Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-11-17

~ = W America" which is soon
NM to come from the Serb
t>>N>tC ners press, has de-
4 y M ~ | veloped along large,
= $50 = = lines than the author
--' AI;RETr wendell l. S
contemplated in first planning it. 1t
Is To be as truly history of the liter
AIRY movement OF Il nation as Bon
netiere'S Literary History of France. -
IN the first book. which deals with the
seventeenth century. Professor Wen
dell not only considers what was writ
ten IN America during that period,
put goes further back and traces the
causes of inspiration in the politics,
religion and literature of the mother
country. This double thread of dis
course and criticism is continued by
the author down to the time of the
American Revolution, when the begin
dependent endeavor first had birth.
From that time down To the present
day the author carefully shows the
exact state of society and intellectual,
conditions which successfully found
expression, first through the writer's
OF the knickerbocker school, then
through those of New England, and
finally by the New York renaissance
and the birth of Il national yet inter-
state literature
That is a remarkable but not i'm
practicable innovation attempted by
Miss Jeanette l.. Glider in the dra ma
tia ton of popular novels. Miss Glider
it will he remembered. made an ex-
S.f,, u ;.,,,
of Quo Nadis'' last year. and has had
some training in playwriting. Now she
ventures to extract the meat OF two
novels for one drama, and makes
from Ralph Connor's Sky Pilot" and
BLACK Rock a play she boldly calls
The Sky Pilot of Black Rock The
work of Ralph Common. who in every
day life is Rev. Charles Gordon. Il
Canadian clergyman. is unforgettable
Tor its powerful presentation of Il
dramatic side of life. and its moral
import is unacceptable though never OBJ
trusive. Miss Glider. in speaking of
the book the other day. said. Il be-
lieve that from these books as great
and typically American a play as
The Old Homestead can be con-
Structed." The scene is partly laid in
a lumber camp and the sky pilot is IA
clergyman who goes out among the
lumbermen and breaches the gospel.
Miss Josephine Dodge Daskam. who
published last spring a volume of
| Smith College Stories is now bring
ing out q new volume of stories
! through the Scribner's called Sis
ter's Vocation and Other Girls StOr-
les Only one of them deals with
girls college life. Miss Daskam is a
Smith College graduate of the class of
| '9S. who has made a number of con-
| tributions in prose and verse to the
| magazines within the last year or two.
| Mr.. Dooley is out with new book.
Mr.. Dooley's Philosophy which is
i illustrated with a portrait of the phi
| losophcr by no less an artist than Mr..
| William Nicholson. and drawings by
Messrs. T. w. Kemble and +. Opper.
! Mr.. DooleyS wisdom is sound. says the
Boston Transcript. What is simpler,
| for instance. than his plan of prevent
| ing the Bocr war:
IF l was Kruger there'd We been no
war
| w nat Wuu We nave uoHt WI
| HennesSy asked.
I'd give thin tn votes" said Mr.
DooIey. But" he added. significant
ly, I'd do the counting
Again, with what appreciation We
mark such bits of epigrammatic clev-
erness as these:
~ fanatic is a man that does what
he thinks TIL Lord wud do if He knew
the facts iv TIL case.
Ills no job to find out who wrote
an anonymous letter. JUS look out ~
TIL window whin We git it. 'Tis hard
er to do evil thin good be stealth.
"An tn wurruld loves lover-eX'
cipt sometimes tn wan that's all the
wurruld to him.