Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-04-27

His Age" he has published sovor,,
books. including volume OF no.n,s
entitled "IIerOd." which appeared ton
years ago, though "A Kings Pawn"
now published in his fifty fourth wear
IS the first to prove SO popular i'm this
country.
Ihere are some interesting autobiO.
graphical notes in the preface which Mr.
.Ailen mas prepared for the new edition OF
one of ,.s best books "A Kentucky car.
dinal.' and its sequel. Aftermath" He
tells us about the Kentucky farm Ia
which he was taken as a child. There
; continued TO live" he says. until | was
| twenty-five years OF age. without ever
having been outside the state of Ken
lucky or having seen more than once or
twice any bur the nearest village" From
a window in the farmhouse he received
the first Impressions of the physical,
world that took shape and meaning in
his mind. and he says: Whatsoever I'M
] important habits of observation ! possess
We're there formed, directed and acquired
/ and if | have ever written anything con
corning nature which shows the slightest
/ years / have ever fingered over age.
/ vainly trying TO put the reality of eXter-
/ nal things as they seem to us and the re-
Atty of the emotions they arouse in us.
\ the origin of ii eli goes back to that time
and place. MOI one of Mr.. Aliens books
alone. but all of them have profted by
those early experiences. He describes his
father riding backward and forward
across the fields sowing hemp. II is plain
that the memory of that horseman count
ed when he came to write Tine Reign Of
Law" He continues:
What | have now GENE to and am try
ing To say is that everything ! was sent
to do. from the beginning 10 the end of
. al my small abors on the farm. brought
INDISPENSABLE knowledge. kept me close to
the earth. caused me to know more of the
infinite life out OF doors. I dropped corn
covered it. thnned il IAN abominable
business. however. working The boy 5
body as though he were pair of sugar
tongs). Sometimes | shuckcD IL in au-
tumn. threw the fodder over 10 the stock
III winter. took the corn to the mill In the
srring-and took my share of the bread
At all seasons.
He was never overworked. but We gain
or that tn. was little of the life of the
part. and that besides, he found pleas
ures out of doors which were no less in
structivc than his labors. Through work
and errand and pleasure" he observes, Il
was ever learning. one wou,u imagine
as mitch from great deal or ms writ
ing but never more swiftly than from
reading of "A Kentucky CARDINAL. which which
is a thoroughly charming composition.
full of vitality and with an original ma
vor. that is very taking. The new edition
is illustrated by man whose uraW V,,lsh
never fail to Yield delight. Mr.. Hush
Thomson. The work of that prolific ar
fist has hitherto seemed 50 closely ideh,
tined with English subjects tnat We wouiu
hardly expect to find American matetia'
adequately used in his hands. As ma.
~ az fact. his drawings are most fencit-
ouslv adapted to Mr.. Aliens tex. ihea
are good bits of drauSntsiians''ip, h au
they are really Illustrations in the pest
snnse Of the word.-New York Tribune r
cwando,ine Keats is the ''Zack'. who
writes The White Cottage. which the
Scribners are publishing. She writes unr
der n pen name because. as she says. 81
her natural Veneration for h'ne
which / felt belonged in literature to the
noet alone" She is a grandniece OF me
noet. and is n Devonshire woman; Siie
published her first story. -" iuder nm;
in November. 1896; IN bi i1 900 hoo.
II lie in life" appeared two years ago,
made up of q number OF snort STORIES ..ii'
had appeared in various Ensiish mag,
zines The next year her first long noveI,
.:On Trial" appeared. The White Cot
tage" is her second
Messrs. Doubleday, Page 4 Co an.
nounce a change OF title on the new NJ, ~.
bv Eden Philpott. now being pupnshed ~
,bat house. ne Good Red Earth: the
new title cabled by the author, VIII De
much more agreeable one 10 I'M vs.
Johnnie Fortnight taken from IN, ,ne
main character. an unctuous eX-pGuiaI.
preacher. and hypo;er,se; MI, adw of
wnrds' less Familiarity called .Alpheus
Sewf The Good Red Earth. as a
name. comes by way or q cnIt n;,t, ba rs
Ina ,,ie his story. for now no longer in Dart
moor We partake of the humor OF me rus
rio folk who live in the rich orcharu Janus
Of the red earth Of Devon here Is 'i,f
p pl valley with the village OF
Comnton and the historic Compton castie
of he iIlustrious Gilbert family. sara 20
have been freauented p 'h 5i
- The Queens court. This novel SO soIhe
F.! who have read 1t say. fulIS sustaiiHfs ne M
! name Mr. Philpott has maue VIII" MS
Children Of the Mist
The interest in Mrs. Humphrey Wara
Eleanor has been steady from the o ,h;.
| SET of it's publication put rece,i'aH ~, ne.
lnteres. $50 na' widespread. The demand for
The novel within the last week, inc pu &c
| ,;shers saw has occasioned seVerai Ia .
| ,o'nrjers some of which were lor
| renna comics 1t is curious to note
,hot three OF the best-selling ana mos mos,
| successful novels OF the seasoh 10 n
BY English women OF .Hpes :.The Master
their .., WORK nv Marie Corelu: then 'Elean-
~ nv Mrs. Humphrey Ward: ana NV NV
Madame Sarah Crane ,a n one of the
slp,e' oveis she has written, il not IN
deed the best.
r.o p,aver's Edition Of "Ben-Hur'
h.s inst been issued by Messrs I1aapr ~
has The publishers n decdeS 20 book
the PLAYERS n1 Value though by doing so
was not to publish the moo" OK
until a year a. - surprise many to learn
| the Messrs Eiaw x Erlanser, tne hann
of e naa Sfsn
in Din snne nine or ten years reSaIo,lis
iaee dramatizat ton of his greaht nu Iav was
fore Mr.. Young vi ttr"',ah ali that time
written. ard ,n na.,rsstentiy refused 10 give
the author nae 70 tho dramatizat ton, The
his is for ths o o&iSy
to the fact od th nossible without introduce
novel dm see@e the the figure of of
ns Needles Snsss to n aed 'Ss
was satisfactorily reno1-1.