Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-06-08
Books and Authors.

Soi"eoouy mas been looking up the
DOCK titles that have been taken from
shakespeare. and has brought to light
the rather remarkable fact that no less
'hah I-6 British and American novels
ana seven plays have drawn their titles
from the works of Shakespeare. The
hiSt use OF Shakespeare as title
maker. according to this authority, was
by Leigh Hunt. Today Mr.. Howelrs
leads with thirteen. Hamlet" exceeds
all other of Shakespeare's plays as a
source of inspiration, about one third
the list being drawn from that tragedy.
AS You Like 1t" comes next, followed
closely by Macbeth" and "Othel-
To- a generation hence some curious
individual may sum up the titles taken
from the Rubyiat in the same fashion,
as a good beginning has been made
with old Omar us Il title maker.
Mr.. Van Tassel Sutphen's exciting
novel The Cardinals Rose" published
here last autumn. has been recently
issued in England. and is now to be
translated into German. The work of
translation is being done by Herr Carl
iadleur. of Berlin. The Cardinals
Rose is now approaching it's ninth
edition.
One old Scotchman lives who re-
members meeting Sir Walter Scott now
and again as he walked over the North
Bridge In Edinburg: He always kept
his eyes on the ground and rarely
looked up. and the people just looked
at him with due respect and passed
along" One man lives who was patted
on the head in childhood by Charles
Lamb-and this is Canon Anger.
Madame Sarah Grand's lectures in
England during the past winter have
been attended with singular SUCCESS
Clever, accomplished and charming,
she talks brilliantly and lectures with
easy grace and finish. People who
have rushed to hear her in the hope
that her lectures would SAVIOR of the
problems in The Heavenly Twins
and "Babs the Impossible and who
expected to be mildly shocked, have
been disappointed. But they have been
agreeably surprised in other ways by
her sense of humor, which is the salt
of her speaking as well as her writing.
Recently she sent London audience
| into screams of laughter when she re-
| spOnded to the cry from Australia
Send us two thousand wives
In behalf of two thousand English
Benedicts. l reply, Take ours! Take
| ours
| The first edition of Winston
| ChurchilTs new novel, THE Crisis
which was of one hundred thousand
| copies, has already been exhausted, as
the Macmillan Company reports, and a
second is now being printed.
| Henry James has just delivered to
his publishers the completed manu-
| script of his latest novel, which is as
usual to be a minute and abstruse
| study of a contemporary social life.
| 1t may appear as a serial in Harper
Magazine prior to its publication in
| book form. co..
Maxwell Grey, in private life Miss
| NJ. G. Tuttiet, the author of THE
Silence of Dean Maitland and most
recently of a capital story WHICH APP
pears in Lippincotts Magazine for
June, writes from the English Rich
mond that it was written in that
beautiful town during the winter OF
1900. She says: The story was
thought out long before the Bocr wal
began, under the trees of Richmond
| Park, which does not in the least
| resemble the spot in the Isle of Wight
| in which the action takes place. The
most poignant of the experiences OF
| Marcia, however, fell to the lot OF
many and many an Englishwoman
during that tragic winter, and in this
respect at least, the story is reflec-
ton not only of real life but of VIVA,
has had recent vital illustration.
Miss Onoto Watanna is not quite un-
known to magazine and periodical
readers throughout the country, ana
although she is only twenty-five. she
is already the author of one book, en-
titled Miss Numa of Japan" which
has had a very large sale in the west
But the new book which Messrs. Har
per & Brothers have in preparation fol
the fall is claimed to be as fine ant
artistic piece of work as has yet beef
written about Japan. "A japanese
Nightingale is the dainty love stor!
Of a young American for beautl1u
: Fhalf-caste Japanese. and the PASSAGE
between the two afford the most dc
: licious comedy and heighten the poig
lnant pathos of the ensuing summer
day tragedy which leads to pilgrim
age of love that comes to happ!
close. As Opie Reid said of her forme
work. Miss Watannas art IS I'M
grace of the wild vine. under no oDii
sation to the gardener, but with
charm that the gardener could not I'M
part" Genjiro Veto, the Japahes
artist. is preparing several fuli-pas
pictures. and decorative borders Tor III
, pages, and everything is being oon
in the interest of the book to make
, most attractive and unique pro
duction.
Ingenious are the ways OF goo
Master Herbert Spencer! He has iii
! isbed his Autobiography. and mas
moreover. had it printed; but WIN
~ fearsome idea that If one firm diu III