Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-11-05

house At Au0icy Place and many Other
surprising things. puzzle the reader
beyond description and arouse the
kreneSt interest from the first to tn,
last page.
III Eastern Wonderlands by Char
lotte ChafTcc Gibson. Illustrated from
photographs. Emo: Decorated cloth
Price $l5O; Boston: Little. Brown &
Company.
This book has a distinct educa.
tioral value aside from its quail
ties Of entertainment. 1t gives
its readers Il most delightful view OF
new lands and new peoples 1t is the
bright. entertaining and instructive
story of real trip around the world
made by real children who visited
Japan. China. Ceylon. India. the Red
Sea, and Egypt. Any child might be
glad to follow this party i'm its joyous
course through the land of jinrikishas,
have eyes. through Ceylon to the
sweet sounding town of Handy,
through India the land of enchant-
fltflt, ana up tIlt' f1lIild1iNd MDultdlIS.
Alice Fred and Charlotte We're so well
guided that they saw. it would seem.
everything of note from the ar-famed
Tai Mahal to the venerable monu-
ments of Luxor and Karnak 1t is a
good story and. incidentally. a better
lesson in geography than is to be
found in the books
Tho mi nv No T,,,1o
Taylor author of My Lady Claucarty
etc: illustrated: - no.: Decorated
cloth: Price $150; Boston: Little,
Brown & Company.
The very favorable impression made
by @1rs. Taylor in my Lady Clau-
carty" has been greatly strengthened
by this latest product of her
pen. 1.-The ImpersonatOr" is dis
tinct and unquestionable success. 1t
has. in generous degree. the qualities
works of fiction. 1t relates the eX-
perienccs that befell Mary Lang, a
beautiful and accomplished young
lady. who came to America to i'm
personate her friend Mary Hadding, a
Paris art student. who had received an
invitation to visit her rich aunt. a
leader in Washington society. The
complications that follow after Mary
becomes involved in the whirl of
Washington society, and has won the
devoted love of a rising young states
man. the sudden arrival of Miss Had
ding and her aunt's anger and finally
surprising developments which show
that the impersOnatOr herself is of
noble birth. is all told in manner to
arouse and hold the strongest interest
Beachcd Keels. by Henry Miner
Rideout; 12mo.; cloth: price $50. Bos-
ton: Hcughton, Mifiin and Company.
This volume is made up of three sea
stories. The author was born and
passed his early years in Calais. Maine
He graduated from Harvard Uni
versity in 1899, and served for five
years as an instructor in the English
Department of his alma mater. No
writer has ever shown n more intimate
knowledge of the rugged coast of East
cin Maine than Mr.. Rideout. and none
has been more successful in depicting
and women who live within sound of
its breakers. The ability to interpret
the changing moods Of the ocean itself
is evidenced in the singularly strong
and moving stories that have come
from his gifted pen. Following his
resignation from the Department Of
English at Harvard in 1904 Mr. Ride
out spent a year or more in a trip
around the world. He is at present a
resident of California, and his short
stories in the magazines dealing with
seafaring in the tropics and the East
are attracting much attention. In
Reached keelS' he is seen at his best
The strength. vigor and subtle power
of these stories. and the keen insight
they evince into the life and character
they depict. give bright promise for the
future of Mr. RideOut in this depart
ment of literary effort in which already
the high quality of his work is Win
ming golden opinions from the best
critics.
Long Ago in Greece, a book of goli-
en- hours with the old story tellers, by
Edmond J. Carpenter, illustrated: Il
mo: decorated cloth: price $3.50: Bos-
ton: Little. Brown & Co.
in this hook we have reto1d, in q
manner to interest and entertain young
readers, the classical mvths and IA
blcs of ancient Greece and Rome. IL
is book that will have an education
al value as well as the qualities that
entertain and interest young readers.
1t is well calculated to fix in the mind
the beautiful legends that figure so
largely in the writings of the early
classical authors. Here. we have in
simplified and shortened form Homer S
Battle of the Frogs and Mice" a stir
ring page from ''Eirds OF Aristo-
phanes.'' "The story of Phaethon,'
1.-The Runaway Horses of Apollo"
1.-The woning Of FelOps." "Ataianta' $
Footrace." 1.-The Story of Hero and Le-
ander." etc. The reading of this book
should arouse a keener interest in the
work Of the classical poets and might