Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-11-21
BOOKS AND
| AUTHORS

Hall Game is energetically defend
ing himself from the criticism that in
h;s new novel ne has DETAINED the
nrivate character of Dante Gabriel
.aosseftfs<h is sell known that the
et.,-ysfaer piacing hts manuscript
Moons in his wife's CONN, exhumeo
Them Later I'm response to the en-
aiea tiesa Of bis friends, and IN Inc
1srodigal Son" Mr.. Caine subjects ms
hero 10 almost the same course OK con-
duct. Naturally, Mr.. Game admits
that the incident in the mover IL
founded on the Rossetti episode. ne
could not do otherwise and expect 10 pe
believed Put" he says, ''if am ac-
cused of ascribing to friend from
whose life | have taken one fact othei
facts which lead my prodigal down 70
dnplicity. disgrace and crime, an
swer. no. I have not intended 10 90 H.
and nave not done il, and to charge
nv book with such an offense IS 10 De
cruel 70 me and an outrage to the
theory of imaginative art MI
came saws he is sure he has not DIS
houored his dead friend RossetI py
ascribjug baser motives to ms
Imaginary character than those Wnlch
moved Kossetti. On the contrary he
has tried, he says. to explain hos-
sc,ti's impulse interpret ms ieehile,
and bring his otherwise mysterious anu
vavvard conduct within the range Oh
human sympathy.
Louis Tracy, author of The PIiiar OF
Light" THE Wings Of the Morning.
and "The Albert Gate Mystery. has
gone tn Nice for the winter, whence
he writes that he is busily engaged IN
rounding into shape his new novel,
: ..Th.. Garden of Hearts Delight. The
. s.en.. Of the story is laid i'll lhdla. De
ing written around the lives OF Akpar'
clne;or " India and the b"autltul EN-
. press Muir Mahal.
4 or Anthony Hopes latest novel. the
Boston Transcript says: Nv hlie IL may
+. adilv be acknowledged that the name
of Anthony Hope attracts immediate
attention and adds distinction to any
work of fiction upon whose title-paSe IL
3upears. We must confess that his lat
.st novel. Double Harness. is some
blv brilliant as it is here and there
extraordinarily deep in its knoWleog'
or modern English society. punSent
with wit in its dialogue. it Appeals u
the reader. we think, more as series
OF essays upon the complications Oh
modern life than as story. what plot
,tncr. is to it involves series OF
matrimonial problems, and it Is 10
their solution that the novelist directs
himself in the development OF MS tale
fNuch of it is true to life. much is GYM
zeal. and much is superbiy clever
.E.adrrs of the Dolly Dialogues vii
undoubtedly find III Double Harness
something to their liking. yet there are
mary who prefer the Anthony Hope o.
The Prisoner of Zenda.
sitting back in the Easy Chair thi:
,month. in 'Iiarptr's.' Mr.. floweiis taik'
10 the innumeralle aspirants To htefarA
fame VINO pave asked him Tor ire Secre
sof success. He talks in that gently play
full mood " hich lends so much charm Il
shis ESSAYS, giving good advice so amiah.'
that even the vainest of young aulhoi;
must swallow the dose without a Stlti'tct
IT l. INST the right advice. rake pains
.lv. MIR IIowclIS DO not Cross brids'
hutil yea come to it Leave the end %
.VoiIr book to certain extent ~ thn
care of itself Half the iail"res t I'm
from writing backward. 50 to say: iron
starting ont with too much of Il feSoiu u
ton to produce sp'cihc result
looked round at the great WORKS OF lit''
AIRY art SAWS Mr. HoHrllS, speaking "
.EnEenio." the character he mas ihNe''te'
to- Cx,r, - his own ideas. ana ne oe
Ii"vrd THAI h" saw i'll them tht eHtdip
from implicit obedience to Il nrst N' I'll
f,..
mocha meal things. could he discern ohrdl
cncc" Begin with genuine lnspiia ',oI
and then work out your scheme 90 no
man n scheme all complete. ana then "N
thincs do not worry about style. IF yo
try tor style" says Mr. Towers. 70
win he like n man thinking ABOUT M
clothes or his manners. You VIII oe youi
self when You are lost in your work. an
then you will come into the only sly
that is proper to YOU. tou VIII III.
have. without seeking 1t. your own sWiI.l
Of phrase Your own turn OF expression
your own diction. and these Will ne YOU
siylc hv which every reader Will know
ynu" Golden words. which every youhl
writer in this country Sand nor lie"
their eldcrs) might proiitably ponder
A contributor to THE Point of View:
in ,.:Scribner' for November litts up M ~
not ~ much OF a purist as he IS piis
The scoru is directed at tho particuia
Kind Of pur;St who looks upon gramma
rs a branch Of ma thematicS. and object
Yevrry sentence in which subject AM
predicate nrr not as nicely balanced as IN
Two numbers of an equation. For eX
ample there he those who protest ina
Won must not say "onc az the mos
unique" for. they argue. If thins !
uniu,,c il can; be more 50; the ad)ecuN
Is incapable Of comparison. No doun
IF Won take the matter mathemttlcaiiH
this is true enough But who wants |
take II mathcna ticaiiy' Only you
homeless prig. II it is asserted that
violate the law he is so fond or citing
to let down the bars all along the me an
to invite corruption Of the lansnase. "
hest retort is that quoted in Sorion.r
from A certain individual: had ratlt
he suspected of breaking the whole a.
dialogue than of lacking a sense {
bn,nor" No sane creature has any ide
al abandoning grammar simply hecans
no declines to drag it around with nil
like a hall and chain. The truth is ma
YOUR purist is apt to he on all tours VIII
YOUR ''prccious writer. He strains ate
cfT,St through lawtulneSS. quite as niue
as the dahster who falls in love with n
Stevclisonian theory of color words,
yrovsls at the feet Of Walter Fater an
roads Ffaubert prayerfully strains att
effect by writing like a milliner COLLATION.
atin. with pastry cook. Between pr
c,ositv and nriggishness there is not n
o., ,b,nSa -Neu York Tribune.