Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-03-12
The Weeks Talk About Books and
Authors.

The new building of the Boston Public
Library will provide space for two million
volumes.
The March Wide Awake" is a beautiful
number 10 every respect-its engravings fine,
and the literary contents both entertaining
and instructive.
One of the best articles in the March num-
Der of The Forum is on Reviewers and
their Ways" by Mr.. Andrew Lang. thetEng-
fish poet, photographer and literary critic.
THE Afternoon Landscape" is the title of
Col. Thomas W. Higgnsons forthcoming
volume of poems, which is dedicated to
James Russell Lowell schoolmate and
fellow townsman."
John, said the book seller to his clerk
have we good stock of Robert Elsmere
on hand?" "Yes about two huadrei. Well
order five hundred copies more; | see two
more big ministers have just been preach
ing against IT,"
Rev James II. Ecob, d. D., formerly
pastor of the Old South in this city, takes
part in a symposium in the March number
of the Andover Review on the second OF sf
ternoon Sunday service. 1t is quite reyolu-
tionary but who will say it is not ApostocY
My Friends. the Bernards," is the title
Of pleasant sketch in Daughters of Ameri-
ca, from the pen of Mrs. Kate Woodbridge
Mchaelis, wife of the commander of Ken
nebec Arsenal, this city. Mrs. Michaelis
recently published little volume on the
life of Alfred krupp the great Russian gun
maker, translated from the French.
Think of happy family" says Charles
Dudley Warner, gathered round hole In
the floor called "A register trying to be COM
Portable and jolly, Or think of reading u
book round such hole and enjoying il !
The open IRE for your book lover; for what
pictures and remembrance of delightful
associations are not photographed in the live
embers and the ascending sparks?
A London correspondent Of the Boston
Advertiser in describing Box Hill the resi-
dence of George Merideth says, IN writing
of his small working room "A few repro
ductions Of well known paintings, book or
two by the vase of flowers on the able, sew
eral photographs of personal friends. aud
two easy chairs at either side Of the open
fire, almost completed the sdornments of
the ROOM
About thirty pages of Count Lanciani's re-
cent magnificent work on late researches
on the site of ancient Rome is devoted to the
libraries, librarians and literary men of that
old capital of the world The old Romans
were great lovers of books, bound their vol
umes sumptuously. and sold rare books in
book stalls much after the fashion of the
street book dealers in our large cities at the
present day.
As books are regarded by the true student
as means of charging, quickening and
improving his own mind. he should not
think any injury has been done
them if the margins are used
on which to record any suggestions of agree
ment or disagreement with the views of the
author at the time of reading. Such records
mark readers growth and tell of impress
sions made upon his mind from time to time
and he does not regard them as in any way
disfguring volume.
good portrait of Charles Dudley War
neI forms the frontispiece TO the Book Buyer
for March: and while the grey hair and
beard show that he is no longer young his
pen has lost none of its cunning and his
books have a PERENNIAL freshness which will
survive for years. Mr. Warner is noted
pedestrian as well as successful angler
and in the summer takes long trsmps through
the Adirondac country. When at his literary
work he wears black velveteen jacket.
Miss Mary l.. Booth, the accomplished
editor of Harper's Bazaar since Its first es-
tablshment, period of more than twenty
years, and the author or translator of more
than twenty volumes, has just died at the
age of IS years. Her work in the higher
avenues of investigation had world hori-
zoued reputation, reminding one strongly of
Miss Amelia b. Edwards, the English novel
ist.j author and Psychologist. The great
secret of her success was in doing her best
with everything she undertook, sparing no
pains and emitting no labor on even the small
est tasks. Miss Booth received a salary of
IS 600 year from the Harpers, and nearly
as much more from her books. 1t is under
stood she will be succeeded on the Bazaar by
Mrs. Helen S. Consnt. another brilliant
literary woman whose husband wa. for
many years editor of Harper's Weekly.
To have private printing presses has been
a hobby with many authors and bookish men
from the day of Horace walpole to our own
In the first number of The Library new
English magazine Of bibliography-the APP
pledore private press at Hampton, Conn.,, is
described by Mr.. A. II. Bullen of the British
Museum. This is the press of that eminent
wood engrsver. Mr.. W. J. Linton, whose
name is well known to owners of illustrated
Longfellows. Whittiers and Tennysons. Five
books have been sent ont from this press in
limited editions. Another celebrated Amer
lean private press is that of the venerable
VIM. W. Wheilden of Concord,
Mass, for many years editor of
the Boston Herald. Several import
ant monographs on American his
tory from Mr.. Wheilden's pen have been
printed at his own press.
Some exceedingly interesting gossip about
Washington. his books. diaries, eorrespen-
dence, the portraits that have been published
Of him and other washingtoniana, appear in