Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-11

/, characteristic of Mr.. Hollands best
stvie. Mr.. Holland is the author Of
| 1.-THE Pirate of Alstair' which appear
cd short time ago.
| 1t is to both the rose lover and the
rose grower that Miss Rose T.. Kings
! ley appeals iii her volume ON ROSES
| and Rose Growing" Miss Kingsley
| is daughter Of Charles Kingsley. who
was himself as fond of his garde as
| of his library and his work as clergy
| may Of the Church of England, and
with the assistance of Rev. +. Page
Roberts, who contributes a chapter on
How TO Grow Roses for Exhibition"
| she has prepared a manual that may
De prohtably read and repeatedly stud
| led Many facts and details about rose
| culture are given, and the book as Il
whole is we'll arranged and without
superflGous matter. 1T includes nu-
| nerous illustrations, both in color ara
black and white, and it IS published i'll
| New York ana London by Whitaker
| * 60.
| The March Century is n "Whitc
| House Number" ana contains among
| "reminiscences of former Prcsi-
dents three sketches of President
elect Taft, james A. lie Roy has
| written Of Taft as Administrator"
rictlring his traits and methods as J..
vealed by his work in the Philippines
There is an anonymous study of
| Tho Personality Of the New prcsi-
dent" Under the title of Turning
| Points in Mr.. Taft's Career" pub
| t< lltt
| in one of which Mr.. Taft sets forth
reasons for declining to be considered
| Tor the presidency of Yale and in the
other discusses his appointment on the
| Philippine Commission.
1.-THE Education of Women By Ath-
ntics," by Gertrude Dudley and Fran
ccs a. kcllor, to be issued this month,
| IS a careful study of the conditions iii
| high Schools private schools, colleges,
settlements, Fairgrounds. &c. Among
| other topics it takes up iEtcrscholastic
contests, use of mems games by Wo-
men, moral ana aestheticaI features %
comes, &c. Thu subject is consdercc
| from the point of view Of the use o.
athletics as a means Of social educate
| aIlC training for citizenship. Gertrude
| dc partment of physical education in
the University of Chicago. Frances a
| I<cllor is the author of Experimental
Sociology" out Of Work. and other
| books.
Since Ellen Key severed her con-
nection with the champions OF
woman's emancipation some years ago
by asserting that the salvation Of
women depended upon a nober con-
ception of her natural mission as wife
and mother rather than upon an en-
largement of her sphere, she has de-
voted herself largely to educational
questions. Her book The Century of
the Child" has gone through more
| than twenty editions and has been
published in several European
countries. in this matter of the
education of children she is, like Mr.
Gorst the English author, the foe of
mechanical methods: she recommends
a large liberty in the bringing up of
young people.
Little. Brown & Company have just
brought out a now onc-volume edition
of the poems and sonnctS Of tho late
Louise Chandler Moulton, formerly
comprised in the three books entitled
swallow Flights" In, the Garden of
Dreams" and AT the Winds Will"
Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford has
contributed the Introduction to the
new volume. She refers with
sympathy ana feeling To the rare
qualities of Mrs. Moulton's personality
and to the greatness of her character.
She mentions Mrs Mouton'S position
in the world of letters and quotes the
opinions of the highest critics on her
poems and sonnets. An attractive
portrait Of Mrs. Moulton is used as a
frontispiecc.
Miss Fluffy Tutll"s. whose first spon-
sor was Carolyn Wells, has had a sec
cld in Charles Bartcll LOOMS. Mr.
Looms who has been connivinG at
the fortunes of Miss Fluffy for Sevcra!
months last. is among the best known
IF cont, lporary !lumoristS, ami began
lis funny" career many years ago by
contributing to the newspapers, and in
spite Of much magazine and book sue
cess Sti'l contributes to them. His first
notable book. called Just Rhymes"
i,"rught out q f'W years ago ny the
HHrpcrs. owed some If its success tn
| the iilrstra tioils Of Fanny Y. Cory,
and is one If the few nonsense books
which are 10 less popular now than
when they We're printed first. Mr.
LcomiS is numbered aiIonS the auth
ors who have two new books stimuli
taneoUsly before the public this pres
| clt season.
Miss Beatrice Harraden has some in
terosting things to say about herself in
NJ. A. +. Il have received hundreds of
letters from people in different parts
of the world, for Ships that Pass in
| the Night has been translated into
many languages. 1t has been
translated into French, German,
| Italian, Swedish, Norwegian. Hun
garan, Japanese, Dutch, and has
also been put into the Braille type
for the blind. So there has been much
scope for correspondence. People
wrote about the title, about the book,
and, of course, what they wanted ne
to do for them. Many letters of this