Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-02-09

these authors. these Volumes b.,..
proved that each has often yaptnra5
successfully into the style of The
othcr.
More garden literature" The Mac
n''ians are shortly to publish The
Earceh OF Commuters Wifo-Re-
corded by the Gardener" This Curl
puSlN Titled work. however, is said ~
De an anonymous novel. the gardener
nelng the daughter of a New England
country physician. She marries n
young EnSlishman and settles IL
Somerset in an old family mansion
situated in the centre of a tangled rar-
den. The publishers vow thar il
promises something fresh and charm
ing in the way of fiction.
Mrs. Hugh Fraser VINO is a slsfcr az
MARION CRAWFORD has already published
one novel, we believe, but is better
known by the two volumes of her really
delightful letters from Japan writtnn
while her husband WIS serving ms Rrit-
lSh minister to that country. Rovond
thelr grace Of Styl" and the interest lent
them by her intimate glimuSes al lfe III
an embassy. The letters We're marked TX.
a strong personal interest in life as w,
al must live ii, and out of high places
rms IS capital equipment for Il novelist
anu Pheasant anticipation is Weakened ht-
the news that Mrs. Fraser has completed
i story of conditions very far removed
rom nose surrounding diplomats wife
III the East. Her novel. whose title is an
nodnced as ~ Little GRAY sheen" is
study of social types in DevonShire and
the Thames valley. Lippincutt is to he
me publisher on this side.
Mr.. IIowcll's sighting opinion or
ihackeraNs work is less thorough-goin,
than Rhskin's; In 81 Lately published fac
simile nj Avebury's famous list of the
Best Hundred Books as scrawlcd over
and hlotted by Kuskin We find thai
Thackeray was crossed off altogether
WIN him went George Eliot. Kingsley
and Bulwer Lytton. leaving the field to
Dickens and Scott. Against the last
name Ruskin wrote Every word.
Creighton, Bishop of London. was asked
once if he approved Of men writing their
own eptapls. That depends answered
the historian and then he added: II only
want tins over ne:
He tried 10 write true history"
His advice To young historian was
Suppress nothing. and don't generaIizc
or form yOur theories until You have !
good grasp of all your factS''
Mr.. Graham Balfour's Forthcoming life
Of 4. L.. Stevenson will contain. it is said
Il valuable fragment of autobiograD hv
found after SteVenson'S death among his
papers. Mr.. Balfour has also M his dis
posal unpublished manuscripts and lei
tiers. diaries of travel. ana "reminiscences
contributed hy friends.
An American complains in The Satur-
day Review" That Mrs. Humphrey Ward
displays now and again in Eleanor a
lack of sensitivcness To internati onaI diff
ferences of speech that is curious in a
keen observer.
',fhe sIb-heroine of the tale is a raw
girl from Vermont. without the palcst
tinSe of cosmopo!:t,Ism. out the lam
suage she speaks was never heard in
Vermont. 1t * not the custom in that or
IN amy other State of the Union to tie
down the jam. or to speak of ones dress
as my poor frock.' or 10 say 4 am per
fectlN right. or Uncle Ben gave ii to
me. Here and there Mrs. Ward makes
the usual conscientious literary effort
after locally testing the resources of the
an Engllshman can and usually does say
He gave it me. while his American
cousin cannot, but says invariably to
me.
Mr.. Henry James, though he is By no
means infallible. is sufficiently oXpatr-
ated to avoid putting too subtle Ameri-
canlsmS into the mouths of his English
men. who by dint of his elaborate eau
ton in this respect are often Colored BY
throwing i'm an ! guess or a just When
we are to be reminded that Lucy speaks
Vermontest the result is more amusing
than convincing in such a sentence as T
guess they Will have sent it YOU
where the first two words are the only
ones that could have proceeded i'm pre-
csely that order from the well Of Amer
lean undcliled."