Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10

New York tenement house region than
any one else who could write about II,
and his new volume Children OF the
Tenement" is simply packed with the siS-
nificart and interesting people who live
in that quarter of New York City, and
their lives: their joys, their sufferingss,
other. Some of these, are Christmas sto-
ries, and all have to do with the children,
young or old, of the slums.
During October the Macmillan Company
will publish practically all of their most
attractive autumn novels These include
Mr.. Crawford's The Heart of Rome:
Mrs. Edith Elmer Woods THE Spirit of
Wesley Mr.. Charles Majors "A Forest
Hearth Mrs. Caroline Atwater Mason's
Holt of Heathtieid;" Mr. stephen
Gwynn's John Maxwell's Marriage
disc Miss Caroline Browns ION the
We-a Trial. Miss Gwendolen Overton's
The Golden Chain" and Mr.. Robert Her
rick's Their Child" the last two being
Favorite Authors, and Mr.. Stewart Ed,
ward Whites THE Magic Forest" and
Mrs. Mabel OSgood Wright's Aunt jim
my's WILL" these two being among the
teens. The chief novel of the autumn
that is not on the list is Mr. Winston
Churchlrs The Crossing" which will
not appear until November
She was a quaint. prm little old per
son says the New York Tribune, and took
a deep interest in contemporary literature
from the point of view of the village
reading circle. 1t CHANGED. however, that
the territory of Walt Whitman had hlth-
erto lain UNEMPLOYED beyond her modest
horizon. \ summer sOjourner one evening
preferred the loan of Il copy of Leaves
of Grass Early the next morning the
quaint little old lover Of Literature with
a big Il appeared at the domicile of the
flush and unusual haste of manner. She
seemed out of breath with rapid walking
and pcrturba ton CT mind
but surely YOU have not finished with
the book protested the volumes owner
as it was deposited in her lap with more
or less StrenuouSlty.
i've not read it through. If that's
what you mean was the reply, and nc
more will | while my names Mehtable
jerks. But I've finished with it all the
same, and I wouldn't sleep in the house
with that book another night for anything
you could give me-" and she stallied
Tighteously down the pathway, with her
stfily starched morning gown brushing
the dew from the tail grass Oh either
side.
If one comes to think of it, how much
literature owes to the country walks. 1t
WAS to that long walk outside the wall
of Athens and to the long talk that Soc
rates held with PhaedruS under the plane
tree by the banks of the llissus that we
owe enc of the most beautiful of the
Dialogues of Plato. There had been no
Georges had not Virgil loved the country.
Horace must as often have circumna m
bulatod his Sabine farm as he perambu-
lated the Via Sacra. Chaucer must some
times have plgrimed 2foot and SpenSer
trode as we'll as pricked Ger the plain
EShake speare's poachinG episode gives us a
glimpse into his youthful pursuits. Mill
ton oft the woods among Wooed Philome1
to hear her eVen-Song and even after
I his blindness not the more ceased he to
wander where the muses. haunt clear
spring. or shady grove. or sunny hill
The Traveller of Goldsmith was the out
come of a walking tour: so was Robert
Louis StevenSonS Travels in the Ceven-
mes with a Donkey. 70 how many minds
walks about the green fat meadS of OK
ford have been Il quiet stimulant we
may get a hint from Matthew Arnold.
twas it to Newman that JeWctt, meeting
him alone and afoot put the query,
"Nunquam minus soluS guam guam
solus?' OF Jewett'S walk many Il tale
is told: of De Quincy, who spent his
i,Nouth. in wanderings; of William Cowper,
TITO gentle singer of the winter walk; Of
ThOreau: of John Burroughs; of that
prince of walkers, of whom The Special
tor said it was half Il pity that such a
man could not go a walking about for
ever for the benefit of people VINO arc not
gifted with legs so stout and eyes so dis
corning. II mean that erudite nOmad,
George Borrow: of these and many an
other lover of outdoor nature it is needless
to speak.-Arnold Haultain in the October
Atlantic.