Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-05-18

.,on' several years ago, and whose
Diaiy of Freshman" has inst heer
puphshed by Doubleday, Page & ca
mas not at all the sort OF personality
one gathers from his work, nor. indeed.
from the extremely conventional
monographs that have been published.
ne Is, nrst. and last, lover OF an
'hhais ard of outdoor life.-the more
ANIMALS and the wilder the life the
happier ne. After his graduation from
h"rVafd MIR. Flandrau was for some
tlihe instructor in English both in the
University and at Radcliffe, but for
several years now he has made his
nom" in the West. A certain ranch
III Dakota has claimed him for two or
three summers. and for one season Of
glorious memory he had charge OF a
surveying expedition during the max
ing of new road over the mountains
of Wyoming into Yellowstone Park.
There he worked hard loading and un-
loading wagons. living the primitive
life the impossible pure forests neces-
STATED. and hugely enjoying it ALL
MIR. Flandrau is not q hunter in the
sense of one who kills. He prefers to
sit on log or crouch behind a bush
and watch the animals at play uncon-
scious of an enemy. Harvard Ep-
isOdes" was sharply attacked. to quote
his own words. by older graduates.
(who had been too long out of college
to appreciate the changes the social
system had undergone) and also by
some of the undergraduates them
selves--who. of course. are always
hi Ia
perspective and impersonality. Col
lese men almost always demand ro-
nance. a little romance and much
truth However opinions may differ
concerning the successful rendering of
college life in Mr.. Flandrau's first
book, the verify of his "Freshman's
Diary" a more vivacious piece OF
writing, is urquestionable, much of it
having been taken from the authors
actual records.
\ year ago a novel of unusual liter
airy quality was published in London
entitled Charlotte Layland." and just
ut the time it was being most talked
about a well-known society lady fam
cied that she was being caricatured in
it, and had an injunction served upon
me WHO nae ~ fettll
the copies on which he could lay his
hands. To save himself the publisher
then turned upon the author and
brought an action against him to re-
cover the cost of withdrawing the book
from publication. About the same time
another case was up in which prom
inent novelist was threatened with
divers pains and penalties simply be-
cause he noticed laughable pecul-
iarity in the personal appearance of
well-knoWn man, and unconsciously
tackled it on to the villain of his story.
helm himself ana had to pay the piper.
These instances show what pitfalls be
set the paths of even the most
seasoned writers.
No gold prospecting miner in Alaska
has unearthed a greater treasure than
has Jack London in that same rugged
country: to both it has indeed been
the land at the rainbOwS end. Mr..
London has found among the hardy
miners and trapperS a life full OF OAR
ing, unfettered action and intense hu-
mainly In 1.-The God of His Fathers.
published by Mcclure. Phillips 4 Co.
he tells; the story of mixed people.
gathered frOn-nO one knows where
with a history-nO one ever asks. lie
has lived with them and knows their
trials. their perils, their ambitions in
their terrible struggle for fortune.