Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-03

her quaint country house in the little toWii
of Hollis, Me-. where she does most Oh
her writing in IN old apple orchard often
beginning before breakfast, She IS strong
ly urged to write sequel to "Rebecca'
and may decide to do it.
There will be two portraits of unusual
interest in the May Century. one oil l9i l
stoi and the other President Roosevelt:
The Tolstoi likeness is from a drawing
made by George T. Tobin from a photo
graph, and shows Tolstoi at %. as an Off
GER in the Crimean war. The President
portrait. in tint. will be the frontlsplece
of the issue and is from photograph
taken by Arthur Hewitt at the Nllte
House, Jan. 90 1904
Henry Holt & Co have in press novel
of Partisan life by the lat. late Guy Wei
more Carryl. 1t is called The Transsres-
sion of Andrew Eane," and in II are ue-
picted salient characteristics OF that com
pick community, the American cololE III
Paris.
Sarah Jewett has written little since
The Tory Lover" 50 her story OF \
Spring Sunday" in May Mcclure Is es
pecially welcome An unaSSumlng ldyl IN
prose. it tells with lines characteristic OF
her work the tale of a Sunday excursion,
stolen under the nose OF Ne" EiiS ittl1 my
conscience, by which "A middle-ased ana
settled" pair found again soihe Vi the
lost rapture of courtship
The London interviewer has been at
work on w. d. Howells arrived 10 disSect
the heart of English society, and Col.
George Harvey, who explains mat Henry
James and Howells. recognized. feSpec.
lively, as the leading literary analysts OF
England and America VIII traHe teriltoly
this wear HowellS dwelling IN England
while James returns to rub elbows with
the states. Touching Mr.. Howeils person.
al appearance. his interviewer was much
Impressed by the marvellous crease in his
trousers his cheerful, even dapper, air.
and a small gray moustache. that seems
particularly characteristic, or the Ameri-
cans of the upper classes. Col; harvey,
on the other hand, was remembered for
his tortoise-rimmed glasses, his unusual
deliberation of speech and Il cold, clean
shavrn face. He said, so the story runs,
that Mark Twain is our only firSt-rate
humorist and that humor is the crying
need of American letters.
Ray Stannard Baker writes from his
home at Lansing. Mich, that his work on
Great Labor Conflicts" for McClures
Magazine has been somewhat interrupted
by a broken leg, resulting from a IAN
into a coal hole. "A most unheroic and
gnominious performance, he says lacoh-
ically.
Lee & Shepard will publish early in May
a rather remarkable book written by
Young girl of only 10. 1t is entitled How
a Little Girl Went to Africa" Ieona
Mildred Ricknell. the author, is the child
OF two missionaries VINO went OUT loi
service among the Zuus just before the
outbreak of the BOer war. She tells OF the
long voyage, of her experiences in London,
and of her residence among the StranS"
peoples of South Africa. The simplicity
and truthfulness of tn" style ana the
scraphic uuaintnesS of the expression
max it notable. 1t will be illustrated
with photographs.
Mrs Humphrey Ward has selected The
Al, e 4 = q
for her new novel. which begins serial
publication in the June Harpers-
Mr.. George Meredith. writing of the
late Sir Leslie Stephenson's work in lit
erature says: The memory OF 1t re-
mains with US. as being the profoundeSt
and the most sober criticism We have had
in our time. The only sting in it was an
inoffepsive humorous irony that now and
| then stole out for Il roll oyer, like furry
cub. or the occasional ripple on Il lake in
gray weather. We have nothing left that
| is like it.
Will Crete has made the illustrations
for Mrs. Florence Morse KngSlcy'S new
novel. The Singular Miss Smith Mrs.
Kingsley Is best known through her his
Neutrality-suspicious. novel. Titus: a Com
| rade of the Cross" Of which more than
2.D1GJ copies have been sold in the Unit
| ed States. The Macmillan company an
nOunce THE Singular Miss Smith for
puDlicdtlOn soon.
Wee Macgrecgor" the HarperS are pub
| fishing. was born in Glasgow in 1871. He
| is the son of Mr.. James r. Bell, the senior
partner in the well-known tobacco man
ufacturing firm of MessrS. j. Il +. Bell.
Young Mr. Bell entered the chemistry
class Of Glasgow University in order to
| make a special study of the blending of
| tobacco. But the literary spirit was
in him and he hogan trihnt in q
| to the Glasgow Evening Times. one day,
having written himself out of his usual
| subjects. he turned his hand To tn writ
| ing of Il sketch about a little Glasgow
boy, and sent it to his editor with apollo
gies for having left his beaten track. The
| editor published the sketch. and it proved
to be the beginning of Wee Macgreegor.
the little book that sold over 10000 cop
les in Great Britain alone. last year, be-
sides many thousand copies in this coun-
try.
A new novel is announced by Thomas
Dixon Jr author of The one Woman
and The Leopard's Spots. 1t is said to
be- in a way, companion to his first
book and is entitled The ClanSman.
Mr.. DiXon's purpose here is to show that
the original formers of the Ku kluX Khan
were modern knights errant. taking the
only means at hand to right wrongs.
Aproros of Mr.. Dixon, his 'Leopard's
Spots is reported to be well in its second
hundred thousand while The One No-
man" is passing the 100000 mark.
1.-THE Autobiography OF q Tomboy." by
Miss Jeanette l.. Glider. scored sue
cess last year Now Miss Glider is to fol-
low it with a sequel The Tomboy at
Work." which is announced by Double
day. Page II Co. The story is written
around n girls experiences in business.
and though many authors have sung the
theme, there is a place vacant for Il really
clever. sane story Of the modern girl in
the business world.
The latest book to be dramatizcd is
1.-The Gordon ElOpement," ny Carolyn
Wells and Harry p. Taber Miss Eleanor
Robson is being mentioned for the role
of Miss Ethel Martin, the dashing young
woman from Columbus. Ohio. who is the
heroine of this merry farce in fiction.
1t is stated that William FaverSham
will probably be starred in the drama
tization of IIamlin Garland'S popular
novel "HeSpcr." which is now in course of
preparation by Claiming Pollock, drama
fist OF Norris'S THE Pit
The day of the Ground-dOwn author
is past and gone. There was a time when
the poor chap sometimes went Shivering
to his publisher to borrow in advance
enough money for a square meal that he
might proceed with his work. Now the