NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
LIBRARY NOTES 
Books Added to the Manchester Public Library in March. 
NYTHING from the pen or G. A. 
Birmingham is well worth read- 
ing. He is the author of ‘‘General 
Sir John Regan,’’ ‘‘Spanish Gold’’ 
and many other stories of Irish life. 
‘¢Gossamer’’ his latest, is somewhat 
different from his other works of fic- 
tion. 
It is a tale of high finance. The 
scene of most of the story is laid in 
America, There is no lack of the 
authors ready wit and satire. 
In real life G. A. Birmingham is the 
Rey. Cannon Hannay, Cannon, of Dub- 
lin Cathedral., He is now serving as 
chaplain in the English army and is at 
Harve, France. He also has a son in 
the army. 
‘‘Sunlight Patch’’ is a story of 
Kentucky life, by Credo Harris, a Ken- 
tuckian. The character of Dale Daw- 
son, is certainly fascinating. 
One exciting incident follows an- 
other right through the book and 
touches of real humor occur frequently. 
It is a long time since I enjoyed 
reading a novel as much as I did ‘‘ The 
Oakleyites’’ by E. F. Benson, author of 
““Arundell,’’? ‘‘Dodo,’? and ‘‘Dodo’s 
Daughter.’’ 
He describes life at Oakley-on-sea, a 
suburb of London. There are a num- 
ber of characters in the book that are 
much above the average generally 
found in works of fiction. The combin- 
ation portrait of the three sisters, is 
unusually good. One is a devotee of 
Christian Science, another is a student 
and follower of the Yogi philosophy of 
India, the third is a strict vegetarian. 
Dorothy Jackson, the heroine of the 
story is a very lovable person and 
Mistress Hastman and her son Wilfred 
who wrote so many novels—improve 
on acquaintance. The picture of daily 
life in this small place is remarkably 
well drawn, 
‘‘The Black Hagle.Mystery’’ is a 
new story by Geraldine Bonner, the 
author of ‘‘The Girl at Central.’’ Is 
it murder or suicide, that is the ques- 
tion? Not many readers will be abie 
to solve the problem till very near the 
end. 
‘“The Shades of the Wilderness’’ by 
Joseph A. Altsheler, is a story of the 
Civil War, in which Robert E. Lee and 
other historic characters are made to 
live again. ‘‘Handle With Care,’’ by 
Margaret Turnbull, tells of the reforn:- 
ation of a young man by a young wo- 
man. A young lady goes to a country 
place to regain her health and while 
there meets the station agent of the 
small branch railroad and events de- 
velop rapidly from that time. 
A new novel of English life is ‘‘The 
Belfrey’’ by May Sinclair. Tasker 
Jevons is a combination of genius and 
bounder. 
He is a writer of novels. 
in love and marries Viola 
He falls 
‘1 hesiger. 
Trouble begins very shortly, but Jev- 
ons wins in the end and improves on 
acquaintance. 
All lovers of dogs will want to read 
‘“Stickeen,’’ by John Muir, the great 
naturalist. ‘*Stickeen’’ is an attec- 
tionate creature and the author’s des- 
cription of the rugged scenery of Al- 
aska will be enjoyed by all. ‘‘Late 
and Gabriella,’’ the new novel from 
the pen of Ellen Glasgow, is a fine 
study of character. 
If the author’s opinion of married 
life is expressed by her characteys, 
she evidently takes rather a pessimis- 
tic view of the subject. In fact is is 
rare to find a novel written recently 
that portrays a happy or successful 
wedded life. 
‘“The Child in Human Progress,’’ by 
veorge Henry Payne, with a foreward 
by A. Jacobi, M.D., LL.D., is a book 
that is unique in that it is a special 
monograph on the life of the chiid. 
through thousands of years, showing 
its development along physical, domes- 
tic, economic and social lines. The 
author proves that with the exception 
of the Egyptians and the Semites the 
nations of antiquity ill-treated their 
children. In China, females were 
drowned, and in India they were de- 
spised and abused, while in Japan, babies 
suffered death both from neglect and 
sacrifice. In Greece they exposed 
infants to the elements, and in Rome 
they were mutilated for profit. The 
slaying of the first-born took place 1 
Ireland and in Europe in the seventh 
century children were sold to pay their 
fathers’ debts. 
He traces the progress that has been 
made in the education of public opin- 
ion and in the passing of laws for the 
protection of the child from the dawn 
of civilization to the present. 
Those who are interested in the life 
of the child—and who is not—will 
find it very fascinating reading. 
Two volumes of poems by Samuel 
Walter Foss have been added to the 
Library, also ‘‘North of Boston,’’ by 
Robert Frost, a small volume of poems 
treating of New England life. There 
is one poem, ‘‘The Death of the Hired 
Man,’’ that makes the book worth 
while, 
‘A Cathedral Singer,’’ by James 
Lane Allen, is a sweet though pathetic 
bit of fiction. The story has for its 
center the Cathedral of St. John, the 
devine of New York. It gives a pic- 
ture of a most beautiful type of 
motherhood. 
A novel of English life just added to 
the Library is the ‘‘Accolade,’’ by 
Ethel Sidgwick. It describes the diffi- 
culties of a man and his wife, whose 
temperaments were more,or less 1n- 
compatable, ‘*The Collected Poems,’’ 
of Rupert Brooke, contains much that 
will live. You should not fail to read 
the five sonnets, entitled 1914. He 
obtained a commission in the Navai 
division at the beginning of the war. 
He died of blood poisoning on board a 
French hospital ship at Sycros. He 
was a young English poet of great 
promise, whose career was cut short 
by the war. 
‘The First Hundred Thousand,’’ by 
Jan Hay Beith, Captain of the Argyll 
Highlanders, bas been called ‘‘the 
greatest book of the war.’’ The authe: 
was a novelist and wrote ‘‘A Knight 
on Wheels,’’ ‘‘Seally’’ and other sto:- 
ies. 
He takes the newly enlisted men and 
tells how they were made into good 
soldiers and how they acquitted them- 
selves in the trenches. Do not fail to 
read it, 
Below is given a list of the books 
added to the Library in March, 1916. 
—R. T. G. 
Fiction 
Sidgwick, Ethel 
Sinclair, May 
Accolade, The, 
Belfry, The, 
Bloom of Youth Gilman 
cathedral Singer, Allen, James Lane 
Drusilla With a Million, Cooper 
From Pillar to Post, 
Golden Lamp, 
Gossamer, 
Handle With Care, 
Hollyhock House, 
Just David, 
Bangs, John K. 
Gray, Phoebe 
Birmingha n 
Turnbuil 
Taggart 
Porter, HE. H. 
Life and Gabriella, Glasgow 
Little Maid of Masachusetts 
Colony, Curtis 
Little Maid of Province Town, Curtis 
Long Road Home, Paine 
Mrs. Balfame, Atherton 
Oakleyites, The, 
Our Miss york, 
Benson, E. F. 
Morris, E. B. 
Path of Life, Strenvels 
Roger Paulding Gunner, Beach 
Seventeen, Tarkington 
Shades of the Wilderness, Altsheler 
Side of the Angels, King, Basil 
Twilight, Frankau (Frank Danby) 
Wiser Folly, Moore 
Non-Fiction 
Autobiography of Charles 
Francis Adams 
Book of Myths, Lang 
Child in Human Progress, Payne 
Collected Poems, Brooke, Rupert 
Curiosities in Proverbs, .Marvin 
Eat and Grow Thin, Thompson 
Encyclopedia of Needlework, Dillmont 
First Hundred Thousand, Hay, Ian 
ureek Genius, Chapman 
New England Conscience, Munroe 
North of Boston, Frost 
Old Marblehead Sea Captains 
and the Ships in Which 
They Sailed, Lindsey 
People’s Government, soeetuill 
Real Argentine, Hammerton 
Songs of the Average Man, 
Foss, Sam. W. 
Foss, Sam. W. 
Muir 
Songs of War and Peaée, 
Stickeen, 
When a Man Comes to Himself, 
Wilson, Woodrow 
Women Who Have Ennobled 
Life, Whiting, Lillian 
‘‘What do you charge for your 
rooms???’ 
‘“Wive dollars up.’’ 
**But I’m a student—’’ 
‘‘Then it’s five dollars down.’’— 
Cornell widow. 
Nothing costs a nation so much as | 
its liberty.—Life. 
April 14, 1916. 
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