Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-02
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Adele e. Thompson. Fifth volume Of
Brave Heart Policy" illustrated by j.
w. Kennedy, cloth: Price $1.25: Boston:
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.
Patty is brave Wnsome girl whose
| family came from the United States
and settled across the Canadian border.
Here they make many friends, and all
goes well until the breaking out of the
1872 war when the members of the fam
lily discover that, although they are
living on British soil their sympathies
are wholly American. How Patty was
| able to save the life of a gallant Amer
| lean officer who was condemned as a
spy, and how after many .hardshps
the family is reunited on American soil
| all combine to make up story of un-
usual and absorbing interest.
| Dorothy Dainty In the Country, by
| Amy Brooks, eighth volume of the
Dorothy Dainty SERIES" illustrated by
the author: large II mo-: cloth: Price
$1.Oo, Boston,; Lothrope, Lee & Shepard
Co.
No little girl character in fiction is
more attractive or has won a greater
host of friends than dear little Doro-
ribbons should be named after her be-
cause her name is synonym for quail
ity. Each Dorothy Dainty book, while
dealing with the same delightful little
heroine, is complete in itself The pres
ent one is no exception to the rule. 1t
tells how Dorothy, with her bosom
friend, Nancy Ferris, go in the early
part of June, after the close of the
Private school which they attend, to a
famous beach hotel.
Other children who represent varying
degrees of parental discipline are there,
and there are some lively times, to say
the least. The keen wit and Observa.
ton of the author are well shown even
when writing for little folk, and par
ents will have many a good laugh. The
kind nature and gentle breeding of
Dorothy are conspicuous throughout
and one heartily agrees with guest
who says that if there were more chill
dren like her and Nancy, it would be a
pleasure to have them around.
Helen Grant, Teacher, by Amanda
M. Douglass, seventh volume of the
Helen Grant series. illustrated by Amy
Brooks, cloth: Price $1.25: Boston:
Lothrop. Lee & Shepard Co.
No better or more popular books for
young women have ever been published
than the clean, wholesome. entertain
ing and helpful volumes that makes up
the famous Helen Grant series" In
| Helen Grant Miss Grant has created a
splendid idea of the healthy, whole
some, attractive and ambitious Ameri-
can girl, and those who have enjoyed
her acquaintance in school and college
days will be glad enough to meet her
again when. as teacher in the new
high school in a small town, she is CIV
ing fresh proofs of her high character
and capabilities. The extent to which
she is able to stimulate and help the
young people who are associated with
her, and tho completeness with which
she meets al, the demands upon her
time and strength. will still further
endear her to the reader.
In all her long career as writer of
favorite books, Miss Douglass has new
or created a more attractive character
than Helen Grant. the friend and in
spiration of an overwhelming circle of
older girls.
For the Stars and Stripes. by Everett
r. Tomlinson. First volume of 'N ar
for the Union series" illustrated by
Frank Vining Smith cloth: Price $3.50.
Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.
War stories never fail in facination
for boy readers, and a new series from
the pcn of SO popular Juvenile writer
as DR. TOn2linson, will be sure of an
enthusiastic welcome. For the Stars
and Stripes the first volume of the
new series, is story well calculated to
win the enthusiastic interest and stir
the pulses of any live young American.
1t relates. in the happy manner char
acteristic of DR.. Tom,inson's work, the
exciting experiences of & brave young
Union soldier who makes his escape
from a southern prison pen and finally
after undergoing many hardShips and
dangers, succeeds in finding his way tC
Sherman'S army. The story is abreast
of the spirit of the times inaSmuch as
while intoxicating the lessons of loyalty
and love of country, it contains nc
trace of sectional bitterness. The story
is characterized by absolute accuracy
in it's historical setting and a thorough
familiarity with the country de-
scribed
|
linson's writings for boys is shown by
the fact that during a part of the pres
ent year his Search for Andrew Field
written fifteen years ago, has been the
most called for work of juvenile fiction
in the New York Public Library.
The Boy with the L. S. Survey, by
Francis Holt Wheeler First volume OF
y. S Service Series. Thirty-seven il
Illustrations from photographs taken
in work for the u. S. Government
cloth: Price $50. Boston: Lothrop
Lee & shepard Co.
| This is the first of a new series OF
books for boys along cminently practi-
cal lines. They appeal to the boys love
of excitement and adventure, by PIC
turing in vivid way the dangers and
difficulties to he encountered in the
government service. In this, his initial
story the author describes the eXper-
fences. Of plucky. manly. self-reliant
boy with the y. 6 Geological survey
1t is a stirring narrative and one vel
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