Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-16

but it would have necessitated search
They have always shown their good
side to me-"
In the introduction to Henry Es-
mond, which has recently been issued
in the edition Of Thackeray, now in
course OF publication by the Macmillan
Company, Walter Jerrold says: This
story was the first that Thackeray pub
iished with Smith, Elder & Co., the
l1rm with which he was to continue on
the best of relations for the rest of his
life. They had made him a handsome
| offer for his next novel, no less than the
sum named by Fitzgerald 6 10000, and
on the success of the book it is said
that they sent him a further chick for
J. 200, While he received close upon
e $50 for the right of translating it in
to French" Mr.. Jerrold also quotes
the following from James Z. Fields
Yesterdays with authors: IF | could
only possess one of his works l think
| should choose Henry Esmond.' To
my thinking, it is marvel in litera-
ture, and l have read it oftener than
any of the other works. Perhaps the
reason of my Partially lies somewhat
in this little incident. One day, in the
snowy winter of 1852 l met Thackeray
sturdily ploughing his way down Bea-
con street with a copy of Henry Es-
mond the English edition. then just
issued under his arm. Seeing me
some way off, he. held aloft the volume
and began to shout in great glee.
When l came up to him he cried out,
Here is the very best 1 can do, and
n ard
of merit for having given me my first
dinner in America. 1 stand by this
book and am willing to leave it where
L go as my card" Mr.. Jerrold APP
ponds to this story a remark that It's
scene was New York!
The highest price paid for any book
in the Ashburton sale in London in
1900 was $1,000 for a copy of Daniel
Denton's Brief Description of New
York, formerly called New Netherlands,
| London, 1670.' This is pamphlet of
| 81 pages text, one of the rarest of
Americana, and the first printed ac-
count of New York in English. 1t has
been twice reprinted, curiously enough
both limited editions appearing in 1916.
and only "a copies of the original are
| been made in an edition of $50 copies,
| by the Burrows Brothers Company of
Cleveland, and the photographed in
| PRODUCTION by Felix Neumann of the Lii
| brary of Congress makes this the most
valuable of all the reprints. The bib
Biography is a model of painstaking re-
search, and throws much light upon the
history a rare piece of Americana,
,rrt,t f.r1-
| lectors. Harvard College possesses a
copy of the original, but it is mutilated,.
land the history of this mutilation forms
an interesting chapter of American bib
| biography. The reprint is made with
great care, and the work is likely to be
| in considerable demand among collec-
| tors.
| one of the most popular poets living
today is Will Carleton. who wrote
| over the Hill to the Poorhouse' and
| these other ballads full of homely sem
timent and cheering optimism collected
| under the title of Farm Ballads" The
lHarpers consider Mr.. Carletons eight
volumes of verse 70 be among the best
literary properties. They sell steadily
| from year to year, and uphold the COM
|
face of the business mans universal
doubt. And. Furthermore, the more ex-
| pensiye edition of Farm Ballads sell
| the best Mr. Carleton lives in Brook
lvn. and is engaged in editorial work.
| ".Judith's Garden might have been
all right-if it had come first. But
F,lizabeth's German Garden having pre-
/ ha N a
| conner can be regarded as nothing less
| than an imposter OF course, there is
nrobablv no good reason why Judith
should not have her garden as well as
| EJ;zabeth. But she should have found
4 a different way of telling us about it.
AZ If is Judith tells her own story
i much as Elizabeth told hers, only not
lnuife SO well-here is the sin unpardon-
| able The book comes in an attractive
1 form. with decorated margins, and wa
ter color illustrations. 1t is not anony-
mons. Mary e. Stone Bassett Is the
outhor. and she dedicates the book to
har husband. so there need be no idle
curiosity as to the identity of this in
| teresting individual.
Mrs. III. A. Denning. the author OF the
following remarkable literary MOSAIC
saws she spent year in its prepara-
ton.
WHY all this toll for triumphs of an hour?
| Young.
| ife,s hut a short SIimmer-man is but
fiower-pr. Johnson.
nv turns we catch the fatal breath and
III die.-Pope-
The cradle and the tomb, alas! how nigh
| Prior.
To he. better far than not to be.-Seweii.
Though all mans life may seem trag-
edy.-Spencer.
Rut light cares speak when mighty cares
are dumb.-Daniel.
1.-THE bottom is but shallow whence they
al come-Sir Walter Raleigh.
! Thy fate is the common fate of ALL
Longfellow.
|Unmingled joys here no man befaii-
: Southwell.
Nature to each allots his proper sphere
Congreve-
Fortune makes folly her particular care
| Churchill
r ICustom does often reason overrule-
/, Rochester.
, And throw cruel sunshine on fool
Armstrong.
, Hive well; how long or short permit t
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