Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-02-02

Mr.. Kipling has produced satire
which he calls Railway Reform in
Great Britain" He has put it into the
form of story, and will publish il in
The Fortnightly Review.
Miss Nora Hopper. the author of
many truly beautiful and pathetic
mems. is about TO be married to w. II.
Chesson. an English novelist. She is
the daughter of an Irish father ami
Welsh mother.
Winston Churchill. domestic. and
Winston Churchill imported. afford
singular instance of literary doubles.
but it is not the only duplication in the
international world of letters. The
New York Saturday Times Review
records. with explanatory comment.
not unnatural confusion of TWO
familiar names. Says the Times: The
appearance in the January Scribner Of
poem entitled A Prayer of Old Age.
by Robert Bridges, has caused several
London literary photographers to repro
Guce some of the verses. and to give its
author no mean praise for his graceful
and sympathetic lines. This is all
right. The poem is worthy of ell the
praise that ii has thus received. n
fortunately, however. the LONDON
critics by scraps of internal evidence
show that they are mistaken as to the
identity of the author. The poem was
not written, as they imagine, by DIR.
Robert Bridges. the well-known Eng
lish poet and esSayist, but by Air.
Robert Bridges. assistant editor Of
Scribner's Magazine, a gentleman who
is best known to a large American
leading public by the pseudonym Of
'Droch,' under which he contributed
literary articles to Life during several
years. Droch' is also the author OF
Overhead in Already and Suppressed
Chapters besides occasional verse. He
received his masters degree al Prince
ton in 1882. The English Robert
Bridges is nearly fifteen years his
senior. and q fellow of oxford on the
honorary list. He studied medicine at
ST. Bartholomew. and after filling
several posts in London hospitals. re
tired from active work in his profession
iE the very year that the American
Robert Bridges was made NJ. A. at
Princeton. The former is the author OF
various plays, poems and essays. and is
the manipulation of a cultured and
erudite style. Possibly his best-knoWn
publications are his essays on Milton
and Keats. The Growth of Love.
'Prometneus. the FireSiver,' Eros and
Psyche. and series of plays with
ancient Greek and Latin background.
Early in February the ScribnerS Will
bring out a new volume by Professor
Brander Matthews. THE Historical
Novel and Other Essays" At about
the same time will appear a new
edition of his French Dramatists of
the Nnteenth Century" This was
fist published in 1881: q second
edition, with some additions. appeared
IN 1891 and for this new reissue Pro
fessor Matthews has added some
further chapters on the men who lave
recently made q mark in the French
drama, especially Edmond ROsta nd.
There will also be a summing up of The
results Of the century in this field of
work
General Charles King, better known
10 the reading public under his title OF
captain. has written another war story
emDodying some important historical
events of the Civil War. 1t is entitled
Norman Holt: A Story of the Army
ol the Cumberland" and the G.. w.
ullingham Company will soon publish
~ The great battle of Missionary
Ridge forms one of the most important
episodes in the narrative.
Inc strong dramatic clements of
'haries Frederic Goss's mid-cent!ry
"o'el. The Redemption of David Cor
son. have appealed to Miss Julia Mar
,o"e so insistently. il seems. that she
mas secured the dramatic rights to the
'ook The Bowen Merrill Company
"'ay view with some complacency her
junction with two of their great
''efafy successes. for Miss NARROW is
ny" IN the full feather of her triumph
a., Mary Tudor in When Knighthood
vas IN Flower" So great is her vogue
!" 'hat play. indeed that Miss MarloWe
mas no thought of any early production
" the newly secured drama: but she
r.'iares herself so impressed by the
strong possibilities in The Redemption
David Corson" for beautiful and
Unusual play that size could not let the
opportunity slip ov
ioiessor Charles G.. d. Robel Is
.r moSe story of almost primeval things
an. e heaft Of the Ancient Wood" was
'iCtly one of The litarorr arhinyr-