Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-01
Editors Table

practical Public Speaking" by
Bertrand Lyon, president of The
Lyon School of Expression, Denver.
This is a book for the vast number
Of men who need public speaking for
practical purposes, and are not in
terested in the old fashioned theories
of elocution. Professor Lyon is emf
nently qualified to prepare this book,
which is the work of years of study
and experience. He has long special
ize6e on the practical side OF speak
ing in public. Every theory has
been thoroughly tested in large
classes of business men seeking the
fundamentals of effective speech tor
actual use. AS platform speaker OF
wide experience with all kinds of
audiences, Professor Lyon has put to
the acid test every principle CON-
nected with making the spoken word
effective, and discarded all that will
not show results. This book Is pre-.
scented in three parts: The Man;
The Message; The Delivery; the
three great factors which are alb
solutely essential to all successful
speaking. 1t is a book to carry the
principles of Practical Speaking to
the students Of our schools and uni
versities, and to the thousands OF
others who have the same need but
are unable to attend classes Its
field, therefore, is wide, and it will
disappoint no one.
Publishers, Lothrop, Lee and
Shepard Co., Boston, Mass.
New Edition of Father and Baby
Plays" by Emile Poulsson, author
of Finger Plays" etc. Music by
Theresa II. Garrison and Charles H..
Cornish, Illustrations by Florence E.
Storer.
The sons and daughters who begin.
in early childhood to frolic with
Father, and then grow up in the
confidential relation that naturally
follows can almost invariably be de-
pended upon to bring joy rather than
grief to their parents. The benefit
goes much farther even than this. for
the father gains development that
can come in no other way, and such
companionship is a power for good
that cannot easily be estimated. 1t
is hard to think up things on the
spur of the moment, land Miss Pouls-
son with her recognized genius for
child training and her poetic gift has
provided for this. Excellent music
adds greatly to the value of the book,
and profusion of good pictures
helps complete new and improved
edition of a book that can be invalu-
able in every home where there Is a
father and young child.
Publishers, Lothrop, Lee and
Shepard Co.. Boston.
when I was a Girl in France"
a New Children of Other Lands"
book, by Georgette Beuret. Illustrat-
ed from Photographs.
Here is the child life. home life,
school life, and thought life of a
French girl of good family. brought
up in the painstaking, serious at
| mosphere Of France, where stress is
laid on development of character and
the ability to be useful all the more
SO. when, as in this case, the girl is
full of vitality and Imagination. The
author was born and lived in
Besancon. one of the Oldest of all
French cities, famous in romance and
history, and she has succeeded in
placing upon her pages the very at
mosphere of life in that famous RAM
parted town, where old customs con.
tinue and old beliefs have fingered
long; she has done so. moreover, in a
chatty and very personal style which
will win the hearts of all girl
readers. Having lived some years in
America as concert singer and