Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-11-05
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readings in Latin and Greek.
Brenia's Ward, a sequel to amy il
Arcadia" by Helen Leah Reed, autho
of the Brenda books "Erma an,
Nap" Amy in Arcadia" etc, illus
Irated from drawings Of Frank r. Mer
rill: l. mo: decorated cloth: price $50
Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
A new Brenda book is always sur
of 4 welcome from an appreciative pub
lie OF all the stories for girls thes
books rank among the best. Tn
movement of these narratives is rapid
there is an abundance of natural an'
entertaining incident, and the char
actcrs are sharply drawn and develop
ed with mastery skill and rare poWer
Of sympathetic analysis. All of thes'
books abound in the stirring qualitie!
of q warm human interest and through
them all runs Il sub-current of prac
teal suggestion and the holding up Of
lofty ideals which cannot fail to have
4 strong and helpful influence upon the
minds AMI characters of the young
readers to whom they are especially
addressed MARITIME Stratford. a bright
loVablc Western girl attending Miss
CrOwduns school for young ladies IN
Boston, becomes the ward of our old
friend brenda Weston. The expert
.nces that befell her. the friendships
she formed, and the various episodes
in which she figured combine to make
it a story of exceptional strength and
interest All of Brenda's books have
been popular and "Brenda's Ward will
be no exception to the rule.
Katrina, by Roy Rolfe Gilson
author of "In the Morning Glow.
With illustrations in color by Alice
Barber Stephens. Crown Smo; cloth;
Gilt top; price $3.50, New York: The
Barker & Taylor Company. There is
freshness and charm about Mr..
Gilson's literary work that is rapidly
winning him popularity with the read
ing public In his latest book he is at
his best and has given a story that IN
its purity. strength, and warm human
interest will rank with the best of the
year.
In Katrina he has drawn a charming
little girl who appears on the wrapper
and in several beautiful illustrations
in color by Mrs. Alice Barber
Stephens Larry McRae, a kindly,
homely. bachelor newspaper man,
meets Katrina by accident one rainy
April day. only to find that she is the
little daughter of the woman whom he
had wooed and lost years before.
Katrina does not know him. But, in
her serious minded effort to reform
Mr.. Larry" from the wicked ways of
newspaper men for Katrina has a
great horror of this awful profession
their lives meet Katrhaa's mother is
dead ana her optimistic father. q pro-
fessor. welcomes Larry into his home.
The result is that Larry lives over
again the romance of his youth in this
quaint little daughter of the woman
he lost.
Yet. there is more to the story than
this. for Mr.. ellison has filled 1t with
what must be "reminiscences of his
own newspaper career. And the pic
lures Of newspaper life and men, and
the humOr of the story at large, are
especially commendable.
II is difficult. if not impossible, TO
dclinc the elusive charm of Mr..
Gilsnn's work. Ii is not exactly
matched by anything in literature.
He can write Of children ana plain,
homcly. every day folk very folk
that we all know-write about US,
even. il would seem as we read. and
yet make it all charming. Without
dipping into either tragedy or rollick-
some humOr, he can touch the
sympathies and bring a laugh, for ii is
all so real. and yet it is never sordid
and never petty.
The book itself is eXquisitely Illus
trated i'm color by Mrs. Stephens. and
both as a novel and as a holiday book
is one of the most notable Of the
season.
A Strange Flaw, by Henry s.
Wilcox, author of "Triumphs Of a
Stump Speaker" 12mo: cloth:
Chicago: Thompson & Thomas. In
his preface the author declares that
his design in writing this book lis to
uncover the machinery 50 frequently
and effectively employed by skillful
schemers for despOiling the masses of
his cOuntrymen, and to show the
methods by which governmental
genius, intended to promote and pro-
tect the people. has been perverted to
their injury" This book opens with
an alleged description of an in
auguration ball. 1t starts in as
follows: 1.-THE President in honor of
his inauguration has turned jumping
jack. Well one half the world are
fools; yes, and the other half are
monkeys who initiate them" These
words the author puts into the mouth
of John Duncan" one of the money
kings" from Wall Street, New York,
who has come to Washington not to
enjoy the festivities Of the Inaugural
ton ball, but for the purpose of tell
ing the President of the United
States whom he shall appoint as his
Secretary of the treasury. 1t will thus
be seen that Mr.. Wilcox has made
John Duncan parsonage Of great
consequence i'm his narrative. Indeed.
the way he Snakes" the President
a rannd at hic a arbitrary nIao cura 10 ~