Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-29

o. 'AiSie we're Jones poems lost!
And then-that COSY corner
With manuscript content,
HELD Lauras songs in rhyming throngs,
but-lord Knows where they went.
/ The bishops sermon. too, was there;
/ And now it's hiding-heayen knows
II where.
l Was ever such a mixture?
/ stories in chapters grand,
And Sprintime odes in fiowery loads
Rare lyrics of the land.
| Prison Of pens not picturesque
| Worlds Of confusion in a desk,
| Frank L. Stanton.
Or. Hale'S Memories of a Hundred
Years." issued by the Macmillan Co.
range widely from Smaller Boston and
me Virglnian dynasty, to literature,
American oratory, anti-slavery and
personal pointers on Texas, Kansas
and Nebraska. They are in two VOL
umes. illustrated from rare material.
j. H.. Bangs reappears humorously
with ''Rollo in Emblemland, a fam
tastic fancy in which he gives rein to
| those qualities which have made him
popular. c. r. Macauley illustrates
the edition published by r. H. Russell.
j. M. Barrie's 1.-The Little White
Bird is making great hit in Eng
land, and the Scribners, it's American
publishers, have already sent out a
| second edition of 10000 after a first
edition of 10000.
The Bowen-Merrill Co. plans holt
day edition of j. Whitcomb Riley's
poem, can Old Sweetheart of Nine"
with seven stanzas that have never
appeared in print. Howard Christy il
Illustrates each verse and Virginia Keep
decorates. 5--f
David Harum" has reached its Tooth
edition and circulation of 666,0OO
copies. The event is signalized by D.
Appleton & Co. by a souvenir edition,
illustrated by b. West Clinedinst, and
printed from a specially designed
type.
A biography of Andrew Carnegie has
been written by Bernard Anderson for
Doubleday. Page & Co. He has gained
the assistance of those who knew the
steel king in boyhood and offers an
adequate record of the beginnings of
his career. as well as the working out
of his ideals.
A. II. Savage Landor's new book on
Persian exploration is the result of Il
journey of about 5000 miles on camels
and 1000 miles more on horseback. He
crossed four deserts, including the
widest part of the Great Salt. AT
present he is revising his manuscript
| in London.
! The Burr of fiction still clings. C.
F. Pidgin of the Burr Legion announces
| that he will follow "Blennerhassett"
and '"rhe Climax with Little Burr,
, the Warwick of America" and "Theo-
dosia. the First GentlewOman of Her
Time" a Life of Burr" to conclude
! the eulogistic series. All will come,
it's said, before 1906.
| Miss Elizabeth Shipper Green, the
young artist who made the illustra-
| tons for Richard LIE Galienne's IAN
Old Country Home has lately been
( recuperating in the Pennsylvania
mountains, from overworked eyes.
| Miss Victory Bateman. the co-authOr
| of by the Stage Door, is a niece and
| protege of Edwin Booth. One of the
| treasures with which she never parts
| in any of the exigencies of her exigent
! profession is IA handsome ebony rosary,
\ which was a gift from the great TRACE
| dian.
! When Frank Norris, author of ''The
1 Pit" left New York several months
| ago, he was bound for San Francisco,
/ where ne intended to take passage to
/ the Mediterranean on a wheat ship, but
4 he instead bought mountain ranch on
l the Pacific slope. lived and worked
4 there until his death.
\ II win probably surprise Mrs. George
II Madden Martin. author OF Emmy
\ Lou" TO know that the little pubic
i school girl of her book has become
II propa gandist. Such is the fact, how
II veer and Baltimore is the place.
H certain small school girl there came
II home recently with an air of great I'M
II portance and announced to her mother:
II I'm Miss President" What OFF,
II asked her mother. .Of our new Emmy
| Lou Club" was the reply. What on
II earth is an Emmy Lou Club?' de-
II manded the mother. II don't remem-
Der that Emmy Lou ever organized any
clubs. What's your club for?' ITO
make our teachers behave nicer to us,
replied Miss President proudly.
Some of the Lulu's Library tales,
written by Louise M. Alcott. are to APP
pear In the December st. Nicholas.
There is "A pretty story. interviewer
with the writing of these. Together
with many others. they were written
originally for Lulu. the beloved niece
and adopted daughter of the popular
II author When May, commonly said TO