Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-24
Editor Table.

Goes School Readers. BY Fanny E.
Coe, Teacher of English in the Boston
Normal School. Cloth, 12mo. with Illus
trations. American Book Company,
New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago.
Third Grade Reader, 2S4 pages. Price
40 cents. Fourth Grade Reader. $50
pages. Price, SO cents.
These books offer much new, fresh
and interesting material, including sto-
rieS of adventure, of humor, of child
life, Of animal life, of chivalry, etc
They will appeal to the teacher as well
as to the pupil The selections are of
literary value, the teaching sound and
wholesome, with ideals high and yet
compelling. The books are carefully
graded. and the principle of correlation
| is kept in view by such an arrange
ment of the selections as secures the
greatest possible unity of impression.
| The illustrations are numerous and
most attractive. The books are admir-
ably suited for supplementary use in
connection with any standard series of
readers.
| The story of Thyrza, by Alice Brown,
author of Rose Macleod etc. With
a frontispiece in color by Alice Barber
| Stevens. Cloth; large crown mo. Price
$l.35, net; postpaid $50
Miss Brown is so well known to the
reading public-especially as a writer
of exceptionally clever short stories
that all work from her pen is sure of
| a wide appreciation
No writer has been more successful
| in interpreting the New England life
al,, a.. at ,.n
sympathetic and true to life. Her style
| is wonderfully direct and clear. There
| is in all she has ever written subtle
charm and interest. that has never
| failed to exercise its spell over the
reader.
In 1.-The Story of Thyrza" Miss
| Brown is at her best. 1t is true that
| she has ventured into a new field; but
| it must be conceded that her work
there is exceptionally strong. 1t is a
story of woman's whole life, con-
ceived in a big way, and carried out
with absorbing dramatic intensity.
Thyrza Tenant, whose story is told,
| is in the beginning of the book a little
| New England girl of appealing origi-
nality, somewhat of the type that has
| been immortalized in Mrs. Virgins
"Rebccca." She has an ambitious
thirst for knowledge and develops into
| a brilliant and beautiful young woman,
| only to be suddenly overtaken at the
age OF eighteen by tragic wrong. The
story of her later life grows with q vi
| tai dramatic power until at the end we
| leave her comfortably settled. develop
| ed through trial and sorrow into a no.
| BILE and lovely woman. In it's vivid re-
ality, it's profound insight into the
problems of character, it's strong and
wholesome optimistic note, this is one
of the most significant novels of recent
years, and one which will be widely
read and discussed.
The Gun Runner, novel, by Arthur
| Stringer, author of 1.-The Wire-Tap-
pers," THE Under Groove" Cloth:
| Price 81 so: New York: B. w. Dodge &
Company.
| This story is emphatically and strict
| ly up-to-d date. 1t is in fact q story of
| wireless" The plot centers around
one of those South American revolu-
| tions in which it falls to the lot of the
wireless operator of the Lammian to
play q star part. A portion of this
fascinating story was printed in the
January, 1909 issue of the Popular
| Magazine" where it attracted very
Widespread attention, and was the
subject Of much favorable comment. 1t
is narrative rich in incident. rapid in
movement, and of absorbing interest.
The Web Of the Golden Spider. by
Frederick Grin Bartlett, author of 90
an of the Alley" etc, Illustrated by
Harrison Fisher and Charles M. Rel
yea. Cloth: PIP 354: Price $1.50. Bos-
ton: Small, Maynard and Company.
This is a story of exceptional interest
1t catches the attention of the reader
at the very start, and holds it through
out with undimnished strength. There
is q strain of mysticism running
through the narrative that gives it at