Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-12-19

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In Merry Mood. A Book of Cheerful
PIP. POS; Price s1.25; Boston: Forbes &
Company.
There is a gingle a cheerfulness, and a
genuine humor running through these
rhymes that makes them an almost
sure cure for fit OF the blues.
There is wit and wisdom. and shrewd
philosophy mingling with the music of
these lines, which have an apparently
/ spontaneous ease of diction, and happily
free from vain pretension. 1t Is very
mans life has been passed in some rural
| community. Very likely he belongs to
the large circle of distinguished writer's
| who were born and reared on farms. There
| Is in his; work close and sympathetic
touch with Nature in her varying moods,
| a clear appreciation for her beauties, and
her bounties, that will have peculiar
charm for all who have ever felt the in
spiration of similar scenes and associa-
| tions Here is a sample of his sympa-
thetic touch with Nature.
| JUNE TINE.
/ It's June-time, we can tell it by the muir
| muir of the bees,
It's June-tme, we can smell it in the
| clover-scented breeze,
It's June-time and it's tune-time for the
| birds among the trees
| Glad June-time when the days are
| sweet and long.
| There is an appreciation OF the lncon-
sistency of human nature In the foiiow-
THE BASIS OF CRITICISM.
The literary editor was feeling good and
glad,
| And not a manuscript or book he read
| that day was bad;
i He scanned them very carefully, with
| notes. from end to end,
He questioned very little, but found
/ Y,lp IN commend.
But, OH that night he dined on cheese,
| of strong stuff drank a lot;
/ Devoured lines and Holsters; ATE mlncc
pie, extra hot;
| And on the morrow every book he ven
tured to attack
He said was rank and rocky" as he
| .'ripped it up the back.
| As a sample of the dry humor that
runs through many of these brig int and
breezy rhymes we give the following:
| FARMER WAYBACK'S WOE.
| Old Farmer Wayback's hair had not
| been tidied up for years,
| up his ears;
But one day when he went to town to
| sell a load of corn,
He took a sudden notion he would have
ii neatly shorn.
The change was something striking, and
he could not blame the folks
He CHANGED to meet along the ROAD, 1or
getting off their jokes.
| At first he did not mind them, but they
| worried him at last,
For all his friends and neighbors sort OF
| ''guyed'' him as he passed.
1t seemed to him that every one was
| waiting just to YELL
"uelloi voIl'ye got your hair cut" when
| he knew it mighty well;
| And so he hurried home to get beyond
| the gaze OF men,
| Where he could hide in peace until MS
| hair grew out again.
And he was thankful when he drove
| within his barnyard gate,
| But even here he heard the words his
| soul had learned to hate;
For all the hens came crowding round
| and craned their necks TO see,
| And "Cut, cut, cut-your-halr-cut!
| cackled all of them in glee.
Boston Days, The City of Beautiful
Ideals. Concord and it's famous authors,
The Golden Age of Genius. Dawn of the
Twentieth Century, by Lillian Whiting
| l6 mo-: pp. Az; Decorated cloth; gilt top;
Price 81. %; Boston: Little, Brown Com
pany.
This is book of facinating interest:
Through its pages the reader is brought
into everyday touch with LonSleiiow'
Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Haw
| thorne. Theodore Parker Margaret fuI-
| Ter. Bronson Alcott, Julia Ward Howe,
| and many others whose work mas gwen
| Boston and it's surroundings an endurins
place in literary history OF our God, ,,,a,
| I've see them here as they come ana went
in their relations to one another, ana 10
the community about them ~ r,ca-
| The style of this book Is clear, srdce
| fuI and entertaining. The author taxes
her readers into her confidence and en-
| ables them to see with her own eyes
| There is not dull line between It's GOV,
ers. 1t is d work at once lnstrue'lNe t anu
entertaining. ana one worthy VI :" Pi
| any library.
There is in these pages clearness OF
Judgment, a sympathy or tred tii ~,
Thai gives life and warmth. and vital n
| tercst to the subjects touched upon In It's
typographical make up, the book Is d
| gemSthcre is nothing lacking TO lts ar
like the other works that have como
| from the pen Of the same gifted author
| il will not fail to be deservedly ana WIDE
" popular with the readlng pupiie.
The Lighted Taper, a novel by MT.
Oakman Patton: cloth; PIP. 2S9; Boston:
Batalph Book Company.
This is a story of a young minister
horn and reared on a New England farm,
who comes from his university and theo-
| logical school training. to the passionate
| of a church in small village OF ms ha-
love with a summer visitor; a young
lady from a wealthy New York family
| who has been accustomed to move 50
cially among the -four Su I nnmureo ladW re- re-
| turns to her home at the close oil tne
| season. unconscious of the extent 10
| which she has changed the outlook OF
her Young clerical friend. -
| Soon after this the young man is caliei
| TO the pastorate of a fashionable cnurch
in Boston. Here he is disguised ana DIS
| couraged at the hollowness, and worldly
linsincerity which he finds masqueradlnS
i'm the gtiise of religion. He finds hlm-
self out of sympathy with his pensioners
| in their conception of religious obllga-
1 hai
| He loses his faith in human nature, and
| almost in God.
In his unrest he flies to New York and
| calls upon the object of his directions.
She receives him coldly, and fully con
vimced from this, and from expressions
dropped by her in their earlier acqualnt-
ance that she will never consent to De
a minister's wife, he returns depressed
and discontinued to take up his church
| work; but his spirit is such that he soon
finds himself estranged from, and out oi
| sympathy with his congregation. lie re-
signs his pastorate. and resolves that he
| will never again enter the ministry-to
the great distress of his father and
| mother who had dedicated him to TINS
service from early childhood.
| For a time he is the manager of pub
/ in,