Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-15
Books and Authors.

The March Twentieth Century
Magazine is full of able papers that
will command the interest OF think
ing men and women. Charles T..
Russell contributes one of his thought
provoking papers, entitled "A Study
in Efficiency" William ID. Macken-
zie appears in an essay entitled New
issues and New Party Arguments i
dealing with the popular unrest and its
possible outcome. Henry Frank con-
tributes this months critical dramatic
study. 1t deals with "The Melting
Pot" and is beautifully illustrated
with scenes from the play. Professor
John Ward Stimson writes on Beauty
and the Social State" an exceptionally
valuable constructive paper. Count
Leo Tolstoi makes an impassioned
plea tor peace and non"resistance
Professor Walter l.. Leighton discuss
es Meredith in an illuminating Sketch
Walter Vernier writes on the signlfi-
cameo of the recent meeting between
the Car of Russia and the King of
Italy, which has so greatly aroused
Austria. Parker II Sercombe, for
many years a banker in Mexico con-
tributes an able article on 1.-THE Next
can Plutocracy." 1.-THE Religion of
Jesus and the Changing Order is
title of IL highly suggestive paper by
the Rev. E. II. Barrett.
The tremendous force eXerted by a pile
of logs with swollen stream behind it
was never more clearly exemplified than
by a couple of photographs illustrating
log driving story by Leonard Dewitt
Sherman in Recreation for March. These
photographs show an immense pile of
ogs-"jackstraws' Mr.. Sherman calls
them-which has carried away half of
the steel Orders and heavy masonry piers
Of large railroad bridge as easily. APP
parently, as though it had been made of
so much cardboard. Other photographs
accompanyin this article show the log
driving crews at work-and at play-and
the whole series is interesting in the ex-
IRENE
1t is expected that Rev. Dorr A.
Hudson, who has recently accepted a
call to the paStorate of the Westbrook
Congregational church. will arrive and
take charge some time during the
coming week Mr.. Hudson was
equipped for the ministry at Yale,
first taking preparatory course at
Phillips AndUver. He received both
degrees, that of A. Il. and +. D., from
Yale, the former in 1888 and the latter
from the Theology department in 1891.
Since leaving college he has filled pas
tcrates in Cnerryfield. Me-. Miller's
Falls and North Chelmsford. Mass.
serving IN the latter town since his call
there in 1904
Rev. Stanley G. Spear. who is
scheG uled for the special lenten SER
vices in the Cniversalist church, Rock
land March ell, is a young man and
unmarried. but he has had considerable
experience in the ministry and has
proved himself a serious. serviceable
and successful minister. The Univer-
salist Ministers Institute Of Maine
chose him for last year and for this
year 10 prepare and have printed Len
ton Bible Readings for circulation in
the parishes of the State, These have
been very acceptable.
Then here we far into our first true
eleDilhIt 81 dSS, ten " iIllSCh ASSt iheA,
that shuts you in like wall and that
one can scarcely wallow through at all
except on elephant paths.
But such paths we soon struck 49,.
sometimes going twenty minutes
through grass where we could not see
two yards in any direction except
straight into the zenith; sometimes
along dusky jungle paths where even
the zenith: sometimes along dusky
Jungle paths, where even the zenltn
view was shut out from us; sometimes
into tail forests, where wide areas were
trampled bare of undergr0"th anu
hard and smooth as floor, vast, am
lishted. sylvan assembly chambers OF
the great pachyderms; often ac1os"
acres of fat marsh-land or sprlng-sou-
den hillsides where advance was oiiy
rossibie by treading carefully between
elephant footprints. slip INTO any Oh
which meant {; plunge to ones neck OF
waist IL cold water, for not even the
pig loved mud more than the eie-
phaut, "-Trailing ELEPHANTS. From Ed
oar RercIler Bronson ON Closed Ter
ritory." published by A. c. McClus q
Co.
There is q flavor about the LONDON
costcrmonger and his donah Sweet
hearU which we quite lack in our BOW
trv characters. The costers lie Is
really pathetic when observed by one
given to benovelencc; but 1t seldom
seems at all pathetic to this jolly roiS-
terer of the gutter marts of London.
That inimitable British actor. Cheva-
ler has portrayed him wildly IN Lon
don's music halls, and made OF the cos
ter. his donkey and barrow. a pleasant
recollection to many Americans.
The genesis of the coster is not al
WAYS q matter of adopting the occupa-
ton of his class. While the fathers
and grandfathers of many costers were
costermongering before them, we often
find the ranks recruited by actors, ar
lists. solicitors stricken from the rolls.
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