Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-13

piete Robert Louis Stevenson's unfinished
/ novel, .SE IVES lie declined ana tR
task was given to A. T. Quiller-colch
or @. as he is better known.
Madame Sarah Grand has recently re-
| turned to England from the Continent
bringing with her the manuscript OF her
new novei-just completed. Ii will be
given TO the publishers at once.
1t Is announced that the uth0rized sto-
~ of Queen Victoria's reign viii not APP
pear this month. but in October. unex-
pected delays occurred in compiling the
work, which made the postponement nee
essary.
Edward Bellamy's Equality" was pub
lished simultaneously in the United
States, Great Britain. France. Germany.
/ switzerland, Belgium, Spain and Italy.
| II is doubtful if any other work of fiction
has been similarly honored.
! An Iona cross of Cornish granite. =
| feet high. has been erected on the sum
! mt OF treShwater Down, on the south
coast Of England. in memory of the late
/ Poet Laureate. Lord Tennyson. Ii will
! be called the Tennyson Beacon.
| The Water of the Wondrous Isles"
new romance by the late William Morris.
! mas Just appeared abroad Like many
/ OF this writer's other works ii is distin-
guished by its elaborate makeup The
binding is of limp vellum with silk ties
William lie Queux has completed a new
story entitled "A Madonna of the Music
Halls The scenes are laid in the art
circle OF Florence, in the village of Brozz
notable for its w-piaitins indusuy,d.
IN Parls, and in the London variety
lhcdtfes.
In the August "Scribner's" Kenneth
Grahame reveals new bit of the golden
age OF childhood in Its Walls Were as
OF Jasper"-an imaginative boys story Of
the pictures in an old volume. Maxield
Parrish has made q series of pictures
that exactly carry out the boys IDEAS.
NJ Damascene Morgand of Paris. has
Tor sale II list of books which 1t has taken
more than fifty years to gather IL in
cluties 3iJ4 titles, of which f1SI are Elze-
Virs. The remainder are volumes printed
by other famous Dutch craftsmen. Col.
lectors the world over will be interested
i'm this sale.
The MS of Lord Nelson's "Autobiogra-
ply recently sold at auction in London {
Tor S5UH. AT the same sale the original
autograph manuscript of the Lady 81
the Lake" brought $3.50: that of "Old
Mortality, which at the Cadet sale
1857 slse5
Criticism of fiction on this and on the
other side of the Atlantic obeys different
standards. stephen Cranes new novel
The Third Violet" 1t seems. has been
pi.lsSu ny utmost every reviewer III Eh5-
land and dismissed as either bad or uniI-
portant by almost every reviewer In THIS
country. Is this, asks the Chap Book
an attempt on the part of London critics
to bolster up their claim of having dis
covered The Rel Badge of Couragey
a curious novel. "LEpee Brfsee" from
the pen of VI. Henri Desplaces. has JUST
made IT'S appearance in France. IL .
based upon facts in the alleged treason
and subsequent punishment of Captain
Dreyfus. the French officer accused o.
having sold military secrets. who Is nov
eXpatng his crime by an Imprisonment
worse than death. The book is remark
ably true 10 lfe--so much so that tne
French military authorities are wonder
ing where the details can have been oO
tanned.
w. l.. Alden tells how he writes In Inc
New Illustrated Magazine" l do hos
work with any great regularity. he says.
FOR great part of my time is spent j., -
cleaning my bicycle. However, nsusny
manage to do at least an hours wors
daily on the type-writing machine. nv Ma
my usual rate of speed is about -
words an hour. If ! am driven ! Gan
write about 5000 words an hour. | SELDOM
do more than 1000 words in a day. Tor
the time i have written, say 1900 VOTE, VOTE,
the machine refuses to spell ireliiglpy'
and persists in writing about one worn ="
four backwards.