers: B.
F. Johnson Publishing Company, Rich
mond Va.
The author of this book that will de-
light all children-and grown folks as we'll
lis a North Caroinian whose talent has
been appreciated and mended by all
who have read any of his stories OF bird
life. He knows all about the habits and
characteristics Of birds and he writes as
if he could translate their chrping and
singing into English. He shows in every
line genuine love for the feathered song
sters and he reveals what he has found
to be their true nature There has been a
surfeit of stories in which birds talked
like folks and did things like men and
women. Mr. Pearson attempts nothing so
unnatural, but writes of birds as birds are
seen by an observer who notes all that
they do
well-known teacher who examined
the advance sheets Of the book remarked,
it might be called "a biography Of certain
birds by sympathetic but truthful
friend Every story is of a robust,
healthful type, and entertaining to a high
degree 1t is the story of an observer,
not OF preacher. All through the book
the author resists the temptation to
preach, though he is Always coming upon
texts which make the temptation hard to
resist.
PHOTOGRAPHY OF NORTH CAROLINA.
The Executive Committee authorized the
Committee on Literature and History to
prepare photography of North Carolina
literature and history. The chairman of
this committee is Prot. j. s. Bassett, Dur
ham, N. C. He announced that he would
lay this matter before the committee and
go on with the plan il it was SO ordered.
In order to prepare an adequate list of
all the North Carolina literature it is ne
cessery to have the cooperation of all
persons who are informed in regard to