Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-02-06
AUTHORS AND BOOKS.
gossip About Maine Literary Peop3s
and 6owo othexs.

II We had room In our columns for half
the rare and choice things We zee fossins in
the press. and would much like to reprod uce.
one Of thei first selections tnnbe made would
De the beautiful poem by Mrs. Matte Baker
Dunn Of Waterville, Sweet MessaIonskee
Water. In its exquisite utteraAces the poem
reminds one Of the late Rev. Henry c. Leon
ards charming tribute To the same placid
winding, dreamy, sweet Messzlonskee."
FOR a book Of sermons" says the Bos-
ton Herald, Ito run through 1--WE editions IL
sufhcientiy unusual to attract special atren-
ton The work referred to is Eternal
Atonement," collection Of sermons oy the
late Rev Roswell d. Hitchcock, d. d. DIR.
Hitchcock was q native of East Machixs.
was formerly a Professor at Bovdoin Col
iege. and one of the most gifted and schol-
airy men of the century
The exceedingly sweet and some hat fem
mime face of Wilkie Collins. author of mo
Name. The Woman in White" and other
celebrated stories, forms the frontispiece TO
The Book Buyer for February He is de-
scribed a. "a genial, entertaining companion,
good taiker. and a man of methodical.
business-like habits. He 10 short and rather
stout with a strong, bold forehead, bright
blue eyes, and long beard"
An edition Of Gen. Lev Wallzce's ben
Hur' in raised letters for the blind has lust
been published. II forms half dozen thi *
octave volumes, and is one Of the very few
works of fiction thus published.
Miss Blanche Willis Howard, the young
Bangor High School girl who made so great
success with lone summer" is soon 70
publish her fourth novel, The Open Door.
the scene of which is laid in Germany where
Miss Howard now resides
The Importance Of a diary in establishing
a date is well shown by Mr.. Robert Waters
in his interesting book on Shakespeare,
noticed In our columns q few days since
Most Shakespeare scholars have contended,
from interval evidence alone, that Measure
for Measure must have been composed be-
tween 1909 and 1912. But a Mr.. Tynley
who was Master Of the Revels TO James the
First. kept diary giving an account of eI-
penses attending plays, etc, at Somerset
House. In 1904 he sets down: by His
Majesty's Players, on St. Stephens night.
in the Hall, a play called Measure for
Measure by Mr.. Shaxberd."
Mr.. Arlo Bstes-himself q Maine man
aud Bowdoin graduate-in his regular Boston
letter to The Book Buyer, gives a high
need Of praise to the personality Of the late
David Atwood WATSON, = volume of whose
posthumous essays is soon to be published.
Mr.. Wasson was born in Brooksviile in this
State, and was brother to Hon. Samuel
WATSON who vas quite prominent in agricul-
tural affairs in this State q score Of years
ago. Mr.. WATSON was one of the clearest
thinkers, most able writer's and true phlan-
thropists who ever lived. He was one of the
original transce entalists, the friend of
Emerson and Garrison. and by many regarded
as the formers superior. A volume of his
poems was published last year which must
surely grow in favor as the beauties of
"Orpheus," The Babes of God, and
"A Confession" become better known.
Indeed Wassonisn Society for
studying this poets works would
seem to be quite as useful as Browning
Society, and the depth, subtlety and force of
his style are certainly deserving this honor.
Mrs. Burnett writes from nine O'Clock in
the morning until one o'clock, and spends
her afternoons in recreation. She is now
engaged on new story to be published the
coming spring.
The Book Buyer reports an interview Of
young lady with the poet Whittier, who
asked him to tell her all about his poem
Maud Muller" He said to her that all the
characters in it were the 'baseless fabric
of a vision" On being asked how his ideas
came to him, he replied Thou knowest no
man can tell how or why he thinks" The
young lady confesses that Mr.. Whittier
could tell her nothing about the poem.
Many of the literary journals as well as
the press generally are giving currency to
the statement that the World published Max
O'Relfs new book on the United States,
Jonathan and His Continent" complete in
three and a half pages of its regular issue.
This is not correct, as we have a statement
from Mr. q. III Durham, manager Of the house
of Cassell & Co, New York, the publishers
of the book to the contrary. The World re-
printed par. of twenty-eight chapters, and
the whole work consists of forty -one chap
tiers. Moreover the book is copyrighted by
Cassell & Co, and nobody else can print it
in this country.