Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-12-17
Gossip from the World OF
Books-Review of New
Books Authors Plans
for the Season-Notes.

would ! never purchase a volume thaI
pack one off hastily. and check i from
fatter myself that L know Elsie and the
three books | am sending her -,o
We have corresponded for years, Elsie
and l; and though 1 have not seen her
since she was a slip of a girl. except III
pictures, we have had our chats tosetner
and she knows the books that are around
me, though she has never been in the Il,
brary. Did l not think l knew Elsie and
her tastes-well, would have sent her her
comedies OF sshskbeg ratne 1Hm
Men and Women, and Stevcnsons Christ
mas Sermon, now waiting to bt matted
wrappings beneath her 1.-THE handling and
she will be glad.
looks are eqld but sure friends, hex, ex
should be 70 touch of frost in friendship;
especially in this season of the year when
it is the joy OF giving and the fulness OF
living that hasten the tread of many
shoppers. 1t is the best in me that |
would send to the best in Elsie Tor there
is d mutual excellence in friendship as
In and out OF the bookstores | have
been. and watched the merry throhS; ;
! there is contaeion in the genial mood ana
there were many fine spirits | would like
to have known. For YOU can tell ii book
lover by the way he holds Il DOCK and if
it happens 10 be one You have read, YOU
NAV follow the kernness of his Intellect
the warmth OF his ncart, and the reSpon-
siveness OF his soul by the feetlnS
changes in ms lace io'iHd HdlE UNI
trOduced friends while l was waiting IoF
Elsie'S package.
A Christmas prescott of books is like
giving your opiniO,i Of the person to whom
you send Yet, t"rr. have You he
thought now mucn :a.-tS upon You who
buy the book? For ne. rs must ina CINE
your taste your culture, your every shade
of excellence through IA" htl!c, gut ana
the book Will seem I" S"N ne pest n
Inn believes l. will bIn:, Joy 1" the best
III you All let not III: estimate OF YOU
and YOURS of me be Sui' l"lrd. Rather
slippers, handkcrchirts, E.0Vcs, amy tnmS
! al an i'll chosen hook.
Now. why did 'lyct those three vol
unee for Elsie? He, iuet being young
ana eager and as yeJ disi'l'i- I"ncd. want
her to know that iron the ilhiHrN n"u2ht
roln come me to iaa her "u i., TN '-
| Isl expression of a Christmas r.. "' ''|
| that may be used weekdays as We'll a.
| Sundays | am sending ShakcSp' are,
| Browning, and Stevenson, bound in ray
iShir% covers; a gift not alone i"r IN
| I,.;ice ana good will. fuI all times.
| deserve no credit for this: 1t is my
| privilege to have some sort oi pleasure
| iu -. Lest litcraturc which is every one :
| hrrii;... But | feel now that | am alone
| in :h' library, how infinite are Inc ways
| Of lite Vet how Fundamental ana umN"r-
| sal are the true - ,nti"iS !" me i-iEi'
| is something NOR han :, You. Reader;
:, HON y"u Will giy" a l,'"t l.' i''. w.
| me ht-Sttrh yen flenl the library. where
| Heaven has grant, ii me peace ana good
| Will, tn ponder wCii triis giving 81 books.
+ Will hc gone and the petals VIII have
| fallen Que 10y one from tn" rose; but the
| book will say 50 long as the sl'll1t needs
| it, Elsie. will smile over hcl vel ulneS on
| chance do the same in June.-The Liter
| ary World.