Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-09-13
Editors Table

Editors Table
THE Single-Code Girl" by Bell Elliott
Palmer. Frontispiece by Chase Emer-
son. Color wrapper. Published by 10th
rop. Lee & Shepard Co., Boston. Price
sl.25: postpaid. $40.
Brilliancy Of style and daring Incl
dents, but always told with a delcacy
that can offend none, mark this as one
of the most thoroughly entertaining and
yet thought-inspiring novels of recent
years.
The sutton for the hand of a young
woman, whose great personal charm is
enhanced by perfect innocence. in an
swer to the demand of the young wo-
mans elder brother, her only protector,
reveals his life in series of wildly
written letters in which he tells his eX-
perience with the different feminine types
beginning with his first child-sweet-
heart-that have Influenced his course.
Other romances are involved. and no one
can read without being drawn on to flint
some chapter in his or her own life
faithfully mirrored
Every one has views on the great and
vital subject OF whether the world ought
or ought not to expect the single code
Of morals for both sexes, and every one
likes a bright story; consequently the
popularity of The Single-Code Girl has
been assured from the first.
Blue shutters fourth and final volume
of the Jean Cabot Books" by Gertrude
Fisher Scott. illustrated by Arthur Q.
Scott; Lothrop, Lee q Shepard Co. Bos-
ton. Price. net. SO. Postpaid. sl.1r.
A natural wholesome college story. BIZ
one who knows her subject and has good
sense as we'll as the gift of narration. is
the best light reading girl can haze,
and correspondingly hard to find. The
Jean Cabot Books are among the very
few that have met the test. and have
given a vivid picture of life at a promi-
nent Eastern college for women.
Such a group as Jean and her most IN
innate friends could not scatter at once.
as do most college companions after,
graduation, and six of them under the
chaperonage OF a married older graduate
and member of the same sorority speno
most eventful summer in an historic
farmhouse in Maine, where good times.
excitement and happy romance fellow
one another in rapid succession. Not the
least of the interest and value of this
book lies in the fine spirit of loyalty and
helpfulness that pervades it.
Little Folks of Animal Land pho
tographed and described by Harry Whit
tier Frees Sixty full-page half-tones OF
animal pets, costumed. posed. and pho
tographed from life, each with descrp-
tive page in story-sequence. Square s vo.
Cloth, done in Sepia on India-tint dull
coated paper. Photographic cover-insert.
end-leaves and jacket: Lothrop, Lee &
Shepard Co., Boston. Price, net, $50:
postpaid, $40
There is no other book like this. nor
has there been. Mr.. Frees has no equal
in the posing and photogra phing of pet
animals. especially kittens and puppies,
which he delights to clothe in quantity
human style and cause to appear in
tently engaged in all manner of human
duties and pastimes. His clever imagi-
nation also lends itself readily to enter
tanning storytelling. The result is a |
book that surprises and delights all who
see it, Each of 60 half-tones from pho
tographs of living. costumed pets is faced
by page Of bright descriptive narrative.
the two pages forming one link in a
unique Photographic story-chain. The
of story-interest is remark
ably good, and the pictures are wonder
full proof of what skill can do when COM
bined with patience and kindness. The
book cannot we'll be described; 1t must
be seen.
Dave Porter at Bear Camp. or The
Wild Man of Mirror Lake" Eleventh
volume of the Dave Porter Series,' by
Edward Stratemeyer illustrated by
Walter S. Rogers: Lothrop. Lee & Shep-
ard Co.. Boston; 10 mo. Cloth. Price.
s1.25.
Just before locating with his chums at
Bear Camp. in the Adirondacks. Dave
Porter, the favorite young hero of all
boy readers, saved some moving picture |
actors caught on a burning steam yacht. !
One of the actors claims that he was
stolen from home when child and put |
into a poor-house, the very thing that |
had happened to Dave, and that he IL |
the real Dave Porter. and the latter still |
= person unknown. This is but one sit
lation of intense interest in a volume re-
plete with action.
Polly Comes to Woodbine," by George
Ethelbert Walsh. illustrated by F. Liley |
Young. II mo. Cloth. Lothrop, Lee e.
Shepard Co., Boston. Price, net, $1.oO.
Postpaid. $1.1o.
Woodbine was charming country |
town where Uncle Jethro and Aunt
Miranda lived their comfortable but very
onely lives on just such bountiful old
farm as one likes to read about.
TO this home came Polly. bright, low
ng. cheerful little girl. There was a
mistake about her coming-at least, 1t
;eeHed'so So but some things thought at
lrst to be mistakes turn out to be the
very best that could have happened. ana