Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-09-29

! narhans i'm New York The CoDenharcY
| Museum is To be their ultimate home All
| Of the large drawings in the book are en- !
| graved on wood. new translation will
| accompany the pictures, and Edmund
| Gosse mas written an Introduction for the
| book and the Princess Of Wales has aC-
| ccDtpd the dedication. Editions will he
| Issued in Norway. Germany France. Eng.
| land, aud America. In this country the
Century Company are to be its publish
SRI.
An anonymous writer IN the Academy
! dcplores the fact that writer's have no
! time TO read. says the New York Even
| ing Post. With few exceptions this has
Of authorship greatly eXaggerate the
evil 1t is doubtful if many of us are
really ''entanglcd' in the books We read
| today.
N believe" ne SAYS. that the great
readers have mostly been found outside
! the rank and file Of writer's, and enjoy
| ing much leisure Montague had wealth
and the stone, Johnson had his pension
Southey his salary. Lamb his India
house. Fitz Gerald his cottage ana boat,
Amiel his professorship and his temporal
mcut. These are the great browsing
readers whose names occur to one soon
est. What reading by a literary man OF
today IS comparable to theirs in depth
and width and rumindtive zeal. Perhaps
some OF them were gluttons and their in
duStry and idlencSs in disguise. But one
must take examples. To read Of their
itdUllG Is GENEROUS pam. SAYS MOI
taigne: Those that lived about Nirgirs
time complained that some would com
pare Lucretius unto him. ! am Of the
opinion that verify il is an unequal com
Dari-on; Vet can | hardly assure myself
in this opinion whatsoever / lind myself
entaugled in some notable passage Of Lu-
cretius. Says Amiel, on day in his
dairy: IL have been reading for six or
seven hours without stopping, the Pen
seSS of Joubert. Yet Amiel had AIS
classes and lectures in the University at
Geneva. Again, I have been living for
two hours with a noble soul-with Eu
genie De Guerin. How many thoughts,
feelings, griefs, in her journal of six
years How it makes one dream, think.
live
The writer evidently feels that in this
age Of hurry the helluo liborum is as eX
tinct as the mastodon. This is perhar's
true Of the old disCursive and perfectly
disinterested reader; but it is probable
that hundreds Of men in academic posi-
lions are deVOuring good books at a rate
that would give even Lamb or Amiel
pause. And if there Is, under present con-
ditions. some resulting dyspepsia. this
heroic abuse Of the digestive processes
may finally strengthen them to the need
The slump in the quoted prices Of Mr.
Kipling's early editions continues. A year
ago copy Of 'Schuolboy Lyrics QS>N
sold at 500. \ short time ago copy OF
the same thing brought only $50 in Lon
don. The series Of the United Services
College Chronicle, TO which Mr.. kipling
contributed. has within the same time de-
clined from sl45 to $50.
Thomas Y. Crowen & Co. announce for
plete edition Of Balzac's Human Com
edy,' printed from new plates, finely il
Illustrated. with intrOduCtionS by Prof W.
+. Trent of Columbia University.
The picture Of the battle Of Gettysburg
in Mr.. AltSheer's romance Of the Civil
War, In Circling Camps, has been de
scribed as the strongest description ~
that great conflict which has been written
by novelist.
Jack London is not a pseudonym, a.
many suppose. but the real name n the
ton Of Indian tales published by HouSh-
ton, Miffiin x co. He is the son of 1t trap
per and frontiersman. and is now only
twenty-tour years old. He has seen
good deal Of the world. aS d sailor ana a5
an arctic explorer. but has now settled
down in san Francisco 10 devote the rest
of his days t. literature. His first sto-
ries appeared in the Overland Monthly.
lately hc has been 4 frequent contributor
To the Atlantic Monthly and Mcclure
Magazine.
William Stoam- Davis'y ia Friend NJ
Caesar is being dramatiZed ana Will
| probably appear on the boards in New
York this winter.
The appearance 0f the new volume vi
stories by Edith Wharton promised by
| the Scribners has been postponed. Mrs.
Wharton Is so cnGroSsed with her new
! long nOvel-to be called The Valley Of
Decision that She ha, not been able 70
provide the short stories. Her present
work will deal with court and country
| life in Northern Italy in the eighteenth
century.
October and November are the great
publishing months. Almost as many
books appear then as in the remaining 10
| months Of the Year
Seumas MacManus has just finished a
series of Donegal fairy tales which will
be published shortly by Mcclure. Phil
lips & 60. Mr.. McManu- does most Of
his literary work in his home in Mt.
Charles, right in the midst Of the scenes
which he describes in his stories and
where he can easily gather his material
Most of the fairy tales in the fOrthCOm-
ing volume were related 70 MacManus by
an old tailor, John Burns, who lived in
a small cottage under the shadow of the
mount which gives the place its name
Burns claimed personal acquaintance
with the fairies and said that ne often
saw them dancing among the bushes on
the hillside. MacManus, then little boy,
listened to these wonder tales with cred
ulouS admiration, and wandered over the
hills looking for the fairies himself. II
he did not iind what he sought he found
have read the stories believe that he also
found the fairies. The tales are illus
trated by forty drawings w Gustaye Yer
beck.
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