The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-08-25
WRITTEN BY PROF. ALLEN
Historic Events Set Forth in Most
Fascinating Form.
A GLANCE AT THE CONTENTS OF BOOKS
The "Mecklerburg Declaration" the Halifax
Convention" and "Edenton Tea Party"
Among the Best of The Stories
in the Book,
(Staff Correspondence J

III l1c OOOks
(Staff Correspondence
Waynesville, N. c., August 23-At the
Knmore at Waynesvile We found the
guests sitting in the parlor by a coal
CRATE fire. 1t had been raining and was
so cool that the newly arriving guests
began to dive down into their grip.
sacks for their hitherto superfluous
vest and to otherwise fortify themselves
At night they pulled the coverlet about
, them and slept without rocking.
Inside the hotel all is gayety; brilliant
dresses and smiling faces, happy voices
and merry laughter, music and singing
in the parlor, voices everywhere chat
tering like magpies, and now and then
shrowded figure walking close beside
her beau in the shadows of the electric
lights on the long veranda.
After supper the dining room is clear.
ed and to sweet strains of music grace
full shuffling feet keep time and beau
tiful figures go weaving about the large
hall in a mystic maze. Similar scenes
are tranSpiring in almost dozen other
hotels and boarding houses. This means
that the season is on and WayneSville
is in the very height of her social func-
tions. Besides all this, together with
drives and walks and pilgrimages to the
mountains and what not, there are oc-
casional lectures by eminent men from
abroad and sometimes amateur theatri.
cal performances by home talent aided
by visiting guests. One night we had a
ecture on "A Woman of the Old School
by the eloquent DR.. j. l.. White, and
the next night the hall was filled with
shrieks of laughter at THE Old Maids
Convention"
The next afternoon after our arrival
we called to visit our fellow student of
eighteen years or more ago, Prof. w. G.
Allen, superintendent of the Waynes-
vile Graded School. Immediately after
he emerged from college with sheep
skin in hand he set about the task to
teach the young idea how to shoot" and
this method he has always adhered to
rather than the looping off graftingin
process. Today he is not only one of the
first educators of the State at the head
of a good school, but now he has writ
ten a book which is making him famous.
This book is the result of much hard
work and historical research. 1t is en-
titled North Carolina History Stories"
There are forty-five stories in five books,
nine stories to the book, but he also has
all forty-fve stories under one cover
for those who prefer it in that shape.
The book will sell for so cents. 10 cents
each.
The stories cover a period from the
early settlement of North Carolina down
to the ending of the eighteenth GEN.
tury, bring out the salient points in
North Carolina history during that
period The book is for children of the
fourth grade and the stories are told
in the simplest language and with such
color as to make them all exceedingly
interesting and some even thrilling.
In doing this he has manufactured no
history nor drawn on the inauguration
to an unwarranted degree He has in.
vestigated all the histories and consecu-
tive reading, throwing light on each
story, and has written nothing that is
not vouched for by we'll accepted au.
thority.
On the outside cover there is picture
of the reading of the Mecklenburg Dec.
laration, but the book has no pictures
inside. However, Messrs. B. +. Johnson
& Co, the publishers, are having cuts
prepared and soon an issue containing
them will be out. Nothing so adds to
the interest of a book, especially for
young people, as good pictures.
The titles of the stories are as fol-
lows:
First Book: Two Indian Boys, Visit
to Strange Land. Loss of a Silver
Cup, Lanes Search for Gold, The Lord
of Roanoke, Story of Virginia Dare, A
Sad Grandfather, The First Settlement,
Cattle Ranch on Cape Fear.
Second Book: The First Governor,
The Tardy Governor, John Lawson ana
the Alligators, The Albemarle Boss,
An Adventure ON the Neuse, An Indian
Massacre, Capture of Fort Barnwell,
Capture of Fort Nahucke, King Blount.
Third Book: The Carolina Pirate,
Daniel Boone, Tryon and the Regulators.
British Stamps at Wilmington, The Ed.
enton Tea Party, First Sound of Lib
erty's Bell Second Sound of Liberty's
Sell, The Fair Tory, Defeat of the Tor |
les
Fourth Book: The Noble Four Hun. |
dred, CORVALLIS in a Hornets Nest |
Ihe Heroes of McIntyre's, Rough Rid |
ers OF the Smokes General Green With |
out Penny, The Fall of Patriot Ad |
ventures of an American Spy, Death of |
the Bugler Boy, How Colonel Pyle |
Saved Tarleton.
Fifth Book: Minute Men of the Hills, !
CORVALLIS on the Run, A Strange Night J