Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-09-01
BOOKS AND WRITER'S,
Some Golden Rules for the Preseva.
ton of Books.
Julian RaIph's Recent Literary Labors- Git,
to Author Of "Quo vadis."


to Author Of "Quo vadis."
MIR. Brander Matthews in his Book
binding Old and New" says in his expla-
ing: II shall follow two masters of the
hibliopegic art and Mr.. Joseph w
Zaehnsdorf" from whose work, The Art
of Bookbinding, the following, is copied:
would a damp atmosphere. The one de-
stroys as much as the other. The for
mer will affect the binding and the latter
from the influence of the fire. Never keep
any books near the ceiling where the
room is Illuminated by gas.
over ...e leaves. but turn them over from
the head. Catch each succeeding leaf up
nv the forelinger on the top corner as
near the fore edge as possible.
Never put cards or folded documents
into a book or it will break the back
Keen such things in portfolio.
4. Never read during meals. Crumbs
and grease are ruinous to books.
i Never turn Il corner down to keep a
place but put a piece of paper projecting
at the head as mark.
& Never push or pull book along the
table To avoid scratches put a book
down fiat and firmly, and take it up the
same way.
!. Never pull books out of the shelves
hv the headband. or suffer them to stand
long upon the fore edge. In doing the
former the back is apt to be pulled or
forced. by the latter the back gets out of
shape
s. Always open a book in a gentle man.
ner and with a reverent spirit, especially
such as are newly bound; and never con-
fine the leaves with the points of the
thumbs; in doing so it breaks the back.
Lay it upon a fiat surface, and open it
lightly. pressing upon the open leaves
and taking a few sheets at time; go
dom is obtained.
g. Always use paper knife or folder
to cut up the leaves of uncut books so
that the edges may be smooth and even.
10. Treat BOOKS gently, for they are
friends that never change. We benefit by
their advice, and they exact no confess
sions.
Life has worked out some facetous
book titles:
Bob, Son OF Battle BY Lord Rob
ITO Have and to Hold" BY Russell
THE Green Flag" BY Major Van
THE Voice of the Winds" BY W. j.
Who's Who?" By T. Roosevelt and 7.
U. Platt.
a Guide to the Trees" BY signor
Aguinaldo.
ne ACTION anu the Noiu' by HeH-
"A Dream, ana 4 Forgetting" BY
George Dewey.
Familiar Quotations" BY Chauncey
NJ. Depew.
The Monk ana the Dancer" My
Charles f. Parkhurst.
THE Open Door" BY William S. Dew
"Treasure Island" BY Richard Croker
"A Fools Paradise" BY Anthony
ComstoCk.
The three principal novels on the au-
W Va3i "Ei an rs Mr. ,' zangwils Nan
tie of Elijah and Mr.. Stockton's "a BIZ
cycle of Cathay."
Julian Ralph, who is now at his home
in kensington. West London, although
still suffering from the injuries received
in South Africa. is glorying in the fact
that his misfortunes give him plenty OF
engaged upon the collection of all his lat
ar war let.ers for second volume. which
will probably be called Scenes and Sto-
ries of War" He is also writing a novel,
which will deal with what women are
doing and can do in America; and, finally.
he has in preparation book for those
who wish to enter journalism, which WI.
Gently wrote to friend in New York:
Il am quite as proud of having received
VI. n.
ege as of anything that has ever hap
pened to me. The Civil War. which broke
up my fathers fortune, rendered 1t i'm
possible for me to go to college, and for
A college to grant me one of its honors Is
A delight, and would be a supreme one
were ! quite certain that lifetime devot-
I'd to the study of English and to con-
scientious work of a modest character en-
titled me to it.
Literature of London having once and
for all settled the fact that Miss Chol-
Red PottaSe- drew its title
from that phrase in the Scripture, And
Esau said to Jacob. Feed me. | pray thee,
with that same red pottage, proceeds to
Explain the motto, After the red pottage
the exceeding bitter cry which a., is not not
'Esau's lapse led to Jacobs Inheritance.
and it was when Esau heard the words
Of his father that the blessing had al
ready been. given to his younger brother,
that he cried with a great and exceeding
bitter cry. With these two facts nailed,
literature adds that, whether motto
actually exists in the form given it by
Miss Cholmondeley or not, is of no &C
count at all.
Capt. A. T. Mahan, the well-known au-
thor and naval expert, is Just putting the
finishing touches to his history of the
war in South Africa. which will be pub
lished in September by T. F. Collier &
Son. 1t will treat in comprehensive
and scholarly way the events from llt
beginning of hostilities to the fall of Pre-
toria. From a pictorial standpoint it VIII
be an edition de luxe. as 1t will contain
over 900 pictures. many of them equal IN
size to a page of Golfers Weekly.
According to a prediction of The Amer
lean Bookman, made with reference to
THE Reign of Law now that the his
torical novel has run its course for the
time being, the next two or three years
will witness the vogue of the religious
novel" Mr. Goss's redemption of Da-
vid CorsOn." Mr.. Aliens Reign of Law.
Mr.. Baskets las the Light Led, Mr..
Dix's Deacon Bradbury" and Mr.. Wick
arsham's "Enoch Willoughby, are a
rather formidable list for single sea-
son.
Throughout Poland next November GER
emonies will be held in honor of the au-
thor of "Quo Nadis.' In Warsaw the
fete will be marked by the presence OF
the novelist himself Subscriptions are
now being collected for the presentation
Of a Jubilee gift to Henryk Sienklewlcz
II is sanguinely expected that sufficient
money will be subscribed to purchase
estate for THE darling of the
Polish Nation" on Polish soil. ApropoS
of QUO Nadis.' the increased sale OF the
French translation of that work In Paris
can only be accounted for on the ground
that it is reflective. The novel hrSt up
Al in, / a