Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-06-08

fashion with the proper management
Of flowers and the arrangement of
gardens.
a forthcoming book of humorous
sketches is Mr.. Hayden Carruth 5
Mr.. Milo Brush and Other Worthless:
Their Recollections" 1t Is to be pub
lished by the Harpers.
The report that many Of the most
emphatic passages IN the new historl-
cal play, "Eisenzahn Iron Tooth '-
are from the pen of the young Ger
man Emperor, lends interest to these
words put into the mouth Of the Flee
tor in the play: LET him that Is with
me. that can understand my mission,
that cares for his native land, and
wishes that our ships may fare across
the seas. our crops ripen, that the Ger
man name be honored high and soar
forth among the nations like an eagle
let him follow me! Brandenburg al
ways"
NJ. Bruneticrc. ii appears. refused to
publish NJ Tolstoi's new story. The
Awakening" in the Revue des Deux
Mondes." The ground Of his refusal
was unsuitability of subject. He held
that the exalted character Of thu CEN
trail idea could not atone for the selec-
ton Of SO offensive a theme.
A volume Of selections from the MSS.
of Lady Louisa Stuart, who was born
in 1863 and died in 1851. is coming from
the Harper press. The work ~ fun Of
picturesque notes on English society
and its most interesting members AZ
the end of the eighteenth century and
the beginning Of the nineteenth
1t is said that George Borrow once
wrote a story called The Life and Ad-
! ventures Of Joseph sen, the Great
Traveller" Here is a pleasant task
for the man who loves to search out
! forgotten things. Nobody knows
/ whether the story was printed in book
Of magazine, but If printed it is prob
| ably to be found somewhere.
I Mr.. g. f. Munkshood a young English
man, has just published 4 book on Rud-
| yard kiplius. the preface ri WHICH con-
| taiuS "a letter from Mr.. ktpIiuE himself,
| written when hc heard uf Mn Monks
/ hoods intention I'm serve him up III pI.nl
4 ling, Tim which living man tdn lii
/ from grace that. We're | You. I should %,
afraid to put 81 much enthusiasm inJu
! the ahdingness Of print until / WdS very
| think for Il moment that | dp nnt vdlu,
/ your enthusiasm, hut. considering things
/ from the point ~ view nj iho puhHr, tN
whom after all your book mus go. - lntre
enough tn them In anything thdt MI lNlp-
| ling has written to Justify one whole
| book about him.:
| writer's that have influenced nlpling are
! William Ernest Henley, James Thomson
! Bret Harte, Macaulay Dctoe. Dickens
! the cumpilers Of he Bible ANA RuiNa-d
! Kipling. William Ernest Henley 'snawc,
| him the way 20 promotion ana pay ana
! helped him to chant The English tla-
and a Song Of the English; Jane
I Thomson brought home to him thH awe
/ some things that exist in The CITY Of
Dreadful Night; Bret Hartc drew his at
| tention TO the literary picturesqucness ni
| VagahundS; MaCaulay flashed tho sparR
| that fired his genius for proper names
/ Dcfoe taught him the trick OF using mi
mute details ana exact tcrmiuulnCy Or gain
verisimitude; Dickens inspired him N
! sympathze with the lowIY. ANA to sce tn,
| humor that dwelis in small things, thC
| Complcrs Of the Bible gave him q larg,
share If his diCtion ana showed him The
/ value OF cunning simplicity. ami Rud-
yard Kiplng gave him his irony of tn,
undcrstatcment his ilashight powers
| his craftsmanship. his industry. inven-
ton, insight ana ability to make dream
come true and a lie seem something
| else
"zack," otherwise Miss Gwcndoler
pear in "Blackwood." Her short storie.
We're clever If pessimistic-it remains N
| he seen if she can conquer The more i'm
posing form of fiction.
The third international congress ~ pub
fishers opens in London week hence and