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

Up 10 now Miss Marie CorelNs
Master Christian has held the record
Ter the largest first edition ever print
cd IN this country. But those fifty
thousand copies. it is sail. will pale to
inSign,iicance beside the first edition
Of The Helmet of Navarro which
the Century Company will publish i'm
mediately. The exact number of copies
IS not yet announced. but heavy ad-
vance orders and the extraordinary in
terest shown by the demand for the
magazine during the appearance of
Miss Isunklc's story have encouraged
the publishers to record breaking
venture. They are not taking serious
chances. however. for there is little
doubt that this first book from a young
hand will attract wide attention.
| Whether it is a mere matter of as
| s"ciation or not. the story certainly
!npresses one as having something of
tie sparkle and the charm of atmos-
phcre Of the pictures by Castaigne that
accompany it. There is much curiosity
eVincod concerning n young woman
Who has made her way to the front
with a bound. but like another con-
spicUously successful writer of histori-
, l<unkle shows no inclination to bask
in the public gaze. she is quite will
ing To have it known that she is the
daughter OF MIS-. L. q. Runl,le. a WELL
known New York journalist. and that
she has had homo training instead
OF the usual college career of
the American girl. She has
Travelled little. and-what seems in
been in France. The Helmet of Ma
varre' is her first effort at fiction
writing. but striking poem. The
Soul of the Sons of ESau.' appeared
over her name in Charles Dudley War
ner's Library of American Litera-
lure" some years ago. and is included
in Mr.. StaGman's American Anthol-
o%y." once or twice. too. in The Hell
met" she shows her skill in the forms
Of verse writing popular in France in
the sixteenth century.
The author of the Visits of Eliza
beth" E.linor Glyn. it appears. is none
other than Mrs. Elinor Glyn. lady
known in English society, and now
passing the winter in Egypt. Her
book has gone into its sixty-fifth thou
sand.
Why not have in every library
shelf Of refreshing; shelf to which,
when oppressed by the cares of life or
bruised by the jostling of the crowd.
we shall instinctively resort to loaf
and invite our souls? asks the New
York Times Literary supplement.
From it must be banished all books of
purpose, of problem. of too insistent
humanity. 1t must be filled with vol
unas at whose touch stone walls diS-
solve. that bear us by their magic.
straight to the great lap. the splrltuai
elbow room of Mother Nature: with
books of a tonic atmosphere that not
only rests tired hearts. but sends them
back stronger and Drawer for the IN
eyitable burdens and toll.
John Luther Long. author of the
Prince Of Illusion" which the century
Company published on April l.. Is
Young Philadelphia lawyer. VINO maue
his. 1fst literary success with Madame
J,,,f rf,yI,.s Edwin Asa Dix. author Oh
t57fs popular deacon Bradbury.
fa.Ssase new novel, "Old Bowens Leg
kacy. appeared on the same uay'
,is, xsffwyer by training, though not
| hv yfra ctice. The number OF LAWYERS
| oyssex- LAWYERS. on the Century ooih-
nanv's list of authors is noteworthy.
r,,,oca Everett Hale's rules for
,a2ding are we'll worth recalling 10
mind frequently. They are as
| Don't try to read everything.
paad two books on the same sub
icct ore solid and one for pleasure.
Don't read book for the sane "
saving you have read II.
| Review what you have READ.
Read with pencil in mana.
Use your blank book
Condense what you copy.
| Pead less and try to remenipei ''
Read regularly.
| o.,.o,, Johnson. whose recent novel,
Arrows of the Almighty" has aireaus
ocbieved marked success, Is the son -.
nohar+ Underwood Johnson. associa'e
a5i+or of the Century. He rs not se1
t,rantv-three years of age. lie ""S
od,,c,ted at the Lawrenceviiie " -
a,ool whore he founded the La"
knoxville Literary Magazine, anu q"
VIZ where he obtained the hish 20,
oIIaae honor in letters-the co'e'eu
oboirn,anship Of the Yale Lite,d,s
,Iar,zine of which the late "ii''''''
NJ Evarts was the first editor.
| novel Like
George Horizons new no,e' ,,,- the
.notbar Helen. just published ps ~
povon- Merrill Company, seeh'' -
t t,o@ 70 as great popularity as some o,
tine other no RI pnbleations recently issn nes
-" IA same house. Mr.. Horton mas
, had quite a varied career. Born -
New York state some forty years "e e.
he was taken when a smali opy ,sht
" tarm After going through ,.;'
:. @ramn,ar and high school course IN n -,
own town ne entered the University ~ o.
Michigan. from which he was gfau",
atad in 1878 with a separate dipio'i'a
for excellence in Greek and Latln. ~
1ses he was sent to Athens as co
bv President Cleveland: he s,,r;ne
/ in Greece five years and hail. ua -
=, .:.,o no made careful Stuuy