Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-11-14

marine engineer in the employ of a
German steamship company possessed
the curious accomplishment OF being
able to tell by the piston strokes of an
engine how much coal was being CON-
fsufned. Until the English built the
| hugh vessel that now hold the record
| for size, speed and splendor, this ac-
accomplishment was considered nothing
more than interesting by the employ
,rs. But it enabled him then TO report
that those giant cruisers We're not vo-
Iacious Consumers of goal. as had been
ire runur. SO Germans are getting
ready to eclipse the Mauretanid and the
..tsitania
A.. r. Dudley is a deservedly popular
writer of Juvenile fiction. His stories
r.. brisk ard vivid in style. novel in
'cjdent and picturesque in detail. The
hero of his latest book, "A Fullback
| Afoat." is Dick Meldin, VINO iigure.i in
Following the Ball" At the close. vi
his first year in college he easily makes
the varsity eleven and ships on d at
tie boat for his summer vacation i'll
Europe. His experiences among The
COW puncheis' call forth all the pluck
self-control and skill he has gained
| from football and help him to win out
III many hazardous adventures. The
description of life on the cattle steam ar
are vivid and accurate. The football
| game with which the story opens Will
| be OF exciting interest to lovers OF the
sport. The book is published by the
LcthroD, Lee and Shepard Company
4 number of letters written by Walt
Whitman at the time of the civil wal
appear in Putnam's Magazine for No
vember. The letters were written Ia
his mother and his intimate friend. Mrs.
Abby Hills Price. Mrs. Prices daugl-
| ter writes concerning them: # was
sure you would feel as l do that nothing
has been printed regarding Walt Whit
man which shows him in so winning and
attractive a light. And it must be the true
man too, for we all saw him in his home
| in Brooklyn as well as in our own for
many years, and we never saw anything
| in him in any way inconsistent with the
! character revealed in these letters-gen-
erous. sympathetic, affectionate and
proud"
| The Mcclure company announces foI
| fall publication new addition 10 theii
| library of "Children's classics entitled
| Tales of Laughter 1t has been edited
by Kate Douglas Wiggin and her sister
Nora Archibald Smith. the editors of the
| series. The book contains brief and anus
ing tales for children, collected from Rus
| sian, French, Spanish. Italian, English
| German, japanese and Chinese sources
| The same firm announces also the Boy
| Book of Steamships" a companion Vol
| ume to the Boys Book of Locomotive
which was published last year. The book
deals with floating craft from their ealli-
| est beginnings and tells how the use OF
! steam as motive power gradually grew
and developed until in such monarchs OF
the sea as the Lusitania and the Adria
tic it reached its present triumphant cul-
| mination.
| Hall Gaines autobiography. which he
calls INV Story reaches its SECOND
nstalment in the October Applefon's
| Magazine In this instalment tie nov
| elist describes his years in a Liverpool
| architects Office, the beginning of his
| writing career and his first efforts. II
was during these years that he frs
come to know Ruskin and Rossetti.
Coffee and a Love Affair" ny Mary
| Boardman Sheldon published by Fredeiicl
| A. Starks Co., is an unusually charming
| tale of the soiourn and romance o: q
| whole hearted American girl in the coffee