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

Days and Deeds, book of verse, fol
chldren's reading and speaking, com
piled by Burton f. Stevenson an(
Elizabeth 3. stevenson; 12mo.; cloth
New York: The Baker & Taylor Co.
| In this volume has been collected to.
!, Seth"r in q most complete and cCmpre
EenSiVe manner, the really significant
iro"try relating to American holidays
and to great Americans especially
such as is suited TO recitation. Tt
This has been added short anthology
of the seasons, and some eight or tel
lyrics with which everyone ought TO b5
familiar, ana which did not fall under
any Of the other headings.
This collection. with its systematic
| classifiCations, and its convenient u.s.
| OF cross references. will certainly fill a
| long-felt want. 1t should have a
place in every home especially where
there are children. and will be a de-
| cided addition to any school library
indeed We do not see how any up-tO-
date school can very well afford to be
| without it.
The Flight of Puss Pandora by Car
| oline Fuller author of The Alley Cat :
| Kitten Fully illustrated. l. mo: Dec
Grated cloth: Price $l.5O. Boston; Little
Brown Il Company.
This is the story of an apartment
| cat. W hcf is so bright. breezy and full
| of incident that it cannot fail to win
favor with all who read it. The adj
ventures and experiences of PuSS Pan
dora, the homes into which she is talk
en-. and the part she plays in the for
| tunes of the human characters with
| whom she comes in contact. combine
to make up story of absorbing inter
est. Miss Fuller has a bright. breezy
| style, ana through the pages of the
story runs a delightful vein of humor.
1t is book that will be read and on
| joycd alike by old and young.
| y sheaf of stories. by Susan Coolidge.
author of What Katy Did," illustrat-
ed by ]. W. +. Kennedy. - mo: Dec
| GRATED Cloth: Price $1.25; Boston: Lit
tie Brown & Co.
| This volume includes twelve short
stories by this gifted author which
| We're originally published in st. Nichr-
| las and other periodicals, and which
now make their first appearance in
book form. No writer for young PEG
pie ever wrote with closer or more
sympathetic insight into child nature
| then did Susan Coolidge. and in these
| charming little stories she is seen at
Ter best The stories in the volume
include "A Thanksgiving Pie "fIo"
st. Valentine Remembered Milly."
General Trot and his ThanksgivnG
| Dinner" "Harrys forenoon with tn"
| Bear, The Horse ana the Wolf"
Lady Hollyhock and her friends, A
Book of Nature Dolls, and others. by
| Margaret Cnulson Walker. author OF
our Birds ana Their Ncstlings. :
| drawings hy Mary Isabel Hunt. New
Y"rk: t." Eai>cr x Taylor Company.
| We cannot conceive of a little girl
| VIII" would rai! To be interested and in
structrI by this look The varieties Of
| dolls which it shows how to make out
If such everyday materials as radishcs
| clothesI.irs. potatoes. peanuts. achornS
II
etc. Will open Il new world of effort
and contemplation for every little
reader The book has a purpose beyond
/ that of mere amusement. It's aim Is
Ito aid parents in furnishing not only
entertainment but profitable employ
ment as well. There is a world of piac-
| teal and permanent education for a
child in making things. and the author
has stated an almost universal expert
ence of childhood when she observes
that "Children throw away as uninter-
esting the finished toys from the shops
| when they have once learned to make
playthngs for themselves" and again
| that 1.-The whole nature of a child cries
out for self activity" In this book We
have a number of the dolls and ami
mails which children can make for
| themselves. and in the opening thus
afforded for their activities lies d
whole world of amusement and salts
faction.
The Slave of Silence. by Fred NJ
White. author of '"The Crimson Blind
"The Weight of the Crown "The
Neither Mllstone," etc. Illustrated
12mo.; decorated cloth; price sl.5O
Boston: Little. Brown & Co.
This is a story Astounding in mys.
tory and movement. 1t is full of STIR
ring incident. and so strong is the in
terest it awakens that the reader who
once starts upon it will be loath to lay
it aside until the last page is finished
Certain mysterious events occurring a
l
the strange house in Audley Place are
unfoided in this remarkable and alb
sorbng story. The sign of the bullet
shaped piece Of salt, the strange disap
pearance OF the body Of Sir Charles