Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-01-07


pens to have proved himself worthy of
his past. admiration for his achieve
ment is t;nged with peculiar respect
New York Tribune
Miss Sarah Orne JeWett of South
Berwick is to occupy the residence ON
Charles street, Boston, of Mrs. james
Z. Fields While the latter is in Rome
for the winter. The house is full of
literary and art treasures mostly col
lected during the lifetime of her dis
tmguished husband.
Before the hand of fame dropped her
laurels lightly on his brow. to speak
POLITICALLY, Hall Game was Il publishers
| reader and in that capacity held in his
hands the fate of many Il book. That
his good judgment was not altogether
infallible is shown by the fact that he
read and. so il is said rejected The
Romance of TWO Worlds" which soon
;iftcrward was published and became
the success of the year.
ON one occasion Il budding author
mama ged to gain access to his office for
the purpose of submitting Il book to
him.
Hall Caint. took the manuscript from
the mans hands and glanced over it
for perhaps twenty minutes. Then he
gave it back, with a few words of sug
gestion and criticism.
Il do not think. Mr.. Caine." said the
ambitious writer that you should dis
pose of my ideas in this summary fash
ion. That book cost me 4 years
labor
Indeed" said Mr.. Caine. MY
dear fellow. an impartial judge would
give YOU ut least tent
The first thing to do i'll reading Il
book, or Il story in a magazine. or in
any other thing worth reading is to
ascertain who wrote it. An author
talks to Us in his books and just as we
like to know the friends we talk with,
We should like to know the name of the
man or woman whose published
thoughts are entering our daily lives.
Therefore. make it a rule. girls. to read
the title page of the volume in your
hand: and if there be 4 preface. unless
it be IA very long one. read that. too.
You will. in this way, establish an
acquaintance with your author: you
will know him by sight and soon you
will know him intimately. Every
author has little ways and words of his
own. and You will find yourself rec
ogniZing these very swiftly and loving
ly. By-and-by, when you happen in
your story on some phrase, or turn of a
sentence, or little testing mannt rism
which belongs to the author YOU are
growing well acquainted with. you will
feel we'll pleased. and the story will
ID,,
it we've simply the work Of an I'M
known person. whose tones and looks
We're quite nfamiliar.-Iiarper's
Young PEOPLE.
The Century Company has gathered
TIE new stories of horses and hunting
which David Gray has written since
the appearance Of his book called
"Gallops" in a volume with the title
"Gallops 2" Hereafter the first book
will be known as ''Gallops L." Mr..
Gray writes Of the people who have
time to hunt ana coach, among whose
chief concerns are the rearing. riding,
driving, buying, selling. sometimes
exchanging. and always talking, of
horses.
Pause. o youth or maiden. before you
accust"m Your lips to this fatal formula
II have no time to read You have all
the time which. for you. exists, and it is
abundant. What are you doing with it
with your leisure? Mainly goSsipng.
our modern malady is pregaricusness.
We must be in company chattcring.
We are becoming in this matter very
like the Athenians, hut worse. Asked if
he has read a book. Il man unusually
says NO, | have no time for books but |
ma We read review of ii the literary
Eagbag." Now, what is review in the
Literary Rasbag? 1t is not criticism.
1T contains photograph of the author.
description of his early struggles" an
estimate of his income. account of his
homo. wife. dogs and cats and a comment
on his favcrite amusements. Why has
every one time to read all these utilities
about the writer's of books while not one
person in a thousand has time to read the !
books of the writer's?
No more time is needed to read master |
pieces than to read the last new novel |
1t Is not time, but the mind to it." that |
is lacking. Do not dawdle and Put off |
but begin upon something good at once. |
J may freely admit that the study OF |
Bacon and Mill requires seclusor ana |
earnest application. but many good books
say Bosweifs Life of Johnson or the |
doctors own Lives Of the Poets are at
least as easy reading as a new novel and
much more diverting than most new nov
els. You make acquaintance with such
wits and charming characters as YOU do
not. unless YOU are very fortunate meet
every day.-Andrew Lang
The writer recalls a dinner at a rural
boarding house" some years ago. and
the comment Of co-victim thereon. when
the supply was bountifui. the quality
exacrable. 1T is more of a poor dinner
he remarked. than | ever saw befora'''
The same structure applies to, what III,
publishers announcements denominate
as latest publications" and ..newes1 |
books. The plethora, as well as the
quality, produces literary nausea Per-
sonally. and to all readers, the offence is ,