Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-06
FROM THE EDITORS TABLE

The School Four, by A. T. dudley:
First volume of "Stories of the Irlahsu-
lar League" illustrated by Charles Cope
land: Il no.: cloth: Price $l.Zo Boston.
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.
No cleaner more entertaining or more
wholesome books for boys have ever been
written than those which make up the
famous "Phillips-Exeter series by "A.
r. Dudley They are characterized py
high ideals of manliness, and by purity
of tone. They are helpful DOCKS IN
structive books, books that make Ior
what is truest and best in character pullo-
ing, characteristic of Mr.. Dudley
work is his close knowledge of what may
be termed the science" of school ana
college athletics. Himself an athlete in
his student days at Exeter and Harvard,
with all the advantages that came from
close association with the best athletes
of both of those institutions. he is pecu-
liarly well qualified to write OF this phase
of student life. But it is not alone in
the yividness with which he depicts all
the elements that enter into athletic life,
that Mr.. Dudley is conspicuously strong.
He excells in character delineation, as
well as III Tie atmosphere VI ith'AeJ AZ
which they move. His narratives are
rich in incident, and have happy under
current of humor, that goes far to invest
them with human interest. Like its pre-
decessors from Mr.. Dudley's pen 1.-The
School Four is distinctly school story.
1t is in fact the first volume of new
series similar in scope and character to
the famous phillips Exeter" series.
The events of the story centre in the
Westcott School, one of three which have
formed a new league. The leading forms
of athletics, including rowing, figure in
the gaining of points towards a champion
ship cup and the rivalry is most intense.
At Westcott's, the browning student honor
is the captancy of the school four. and
the way in which the succession to the
coveted position falls to the one best de-
serving it forms the climax Football is
no less prominent in the progress of the
story than rowing, and both general
school life and competitive relations with
other schools are graphically set forth
One of the best features of this really
great book for boys lies in the contrast
shown between the boy with some ability
who talks himself into prominence at
llISl, Dul uOtS HOl lOlu lHe pace anu Lie
modest fellow, who starts quietly but is
coming all the time. The career of the
hero is typical of Mr.. Dudley's books.
This book is especially valuable in that
it gives, better than has ever before been
given. a wOrd-picture of life at one of
the great private schools which form such
a feature of the American educational
world, and send to the colleges so many
of the best athletes as we'll as of the
finest students
"Gambolling With Galatea," a
Buchalc Romance, by Curtis Dun
ham, author of "The Casino Girl in
London "The Golden Goblin" with
illustrations by oliver Herford Cloth,
price $11J net. Boston: HoughtOn,
Miffln Company.
This is delightful little story deal
ing with the antics of some animal
pets Of a poet and his maiden sister
who have the rare faculty of under
standing animals and their moods.
The pets comprise a COW. a bull calf,
a pig, colt, dog, goat
and a mare, and each is pre-
scented in a manner which makes
it evident that the author is well ac-
quainted with them all. There is
about this story the spice of original
ity, and the flavor of the out-of-doOr
life. 1t is bright, breezy, and enter
tanning. and will make an ideal hoii-
day gift for any live boy or girl.
Hearts are Trumps, by Alexander Otis:
cloth: y no.: pp 3333 New York. The
John Mcbride Co.
This is one of the most amusing and
entertaining stories of the season. 1t tells
how a newspaper man. unwittingly be-
comes guest at what was to be a
fashionable wedding, how, with the nerve
of his craft he was led to impersonate
the clergyman, and how after a long
series of entanglements growing out of
the part he was playing he finally ended
up in the role of the bridegroom. 1t is
indeed what it purports to be "a novel of