Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-20

that l just love the purely matter of Coz.
heaithN. commonplace realism depicted in
the dear old novels of Jane Austen and
scribed by Trollope. all so easy to undar-
stand and natural and comfortahi,,
prosy. | have sent for a lot of hooks -,
such caIlbre from the library. and intend
to keep to that class of literature unt;i
my brain is rested and | hav.. recoverai
my mental appetite. New York Tribune
Mary Catherine Crowley, the novelist ;s
lecturing at the Catholic Summer school
Plattsburg. n. Y, on such topics as The
Evolution of the Novelist" and .-The Rn-
mances of an American City Detroit =
New France" The Heroine of the
Strait" and Love Thrives in War" hava
old Detroit for an historical BACKGROUND
and she is therefore, thoroughly familiar
with the early history of that region.
"Much sn-called goody-goody literature
is quite poisonous. and many reSpecta bic
tales are shocking because of their i'm
bt cility:' so says John Oliver Hobbies in
| the course of an Academy article. which
opens with the yet more daring maxim.
| THE epicS OF Tom Jones and Amelia
| ought tn be given to every girl on her
| eighteenth birthday" Mrs. Craigic thinks
Fielding breaches Il better lesson than any
| OF the writer's OF so-c;tlled safe" but
| often Sickly. modern stories OF Amelia
| how She pawncd hrr best chemises and
| her trinkcts to pay for Booths gambling
| debts than be given a long. unreal account
| of her obtaining. in sweet conversation
| and tcagown. several thousand pounds
| from Il Platonic admirer? The pawnshop
| exists; the millionaire Platonic admirer is
vet to he found. And who in his senses
| would not rather believe that the beauti
| full young creature often lost her looks
| and became weary with anNieties Than be
| bolstercd M by falls" descriptions of the
, exquisite pnetical effects of care. illness
L Il h... nh Il..x
| ion? These things have but one effect.
| and it is destroying. Amelia's looks come
| back. and all ends we'll
The chief feature of IIarrer's Weekly
for August 3Jh is the editorial com
| ment on the Interesting phases of the
| present political situation. This is sup
| plementcd by number of photographs
| of recent political events in Which the
| candidates and party leaders have been
| conspicuous. julius Chambers contributes
| some Interesting "reminiscences of Sena-
| tor Fairbanks college days; DR.. Ely Van
de Wark"r discusses the question of cdu-
| eating women with men; and Prof
Charles A. Young of Princeton con-
tributes an entertaining paper on as
| tronomy. telling of the rediscovery Of an
| important satellite Of Saturn. The Lon
don letter from sydney Brooks is entitled
| "Will Mr. Chamberlain Carry Home
| Rule" There are also number of pages
| of photographs of events Of the week
Mr.. A. T.. w. Mason's novel The Truants,
which the Weekly is publishing serially.
reaches its twrnty-siNth instalment.
| writer in The Quarterly" who has
| promptly been taken for Andrew Lang
| praises Conan Doyle because he is an
| unaffected writer and does not pass
| hours in hunting for 'le mot propre.' I"
| The critic Incidentally losses a brick at
| the prgs who. having nothing that de
serves to be said. say il in style which
| stanlcth in an utterly false following OF
George Meredith" In 'MacmilIan's'' we
ind Mr.. Macdonald speaking of the I'M
sclf-cOnSciouSneSS of lIawthorne's style as
its first charm. He has something to
say ana he is concerned to say it lucidiy
AMI effectually, but his words intent
on no mission of their own. The result is
that fresh and shining simplicity of
which q generation who has studied FIau-
bert and Pater and Stevenson almost too
ardcntly has lost the delightful secret
Now. the interest of these two pronounce
mentS lies chiefly in the fact that they
should have been made at all. Slowly
but steadily literature is coming into her
own again. Readers have been getting
tired of precioSity in style. of tawdry
fiction, and of the mess of personalities
which is constantly being served up in
some quarters in lieu of criticism of this
| nr that author. Long devoted to the
cIStiGation of these and similar literary
VaGaricS. We always rejoice to quote what
our colleagues in the fight have to say in
SUPPORT of q high standard. Writes the
| literary editor of the New York Tribune.