Daily Kennebec journal., 1904-12-26
BOOKS AND
| AUTHORS
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Anecdotes of Rudyard Kipling are
few. and therefore the following may
be looked upon with a lenient eye IL
is said that while the distinguished au-
thor was busily engaged upon tne
proofs TO "Traffics and Discoveries,
his little daughter CHANGED to be IN
the room. Suddenly Mr.. Kipling be-
1an to sing, ION the Road to Manda-
lay." His daughter looked up in sur
prise. Her father kept on singing.
Suddenly she interrupted Kipiing, say
ing, Father, didn't YOU write that
song?" Yes" was the reply. We'll II
seens to me you ought to know the
tune better" she rejoined.
Joseph Sfiarts, the author or Inc
Hills Of Freedom lately published py
doubleday, Page & Co, relates the
following conversation between TWO
of his fellow townsmen, as reported 10
him by bystander:
Heard what Joe Sharts is doing
now"
Lawyer, Amt he
"No. he's cut that out now. Hes
writing fiction for a living"
What"
writing fiction-stOries, you know.
Don't It beat thunder what some
folks'Il do for a little money.
Anne Douglas Sedgwick has been
freely criticised for her spelling IN the
title Of her latest novel. The Paths or
Judgement" AS a matter Of fact. the
use Of the "e' in Judgement Cor judg-
rnent) is recognized by some leXicog-
Taphers, although the preference is
given to the shorter form. Judge
ment" is certainly the logical way or
spelling the word, and there seems to
be no good reason why, with acknowl-
edgment and abridgmeut, it should
form one of a group of three eXcep-
tions to a general rule" or custom.
The late H. G. Bunner always spelled
Judgment with the extra e" and to a
correspondent VINO took him to task
for so printing the word in the pages
OF Puck" he wrote as follows:
The spelling of English words is
matter not of rules. but OF Judgement.
in my Judgement, judgement is a good
way to spell judgement. You may
spell it any way you choose.
But, to be consistent should not Miss
Eedgwick spell her name Sedgewick: ::
The late Guy Wetmore Carryl appears
TO have been very busy author during
the last few years of his all 900 short llr.
judging by, the number Of posthum"us
stories and poems recently printed and
announced by publishers and magaZln"
editors One Of his mos most "a ambitions po-
ems. "A Bearer of Glad TidinEs.' is to
I4nn1TN
illustrations BY. F. Luis Mora; Ills Far
from the. Maddening Girls McClure.
Phillips 4 Coz has already gohe into a
second edition. A Correspondence calls at
tention to the fact that Mr.. Carryl in his
youthful days was the real her" of the
whimsically humorous story. .,Dayy and
the Goblin" written first fOI his especial
deleCtation by his father. Charles r. Car
ryl, and later published as a serial in st.
Nicholas and afteTward in book foIm
In an amusing bit of autobiography
Just printed by Miss NJ f BraduuI She
recalls some memories of the novels OF
her girlhood. "Iiow few they wcI". she
exclaims "the novels Of the late turiirS,
and how proper! Children might peer
into their pages and ind nothing tu
question or wonder about. Thr worst
OF tnem were only dull. The sIcutect
overstepping the mark was something Ia
wonder at. Neil do ! remember hearing
the kind mistress Of trcsswell T.ci%'
telling my mother about this ErIihi'
book called Jane Eyre, bod! tuli ."t
power and deepest interest, but uuit,
unfit for the young person The young
person has a wider range r"W. Sh,
chooses her own reading ana supervise
her mothers, lest she should b" tut. nu"l
bored by maternal jeremiadS On the ~
cadence of light literature. Parents only
bore their children now. where fifty yc trs
ago they scolded reproved, may, ever
punished
Owen Johnson. author of "The Arrow
of the Almighty has written anothel
novel, entitled In the Name OF Liberty,
~ hifb he
after the holidays. Mr. Johnson is th
son of Robert Underwood .lohns"n. asso
Anne Warmers book Of humorous fic
ton. Susan Clogg and Her Friend. Mrs
Australia. Miss Warner has written an
other book for publication next year.
Doubtless no one will venture tn dispute
Miss Corelli's claim to Inspiration by. un
seen powers. thus modestly EXPIRE ssed re
Gently in an English publication: Nov
mirer will ring the bell and offer my but
Ter half a crown to stand inside the hal
for a minute. | won't say he has Away
The authoress diScloses the fact that sh,
produces on an average two or thrc'
thousands words q day Later she be
mind TO accomplish a certain thing. pro
Vided. of course. ii is salutdry in itself
all he has TO do is to place himself in ac
everything in the world will tend toward
the accomplishment of that object.
myself have tested this time and gain
and l know positively what a great thin
Il is. When a human mind concentrate
upon accomplishing a certain object, art
places itself In tune with these unSeel
powers, devoutly wishing and working 10
the chosen end, events will shape them
selves in accordance with that desire
Miss Corelli, however, hastens to explain
that she takes no stock whdtevc in spir
1t rappings and all that sort of thing
1t seems that during his Imprisonment
IN Reading Gaol, Oscar Wilde wrote pa
thetic little book. DE Profundis. an,
that upon his death 1t was left in Charg
of his literary executor. In a sense i
forms the last will and teStamen
of the brilliant and unfortunate author
and It expresses the philosophy Of his ar
as well as the cry of his solitude. Ii
TO be published in London next spring b
Methuen & Co.
The recent controversy which has Ger
tired around Mr.. Hall Gaines incorpora
tion into his latest novel of an epsod
from Rossettis life. says a writer in Th
Academy reminds me of the very man
novels which are founded on tact an
represent real people. To quote merely
few. there Is Miss Mowcher in Dicken:
David Copperfield' of whom the stor
goes that no hearing of the original an
less fiattAring draft of her character. sh
hastens In tears to the novelist and bt
sought him not to make her quite
bad; he complied with her request, br