Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-19

Many changes have been noted OF
late among the leading periodicals,
but none more conspicuous and i'm
portant than that of Harper's Weekly.
This radical change in size and form
Of periodical familiar for many
years to American readers is in the
line of the virility of its growth during
the past few months. To keep pace
with the development of American
affairs today, the most progressive
and stimulating journalism is neces-
sity. Harpers Weekly has been from
its inception, in 1857, "a journal of
but a journal of nine
teenth-century civilization is not
journal of mountaineering civiliza-
tion-and this the new Weekly prom
ises to be The contributors include
such men as w. D. Howells, Marx
Twain. Anthony Hope, Richard Hard
ing Davis, Robert W. Chambers, Gill
bert Parker, Henry LOOMS Nelson.
Booth Harrington, John Kendrick
Bangs, Carl Snyder, E. S. Martin,
Thomas a. Janyier, e. w. Townsend,
Sydney Brooks, Hamblen Sears,
James Macarthur. and many other
specialists. The editorial section Of
this periodical has already attracted
wide comment and is said to have
''set the highwater mark of modern
journalistic enterprise" The cover Of
the new Weekly is striking, its chief
feature being most appropriately the
Bartholdi Statue in New York Har-
Dor of Liberty Enlghtening the
World"
Thomas Dixon. whose novel Of
Southern life The Leopard's Spots"
has gone into it's thirtyeighth thou
sand four months after its publication,
lives in Ellington, Va, an old estate
near the coast. 1t is said to have been
originally the property Of Powhatan,
the Indian chief, and the birthplace Of
Pocahontas. In former times the es-
tate comprised two thousand acres;
1t is now reduced to a mere five hun
bred. on which game is abundant, es-
pecially wild turkeys. Wild quail are
said frequently to invade the chicken
yard.
Mrs. Humphry Wards Eleanor has
been translated into Italian, and is APP
pcaring serially in an Italian news
paper.
Mark Twain's "A Double Barrelled
Detective story is still discussed in
England as a point of literary ethics.
1t is true that Mark Twain brought
Sherlock Holmes into his story when
he wanted him. and put him out when
he had finished with him. Conse-
quently. an English writer asks: THE
question arises, has Mr.. Clemens DR..
Conan Doyle's permission for the use
Of Mr.. Holiness person, just as Mr..
Frohman lends his stars to other
managers. or did Mr.. Clemens make
free with the character of Mr.. Sherlock
Holmes? And if Mr.. Clemens had ac-
tually succeeded in lynching Mr.. Sher-
lock Holmes. would Mr.. Sherlock
Holmes. at last, be really dead?" AS
DR.. Doyle has already Killed the i'm
mortal Sherlock and revived him.
there need be no anxiety concerning
his welfare in whatever hands he may
be.
The publication of John Kendrick
Tangs's new book, "Olympian Nights, !"
has brought to light some good stories
of the author, among them the follow
ing: One summer, Mr.. Bangs, having
promised to send some new books to
his family in the mountains, and hav
ing forgotten it until the last mo-
ment, hastily entered a bookshop on
his way to the depot and asked the
clerk. a stranger to him, for some
good summer stories. L was a warm
day, and the salesman took only 4
offered several books not at all adapted
to Mr.. Bangs's object. Finally he
brought out some volumes of the right
sort. and among them was a copy of
The Pursuit of the House Boat"
No said Mr.. Bangs, promptly,
don't show me anything of Bangs's.
i can't read Bangs"
\ belated CLEAN of friendly interest
flashed into the clerks eyes. He leaned
across the counter. ITO tell the truth"
he said, genially, neither can IT,
Hamlin Garland is engaged in writ
ing an original play. The scene is laid
in Colorado, and among the pic
turesque characters introduced are
miners and cowboys.
Hereafter the International Monthly
will be issued in quarterly form. The
quarterly will be more than double in
the size and number of articles of the
monthly: the type page and margins
will be enlarged proportionately; ana
to the list of notable articles in each
number there will be added two new
departments, the one devoted to a
criticism of the more important works
of current literature, the other to the
drama and fine art. There will be no
change in the editorial direction, and
the political chronicle by Joseph B.
Bishop will he continued. The first
number of the Quarterly will appear in
September.
on his recent visit to England Frank
y. Doubleday made arrangements for
bringing out an English edition of
The Worlds Work." an edition that
will be in its main features the same
as the American, though differing, as
would naturally be expected, in some
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