Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-10-12
Editors Table

"More Mystery Tales" selected by
Elva S. Smith of the Carnegie Lii
brary, Pittsburgh.
More stories and poems of ghosts
and wizards, of hidden treasure and
strange entertainments. This collec-
ton supplements Mystery Tales for
Boys and Girls and has been COM
piled in response to numerous re-
quests from librarians. teachers and
children for another good book of
magic and mystery. 1t is needless to
say that the name of Miss Smith is
full assurance of the marked excel
lence of the collection. Irving, Haw-
thorne, Poe, and Scott are represent
cd and there are additional selections
from such modern writer's are Alfred
Moves, Charles Egbert Craddock,
Arthur Machen and CUTLER Couch.
The collection will be of interest to
young people for general reading at
all times of the year and will be es-
pecially useful at Halloween in pro-
viding stories and poems appropriate
to the season and of real literary
merit. For boys and girls from twelve
years upward.
Lothrop, Leo & Shepard Co., Bos-
ton, publishers.
"The Story of Our Constitution"
by Eva March Tappan, author of the
Makers Of England" series.
1t is a thrilling story. the tale of
| four million people deliberately
choosing a form Of government for
themselves and promising to live in
obedience to its laws. 1t is story
of dreaming of union, but dreading
to-be bound; of dreaming of scpara-
ton, but fearing to be free; a story
of pcering into the future like the
scers of old, and of balancing sordid
advantages like the most pcnurious
| of mscrs. And what of that noble
group Of men, upeonsciously great
who without a thought of their own
gain, moved quietly about the task OF
/ saving nation from lawlossness and
anarchy? Why is it that histories
which are elsewhere interesting be-
come so often dry and dull when the
wonder story is touched upon?
! It is from such thoughts as these
! that this book has grown.
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., Bos-
! ton, publishers.
| "Captain Potts Minister" by Fran
els r.. Cooper is the story Of a young
| man, young woman and some older
| folks, but the older folks do not seem
to have much say, after all. For, in
spite of everything, they live happy
ever after" The young man is
physically as we'll as mentally vigor-
Gus. BY the sheer strength Of what
culties. He might have done the
same in any reputable-he would be-
! long in no other-calling, but has
! firmly chosen TO be minister. He
! faces not only the problems of a sea-
| coast parish that needed n real man,
but the still deeper one Of mystery
in his own antecedents, unknown to
himself, but too we'll known to men
holding INSCRIPTIONS power over his
| fortunes and those of his staunch
friend, sea captain, as salt, rugged.
and quaint as they make them. 4
double love story is interviewer in
the development Of an intricate plot.
seasoned with Iikable humor and
gaining in strength to the end. The
author knows his ground and has
given a story that can both stir and
charm.
This is a book for the constantly
charging number who are 'fed up"
with novels Of unwholesome excite
ment and want clean, sane fiction.
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., Bos
ton, publishers.