Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-11

Nre. Humphrey Wards Eleanor"
has been dramatiZed. and will be pre-
scented in the spring at the st. James
Theatre, London. The part Of Lucy
will be created by Miss Eleanor Rob-
son. Mrs. Wards new novel is awaited
with great interest since the announce
ment has been made that it is even a
finer work than Eleanor" The new
story will run serially in Harper's
Magazine, beginning in the May num-
Der.
Mrs. Mary Hartwell Catherwood, au-
thor of "LaZarre," has written in
"Mackinac and Lake Stories" a series
of vivid tales of life along the Great
Lakes, a life which is rich in pictur-
esque suggestion for the writer of fic-
ton, and to which this authors force
full and limpid style adds peculiar
charm. The Mackinac stories We're
originally published in Harper's Mag
aZine. and were most favOrably re-
oeived. No woman writing fiction to-
day commands a more delightful style
than this author. Mrs. Catherwood is
native of Ohio, but she has resided
for some years at Hoopeston, Illinois.
the East by the sea.
1.-The valley of Decision" the new
novel by Edith Wharton, which was
announced for the fall, will be pub
lished early in January by Charles
Scribners Sons. 1t is her first long
novel. and the scene is laid in the Italy
of the latter half Of the eighteenth
nf
around one of the little courts which at
that time were such epitomes of HE
and civilization.
Mrs. Katherine Lake, widow of the
Very Rev. w. c. Lake, d. D., Dean of
Durham, has edited his memoirs and
volume interesting to educators will be
published early in January by Long
mans, Green & Co. Dean Lake died in
1894, and his private papers will now
be given to the public for the first time.
He was a fellow and tutor of Balliol
during the height of the oxford move
ment, and was a member of the famous
royal commission of education which
furnished the foundation for subse-
quent educational legislation in Eng
land. Mrs. Lake has received permits
lish letters written to her husband. and
among others are letters from Arch
bishop TAFT. Mr.. Gladstone. DR.. Pussy.
Lord Halifax, Dean Church and Dean
Stanley.
Richard Harding Davis is going to
South America to make q book for the
Scribners. He will cross the continent,
dpVpl.
opments ready for his pen. Mrs. Da-
Wis will accompany him on the trip.
The Macmillan Company has had
ample evidence during the last few
weeks of the popularity of F. Marion
Crawford as novelist. His latest
book. Marietta: A Maid of Venice"
has gone through five large editions
since October 49, the date of its first
publication. This large sale has slim
ulated a demand for Mr.. Crawford's
earlier novels.
President Roosevelt's "Oliver Crom-
well'' is to be translated into French
early in the year. The Societe Fran
caise d'Imprimerie ct de Librairie, of
Paris. has Just concluded an arrange
ment with Charles Scribner's Sons
whereby the edition can be published.
Jacob A. Riis's The Making Of an
American is being printed in raised
letter edition for the use of the blind in
the New York State institutions. The
expense is being paid out of State
funds and the work has already begun
at Pittsburg.
Three novels by writers We'll known
in the world of fiction are announced
for early publication by Dodd. Mead &
Co. Max Pemberton has written ro-
nance Of considerable length which Is
az vet unnamed. The other novels are
yellow Fiend." by Mrs. Alexander, and
Fuel OF Fire by Ellen I. Fowler.
CYRUS Townsend Brady is back from
a trip through the South. and has gone
to writing again at his home in Over
brook, suburb of Philadelphia. He
does not believe that the end of the
popularity of the historical novel is yet
IN sight. At any rate. his publishers
announce that he is writing another
long historical story, which will come
ont some time during 1902
ing to Americans than a record of un.
published conversations with George
Washington. Such a record has beer
found in the diary of a Polish patriot
who visited this country. and to whom
the great American talked with unusu
al frankness. This diary is said t.
have been verified by Mr.. W. C. Ford
and. accompanied by reproduction o
Gilbert Stuart's first portrait of Wash
ington. it will appear in the Februar!
Century"
Two pages Of the original manuscript
of SCOTS "Kenilworth' We're sold il
London the other day for somethin,
over 500. A brief letter of recommen
dation from the pen of Samuel Pepy
brought nearly the same sum. Pepys
manuscripts. by the way, are very rare
The contributor OF an article on ''Th
Literature Of the West" complains II
The Boston Transcript that the ives
has no literature which makes even
decent pretext of rejecting its real life
Only its mining camps and cowboy phas
es are. he notes, bestowed upon us. wit