Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-13

The publishing season is now facing
the quietude of the summer, but we do
not suffer from a lack of new books.
On the contrary, there are plenty of
them to keep every one occupied, no
matter what his special interest in
literature may be. This, as cannot be
too often pointed out, is one of the
most important aspects of the literary
market with which we have to reckon
AS the hot weather approached we
used to receive scarcely anything save
fiction. Now here are scores of new
novels on the horizon, but there are
quite as many books of a more serious
character as even the most captious
critic might ask. Stout volumes on
sociology and psychology make their
appearance at this time; history and
biography are fairly well represented,
and it has even seemed worth while to
the publishers to bring out at this
time the first volumes in an elaborate
enterprise like the illustrated History
of English Literature edited by DIR.
Garnett and Mr.. Gosse. Books of
travel are becoming as numerous as
the sands of the sea. But perhaps the
most encouraging part of the situation
is that history, biography and purely
literary books are now being made so
familiar to buyers of books in the
spring and summer. Though the novel
everywhere flaunts it's head, it cannot
claim to enjoy today the vogue which
it enjoyed only a year or two ago.
New York Tribune.
Sir John Moore, the English soldier
whose death at Coruna evoked from
Charles Wolfe one of the most memoir
able poems in our language, left be-
hind him a MS. diary which is only
now to be published. 1t extends. we
are told, from December 5, 1892, to De-
cember "a 1905 and covers the whole
period from the siege of Toulon to
| Moores' advance on Sahagun, twenty
three days before his death. 1t deals
with the siege of Toulon. at which
Napoleon's career began, with the cap
ture of the West Indian islands, the
| Irish rebellion 1898, the campaign in
| Holland in 1899, the campaign in Egypt
| in 1880, in which Sir Ralph Aber-
crombie fell: Moore's creation of the
Light Division at Shorncliffe, the eN-
| pedition to Sweden and the campaign
| in Spain UP to Sahagun.
| The author of "The Letters of Her
i Mother to Elizabeth" was, as even the
/ unpractised reader might discern, a
i man. His name is w. r. H. TroW-
i bridge. and he is about to publish a
Il book which he calls The Situations of
Lady Patricia"
Il Ibsen hovers on the borders of the
II grave, a frail and feeble man. He may
II live for months, or he may die at any
II momcnt-he cannot recover.
II Miss Josephine Preston Peabody has
II written sufficient verse since the pup
II lication of her third volume to fill a
II fourth, which is to be brought out in
1 the autumn. Miss Peabody has added
H to her poetic work the task of teach
H ing English literature at Wellesley.
II ONLY three copies of ShcIlcys pamphlet
called proposals for an Associate Oh
II PhiInnthropistS' are known to exist. one
Il copv was lately sold for the prodlGlouS
| price of s. 500 1t was accompamrd ny irt-
II tors exchanged between tn" IoStmaSicf
II General and his agent at lIolyhcad, foFt-
|ltiXn to the seizure of a boXful of the so
Il called scditious matter. The panpnlHt
INSPIRED by the political grievances OF Ire
Il land was written when inc poet was oii'S
/ twenty years old.
| Kate Douglas WiGgin returns from Eng
| Hand next week to spend the summer tit
liner country home at Hollis, Maine she
| has brought lack the manuscript Tor IL
lnrw story to bc published IN the autumn
jby IIoughtOn Miftlin x Co.
| Morgan Rob- rtson, whose new story,
| sinful Peck has just been published by
Ithc Iarpcrs has bad varied ana re-
Imarkablc career. Born at OSWcgo, New
| York. he went to sea at the age OF sixteen,
and for ten Years led the life of SAILOR
Then, Ey Il curious change of occupation,
Ihu became Il diamond setter, and ior an
Iuthcr ten years followed that delicate
Itradc, as different Il life from that OF
sailor as could we'll be conceived. After
F., this Mi Robertson tried Western HE as u
lcowboy, easily becoming an expert at
lmnking lariatS by reason OF ms SAILOR
Training. Up t. this time he mad done
nothing in a literary way except to write
verse for his own amusement lie now
determined to write Il story, blocked out
the plot while riding on the elevated RAJ
road in New York and having written 1T,
sold It without difficulty. This was seven
or eight years ago. He IS now the author
Iut sixty short stories and seven books, oil
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