Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-12-26

several Eastern cities where it has been
tried, and it will open the long Chicago
engagement this month. The Chicago
pit" and Chicago society furnish the
scenes for the novel and the play SO
Chicago will see the play and New
York will have to wait probably, until
another season.
Irving Bachelors new book gives the
following private law of its leading
character Roderick Darrell.
l. Walk miles a day.
2. Eat no pork and be at pace with
thy liver.
3. Measure thy words and cure a
habit of exaggeration.
4. Thine eyes are faulty-therefore
look well to thy steps.
5. Beware Of ardent spirits, for the
curse that is in thy blood. 1t will turn
thy heart to stone.
6. In giving. remember Daniel.
Z. Bandy no words with any man.
s. Play at no game of chance.
8. Thing Of these things and forget
thyself.
TO- Ill luck is for him only that is
ignorant neglectful, or defiant of
private law.
When Senator Albert j. Beveridge
was gathering material in Russia for
his book, THE Russian Advance" just
published by the Harpers, he had an
amusing experience with q native in
terpreter Mr. Beveridge has the prime
quality of the successful man, d
capacity for hard work. Having en-
gagged the Interpreter, Mr.. Beverage
started in ON good day of American
hustle with this result: After first
days work, from { A. NJ. to I p. NJ, in
terpreter somewhat exhausted, MI.
Beveridge fresh and hearty. After
second days work, same hours, inter-
prefer gasping, Mr.. Beverage en-
Enthusiastically planning the work for
next day. After third days work, in
terpreter requesting a day off for rest,
Mr. Beverdge regretfully giving his
permission. But after that day the in
terpreter never turned up again. Later
the Senator heard that he complained
he couldn't work with a man who
wanted to do years work in a day.
Subsequent frequent relays of fresh in
accomplish his own work in his own
way.
John Morley is to visit the United
States next year, coming to deliver an
address at the opening of the Technical
College, ut Pittsburg, in October. 1864.
1t is to be hoped that he will find it
agreeable to make other public appear
ances in this country, which he has not
visited for more the thirty years. \
lecture on Gladstone by Mr.. Morley
would take the country by storm, and
he would be sure of appreciative
audiences If he would speak on literary
topics.
&c. Nesbit," the author of THE Lit
erary Sense" a recent book of short
stories of love complications. and THE
Would Be- Goods" and THE Red
House." is not man, as some review
ers of her latest book have taken for
granted. Mrs. Edith Nesbit Bland, as
she is in private life. is one of the
brightest and most piquant of the
younger English fiction writer's now
coming to the fore. Her chief books,
one or two of which have been pub
lished in this country, are Songs of
Love and Empire" Nine Unlikely
Tales for Children" Five Children
and It. and The Book of Dragons
story is told by George L. Brett,
head of the Macmillan Company, which
illustrates his claim that he has never
known a really good book fail to find
it's public. He says:
Some years before the day when in
ternational copyright came with its
blessings to American as we'll as to
European authors. l recollect, being
then in the importing business, that we
received consignment from a London
publisher of a few hundred copies of
one of the outdoor books-a new field
at that time, or comparatively new, al
though now there are so many, per-
haps too many. examples of this kind
of literature: No one in the office, |
remember. thought very much of the
book, perhaps the general feeling being.
more than anything else, that the Eng
lsh, after all. could not do this sort of
book we'll from the American stand
point. No copies of the book We're
sent out for review. it was never adj
vertised. and yet in the course of few
weeks additional copies were ordered:
and then, by and by Boston book
seller. who has discovered" I think.
more books of worth than any oth=r
dealer in the country, sent over for
two hundred and fifty copies, and
eventually nearly one hundred thous-
and We're disposed of without either
advertising or mention in the news
papers of any sort. The reprinters fl