Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-11-12
Notes Of Literary Interest.

A noteworthy feature of the December
Atlantic will be q paper on Shakespeare 3
Richard III. by Mr.. Lowell, 1t being the
address Which he gave at Chiesgo some
four years ago. and which has never be
fore been printed.
Hezekiah Butterworth. the popular
editor OF the Youths Companion, fur
nishes in his new volume, 1.-The Christ.
mas Book delightful collection of
stories and poems and articles descrip.
tive of the Christmas festival.
DR. w. E. Grifiis, the accomplished
Oriental scholar, and one Of BOston's
fayorite pulpit orators, is the editor Of
| the splendid four volume library edition
Of the Arabian Nights Entertainments ;,
which d. LothrOp Company have Just
published.
d. LothrOp Company have just pub
| lished The New WomanhoOd" by J. c.
Fernald. Marion Harland. than whom
| none is more versed in woman's needs
and capabilities, supplies characters
tic and practical introduction to Mr..
Fernald's study Of woman's opportuni
ties, 1.-The New Womanhood
Professor Norton has collected from
| Tic WIitiuks VI OdUics nus
| sell Lowell a volume which will be pub
lished shortly under the title --latest
Literary Essays and Addresses" 1t Will
contain papers on GRAY. Lander, Walton,
Milton. Shakespeare's Richard ILL.,, and
some others, and is to be published by
Houghton Mitflin Il Co., Boston.
The "Children of Wilton Chase" is by
c. T. Meade, and this is enough for any
English reading children to know Mrs.
Meade is the author of sPolly. an New
Fashioned Girl which has been one f
the most successful girls stories of a
generation 1.-The Children Of Wilton
Chase" is quite equal to Polly" and is
published by the same firm. the Cassell
Publishing Company. New York.
The November number Of the Annals
of the American Academy of Political
and Social Science is peculiarly interest
log on account Of the number Of articles
it contains which discuss new ideas
about American politics. Gamaliel Brad.
ford Is the author Of the first article,
which is entitled Congress and the
Cabinet" and which advocates permit
ting cabinet officers to appear In Con-
gress to give advice and answer ques-
tons.
Wide Awake for 1892 will contain a
very interesting grou1 Of articles by
Harvard graduates, representative OF
famous literary names. John Mead
Howells, son OF W D. Howells, and
Robert Beverly iIale, son of Edward
Everett Hale. will be the first TO con.
tribute Howells story, ''Such Stuff IS
Dreams are made of" will appear in
the Christmas lDecember) Wide Awake
which opens the new volume. y. 10th
rop Company, Boston
The late Herman Melville. commonly
known as Melville of Marquesas, was
parsonage as prominent thirty years ago
as Bret Harte became ten or fifteen years
ago, but he had outived his contempt
rary fame, and his death within the past
month has heen almost unnoticed Yet
history is likely to give him place
among Americas principal poets. The
best accessible sketch of his life and
poetry accompanied by portrait, will
be found in the November number Of the
Review OF Reviews, New York.
Students of Hawthorne were perhaps
not aware that his college classrnate and
lifelong friend HOratiu Bridge is still
living. He is native of Augusta,
Maine, writes his name with "U. S. NJ"
after it, and will contribute to Harpers
next year his personal "reminiscences of
his famous friend Hawthorne dedicated
his "Snow Image volume to Bridge in
preface which contains the following
"If anybody is responsible for my being
al this day an author it is yourself. I
know not whence your faith came; but,
while we were lads tog' ther at a country
college gathering blueberries in study
hours. under those tall academic pines;
or atching the great fogs as they tum
bled along the current Of the
Androscoggin; or shooting pigeons
and gray squirrels in the woods; or
bat fowling in the summer twilight; or
cstching trout in that shadOwy little
stream, which, suppose, is still flowing
riverward through the forest-though
you and l will never cast line In 1t
sgain-two idle lads. in short, (as we
need not fear to acknowledge now,
doing hundred things that the Faculty
never beard of, or else it had been the
worst for us-still it was your prognas
tic of your friends destiny that he was
TO he a writer of fiction"