Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-11-02

hours In the rooms of the library is
Inadequate The cost Of maintaining the
library is from $1,000 to 5000 annually
M. Howell. the librarian, has dis
covered but one book that was on the
library shelves 100 years ago, when the
library Vas started. This volume
WAS "Lavoisiers Chemistry" published
in 1866, which has been in constant use
Ill tits time Mr.. Howell has had it re-
bound ard it is now well taken care OF as
a relic
a story of Lincoln called THE Toy Shop"
~ Margatita Spalding Gerry, has just
been published and those who remember
its original appearance in Harper's MaSa-
zine vii! have much pleasure in this small
pocket edition just published by the
Harpcrs. AssureGly the conception kf
Abraham Lincoln which pictures him as
finding ref age from others in the secluded
shop of an old toy-llaker, and refuge for
himself in the contemplation of Il mimic
regiment whose captain, though frail as
tin, stood firm before his soldiers, is hui
man as we'll as Idly llic, man:ille as we'll
as heroic. There is Lincoln visiting a toy
shop in the Gloam of II winter evening.
and talking with the old to"-maker, vcte-
ran of Narolcon'S wars, who unconscious
ly Wrinss the overbul dcned President :
heart with tales IF his emperor. vino
never DOUBTED, never wavercd. There is
Lincoln coming to the shop again, this
time in the summer. and planning his
campaign with tin soldiers on the little
counter Then, when the war = over.
there is Lincoln aearcher of mems hearts.
comforting his friend the toy-n;llltr ;tS
the old man mcars death. leavin, him. in
truth, with the thought that here is a
greater than Napoleon; that il the en-
peror, too, had loved toys he need not
have died on st. Helena. Then at last
news of the ASA ssination comes to the
toy-shop, and one feels the mighty throb
of sorrow that passed through the whole
country in the impression made on the
heart uf enc human man. 1t would be Il
task for any one rot to like this kind
of story-the kind that brings a lump to
the throat ara d glimpse of glory to the
eyes.
Or. Everett r. Tomlinson, author of
Mad Anthony's Young Scout and many
other popular boys books. has Just re-
turned from Il vacation in Europe.
Within 4 few weeks there will como
from the press Il volume of poems en-
titled "Undcrneath the Bouch." They are
the work of Miss Laura Simmons. and
they are gathered from the scattered pas
es of magazines and other periodicals in
which they first appeared.
The Soudan'' is the title Of "A story
by W. J.. Alden, author of Tho Advcn-
lures of Jimmi" Browne" in the current
number of EvcIyhody's magazine.
The title of Rene Bazin's The Coming
Harvest was finally chosen at the sug-
gestion of NJ. Jusscrand. the French Am
bassador at Washington.
The first edition Of 100000 copies of
John FoXs Trail of the Lonesome Pine"
was published by the SctibnerS on Oc-
tObcr l.. This great hnvcl has been rum
ming as a serial III Scribner's Magazine.
and is considered Fox's best work. Tho
in the Kentucky mountains. The author
IL IL Hal ' q llldil,, anu WIS sslduudlct
with the class of 1889. While at college
he WAS prominent in amateur theatricals
MYra Kelly writes a college story i'll
the November American Magazine. 1t
is he story of a joke that was carried too
far.
THE Products of tne Farm" is the sub
Jet of ar interesting article in the Octo-
bcr National Magazine, by Hon. James
Wilson. secretary of agriculture.
"rhe motor ca" has restored the TO
nance of travel, writes Mrs. Edith
Wharton in hcr new book "A Motor
Flight Through France
Or" hundred and eighteen years ago
benjamin Franklin left to Boston, his ma
tive city. a Request of five thousand dol
lars The sum Las now grown to be
more than three hundred thousand dol
lars. Mr. Andrew Carnegie has duplicated
this amount. and the result is the Frank