Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-23

eTbe Poems OF MIS-. feli'id Iieiiidila'
clscted and Arranged With all OBJ
l,iop,, be Passages Exercised by
E. Y.nowine, Editor Of Isaac
VIC for the. Home, Tho Fireside Han
~ More etc."-with the usual pub
,Irber's name and date at the bottom.
Field eLnced up at the bookseller.
h. stood there the very picture OF SAD
,oempitv, "I'll take it, said Field,
totly. producing the money. Outside
ysnovine WAS missing. At his Office
A. how said he had just left, stating
hat he was going to Standing Rock,
Dakota. to keep an appointment with
slttng Bull.
Marie Corclli writes as follows IN Inc
str,lrd upon the joys and sorrows or
literary life:
TIE rewards and efnoluments of the
ha.pv life, such as | have always
fornd the life literary to be, are manl-
fol and frequently homogeneous. Ihey
nav be- considered in two sectiOEs-the
Eoptward or apparent and the interior or
hyisiblo. Concerning these / can only,
Inf course. speak from my own eX-
|occur $50 far rs ! myself am con-
eertrdD as follows:
Fmst-Certuin payments, small OF
hi@", mad, by publishers who ufder-
tak, to present ones brain work to the
wnrld in print, and who do the best
hh,v can for their authors, as well as
kor themselves.
Second Public appreciation and con-
.mnatirn. about equally divided.
Thirl- critical prais.' and r"nSure
TX of one and half a dozen OF thr
rhrr.
Fn,rth-EndIess requests for auto
Xy}hs.
FIfth -Innumcrable begging letters.
Siyth-Imprrativ sometimes threat
,rtr demands for "intarVicWS.
S.yrnti,-Uundrrds of love letters.
Eighth continual offers of marriage
ty.ra"r number one a week..
ninth Shoals of MSS. sent by liter
,ry asrir1uts to be placed" or recon-
rrwloI"
Trnth-Frcc circulation of lies. carl
ctur,.s ana ISLANDERS concerning ones
BIZ. mes personality, friends. ways
r vnrk aud general surroundings.
EtNuth-Thc grudging and bitter
erimnsity of rival contemporaries.
Twcflh-P"rsistent public ana
Fiyatr misrepresentation of one
harlcter, aims and intentions.
All these things. taken together
Weigh very little when compared with
h. other side Of the medal-the in
tsrinr ANA Invisible delight and charm
G the life lit"rdry-thc unpurchasablr
fpi never failing happiness when no
Nl"'uil advantage can give. no mimi
cal influence take away.
VIII Irwin who collabOrated with
G,tu burgess IN THE Picaroons" and
Il Tie Reign Of Queen Isyl." has recent
h lift his native California to come
Fast and join the forces of the New
York sun. He was formerly Sunday
elur Of the san Francisco Chronicle.
Arther "spooky" incident lies behind
h, lr' sinn To accept the Sun offer. A
S'Tt Will" ago Il letter came to him
s11 When he opened it. he received
quite shock Of surprise in recogniZ-
hS the handwriting of his friend. the
Novelist. Frank Norris. who had been
c'ad some months. The friend to
Na"m the letter had been entrusted
hld dtl yrd in mailing it. In it Norris
aN&ed Irwin to Get to New York,
AMI The delayed epistlc arrived just in
hNr !" help Irwin decide to accept
III oiirr 10 come East.
me hero of Mr.. Joseph Conrad'S new
l'''l "Nos,romo." the scene of which
'dti III a South American republic.
Al" man Who's" name gives the book
~ "''" lir is Il GenoeSe sailor of
"MNE Individuality. The author says
"un that the sight of his black
",SN'fs and white teeth made the
e'Ild"ers quail"
"l"h'l Andrew Haggard. the broth
me We'll known novelist, is to
~'nSh another volume of side Lights
we '"urt Of France" similar to the
"hf'h We reviewed some months
~ viii be called Louis XIV in
.'.' ana Camp" and will be. like it's
'eVeSsor. full Of anecdotes and il
'USfa'ed with portraits.
VI winston Churchil's novels
s,r, "'iuded in the list of the six best
s books in New York city. They
me 'risis' and his latest book.
HE Crossing" N'
pri",; Athenaeum. the representative
life ,n ,i'! exponent of British intellectual
lis ki, u uhliestionahly the hest raner of
gpasn "'i published in the English ian.
koTn' ~, ,S,. now in its seventy-sixth ycar
tsh ia,, nne that surviving glory of Eng
avs 'fi It's rS,, George Meredith, in M M
bach toa Suitor in recent Issue we
and m ,' MI. our four thousandth number
htroI f aEs which in these times Of enhe.
hand r n@,lnres and successes might com
But We ae ept if respect were in Fashion
Continuity 81 see no occasion to make the
fendpncos OF our career or the indal
sertisamo,o1l or opinions a means Of nd
box ha ,sht We prefer. as we paree 90 and and
Who's IN. over years. to thank ~. .ru
our lfas i,pport and confidence hawa ,,, ,,s
s Or ,nr long and who have be, uare MADE
thai S sure as well as our p resed q mat
sas ssn honest search for the trn,h Is due
Y our p s associated with tha which winch