Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-29
Books and Authors.

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| MAX" one of the important fall nov
els, was this week definitely set TO
publication in September by Harper 6
Brothers. Max is by Katherine Ce
ell Thurston. author of The Masuuer
| ader." and is said to have many of thu
| characteristics Of that remarkable nov
| eli.
Professor William T. Foster. author
of Augmentation and Debating
(Houghton MiIltin Coz. and editor Ct
"Washineton's Farewell Address and
Webster's Bunker Hill Grafton in the
Riverside Litera ture Series. has been
called from his nosition as Professor of
Education in BOwdoin College to the
presidency of the new Reed College in
Portland. oregon. The New York
Evening Post recently had three-co-
umn article upon Prof Fosters new
work. and stated his problem thus:
Given.
IAN endowmtn mt fund of S2.00006O, a
campus of forty acres; a board of four
trustees, and territory in which the
art of higher &c ucation has yet to he
perfected.
"ReCuired::
ITO build IN q college for men and
PRINCIPLES of American academic life.
Reed college has no faculty. no stu
dents. no alumni. no dormitories, no
lecture halls. no library. no gymnasium,
no fraternities, no athletic teams-not
even a college yell. . President Eos
ter faces the task of making the insti-
tuition an ideal college And there are
practically no restrictions as to how he
is to do it.
He will have the choosing of his own
professors. the mapping out of courses
of instruction, the planning of the
several buildings. AMI the debating OF
the colleges policy in regard to sch"l-
arship. athletics. fraternities. and all
other forms of undergraduate activity.
Roughly speaking the only instructions
to be followed are that the college must
be non-sectarian, and that the princi-
pal of the endowment fund must never
be used for BUILDINGS"
The Boston papers announce that
Lorin F. Deland's book. imagination
in Business" headed the list of non-tic-
ton most in demand there last week.
The book seems to. owe it's popularity
to the fact that it is addressed espec-
tally to young men, and like, "A Mes
sage to Garcia" stimulates ambition
and effort. Indeed, Mr.. Deland. who is
an advertising specialist, has often act
ed as personal adviser to young mon
anxious to make TIL" most of none too
promising business opportunities.
The hairs breadth escapes in which
the writer's of historical novels have
the reputation of revel!ing may not
seem quite SO improbable if we take
for analogy an anecdote of the sort re-
lated by Marion Harlan nd in her autobi-
ography. This Revolutionary remin-
iscencc." writes the author. lis always
renewed by the sight of an old Virginia
plantation gate swinging gratingly on
ponderCus hinges and kept shut by the
fall of a wooden latch. two yards long.
into Il wooden hook set-~in the gate
post. My grandfather, Captain Sterl-
ing was at the head of a foraging par
ty near Yorktown, when they were
chased by British troopers. The Am
orleans scattered in various directions
and escaped for the most part being
familiar with the country hywayS and
cross roads. Their captain was closely
pursued by three troopers to q high
plantation gate. The Virginian opened
it without leaving the saddle. shot
smut the gate. and rammed
down the latch into the socket hard.
latch. and the delay gave the fugitive
time to get away
There is n growing feeling that the
Bible. especially the Old Testament
should be studied as literature in the
schools Indeed the College Entrance
Requirements Board has recently in
cIuded among the prescribed works the
narrative portions of the Old TeSta-
mcnt. To meet this requirement vol
ume has been prepared by Arthur Is.
Sheffield. formerly of the editorial stan
of "Wehsters International Dictlon-
arv." The editor has followed in the
main the language of the King James
version and has separated out and set
in connected order the narrative por-
tons of the old Testament with some
Illuminating foot notes. A most inter
esting feature of the book is the illus
trations, many of which reveal the re-
suits cf recent excavations. This ell
ton is to be published by Houghtoh
Miff1in Company.
TO give elementary lessons in justice
government, political progress, ana the
like WAS one of the objects which f. j.
Gould had in mind in the preparation
of his edition of Plutarchs Lives TOT
the children. ~ could think Of no hner
material for the purpose. he Wri'eS
"than the admirable biographies OF
plutarch. Western history derives, IT'S
traditions from Greece and Rome. an"
it seems to me an advantage 70 use q
work which noe only furnished simple
instruction in the meaning of potlticS'
but also hold rank AS literary cias-
sic" It can be said however ina.
Cbildren's Plutarch." which is meant