Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-15

1.-THE Great Poets of Italy" Egerton X
Williams. Jr., describes journey throuS -,
The Hill Towns of Italy" illustrated py
many photographs, number of them PEI
ling taken by the author himself. Coloilei
Thomas Wentworth Higginsons trahSlu1
ton of Fifteen Sonnets of Petrarch VIII
appear in n limited edition of four nun
bred copies prefaced by IL short ESSAY Oh
Petrarchs art. DR.. Washington CLAD
| denis series of biographical sketches en-
| titled witnesses of the Light gives a
considerable attention to Michael Angelo
"Thc Chasm'' is the title of a political
romance to he issued in the fall for u
| Appleton x Company. Its authors are
Edward Chids Carpenter and Reginald
| Wright Kaufman. Mr. Carpenter ana
MI Kaufman are said to have met for
the first time q couple of years ago While
Ell route to Chicago IN the course of con
yersation one of them mentioned to the
other that he had an idea tor d political
novel. That's strange" said the other;
so have L." Whereupon they compared
notes and found that their schemes were
practically the same. so they decided to
pool their interests.
The MacMasters and McCarthys of the
mid-twentieth century will record this as
the age of nCVelists. The rising of the
Third Estate has been chronicled and
celebrated enough. The Fourth Estate
has celebrated itself more than enough.
The Fifth Estate now advances proudly
in tally-hos and ten-thousand-dollar auto
mobiles, to the sound of trumpets ana
typewriters. Nobody writes anything put
novels. Nobody reads anything but
novels. The world is the novelist. The
schoolgirl and the sage, the captain OF IN
dustry and the private of laziness; the
lean and slippered pantaloon and the
strong man rejoicing in his strength ana
his golf score-al ages, seXesAand sorts
pay willing homage and royalties to King
Novel. and Grub Street is paved with gold
| Inevitably the novelist becomes the m
Structor and director of the public mind
He is literature, history, morals, the uni
versal professor. He is the successor OF
our old friend the Moulder of Public
lOpinion. Sole professor OF the lntellectlial
throne he is the real ruler of his adoring
lcountrymen.
This unofficial power of his might he
dangerous and irresponsible. 1t is his
duty to go into politics.; to accept the
offices which stretch out supplicatine
hands to him; to be the actual as well as
the nominal. ruler. Fortunately, some
American novelists have heard their po-
heard and obeyed, The Indiana Leglsla-
ture was his trying ground. He was ''ar
immediate success" as the advertise
ments of "best-selling,' novels say. He
was a good FELLOW. He was
|shrewd. He studied parliamentary
law as diligently as if it were an Epocl
tout of which an historical novel were tC
be MIXED. His experience in dialogue
fitted him for debate. In short, he tool
naturally the leadership which belonged
to a leading novelist; and his Legislative
laurels are causing insomnia among his
brethren of the novel in Indiana They
lyearn to follow where he has bravely led
Meanwhile he looks toward Washington
the House of Representatives. the Senate
IChamber, the White House. The world is
Ian before him where to choose, and the
HooSiers long to choose him.
| The good example soon bore fruit Mr.
Winston Churchill was elected a member