The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-25
BOOK NOTES.

"Old Boston Days and Ways" by
Mary Caroline Crawford. is the leading
holiday gift book on Little, Brown &
Co.'S list. Miss Crawford has studied
and delved into the history of Massa-
chusetts until she is a perfect mine of
information on the earlier days of
that commonwealth. "Old Boston
Days and Ways treats of the period
from the beginning of the Revolution
until Boston became a city, and de-
| scribes some of the most interesting
phases in the development of the
| town. During this period came the
| first theater, the first street light, the
| first modern newspaper, and the first
brick block. Social life was brilliant
and gay, and through the genius of
| Copley, the face of more than one
as familiar to the present generation
as it was to her own friends. Miss
Crawford gives us a picture of the so
| cial, the political and the artistic life.
She has supplemented her text with
| especially fine illustrations, and the
| book is a thing of beauty as well as
| a fund of interesting and readable ma
| terial.
"How to Help is the significant title
| of a book published by Macmillan that
will be very valuable to social workers,
| both amateur and professional Mary
| Conyington, the author, has had very
wide experience. covering number of
| years. InSTG are rev Wrll6rS IN the
| country better able to point out from
their own knowledge the distinction
| between a charity that makes for per-
| manent good and mere haphazard fu-
tile giving. There is nothing more in
dicatfve of the change in the worlds
attitude toward poverty than the dis
| appearance, in recent years. of the
| once familiar type of Lady Bountiful.
| In her place there stands the more
prosaic but efficient and trained work
| &c ndn fxrv, Io+
Miss Conyington writes. In it's own
field ''How to Help is destined to be
| a standard work.
| Lovers of the Wagner operas will
find an enjoyable opportunity to read
| a complete prose translation of the
great historical epic poem of the Ger
man race in "The Nibelungenlied' by
| Prof. Daniel B. Shumway of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, just published
| by Houghton Miff1in company.
book, Life Histories of Northern Ami
mails" published by Scribners, in which
| he treats in the most exhaustive and
| elaborate way of the life, habits, etc.
| of some so of the most important ami
mails, both large and small, of North
America, has just been published It
| is a work of the highest value and
| interest. Frank NJ. Chapman, the edi-
tor of Bird Lore" says of it: mr.
Setons Life Histories of Northern
Animals is the book for which we
have long been waiting. He has done
| for our mammals what Audubon did
| of our birds, but he has done it bet
ter. To his unique gifts as a sympa-
thetic biographer of wild animals he
| adds a thorough gasp of the more
technical sides Of his subject, and the
| result is a work of the highest popular
| interest and scientific value.''
| The American Magazine by it's aston
| ishing articles On "Barbarous Mexico
! has awakened throughout the country
| an intense indignation. In its January
| issue, the editors bring forward further
and absolutely convincing proofs of the
| truth of their statements and they re-
| affirm that slavery is existing at the
| present moment in Mexico, that that
| country is rife with barbarous political
persecution, that there is Imprisonment
| for free speaking and that personal and
| political liberty is being suppressed.
| Cyrus Townsend Brady's rev story
| published by Scribners, ''On the Old
| Kearsarge,' appeals to all boys and
| lovers of exciting historical stories. The
| story of the adventures of Stevens on
| the men-of-war and merchantmen dur
| ing the rebellion, and the thrilling ac-
| count of the great fight between the
| Kearsarge and the Alabama at the end
| of the book make the best kind of
! reading. Such books" says one re-
| viewer, in speaking of this story, "are
an inspiration to boys and set older
| folks thinking.
| The Tramp-Ah, mister, what would you
do if YOU felt like you didn't have a friend
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