Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-24
BOOKS AND
AUTHORS
The MAGAZINE Hero.

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The Magazine Hero is big and broad
And we who would write must follow the
Ard fashion him line for line
1t doesn't matter what real men are
In every day life we know;
There are things the Magazine Man
Or the N gazine Tale won't go.
Would we dare to carve a Magazine
In the stature Of five feet four.
Though the measure of men We meet each
day
Is very seldom more?
The Magazine Man is college grad"
And starred on the football field.
How could We make him a dry goods
clerk
With a pair of shears 10 WELD?
Oh, the Magazine Hero gets in fights,
And never with less than two.
Ina CINE making him run If he could.
Which is just what man would do.
The Magazine Hero loves and weds'
In a month or a week or day,
For it isn't ii question OF dollars ana
cents,
Which is only a real mans way.
So we model him after the regular rule,
| And our story is read with glee.
| For people don't want what real man
But what they would like him to he
| Town Topics.
| If one wishes to ascertain as to pub
| tic taste in reading he has only to con-
suit the list of the most popular books
| of the week. shown by the demands al
! the libraries of the leading cities.
1 From this list we learn that the books
4 most in demand last week. that is. i'll
/ the fiction department, We're as tol-
lows:
| New York-Chlrcnill's TIE Cross
L ing" Parker's "A Ladder of Swords;
Merriman's The Last Hope"
Library of Congress. Washington
H McCarthy's "rhe Lady Of Loyalty
House," Litchfield's The Letter .;
Clemens's "Innocents Abroad" Lynde'S
The Grafters:" KiplinS's II .an-cS md
II Discoveries
II Boston-Wiggin's 1.-The Affair ut the
| Inn" Phelpss "A Singular Life;
Whitney's Faith Gartncy's Girdh"od;
Il OConnor's Three Tales" tonr"ilys
The Seiners;' Churchilrs The
Crossing" and The Crisis" Warmers
Susan Clegg;" McCarthy's The
/ Proud Prince" Hearns Romances.
II Observation-Disclosures odd Cor
II gon Graham:" Crockett's Loves of
Miss Anne" Jerome's Tommy & Co;
Merrimans THE Last Hope"
L Chicago-Churchilrs The Crossing:'
| Virgins "Rabecca Of Sunnybrook
Farm" Wister's THE Virginian.'
OF "The Common Lot" Robert Her
rck's latest novel, the review editor OF
the Boston Transcript SAYS: This
story, simple in itself. is made
no less simple by Mr.. Herricks COM
mand of his resources and by the
straightforward. unpretentious. faith
full manner of its recital. 1t awakens
! the reader to Il sense of the degrading
barbarities of our American civiiiza-
ton, to the crudities of our ambitions
and desires, to the destructive intlu-
ences of a people who never lock into
the past for their Inspiration Mr.
| Herrck pictures with no lenient hand
| the horrors of our modern American
life. with its lack of artistic TeStric-
| tionS it's absence of moral ConSiderl-
TONS its fiamboyant professions. Its
desire for soulless SHOW" its vain
hoastings and its excuses Of so-calied
patriotism. But more than ALL he tells
a story that is worth the telling. His
novel is not sermon; it is a study of
life as he sees it and as thousands or
his readers try to avoid seeing it. THE
Common Lot" indeed, contains in II
much that is best in modern literary
art. If not great novel, it certainly
approaches greatness
Four other unpublished Stories by a
well known writer, now dead, have
been secured by A. G. McClurg & Co.,
and will be given to the public this
fall. They We're written by DIR.
Thomas Dunn English most widely
known. greatly to his chagrin. as the
author Of Ben Bolt" At DR.. Eng
lishs death these four stories were
discovered by his literary executor in
such form to indicate the author s
wish that they be published as book.
The volume will bear the title THE
Little Giant. and Other Wonder Tales"
and will be illustrated by Lucy Fitch