Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-11-03
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
HamIn Garland Receives Appreciatiye
Letter from Western Admirer.
Current Talk Of Books Present and Of rhoss IA
Come.

| Nothing. probably, pleases an autho,
more than expert appreciation wher
he writes of technical things. Mr.
| Hamlin Garland is doubtless charmed
with the spirit of letter he recent,
received from a Southwestern cat,,o
man about his book The Eagle
| Heart" its expression. for the writar,s
purpose. could not be improved upon,
| 1t is this:
| wish to congratulate you. Won:
story the Eagles Heart is shore all
right you never made miss throw
but landed squarly over the hornes
| every time. This praise don't como
from a tender foot but from a cattIa
| man who has been through it all and
| Is still in the business. When vour
papers are printed in book form I want
| copy to send to my COW Bows in
Arizona. Pleas tell me where 7 cap
get it and the prise. and if YOU eyer
come to this part of the country Iwan+
You visit my ranch l will give Won as
good a jerky stew as you ever got out
side of and a shore enough bed with
goose har piller ontoit.
Young authors have established
their rights in the publishers Offices.
ard nobody is now turned away be-.
cause he or she looks like d child who
ought to be rolling hoops A promi-
nent publisher the other day was seen
politely declining the manuscript of a
young girl who neither looked nor
owned 10 be seventeen. because us
tone vas considerably too sophisticated
for the magazine that he is conduct
iaS--not because it was not sufficient
ly we'll written for his purpose: in
deed. he afterward recalled one pas
sage which for its aptness of expires
sion he said he should have been glad
to have written himself. Several
authors who have recently gained
prominence We're successful at an
early age: Mr.. Richard Harding Davis.
Mr.. Booth Harrington, Mr. Winston
Churchill. Miss Ellen Glasgow and
Miss Runkle illustrate this fact
4 short story by Mary r. Wilkins.
The Scent Of the Roses" has been
made into 4 play Of one act and Two
scenes.
Just two weeks after its publication
10000 copies of Alice in Old Vim
cennes." Maurice Thompson's story Of
American life, had been sold. From
Canada came one order of 10000
copies, a very unusual order from shat
colony, where the sale of books is
necessarily limited. The publishers re-
port that they are sending out
steady average of $500 copies a day.
|
The radical difference between the
spirit OF Paganism and that of Chris
tianity has been often insisted upon.
as If the doctrines OF Christ had es
sentiaily changed human nature. but
Mr.. F. Marion Crawford is of those
who think that some of the virtues
and qualities which We are apt TO
consider the direct results of Christian
teachings, We're in reality developed
from a Pagan ideal. imperfect though
that may have been. He has brought
this out in a very interesting way in
his new book on Sicily, Calabria and
Malta which he calls The Rulers Of
the South" and which the Macmillan
Company have on the press for i'm
mediate publication.
According to the American Booknan
and the English Academy The
Reign Of Law" is the best selling nov
81 in both countries at the present
time. The Macmillan Company no"
has the Tooth thousand of this popu-
lar book on the press.
Mr.. Dooley dedicates his "Philoso-
ply" just appearing. to the Heh-
u,ssys If the world who suffer and
are silent" Most of the papers in the
present collection have appeared IN
lie press of American and LnSlaad.
in some cases they have been remo1-
ellcd. and care has been taken to
correct typographical errors. except
where they seemed to improve the
text Mr.. Dunno offers his profound
gratitude to the industrious typoEra-
pher. who often makes two jokes
grow where only one grew De!ore,
and has added generously to the dis
tress of amateur eIocutioniSts.
F,lbridge S. Brooks's STORY OF IN"
war With Spain" has been adopted
nv the Wisconsin State Library for the
n,iblic school libraries. while TINS au-
thOr's story of the Nineteenth Seh-
turv'' has been selected by TIL" boaro
Of Travelling Libraries for the state q
Michigan. The aforementioned volume
has been used more or less prominent
" by President Hyde of BoWdoin Col
Ieee in preparing "A Grammar Schooi
| Speaker" constructed with a view =
presenting such aspects of nature anc
human life as shall lead to the uncon-
scious development of character N
desirable directions. President hyde
in writing to Mr.. Brooks concerning
his selection says: Il have attempted
to give in these selections a TonSHHu-
| tlv.. presentation of the leading char
| acters and events in American hiS,o:S-
| 7 have read thousands of pages IN the
attempt TO find there men and events
condensed into such form az % y"
available for speaking. and have
found your writings far more avalia-
bic for this purpose than that OF any
! historical writer