Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-05


houses at the Savoy theatre, New YORK
City, showing Robert EdeSon, Gretchen
Lyons, Dorothy Donnelly and other
favorites in roles written from the
pages of this extremely successful
novel.
Work from the pen of Mr. Quiller-
Couch is welcome alike for it's literary
quality and its point of view. His latest
book, THE Westcotcs,'' story of rural
England in the time of the Napoleonlc
Wars which has been running in The
Era and in RlackwoodS Magazine, mas
recently appeared in book form IN Eng
land and is announced for early pubilca-
ton in this country by Henry T. Coats
& Co. The reception which this charming
tale has met with at the hands of the
English reviews has been most favora BILE.
Doubleday, Page & Co. are shortly to
publish a volume about Our Literary
Deluge," and some of its deeper waters,
by Francis w Halsey, the well-known
author and editor whose work puts him
into peculiarly close relation with the
trend of current literary thought. His
DDtbk is S.tltl 10 nave al even ~
yond its immediate interest in showing
the modern attitude toward literature,
and particularly toward the literary
immortals whose masterpieces have
been revived" so frequently of late
along with the flood of new books.
Jack London, author of son of the
Wolf and The God of His Fathers
both collections of short stories, has
written his first novel. The work is not
yet published. and it may not appear
before next fan. but the fact of its COM
pletion is worthy of note. Mr.. London
has had a most interesting career for
a man just % years old. People insist
on believing that his name is nom de
plume, but he says he can trace his
family history back to an American
residence prior TO the revolution and
that the Londons of those days We're
not unworthy ancestors. Jack London
was born in San Francisco and lived on
California ranches until he was 10, at
which young age he went upon the
streets as Il newsboy. At 10 he left
home and went faring. rs he says,
among the scum population of SAN
Francisco bay, and by the time he was
Il he was able to ship before the mast
as an ablc-bodied seaman. In this
capacity he went to Japan, seal hunting
up the Russian side of the Behring sea,
and on various other trips. At the end
Of a year of this the boy began to take
an interest in economies and sociology
and his theories started him out on a
tramping tour of the United States and
Canada N p1rch M facts Of real
life and. when he returned to the west,
he went to work in order to pay his
way through i high school course. In
a little over year he had crowded two
years of the course in and then he went
TO the University of California, where
he remained not quite year. NeceS-
sity forced him to hard labor again and
thus in various times and places. he
mined and camped, always looking for
ward to the time when he could finish
his studies and take up writing. 1t
was in the klOndike, he relates, that he
saw the world in a good perspective
and realized it's attitude toward him
and his toward it. The death of his
father compelled his return to Califor-
MIA to care for his mother. 1t was
case of many liabilities and no assets,
but the young man was not discour-
aged. He took up writing with great
zeal and in the course of two years he
had placed himself on his feet.
Il have long since learned" he writes,
that most money lies in fiction, but l
cannot refrain occasionally from writ
ing my economic hobby. No, I am not
a revolutionaire, nor a Marxist; have
study from four to six hours daily
(science and literature, half and half),
and my aim is fiction"
Messrs. Houghton, Mif1lin & Co. have
arranged a very interesting exhibition
in their Book Room at Park street,
Boston. of books which they publish re-
lating to Dante. Among these are Pro-
fessor Nortons beautiful prose transla-
ton in a new and revised edition:
I,ongfellow's poetical form in three vol
1mas and in one volume; Norton's
"Dante's New Life" Dinsmore's The
Teachings of Dante with Rossettls
Portrait of Dante;" Harrls's Inc
Spiritual Sense Of Dante's Divine Com
edy:" Parsons translation of the IN
ferno' and portions of the "Purgatorio'
and Paradise rendered in verse;
Iatham's .'A Translation of Eante's
Eleven Letters" and Lowelrs Essay
on Dante" Samples of these books in
various styles of binding are shown and
the display is made more attractive by
an interesting Death Mask of Dante
| and Rossetti's Portrait of Dante
Thomas Dixon, Jr.'s novel, Ihe
| Leopards Spots" has gone into its
| twenty-third thousand hardly two
| weeks after publication. 1t received a
great deal of free advertising before it
was issued. and it seems it has not been
disappointing to novel readers-or to
| the publishers.
new volume by Andrew Carnegie
entitled THE Empire of Business" will
be published by Doubleday. Page &
| Company in April. 1t will comprise a
dozen chapters giving, it is said, Mr.
Carnegic's most direct opinions on for
tune winning and the uses of wealth,
together with discussions on principles
| of industrial enterprise, tariff and
many matters that interest the man OF
affairs. 80 &s1
| The news that English publishers are