Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-03-01


had tried to teach in 1863 was good
one to have remembered while driving
THE Spaniards from Cuba, and there
fore wrote new introduction to THE
Man Without a Country and brought
it out again. 1t still found readers OF
course, and today there is scarcely a
public or school library in the land
which does not have this American
classic on its shelves.
J. l.. Harbour gives, in the Christian
Endeavor World, some comical bits
discovered by an editor in examining
manuscripts.
! A young novelist thus describes her
heroine: She was not beautiful ex-
cepting for her straight, well-moulded
nose, which hung like a soft white
cloud between the blue of her azure
eyes. Her mouth, although too large
to harmonic with the rest of her ia
cial features, had a certain winsome-
ness that was enhanced by a golden
voice. Her alabaster brow was made
to appear narrower than it really was
by a bang of nut brown hair, and her
complexion was so pure that strangers
thought it TO be artificial
in the letter sent with her manuscript
that she was Just coming out as
writer described the hero of her story
in this wise: Tall and straight as an
Indian, he had the litheness of a
panther combined with the grace of
deer Long -limbed, straight
and full-chested, he was the epltome
of perfect manhood with the exception
of the effeminate habit of parting his
hair i'm the middle and a distinctly
ladylike business about small details
such as having his finger-nails mani
cured and the ends of his long mus
tache carefully curled. His voice sug-
gested the softest notes of an Oallan
harp and it was pure tenor when ne
sang, as he often did when in penslve
mood. He was a man whom women
raved over and men hated, but ne was
haughtily Indifferent to both sexes.
Such man was Reginald de 81.
Clare"
A storm at sea is thus described by
i another writer: THE mighty deep
Iroared and Numbered. and its rolling
waves were a lather of foam. Ever
and anon a wave rose mOuntain-hlgh'
and came bouncing down panther-llke
on the little vessel before 1t. The
crack of.the lightning, oft-repeated,
was followed by believing thunder
and n wind that blew the sea-gulls to
death against the sides of the boat. In
the midst of the rumpus the blood
curdling cry of Man overheard was
heard, and darkness made matters
worse. IT was just awful
The latest of the interesting communi-
cations the publishers, Doubleday, rag
| IL Co have received from many LANDS
concerning Booker 7. washington 1u u
photography, is a request for the right ui
Il translation in the land of Lebanon. a
letter from the Protestant College at
Beirut Syria, runs as follows; hdd
great pleasure in reading the autobiog-
raphy. 1t inspired in me new spirit ah1
gave me an enthusiasm the like of which
I have. never felt. There is at present 2
! revival of learning among the Arabic
speaking people. and for my country
| mems benefit | ask the privilege of trans
lating the autobiography into ~rablc.
Please grant me this favor if you have
not given the right to somebody else.
,SignoO. Thankfully yours. Ibrahim
Abdu kahil.'
Little, Brown & Company will publish
| the following books Of fiction this spring:
; .''rhe Heroine of the Strait; or. y Ro-
nance of Detroit in the Time of Pontiac.
| by Mary Catherine Crowley, author OF "A
Daughter of New France" with illustrar
tions by CHI. Grunwald; The GOD OF
Things . by Florence Brooks Whitehouse,
4 modern society novel, with illustrations
by the author; The Eagles Talon, Ro-
nance Of the louisiana P9rchase. , 10y
: King and THE Sword of Justice with
illustrations by a. Russell; and In the
Country God Forgot stirring tale o.
the Southwest by Frances Charles
! oIt 10 the artobiographiCal duality,
, keenly felt, although unacknowledged
! which endears Louisa NJ. Alcott to chill
dren, and makes them needless OF liDra.
rians anxious to give them INSTRUCTIVE
| hook" saws the New York Times Sat
urday Review They do not want to be
Instructed they want to see into TINS
little world where children are sovere el,i,
. and for many a year, until the New Eng
p land of forty or fifty years ago is as dis-
tant from children as Revolutionary Eng
land now is their desire viii De perPes'
. ence may wish that their ideals should
be enriched by vision Of provident anu
strong father making childhood time oil
peaceful and sheltered growth and pien-
teous culture of noble womanhood
guarded and cherished as 1t deserves; bu'
all that is tame to them. They want the
human giant and fairy, 10 and Meg ano
Beth and Amy.
Y John Luther Long. whose first novel
c Naughty Man. has just been issued by
, the Century Company, is the author OF =
u number of remarkably successful short
h stories, one Of which. Madame Butter
o ny'' has been stage success for more
| than a year 1t is understood that al
| opera based on the same tale is being
o written by the Italian composer, Giacomt
Il Puccini. whom Verdi called the mos
= promising of his successors. Mr. Long
>, who is young Philadelphia lawyer. mas
u written in Naughty Nam an American
g love story which is said to be as inter
Y esting in its way as was his Japanes.
| story, Madame Butterfly"
Dr. Conan Doyle. it is said, is contem
| plating a collected edition of his works.
Among the librarians of the United
| States none have more up-to-date ideas
s | than Sam Walter Foss custodian of the
Somervile Mass. public library. In his
annual report just made public he makes
a suggestion looking to increased BOOB
D., | circulation. He says:
II II would recommend that during tn;
!. I coming year the night schools should ot
: supplied with school libraries, the same
: | as the day schools. In fact. the pupils OF