Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-01

scnts: not their national peculiarities
merely, but their individual ones. Pa.
mos, fun. tenderness. humor, beauty
are all here; but the dramatis per-
sanae OF the little dramas have each
his or her special touch and coloring.
II ohm Lane Co., The Bodley Head,
New York City
Joys of Earth,is the title of u neat
little volume of verse written by Henry
nembered as the author of Foioles of
s. i3cnch and other books.
This Is his first attempt In the poetf-
cal field and will agree that he has
made o good start. The poem from
which the book derives it's title is q
charming presentation of the pleasures
that abound on this planet and it
cannot fall to delight the reader, even
IL he cares nothing for poetry in gem
oral. Its principal theme is the thought
that much of the bliss we expect to
find in heaven abides on earth and
that earth life is pleasant journey
upward to a spiritual existence. The
ideas are exalting and the, rythum is
musical and each part sufficiently var
led from the others as not to become
monotonous.
The volume contains also. poems of
love. poems of patriotism and pointed
humorous short stories in rhyme and
Many of these must prove useful to.
elocutionists and public entertainers.
The pieces entitled "The Great Oper-
atom Honest Tom" Natural JUS
tlce," Nose Cohen's Insurance" and
the Fear OF Ghosts are high-class
merrlment delight wherever read or
recited. The poem entitled "Our
Country" is fine tribute to our
nation.---Wilcox Book Concern, 1853
Randolph street. Chicago
satrlne,o the new novel by Ellnor
Mccartney Lane which Harper &
Brothers are about to publish, takes IT,
Ito. from the heroine, like Nancy
Stair, Mrs. Lane has been fortunate
i'm her women, since her heroines have
appealed to women as we'll as men. In
the case of ''ISatrne," her story is the
romance of o. woman's triumph through
her own gifts, and through her great
love.
8 The scenes are laid on a historic plan
tation in North Carolina, In Paris in q
musical atmosphere, and in New York.
AS her multitude OF readers know, Mrs.
iLanesis not h believer In. the analytical
or problem novel, and her genius for TO-
mantle storytelling Will find charac-
teristic expression in airline.
Bailey & Germann's Number Primer
by M. "A. Bailey. A. NJ, head of the de-
partment Of Mathematics, New York
Training School for teachers, and
George B. German, PHI, D., principal
of public school No. 1870, Brooklyn
American Book company. New York.
Unlike most books for the first year
and half OF school, this is intended
from the very start to go into the
hands OF the pupil. 1t teaches the fun
damental combinations of addition and
subtraction, with Incidental measure
unent comparisons, etc. In every case
these are developed from concrete rep
RESERVATIONS, pictures being used as
stepping stones from the known to the
unknown. Up to page 20 the reading
demands the knowledge of only SIX
words; from that point the vocabulary
Increases gradually, but is extremely
simple throughout, and relates to tho
child's daily experience.
Goes School Readers by Fanny L.
Coe. teacher OF English in the Boston
Normal school American Book com
pany, New York. Third Grade Read-
ar," 2s4 pages; Fourth Grade Reader
800 pages.
These books offer much new. fresh
and interesting material including
stories of adventure, OF humor, OF child
life. OF animal life, OF chivalry. etc
They will appeal to the teacher as we'll
as to the pupil The selections are OF
literary value, the teaching sound and
wholesome, with Ideals high and vet
The books are carefully
graded, and the principle of correlation
is kept In view by such AN arrange
meiut OF the selections as secures the
greatest possible unity of impression
The illustrations are numerous and
most attractive. The books are ad-
suited for supplementary use
in connection with any standard series
of readers.
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