Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-03

workman. He contributes an article
to the October Scribners upon the
place which trade unions legitimately
can and Go fill in the industrial world
benjamin Brooks is another of the
Scribner's contributors, who writes
from personal experience. He has been
draughtsman, mechanical engineer
assistant to the engineer of an ocean
steamer, and a worker in a foundry and
sugar refinery. This time he tells of
locomotive ride across the Sierras.
a young woman who writes from
Waterville, Me-. sent to the New York
Times letter in reply to Bliss Car
mans criticism or '.The Mettle of the
Pasture" In the course of it she sums
up the moral problem in Mr.. Aliens
novel in three sentences which pract-
cally put an end to the argument: Let
man with secret in his past keep it
to himself like hero if he keeps himself
to himself. But it is womans right to
know the past of the man she marries;
AS much as it is his right to know
hers. Any other course is fraudulent,
and gentlemen are not frauds"
In connection with Harper-& Broth
ers' publication of "Monna Wanna" the
much discussed Maeterlinck drama, a
question has arisen as to the pronuncia-
ton of the Belgian authors game. The
correct way is "Mahterink,' not May
terlink or Metterlink. as it is variously
called. The French pronounce it May
terlnk, because the sound Of ae = in
French is ga; but in BeIgiazf French
E,<x<a
link is n Belgian, hayip11O len born at
Client in 1864. He has been styled The
Belgian Shakespeare" 1t WIS in 1890
that he first became famous, upon the
production in Paris of his play sSsas IA
Princesse Maleine." FL
Jack London has saades the .atate-
ment in a recent interview that he aon-
siders THE League oEsthesDld Men'sthe
best of his stories.s TIE statement " is
not surprising in view:of the fact tina t
some people have spoken of it as ore of
the best short stories I'm the Ianguage,
and the high-water mark az MI. Lon
don's work so far. fife Story appears
in Mr.. London's book published last
year, Children of the Frost
tached Pirate the novel which created
no little CONSERVATION in Halifax So
ciety, is making an extended visit in
England. Mrs. Milccete is reported to
be at work upon another novel. "a De-
tached Pirate" is now in it's third cdi-
ton.
Tile untmely death of Mrs. Elizabeth
Cherry Waltz will be sincerely re-
GREETED by many readers of The Cen
tury. She first attracted the attention
or the editors of that magazine by :,
story called 1.-The Praying Match, -
which was accepted and published in
Tire Century for July, 1900. Others in
the original PA GLADDEN." series soon
followed. Mrs. Waltz has had three
Christmas stories accepted for TIN, e
succeeding years of The Century, be-
ginning in 1901 Besides the Christmas
story of 1909. another striking story of
hers will appear posthumously. 1t is
entitled "A Lady of Balance" Her
PA Gladden. stories are soon to be
published in book form. Mrs Waltz
was connected with the Louisville De;-
patch. and later with the Courier jour
nal She was Il woman of indoinitah!e
courage and energy. and there Were
elements of the heroic in the story of
her devoted life.
Anthony Hope calls his forthcomrg
novel Double Harness"--an excellent
title from the pen of 4 newly married
man. Other stories which are on the
way to publication are Mr.. lie QueuX :
secrets of the Foreign Office; the
late Mr.. Fargeon's "Amblers' and
'The House of the White Shadows.
and Mr.. Frankfort Moore's "Ship-
mates in Sunshine" Lucas Malet's
new novel is nearly ready.
Mr.. w. T.. Henley. who was ever 4
h,lsy writer and editor. left an estate
+ Of something under $4,000. He left
eeverything to his wife. and directed hci
to he guided in all matters relating &c
& his literary property by the counsel OF
b longtime friend. Charles whitley. Mr.
whitley. by the way. is Il clever man
of letters and the brother-in-law of tlG
late. James Mcneil Whistler.
The finding of titles is not an cas-.
thing in these days of Astounding fic-
ton. Mr.. H. 3. Marriott Watson has
1OulO one WHICH is HOT Dstu loF HIS new
volume of shore stories; it is ALARMS
and Excursions
Two of the most interesting an
nouncements made by the Macmillan
Company concern the novels upor
which Winston Churchill and Charles
Major have been at work for some time
past. Mr.. Churchill's story will b,
called The Crossing and will dea
with the period of the Louisiana Pur
chase: Mr.. Majors is entitled ''Tht
Forest HEARTH" and will be tale o.
the people who conquered the "grea
Wilderness in the first quarter of thu
nineteenth century.
Clara Louise Burnham, the author OF
many popular Stories is represented ir
the autumn literary output by Il move
entitled Jewel" Like her novel OF
last season. 'The Right Princess" this
story deals with Christian Science in.
tluence.
John Townsend Trowbridge. whose
autobiography and collected poems are