Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-02-07
There Is no other inducement great
enough to bring the departed back
James NJ. Barrie in THE Little White

ChouSH " DIlng the departed back
B faaes f ifo B Hprf in The Little White
Good humor is a form of tenderness.
Those who are easy to laugh are like
wise easy to be sorry. And they have Il
iund OF sympathy to uraw on whenever
the necessity arlses.-Joel Chandler Har-
ris in Gabriel Tolliver.''
Inc lady on the dollar is the only wo-
man mat hasn't any sentiment in her
make up.-Georse Fl. Lorimer in Letters
from Self-Made Merchant to His Son.
You cannot live your life fully and
Work the money market at the same time
As Tor TINS phase of big combinations,
II is sort of feudalism in money with
put any OF the romance that seems to
nave gone with feudalism.-John Oliver
Hopoes IN Love and the Soul Hunters
Elmore Elliott Peake. whose new novel
OF middle Western life 1.-THE Pride of
aeliIalr, Will be published by Harper &
brotners this month, was born in Deca-
tur. Ohio. in 1871. His father was Meth
odlst minister. and the author of several
fehglous works Mr.. Peake left school at
an early age against the wishes of his
aatner, ana at nineteen became private
secretary to member of Congress. From
TINS position he passed on the tSnfeat OF
ms congressman, into the Census Bureau.
ana subsequently worked for three years
ana a nall IN the employ of Southern rail
ROADS. Ihis railroad experience he has
frequently used in short stories. and also
in his novel, The Darlingtons.' In '.rhe
Pride of Tellfair" Mr.. Peake tells the love
story of a young Illinois lawyer who
mad to walk cautiously between the di-
vergent paths of a delicate dilemma in
winning the girl of his heart Incident
any, the author tells some capital stories
town.
Inc practice of calling upon noted PEG,
pc Ior a list OF the books which have in
tnit them, or for which they enter
tam peculiar affection is becoming too
general to receive comment But one OF
the neatest replies to that sort of cues.
tlon appears in 'r. P.'s Weekly for De-
esenioer 70 ms youngster among period
lcals had been sending to prominent men
TO Know what books they had cared for
most in their childhood. THE Pilgrims
Progress, Robinson Crusoe" and a hosl
Oh commonplacely classical titles were
poured into these personal paragraphs to.
gether with an occasional book that few
ola readers would have heard of, and tina;
mad happ ened into the childs hand by
accident. The cool draught in this desert
comes from Professor Skeat, of Cam
plldge University. Il am not prepared
with any answer" he writes. ii did not
Know when l was young that should be
eApecleo 10 reply to such question:
BJornson. whose SEVENTEEN birthday
was celebrated not long ago, was once
asked by friend upon what occasion in
HA'' iiAS iiC ilotu TAKEN the greatest pleas
ure in knowing that he was a poet. ..It
was when delegation from the Right
came 10 my house in Christiania," he an
SWered, and smashed all the windows
because when they had thus attacked me
and We're starting for home again. they
1elt that, they ought to sing something,
ana SO they began to sing, Yes we love
TINS land OF ours; they couldn't do any
thing else. They had to sing the song of
the man whom they had attacked"
The impression is certainly bound to
grow that there exists some wag in the
amuseS himself by sending in uncon-
scionable orders to staid publishers in the
Fast. The latest instance is the receipt
Dy Harper y Bros. of an order for
Napoleon, the Last FaZe by Rosenberg
and Heroine of Affection by HowIs
DR.. William Robertson NcolI throws a
new light upon novel reading He advises
that no effort shall be made. to keep pace.
with the vast literary products of the day, |
Dut ne says to women and girls: Read |
until you have discovered the author with
whom you are most in sympathy whose
work you really love, and whose first read
BOOK makes you long to know more of
the man and the work Then read NOT |
only everything from his len, but every |
little fact you can gather about him his |
life and surroundings, and the books that |
nave influenced him most till you feel
he Is an Intimate friend. Then and then !
only. can you fully appreciate the fruits |
of the mans BRAIN
1t is an education in itself to fully mas
ter the works of one writer. How many
authors there are who are read over and |
over again without being understood? |
Take George Meredith, for instance |
Great as he is, he is not to be recommend |
ed to the average reader who is first |
bored, then wearied, by an author whose ,
ability towers SO far above the ordinar,
level that one must be educated to high
degree of literary taste before under |
him. Better leave MEREDITH
alone than to read without understanding
This illustrates what DR.. NicoII means |
in urging women to search out their au. |
thorS for themselves, and. having found |
one which makes a special appeal to
them, to be faithful to him and study |
him.
In no other way can we escape the /
charge of reading so specifically that we |
have little knowledge of the books we |
wade through and none whatever of the |
authors intention in writing them-Phil- |
adelphia Ledger