Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-05

Boston's veteran literary men, at the
home Of E. P. Whipple, the essaylst.
Holmes was there, and Bayard Taylor'
Charles Sumner, General Benham. and
many others who are accounted worth
remembering. Justin Mccarthy was
then visiting America, with his wife
| and little boy. il was their wish 10
have the lad. with them everywhere,
and the three We're present that eve
ming. I'VE broke up not earlier imam
| midnight" says the narrator, ana
young Justin Huntly, then eight or
nine years old, had stayed it out to the
end, listening quietly and absorbing
| much. l believe he attended many
other such affairs, where he must al
most always have been the Junior by
at least thirty years. Mr.. Mccarthy
THE Proud Prince" will be pubhshed
this fall by the Harpers over the H. II.
Russell imprint, simultaneous to us
appearance on the New YORK stage,
with E. II. Sothern in the title role.
| Two years ago the same imprint APP
peared on IF I Were King, and the
| little volume has proved as popular as
| the play. which drew such crowds last
| season.
| One of the most faced frauds that
| can be recalled has just been perpetrated
| on the Literary World, London. 1t was
discovered by the editor Of the academy
that The article entitled Dual Personal
tiles, signed "A. n" which appeared in
the Literary World, last week, was taken
bodily from so recent an issue or the
Academy as Feb. IA last. Naturally the
Of fATld
sore at the fraud perpetrated on him. and
SAYS this weeks matter VIII be the sub
ject of a judicial investigation. The Lit
erary World, he continues. has often
printed in its correspondence column
many bitter complaints about the bad be
havior of the editors but very little is
ever said of the grievous frauds some
times Ecrpetrated upon the editors by con-
tributOrS This is particularly fragrant
one As individual writing from we'll
known western club submitted number
lof typewriter articles to the editor who,
suspecting nothing, accepted one of them
ana promised to consider the others. No
sooner. however, had the first appeared
than the Academy spotted the barefaced
fraud. The editor Of the Literary World
betook himself to Scotland Yard so he
says, and obtained some interesting in
formation about the antecedents of the
Derpetrator. 1t is premature to say yet
what the developments may be. but the
article in question would not have been
uotu 81 ltdtuly Ildu Ilpt the MAINE ana
the place from which it was sent appeared
quite sufficient testimony of good faith.
Certain literary statisticians have been
most richly rewarded author in history.
had all his works been paid at the record
rate quoted for his new Sherlock
Holmes stories, SLIGO per word. Up to,
and not including The Hound of the
Baskerviles," and not counting in The
Adventures of Gerard" which is now
running serially, his takings would have
come to about million and Il half dollars.
But DR.. Doyle-or Sir A. Conan Doyle to
give, him the title which he does not care
teghave used in America-has not always
Teeeved Sl.oo word, even the hun
'dredth part of that There is an interest,"
.ine letter in the possession of an Ameri-
can publisher cmbodying Il proposition
from tn creator of Sherlock Holmes for
a contract on the basis of a cent and Il
half per word, but the most interesting
feature is that the contract was declined.
DR. T. J. Dillon. author of the Life of
Maxim Gorky.' recently published by Nc
Clure. Philips a. Co, is thoroughly cosmo-
politan and has studied and lived in near
~ every country in Europe. When he
the College de France, where he devoted
himself to Semitic languages. Later at
the University of Innsbruck, in addition
to Greek and Latin he studied Sanskirt.
two years at the German universities
Leipsig and Tubingen. His next move
was to st Petersburg, where he entered
himself in the Oriental Faculty at the uni
his studies at the University of Louvain
and then returned to st. Petersburg to
qualify himself for the Russian degree OF
Master of Oriental Languages. In all.
DR.. Dillon has studied at the universities
|of seven different European countries, and
has taken degrees in three.
Norman Duncan whose stories of the
sturdy fisher folk of the north, contr-
buted to several magazines. will be
brought ont this fall under the title OF
The Way of the Sea is about to take
another trip to the Labrador coast. This
on the hospital ship 'Strathconia" as the
|guest of Dr. Grenfell. Mr. Duncan is off
in search of material for novel of the
north coast people.
Mr. James Macarthur in his Books
and Bookman' department in the current
flarper's Weekly. tells a new Carlyle
story apropoS of the Chelsea philosophers
SAYS Mr.. Macarthur. that Professor
Goodwin Smith was once n visitor with
Carlyle at Lady Ashburton's house when
Tennyson was one of the circle at The
Grange TennESon was asked to read
one of his own poems aloud. but. to the
surprise and disappointment of his gentle
hostess and her company, he refused-a
thing he was never apt to do. Looking
across the room, Professor Smith saw the
cause of the difficulty. Close to Tennyson
sat Carlyle who was won't to make uni
vcrSal sweep of poetry in it's relation to
common-senSe when aroused by the proX.
unity of the Muse. Professor Smith de-
voting himself to the public good, and, we
may add. in courteous consideration OF
his hostess crossed the room and invited
Carlyle to take stroll in the grounds.
The Sage accepted the invitation, and
during the stroll, the poet brought off his
reading
In liarpers Magazine for September
Mr.. Alden in discussing American
writer's expresses a belief that our broad
ened relations with the world will have
and are having an effect on our literature
I'm the largest perspective there can be
but one literature of the English-speaking
race, with no separate limbo to be styled
American" says Mr.. Alden. In litera-
ture. as in commerce, all barriers between.
peoples speaking the same language ana
having the same destiny in the worlds af-
fairs are destined to vanish. The finest
future product of American fiction coulu
not in any proper sense, be called the
great American novel
I'VE cannot confidently predict that
every eminent American writer of the flu
tuTc will show by some ear-mark his
Amercanism; we certainly have had most
excellent writers in the past who had
shown no such mark. Always there will