Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-01-19
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Winston Churchi|l's New Novel to Be
Published Soon.
, Pen Picture Of Maurice Thompson--A Novel
on Tammany.

winston Churchill's new book will be
.o,,e5 '.The Crisis" and will be issued
shortly by the Macmillan Company.
.pichard Carvel," ii seems, was writ
.on as the first of a series of novels,
,,hich. while unrelated in ''dramatis
,orsonae" and in no sense linked to-
esther as to story or plot. have q GER
,o;n historical sequence OF subject.
n .sThe Crisis Mr.. Churchill takes up
.bc story of Richard Carvers great
acknowledgement. by name Vir-
suia Carvel. living in St. Louis. The
who has emigrated TO that city to
make his living as lawyer. The
r,ay of the story is said to be between
Tho two antagonistic Northern and
Southern elements in the border states
~ Missouri and Illinois before the war.
7, shows Grant a poor farmer in st.
Iouis. Sherman running small
.treet car line and Lincoln n strug-
Cling lawyer in Springfield. H.. and
later gives the contrast of their posi-
,ons four years afterward.
That curious political octopus. Tam
many on which the eyes of all New
York. of half of America. indeed. are
,urned today, has attracted the atten-
tion of MIR. Robert Barr. the English.
or rather Scotch, author. Mr.. Barr has
inst finished a novel dealing with New
York political methods of government
md the operations of the Tiger" He
could not have chosen n more timely
theme. and as he is known to write
very rapidly it could almost be be-
neyed that he has whacked off this
romance on his typewriter since the
Fifteen and the Five came to the
front. Mr.. Barr. who has an un-
deniable grip on things American. has
specially equipped himself for dealing
with an intricate subject.
Maurice Thompson. the author of
"Alice of Old Vincennes," is i'll at his
home. Sherwood Place. in Crawfords-
Vile, Ind. A newspaper man tells Of
calling on Mr.. Thompson previous TO
his illness. He says Mr.. Thompson
greeted him as he does the world. with
a smile. and that his glasses caught
twinkle that is almost woodland re-
fracted it into thousand rays that
seemed to fill and cheer every corner
of the ROOM Mr.. Thompson. he says,
has changed but little in the past ten
wears. His hair has paid its tribute to
time but otherwise the accumulated
years have failed to set out their usual
sign posts He has the literary look.
though he neither wears long hair nor
a cloak. His fad is archery. physi-
cal, not an intellectual one. He is
sane. He is orthodox. He is whole
some His words. his works and the
books on his shelves proclaim it.
Preparations now on foot in Warsaw to
celebrate the tWenty-ffth literary ami
versary" of Henryk Sienkiewiez have far
outgrown the original plan. while a sub
scription started for the purpose OF pur-
chasing an estate for the novelist is in
creasng beyond the most Sanguine eX-
pectations. According to the New York
Times Saturday Review, an important
feature of the celebra ton is expected to
be the reception of a message from the
car of Russia. who is wcli-known as a
devoted reader of Senkiewiczs novels.
OF course the Pole will be expected to re-
ply, and many guesses are being made IN
Warsaw literary circles concerning the
language in which the reply will be made.
few years ago the novelist was elected
a member of the Academy OF st Peters
burg and it became incumbent on him
TO thank that stately body, which he did.
not like rebel. in Polish. nor again. like
a traitor to Poland's own cause. III rus
sian. but in auStere Latin, concerning
which no comment could be made. Ii Is
not unlikely that he may reply to the
cars message in the same language. II
would be a dignified solution of rathe:
delicate problem.