Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-14
Books and Authors.


The familiar comparison between
football and the battle of life leaves ou'
one ingredient of success in both ilefus
1t is suggestive that Lorin r. Delahu'
whose new book imagination in Bhsi-
ness" shows how the rules ana ilihla
lions of the game may suggest ways OF
winning, was one OF Harvard y jest
football coaches. so high an aulhoiliy
as Walter Camp says that OF coacile9'
Jorin f. Deland, who devised the ny
ing wedge for Harvard, was the most
ingenious on offensive tactics Inc
SUBSEQUENT success of the former coacn
as an advertising specialist ana puai
ness adviser seems to prove that liiasi
nation is applicable to many uiiie,cI'
forms of effort, especially in modern
business.
As an enthusiast in the cause OF or
eanized labor, Samuel Gompers IS even
more opposed to the tipping eVii tnat
the average citizen. In ms recentiy
published Labor in Europe ana AM
erica" he tells story about tipping Oh
shipboard which apparently expresses
his own views on the subject. pas
senper at the end of recent Trip ~
IomDers writes, made this "t'is
speech to a steward: Here's the MN
imum tip for you. l am opilseo ny
custom to give you somethlIls' pu'
not make it enough to stu 1urther
duce the steamship company " sun
further reduce your paltry pay. p"'
n,edge YOU that the day you 81 on
strike for better pay and no ups
send s25 to help you win MI ''oi,,-
pers adds that lit would pe wen WI ~
that sum to every American passehsi
TO rid himself of the tipping nuisance
| on his steamship voyages.
| Racause the characters OF GeorS
| Schock's Hearts Contending' are 81 !"
| primitive simplicity, the novel shows
some of the elemental differences Oh
GOV with unusual plainness. Whcn Jop
Ha;1ie the patriarch of little Penn
| svlvania valley, loses his all through
what seems to be an act of Co.. ms
| wife Susanna. lays the whole troupie
to BERTHA Lieb, an orphan girl Whoih
| tho Heiligs have taken in. Bertha APP
| neals 10 lob and the following dialogue
ensues. Job, do you permit me longer
| 70 he tormented by this mlschle' INA
ker?" cries the wife. susanna We
| cannot disallow her claim. She appears
| TO right and justice" says JOB. NOW
what am to think when you turn oul
your brothers and my sister ana Keep
| this girl in the house against my VIII
| ;c the old-age retort of Susanna Ihere
was an opposition of set faces. Iheh
Joh said. "She shall stay" 1t would
seem that in the opinion OF Georg
| Schock (whose real name is Katherine
I,oose) women are unjust and men are
| selfish. Jobs self Righteousness ana
| unconscious selfishness are the real
| canses Of mis- downfall, while the nltl-
| mate happiness Of himself ana MS
flock gives Hearts Contending the
| onality of tender naturalness.
| In can Explorers Adventures in IL
bet" which the Harpers recently pup
lished, A. Henry Savage Landor tells
how he had the pleasure of frightening
his cruel Tibetan captors by blt OF
"maeic" so simple that its success IS
almost unbelievable. The Lamas had
| got hold of his bath sponge, which was
| dry and pressed to great thlnness pv
| a heavy weight which had rested upon
| If Throwing it from them. it fell In
| little pool of water. II addressed the
sponge in English and with any words
| that came into my head, pretending to
utter lamentations. The attention OF
| the Lamas and soldiers was quickly
drawn to this unusual behavior on my
part. They could not conceal their
terror when, as l spoke louded and
louder to the sponge. it gradually
syyelled to it's normal size. The Tlbe-
tans, who at first could hardly believe
their eyes, became panic-stricken.
There was a general stampede Every
one is familiar with the use that Co
lumbus made of an eclipse on similar
occasion, but IAN Explorers Adven-
lures in Tibet" undoubtedly reveals the
first miracle with a bath sponge.
The center of attraction to American
tourists in Europe this year is the Pas
sion Play at Oberammergau which
probably differs but little from the
Play of ten years ago. Mrs. Charles N.
Crewdson, the author of An Ameri
can Baby Abroad was an interested
spectator of the last Play. and her de-
scription of her experimental the
baby Sis one of the most entertaining
chapters of the book. The book is a
fascinating compound of travel. de-
| anu IOIltlCt, Will ldCl
fancy so blended. that Mrs. Crewdson
herself can hardly tell where memory
ends and imagination begins.
In another ten years. the baby" will
probably be making tour of Europe
on his own account, and perhaps pur-
suing his own romance from London to
Egypt. since as mere baby he proved
himself valuable ally to Cupid. The
present the baby is colder brother
sturdy lad of patriotic tendencies,
whose chief complaint is that he was
unfortunate enough to be born abroad
Mrs. CrewdSOn's book is an ideal one
for summer reading, and is popular on
Little. Brown & Company's list of
summer novels.
f. Phillips Oppenheim is coming to
America.
The popular author of the "Il!ustri-
Gus Prince which some of the critics
&c 70 no