Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-26

He couldn't hold down his job or his
halo if he were not.-The Misdemeanors
of Nancy.
II the sentence Thy desire shall be
unto him. was laid on Eve as a curse,
yet her daughters have found their
deepest happiness therein.-The Wind
ing Road.
Women are fond of blaming the
Devil for their misfortunes, but after
all they are his best ministers. He
can generally be quite sure that they
will do their best to help him.-The
Story of Eden.
De nleanin' of courage an common
sense must be understood. Many
man have died fom havin too much
bravery. but common sense never
killed nobody.-The Black Cat Club.
If the ladies whom gallant gentlemen
delight to serve could guess what
scant touchstones of worth these same
gentlemen sometimes carry into the
adored presence many a handsome head
would be carried with less assurance
The Valley of Decision.
Selfishness in public life is a crime
against ones highest ambitionS.-The
Conqueror.
While with mathematical accuracy
two and two always make four, by
! adding a certain amount of personality
the result will very nearly equal five
The College Student.
| II is as easy to escape from death as
| from woman when once she's after
you.-Twenty-si and One
| The late historian, Samuel Rawson
Gardiner, once remarked of Froude:
| Whenever l find myself particularly
perpleXed on any point | look to see
what Froude has to say about it. L
| always find his help invaluable, for |
can trust implicitly his unfailing in
stinct for arriving at false conclusions;
and the more positive he becomes, the
safer feel in adopting diametrically
| opposite view
| 1t seems that Maxwell Grey, who is
| best known as the author of The ST.
lence of Dean Maitland does not look
with a great amount of cheerfulneSS
| upon the present literary situation
| She has come to the conclusion that
novel writing is no longer an art: that
it has become merely a trade. When
| gain" she asserts, becomes the end Of
| literature, literature comes to an end.
Decadence in fiction gains SO much
ground partly because so many people
are writing for gain. They must do
| something striking and abnormal to at
tract attention; each tries to Guido the
other. They play to the gallery, and
the gallery loves decadence. Peccavi!
I sin with the rest; l write too much
fiction. But for bread; not gain. And
even the bread is secondary; art and
conscience come first"
DR.. S. Weir Mitchells latest novel,
New Samaria," will first appear in
Lippincotts Magazine. Mrs. Schuyler
Crowninshield's "A New Heloise' will
also be published in the same periodi-
cal.
| One of the most interesting person.
alities amongst modern popular now
elists is that of S. r. Crockett. Mr..
Crockett is above average height and
is finely "set up" with a complexion of
extreme freshness. Like Anthony
Trollope, Mr.. Crockett starts work at
early hours. When boy on a Gallo
way farm he was trained to rise at four
in the morning, and ever since then has
continued this unusual habit. AS a
consequence, his literary labor is all
done by the time other men are going
to work, and he therefore has plenty
of leisure for out of door life. Some
one has said of him that lin a suit of
4 homespun he would be an ideal picture
of the prosperous Scots farmer" re-
minding one of anything but a writer
of books"
Harris Dickson, whose new novel,
THE Seige of Lady Resolute," was re-
Gently published by the Harpers, is an
other of the rapidly increasing number
! of authors who compose on the type
writer. Mr.. Dickson says that it is so
much easier to use the machine than
the pen that the writing and rewriting
of page after page has no terrors for
him. and that he has spent three times
as many months on the finishing of
THE Seige of Lady Resolute" as he did
on The Black VOLTS Breed" which
was his first venture in fiction. 1t
would appear, therefore, from this
statement of Mr.. Dickson's that the
? typewriter, so far from tending as
some have feared, to encourage the au-
thor in slipshod methods, influences
him rather to do his best work.
DR.. Henry Van Dyke was the guest
: of honor recently at the annual dinner
of the Schoolmasters' Club of New
: York, which is professionally known
as Hoi Scholastikoi. AS might be ex
pected, the menu card. which was in
troduced with a portrait of the author
of THE Ruling Passion" bristled with
quotations from his books. which were
lse,ected and arranged with more taste
than is usual i'm such things. On the
list of toasts Our Guest was set off
with the legend from "Talkablity,'
Fishermen must be silent" On being
introduced DR. Van Dyke paid a grace
full tribute Of thanks for the honor he
felt in being the guest of schoolmas-
tiers. whose ranks he had recently
, Joined. and then launched forth upon
an inspiring address on the ideal
function of the educator which at
many points was warmly applauded
He said. in part:
4 1T is an honor to be the guest of
the hardest-worked and the most in
teresting. the worst paid and the best
rewarded of the secular professions.
Why teaching should be called a secu-