Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-02

she writes with great ease, finishing
page after page without much effort.
She is very conscientious worker, and
revises with persistent care. "A
Japanese Nightingale. was written
last year, and is one of the most popu-
lar of the publication of Harper &
Brothers. The book has been drama
tized. and will be produced on the
stage next season with more magnifi-
cence, it is promised, than the play of
Ben-Hur. Miss Watanna is only
twenty-three years of age. She is now
visiting in Oil City, Pennsylvania.
Miss Mary e. wilkins is writing a
series of unique short stories for Harper 8
Bazaar, in which romances are cleverly
woven about certain trees which are made
to figure significantly in each story
1.-THE Great Pine appeared in the August
Bazaar. A similar design was carried out
by this author in her ..understudies.' pub
lished last year by the Harpers, though
the key-notes to the clever stories. Miss
Wilkins is spending the summer in Mag
nolia, Massachusetts.
Peter Newell the weIl-known artist,
has recently recovered from an attack
of typhoid fever, but is now strong again
and busily engaged on work for the holt
days. Mr.. Newell does not work from
models as most Of the illustrators do,
his figures not being drawn on CONVEX
tional lines. He made an exception to
this rule in the case of his picture for
the Peter Newell edition of 'Alice's Ad-
ventures in Wonderland, published last
autumn by the Harpers. For these pic
lures the artists little daughter jose
phine posed. not literally as model, bur
as a suggestion for Alice"
In the competition on the twelve ideal
portraits of the heroine of Sylvia" pub
lished by Small, Maynard & Company, as
to which artists picture represents tie
most beautiful woman, and the order IN
which the others should rank, a count or
the votes in accordance with the PLAZA
outlined in the advertisement in the book,
has given the following order as the pref
erence of the majority: &c. Allan Gill
bert; Howard Chandler Christy; s.
Alice Barber stephens; 4-Louise Cox; D.
Albert d. Blaisdell; 6.-Albert Herter;
7.-Carle j. Blenner; S.-Joseph DeCamp;
11-John Elliott; IA. Il. WenZell. The
successful competitor in this contest is
p. V. Pike, 8 Worcester Square, Boston,
Mass. whose vote corresponded exactiy
with the above order, thereby attaining a
score OF Is, which was the highest posi-
BILE score.
A short time ago Sir George Douglas,
the Whitefriars Club, London, in which
he prophesied that the present age would
be known at the end of the century as
the age of Hardy. He compared Hardy
to Shakespeare classifying him among the
great impersonal writers. To one charge
in Sir Georges paper we must take OBJ
lection. He maintained that Hardy was
not a stylist; he simply expressed his
meaning in home-spun prose, and fell
far below Stevenson as a master in style.
Now as style is the form which perpet
yates art and gives it a lien on immortal
ity it seems to us that Sir George is
strangely inconsistent in thus damaging
the claim he makes for Hardy's great
ness The fact is thar just because Hardy
is impersonal, and not individual or per-
sonal his style varies in richness of tone
according to his theme. The Shakspere
who wrote king Lear is the Shakspere
who wrote ''As You Like It." The Hardy
who wrote THE Return of the Native
Greenwood Tree" Yet how vastly differ
ent the style of each author in these con-
trasted works. Indeed Hardy's artistic
susceptibility to the temper of his sub
ject is one of his great gifts. 1t is no.
where so strikingly exemplified as in the
description of Tess among the sun
flushed, sun-kissed maidens at Cricks
farm, and later when in her desolation
she works in the turnip-tields. Mr.. Lionel
Johnson tells us how Oliver MADDOX
Brown. lying on his death-bed, had the
first chapters of Far from the Mad
ding Crowd read to him out of the
Cornhill Magazine, which had just
refused story of his own. No
not want my writing! And, adds Mr..
johnson. Time has shown that there is
little writing by modern men which is
more wanted, more acceptable, than the
writing of Mr.. Hardy.-Harpers Weekly.
The following bits of wit and wisdom
from the new books have been compiled
by the Era:
If a man is obliged to make a fool Of
himself, it is best he should afford amuse-
ment to others while doing so-The Mi
nority.
American women have not awakened
to the meaning of good citizenship, so
they prefer chivalry to juStice.-Abroad
with the Jimmies.
If God didn't intend women for the
place they has in de sosial system, it was
mighty lucky for 'em dat man did so in
tend.-Chimmie Fadden and Mr. Paul.
There is a certain amount of grief and
sorrow which comes with every great JOY
to give Ii a cost-mark whereby we may
always remember its value.-Dorothy
Vernon OF Haddon Hall.
Those who have not been imposed upon
are a thief's equal, with thief's discern
ment.-The Fool.
The woman who makes doormat of
herself will always be trodden upon.-Fa-
bles for the Elite.
One Of the few good things about So
ciety is that until you are very successful
indeed you can not do just as you like;
you must fit your whims and inclinations
into other peoples grooves.-A Remedy
for Love.
quote them anothers.-Myra of the
Pines.
At q recent exposition in Berlin trains