Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-24
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SponSlDle Tor 'One OF the most ilIas
sorted marriages in fiction" She can.
not discover lin what moment of mad
ness Mr.. Bennett sought the epregio,,s
Mrs. Bennett for Wife" and she is sure
that nothing can explain sucb On
enigma, despite the thousands of
equally misrnatcd couples thar ono
meets in real life. But Miss Rennliar
acknowledges that Mr.. Bennet "uas
tolerably content with the situation :.
and that lit is not too much to saw
that he enjoys his wife's absurdities ;,
1t is an undeniable fact that the world
of the novelist is full of such strange
miskaps, and our sense of inquiet cor
| responds with our conviction of their
| reality" And. continues Miss Rem
plier, Mrs. Ward probably does not
| exneCt us to believe that Jacob DeIa :
field and Julie lie Breton lived happily
and tremendously together. There is
something as radically inharmonious
| in their marriage as in the union of
| conflicting elements. 1t is not a oues-
ton of taking chances of happiness, as
Sophia Western takes them with Tom
Jones very good chances, to my way
of thinking); it is a question of unaI-
terra Bile laws by which the gods limit
our human joy. But there is no sharr
sense of disappointment awakened in
our hearts when we read Lady Roses
| Daughter, as when more powerful
currents of emotion turn awry. That
Henry Esmond should have married
Lady Castlewood, or rather, that he
should not have married Beatrix.
count one of the permanent sorrows OF
life"
Morley Roberts, the author OF
Rae hel MARI has written volume
of essays, called "A Tramps Not
Book and among its entertainina
material is an account of a visit &c
Stevenson at Samoa. Never had
seen so fragile a man who would b.
king. He owned, with a shyly conf,
glance. that he had leanings towar!
buccaneering. The man of action
were he but some shaggy bearded
snellback, appealed to him. His own
physique was his apology for bein2
merely 4 writer of novels. A.
We went ashore he handed the boo,
! which | had given him to his follower
He thought it necessary to explain IL
| chief should carry anything. And eti-
quette WAS rigid there. Mrs. Gruniy.
he remarked, is essentially a savage
institution. And l had a theory
about him to put to the test.
had never been able to understand tn
laudation of which he was the subjecr
At that time, and until the fragment
of Weir of Hermiston' was given 10
the world. nothing but his one short
story about the thief and poet Nillon
had seemed to me TO be really great
| really - command or even to be an
excuse for his being in the position in
which his critics had placed him. .
l came to the exclusion that. -.
| he must be Gas all writer's think,
| should he) UNNECESSARILY greater than
| his books. was prepared then
for a personality and / found it. . &.
! There are writer's. and not a few of
| them, whose work it is a pleasure to
rerd, while it is a pain to know them.
disappointment. almost an unhappi-
ness, to be in their disillusioninE COM
! pany. They have given the best to the
world. Robert Louis stevenson never
gave his hest for his best was himself
| 1t might De tnat MS DOQy was dying.
| but his mind was young, elastic and
unspoiled by seltishness or affectation.
! He had his regrets, they concerned the
Samoans greatly. Had | come here
fifteen years ago l might have ruled
| these Islands, "
| Kirk Munroe, whose new story, 1.-THE
Blue Dragon is just published by
Harper & Brothers, is a Wisconsin
man. He is the author of more than
thirty books for boys, among which the
Mates" series-"Campmates," "Dory-
mates" and the rest-are among tn :
| best Known. MIR. Munroc was educated
at the common schools and at Harvard.
| He was the first editor of Harper's
Round Table. holding that position for
several years. He has travelled ex-
tensivcly, gathering material for his
books. and is addicted to outdoor life
| and sport. He founded the league of
American Wheelmen at Newport, K. l..
in 1880, and he has a vacation home in
FIOridl.