Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-24

Harper & Brothers will publish a
special limited edition of Mrs. Humph-
ry Wards novel, Lady Roses
Daughter now nearing completion in
Harper Magazine. There will be $50
numbered sets the orders for which
VIII be filled in the order of their re-
eeipt This edition will be issued in
two evoiuines autographed by Mrs.
Ward, and will contain sixteen illus
tratibns by Howard Chandler Christy.
The binding viii be in pale blue and
gold There will be two other editions
of this novel at a lower price.
1t was expected that Sir Gilbert
rsarker's dramatization of his novel,
The Right Of Way" would be pro-
dnced by Charles F.rohman this season.
Mr. Frohman recently received a cable
from Sir Gilbert to the effect that par
liamentary and other duties had pre-
vented the completion of the play. 1t
is Mr.. Frohman's intention to produce
the play next season. with William
Fayersham in the role of Charley
Steele.
Mime. Sarah Grand is described in an
English periodical as being at this time
"a bright. pretty woman in the prime
of life, with a charming personality
and winning ways"-a description
readily approved by those who heard
her lecture when she was last in this
country. Her severely critical attitude
towards the masculine sex, so clev-
erly exhibited in "Babs the Impos-
sible" and "The Heavenly Twins" is
said to be attributable to an unfOrtu
nate early marriage made at the age of
sixteen with man many years her
senior. Mime. Grand resides at Tun-
bridge Wells. She is a member of the
Pioneer Club, an association largely
devoted to philanthropy, and u fellow
committeewoman with Lady Harber-
ton and Lady Henry Somerset. An ex-
tension of knowledge and freedom for
women is Sarah Grand's basic motive
in all her work.
According to the librarian of The
Tabard Inn and The Booklovers Lii
brary, the three most popular novels
during the past few months have been
"The Virginian." by Owen Wister
Dorothy Vernon Of Haddon Hail." by
Charles Major, and THE Conqueror,'
by Gertrude Atherton.
In his article on the Literary Age
OF Boston in Earper's Magazine for
February. Professor Woodberry de-
tends Longfellow's "Hiawatha" and
.Evangeline' from the attacks which
have been made upon them:
ut is the fashion to decry these
poems now" says Professor Wood
berry: yet the fact cannot be gain
said that each of these remains the
only successful poem of it's kind, one
of the Indian life one of colonial pas
toral, one OF the Puritan idyl. while
the trials made by others have beer
numerous; and in each of these, but
especially in the first two, there is il
quality marvellous purity of tone
which for those who are sensitive to il
is one CT the rarest of poetic pleasures
II Is the fashion to decry also the
shorter poems by which Longfellow
entered into the homes of the people
but If heaven ever grants the prayer
that a poet may write the songs of .
people, it is surely in such poems as
these that the divine gift reveals its
presence. They are in the mouths O.
children and on the lips of boys. ant
that is well; but they are also strength
and consolation to older hearts. they
are read in quiet hours, they are muir
INJURED IN darkened rooms, they bleni
With the sacred experiences of man,
lives.
Theodore Roosevelt has written al
introduction to IA Woman That Tolls.
IA story of unusual human interest
written by Marie and Bessie Van
Worst, to be published by Doubleday
Page e. Co., early in February. TIL
authors are both trained writer's. AM
the former is the daughter of the lat
Judge Van Worst. of New York. The,
tell their own experiences as working
girls in a Pittsburg pickle factory; il
Perry. mill town Of New York; i
clothing houses in Chicago; in tn
shoe factories at Lynn. and in tn
Southern cotton mills. They set GU
to learn about the lives of America
girls that work, and their story
highly commended by Mr.. Roosevelt
who writes at considerable length I
make observations of his own.
Nature study has for some yeal
been making u distinct impression VI
on the schoolwork and the literar
output OF this country. Now Libert
II. Bailey, editor of Country Life
America, has made a serious study {
the movement and its results. whic
he publishes under the title of I'll
Nature Study Idea" being an inter
probation of the new movement to pl
the child into sympathy with nature.
Mr.. Bailey. years ago. was assistar
TO the great botanist. Asa Gray.
Harvard. Later he was professor ,
landscape gardening at the Michiga
state Agricultural college, then pre-
lessor of horticulture at Cornell an