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

III Tn an interview in The Reader Tor
August. among other things Jack Lon
don saws: II had many liabilities and
J no assets, no income, and several
mouths to feed. 1 had tried every
where for work without finding any
,, this was after my return from the
KIondike. So 1 buckled on the harness
> land went up against the magazines.
. forI had heard they paid ten dollars per
thousand words. This seemed safe
and sure income, my sanguine outlook
/, including neither the machine-like
). regularity of returned manuscripts nor
], the fuctuation of prices" Work" Mr..
:. London says, will carry man any
|. Where. The four great things are, Good
Z | Health, Work, Philosophy of Life,
and Sincerity. With these you may
cleave to greatness and sit among the
. giants"
H. B. Marriott Watson has written a
. new romance entitled Captain For
tune" dealing with the adventures of
a young lady who becomes involved in
the Cornish rising during the Civil War
in 1913.
Miss Ellen Thorneycroft Fowlers
. new novel, which will be published
j next month, is entitled place and
. Power" 1t deals to some extent with
o politics.
The trustees of the Burns Monument
!; and Cottage have purchased copy of
the first edition of Burns poems for
l. 81 900. Mr.. G. S. Veitch, from whom
q they purchased it, is said to have paid
! only 9lO for the book.
Lillian Bell, in private life Mrs.
: | Arthur Bogue, is now at her summer
= home in Tarrytown, n. Y. Though
er young she is veteran writer of books
and magazine articles. Her first paid
q and published article for a periodical
!. was produced at the age of eight and
v short frocks had not been long discard
ed when she wrote her first book, per-
haps her best, Love Affairs of an Old
Maid
Mrs. Nancy Banks, known as the
Il author of "Oldfield' and Round Anvil
Rock is a Kentuckian of Kentuck-
sians, but has made her home in New
York for several years. Her literary
recognition dates back to the time
when she became a member of the
staff of The Bookman, just after the
Chicago Exposition, where she was
p | official representative of the board OF
lady managers on the editorial staff.
She published magazine and news
paper articles from week to week, and
il weekly letter which appeared in a
n. | score or more of papers. She has de-
l.; voted much of her life to foreign
OF travel and once resided for time in
al South Africa. ...... .,.ie.. IL
nd Frank Dandy" author of a powerful
a. and unpleasant novel, Pigs in Clover.
'or is Mrs. Julia Frankau, the wife of q
IT rich London merchant and a leader ir
~ ~ literary and artistic circles of the city
K Her greatest success heretofore was q
e.. novel entitled Doctor Phillips OF
: Mazda Vale" suppressed by injunction
granted on the prayer of London
Sphysician, who claimed he was at
tackled in it. She has also written "a
Babe in Bohemia and an authoritative
work on 18th century color prints. She
was once Il follower of George Moore
and a quarrel which resulted in hi:
attack upon her in a leading Londor
newspaper was fleeting sensation.
al Harriet Spofford, poetess and author
of entertaining fiction, is in London
where she expects to remain through
the season. Some magazine article:
may come from her trip.
A. S. Pier author of 1.-THE Triumph,
is one of Harvard's promising young
writer's. Immediately after his grad
uation he joined the editorial staff o
the Youths Companion and soon Wol
q some reputation with sketches AM
81 short stories for the magazines. II
1899 he published his first book. 9TH
Pedagogues." followed by 1.-THE Senti
mentalists." He seems to have
decree of divorce from the law, tn
profession originally selected for him
a | One of the most dangerous habits
Young person can form is the short
. story habit. On the other hand on
of the most advantageous things
young man or woman can do is to trail
<eI the mind by persistent effort to tax
sinewy and comprehensive grasp o
Il great themes. AS you lift heav!
weights in the gymnasium, accuston
your mind to deal with the book
which it is the fashion to call heavy.
Put yourself on a short allowance o
scientific periodicals. Make histor,
and biography your mental staple
Depose brevity from among your gods
and put in his place thoroughness. L
is easy to make of your mind sand
bank instantly dry after the patter
innumerable rain-drops. What yo'
want to make of it is well.-Chrlstlal
E,ndeavor World.
Miss Grace Lathrop Collin, author o
putnam Place." began her literar.
career by writing Sunday-schoo
stories, which she says were the onl.
kind she was able to succeed with I'll
a the early days of art" One day in
spasm of energy, she wrote eleven o
these highly moral tales, despatched
them to their destinations. and awalte'
= the result. Acceptance after accept
ance arrived, until Miss Collin wa
] D that che had discovered he