Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-04-06
Books and Authors.

| Inc spring publishing season. though
! not Yet IN full swing, is Enthusiastically
| started on its course. New books dow
| Ste2dliE from the presses, in stream
| Whlch VIII presently reach consider
| aple volume. TO judge from the an
| ituuHcements. says the New York
| tribune. Fiction. Of course. looms
large IN those announcements. but so
! much or 1t promises To be worth read
ing tnat one need not deplnre it's pre-
| dominance. Furtht rlnore. the reader
| whose taste for romance is little
| cioyed need not fear that he will lind
holhinS else in the flood of new books
! IN" hSts this year are uncommonly
| iich IN miscellaneous works. in bio
Graphy. travel, history and science.
Garden books, by the way. flourish
WITH the luNuriancc Of thc places they
describe. All the serious books ar
more than welcome. 1t is cheering to
| see that the old notion OF "suin,1er
reading being something entirely
TRIVIAL and lazy is passing away. Fic-
ton is no doubt Indispensable for the
hours spent in hammocks ana in
Neronda chairs, but even in summer
Evenings in the hot months are mostly
to De spent out of doors. but the
weather is not always too hot for the
lamp to be lighted ana for a couple of
hours solid reading to be put in as a
kind of balance TO the frivolitics OF,
say, July and August.
Ana now Laurence fIousman OK
piiCitly denies that lie wrote AN
IInglshwoman's Love Letters" NO
| body who knows his work could pc
lieve that he had n hand in them.
There are intimations, by the way
| that these letters have had their little
Gay ana are on the way to oblivion.
There are fcH- autographs Of George
Sand in e..s. ,nCe--so few that il is
said that one - her autograph letters
is worth moIc now than the amount
originally ree,:, "a by her for several
of her most popular works.
The books .,.ct have most innu-
| enced the cent? ). has been them"
Of prolific disc ,aoion. The following
are the works accepted by some critics
as belonging to this category: Oar
| wins The Origin of Species" Lyclra
Principles of Geology" lelmholtz';
''Tonempfundungcn. Froebers "Edu-
cation Of Man" Euskin's Modern
Painters Maines Ancient Law"
| Hegels Logic. Clothes Faust"
Guyots Democracy" stoves Uncle
Toms Cabin" Strauss Life of
Jesus" Remains Life OF Jesus" Earl
Marks "Kapitol Minis political
| Economy" Herbert Spencer's syn
I e.,
In Memoriam.
Thomas Hardy. the novelist. is
quoted by The Pail Mall Magazine as
saying that he has no sympathy witt.
the criticism which would treat ing
| lish as a dead ianguage-"a thing
crystalized ct an arbitrarily selected
stage of its existence ard hidden to
/ forget that it has 4 past ana deny that
| it has q future" ''Purisn," he added.
whether in grammar or vocabulary,
| almost always means ignorance.
| Language was made before grammar.
not grammar before language. And
as for the people who make it their
business to insist on the utmost posi-
| bic impoverishment Of our English
| vocabulary, they seem to me to ignore
| the lessons of history. science ana
common sense"
| Maurice Hewlett is giving up his
post in the British Civil Service il
order to devote himself entirely to lit
erature. He is ct present writing Il
short story.
If is Significant of the increasing
Weight attached in England 10 Amer
| lean scholarship in English literature
| that two. American books on that sub
! ieetsliaye recently been taken for pub
! LEGATION in London by George Bell
| Neither sis.,a new book. Henry s. Pan
| coasts ..Introduction to English Lii
erature''.z was published here by tn"
Hollis two or three years ago. ana FRO
/ fossor r. X. LounSbury's History 81
the English Language" has long been
n work of standard authority in this
country.
Ecatricc Ilarraden Is writing NJ"
novel. the scene Of which is laid IN
| Norway. OF the peasants of Tie "ouh-
try the author saw great deal ESt
| wear, as she broke ncr leg near n"
ankle when getting off her pony on z
mountain excursion. More than l5o,Gro
copies Of the siZpcnny EDITION @
ships that Pass in the Night nave
been sold.
That gifted and versatile hUmorlst.
Sarah jeanette Duncan. who Is 2
Canadian by birth. but nov resident
of India. has 4 new book in press
called ION the Other side OF 'h'
Latch" and will be published SInui /
taneously in England and New YORK
1t talks ABOUT the life OF Simla from q
Smla garden. into which the autho'
was turned for her health. al as'
summer, and not allowed to run III
even when it rained. From there snt
cast her eye upon the tin roofs of otiiei
people. and wrote of the community
usually in the best of spirits.
Abbie Farwcll Browns reteilin2 o'
some ancient and mcdiaeval LEGENDS
and animal stories. The BOOK o.
Saints and Friendly Beasts. ma.
found so much favor with EhsiiSt
! children. as well as with America
] that a second edition of it has beer
: issued by it's English publishers, th'
Messvs. LongmanS.