Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-10-18

home as friend and companion. by those
quaint and haunting melodies. Long be.
iofe nis songs made him known in the
WukSQ OF etters, he had won an estab-
aSnsa e '1ESs IN the hearts Of the Geor-
na&pred and charming writings in the pa-
petx The 0rst songs were exceedingly
met Anmele. and tentative. He was try
ing the night Of his muse. They were the
preiAoe 0n3y, and soon, from a fuller and
mort strennous throat. came the thrill
ing1y sweet music Of the peoples hearts
Y. "eone1-uf the Soil,' published eight
fros 3 Stanton aH11w Is e. nem ~
y .pcst uf the people. like new Burns.
The following bits of wit and wisdom
nave been compiled by the Era Magazine:
There ara greater virtues than thrift.
70 y batter 10 die pennSless than to have
been too much Of a saver-The Unspeak-
able Scot.
The enly eafe Investments are educa-
ton and health-Daniel Eyerton.
You may be sure the devil will humn
himself Il, you don't.-Those Delightful
BAD habits are leeches that would suck
q hercules to effeminacy.-A Speckled
The soul is tempered true
OHIy WibHiH uumulty DlaCk forge
Unuer the hammer of adversity
The Death of Sir Launcelot.
.dofhers personify circumstances to
cnfdren; we are symbols to them. of BAT.
ding, cramptng fate.-The Rescue
We ever profit by truth. and il ever we
seem 70 lose. u is but the earnest OF
bles. - =
Duty is what we think about when ill.
OF are reminded of by creditors.-David-
sons Dumas So
De tiredest people In de world is dem
oat take de most ease.-Son.
The fools ear was made for the knave' $
nsue-Hamaswamis Indian Fables.
The thing I did not pay for found
most expensive.-The Worlds People.
! Let me get over this difficulty some.
now. says youth. that l may play the
game of life well,"-and our hair ia turn
ing gray before we learn that the diff
cuity Is the game.-The Way of Escape.
De worst OBJ de imitation ladies' ism.
always found among de scrub ladies' or de
| kitchen maids.-Scn.
When man ceases to make love to his
| the Elite. =
| tons the New York Evening Post says
trip through the. uptown book pub-
| fishing and bOOk-selling establishments
reveals state of affairs decidedly en-
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| has started well. and the indications are
that an excellent seasons trade will fol-
low. publishers and dealers both are
optimistic. and the energies of the sales
men have already been taxed to meet the
| demands of the fairly steady streams OF
customers that percOlate through the
aisles from an early hour until the shop
| ping time is over.
| As always, the largest demand noted is
| for fiction, but it is noticeable that it is
/ fiction of higher grade than was popu-
| lar TWO or three years ago. Fifth Ave
nue. publisher. in commenting on this
| fact, said:
Five years ago work like that of Edit
Wharton's Valley of Decision would
writer's latest efforts is in its twenty
| fifth thousand. and it may reach 10000
before the end Of the season. Another in
dication is the sale of George w. Cables
novel Of last year 1t will go into the
100 COOS, and few years ago a sale Of Co.
600 or 5000 copies would have been q
large one for it, 80. ....
Historical novels and novels of local
ity like David Harum' are going out to
certain extent. 1t is recognized that
they were more or less of a fad. An his.
torical novel by an author who is not well
known has little chance of recognition
unless ii be unduly dinned into the public
ear by advertising, but in the same way
| II the author is well known and popular
the fact that the novel is an historical
one will not initiate against its sale" ~
Among the latest works of fiction thai
are credited with finding the largest sales,
opinion seems to be divided between F..
HOpkinsOn Smiths Fortunes of Oliver
Horn" Castle Craneycrow" by the au-
| thor of ''Graustark;" 1.-The Vultures" by
Henry Seton Merriman; THE Wooing of
Wistaria." and Richard Harding Davis
Captain Macklin.'
Apart from fiction the greatest call for
more serious reading is generally ac-
knowledged to be for biography, and the
unusually large demands for certain new
works has surprised both publishers and
dealers. This IS particularly true of the
Memoirs of Lady Lenox," and of several
Tschudi
In the line of essays Herbert Spencer's
latest volume, Facts and Comments"
Maeterlincks's Essays his Buried
Temple. and Prof. John Fiske's last work.
New France and New England" are all
finding ready sale. while similar volumes
that are meeting with favor are C. Wag-
ner's THE Simple Life" and Democracy
and Social Ethics" by Jane Adams.