Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-08-10

'"e' ma" MURINE. ana we became good
friends. There was but a meagrc
monetary reward for struggling poets
in those days. and, while | was content
TO cultivate literature on n little oat-
meal. matrimony made it necessary
TO harness Pegasus and business To-
sether. and through Hawthorne's in
fiuence with his political patron
President Pierce, l obtained a position
as inspector of customs in the New
York custom house and retained II Il
years. During this time nv pen was
not ldle. ana | wrote a great deal for
me Round Table and Vanity Fair.
the most able humorous journals we
ever had. of which Charles c. Leland
was at one time editor and later
Artemus Ward. For ten years l was
literary editor of the New York
World. and have served the Mail and
Express in that capacity for 20 years"
Despite his lack of boyhood adj
Nantages the dean of American
poets" is wonderfully well read in
English poetry. particularly that of the
earlier periods. and as far back as
1860 edited an illustrated volume of the
Loves and Heroines of the Poets"
His latest prose work is an introduce
ton to de luxe edition of Morris
Life and Letters of Lord Byron" in
sixteen volumes now in course of pub
lea ton in this country.
Lorimer StOddard. the poets son. is
the dramatist who wrote those very
successful plays. Tess of the
'D'Urbervilles." Napoleon" and In
Sthe Palace of the King" and the poets
wife. Elizabeth Stoddard. is soon to
issue a new edition of her novels.
Another book play. and one that is
said to have all the marks of success
surrounding it. will be presented this
coming season. II. ID. Cirahame ar
ranged with the well-known Boston
publishers. Lee and Shepard. for the
exclusive rights TO dramatiZe the
widely-read novel. Uncle Terry by
Charles Clark Mum. William Gill.
the author of old Jed Prouty."
"Adonis," My Sweetheart" etc. has
dramatiZed the book. The title role
will be played by Mr.. James r. Waite.
one of the best delineators of down
east characters on the stage The
production will be complete in every
way. iV s'NliViy - DtlliS Duiil iiplIi
photo phs taken of the locations in
which the action of the story takes
plate and the stage reproductions
will be as true to nature as the scenic
artists art can make them. Uncle
Terry is a lighthouse keeper in Maine,
plain. homely. lovable man. whose
whole life interest is bound up and
devoted to little girl waif he picked
ur on the rock bound coast. The
characters in the book are all taken
FROM people who are alive today,
drawn true to nature. and that is the
reason the book is so popular.
Charles Majors next book. The
Bears of Blue River" is announced by
Doubleday, Page & co. for publication
this month. While it is n departure
from the work of When Knighthood
Was in Flower" the popularity of the
author will doubtless be fully sus-
tanned by his exciting tales of Indiana
in the early POS. 4. e. Frost and Mrs.
Mary Baker Baker have made many
illustrations from the striking scenes
with which the story abounds.
new novel may sell to the extent
of a hundred thousand copies. but the
author of that novel need not hatter
himself that he is breaking the rec
ord The sale of "Ben-Hur" goes
right on. The latest report from the
publishers states that nearly 10000
copies of General Wallaces novel have
been sold.
The author of She and King
Solomons Mines" is glad to vary the
occupation of novelist by the COM
position of a work in another field.
Mr.. Rider Haggard has already shown
his versatility-and divers other ad-
mirable qualities-in The Farmer
Year" a delightful book. Last year he
iourneyed through Palestine. Italy
and Cyprus. and the Longmans have
in press volume which he has made
out of his impressions. 1t will be
called "A Winter Pilgrimage" and VIII
be illustrated with thirty-one repro
auctions from photographs.
Vaughan keSter. the author OF Inc
Manager of the b. & A." the seventn
in Harpers & Bros "One-a month
contemporary American Movers
Series" was born in New Jersey not
quite thirty years ago. Il was taken
10 Ohio Mr.. Kester says, while
as still too young to register pro
test. and lived q comparatively blame
, less life there until | was eighteen.
! Their | went West to be cowboy. Dtit
I DIDN'T get along at all well with t!ie
! COWS. They seemed prejudiced against
| me COR some reason. The same Vas
/ true of the horses. 1t was after this
! failure that | decided l would Ivy
writing. and | did n little hewspaP"r
work in Cleveland. Ohio. Then l
went TO Florida and Virginia, wh1'e
! I lived for five years. Next l cam"
TO New York. wrote some short sto-
ries and managed to sell them-ahv
fool can write short stories. but only Il
man of real talent can dispose vi
them. After that l Joined the stan Oh
the Cosmopolitan Magazine. and served
q wear under the urbane Mr.. walker
Incidentally, | nave done a good deai
of newspaper and syndicate work dur
ing these years. but my most remark
able achievement so far seems 10 De
that I am my brothers brother Inc
reference is to Paul Kester, in collaD-
Grafton with whom Vaughan kestei
once wrote a play which is still seen II
the provinces Mr.. Kester the play
wright. although the author OF
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