Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-13

Where's the blood and thunder hero
And the wars he used to wage!
| Where's the specter ever present,
And the gypsy and the seer?
| Where, oh, where's the highway robber.
And the swart-browed buccaneer?
| Where's the villain dark and daring,
Who pursued the maid averse?
Where's the helpless. hopeless, hapless
Victim of an ancient curse!
| Where's the lynx-eyed Sleuth detective
| Of the big and brawny arm,
Who, alone and quite unweaponed.
Dealt host Of foemen harm?
Where's the guide and where's the red
skin.
And the trapper of the trail.
Whose impossible adventures
| Were che theme of many a tale?
| Where's the mining camp contingent
OF the California craze,
| And the cruel Ovcrseer
OF the ante-bellum days?
| They are gone, the olden players,
they have had their time and chance,
| There's a newer type arisen
In the region of romance;
| We have turned to realism,
And the greatest novelist
| Is the one who dares to show us
Life and love as they exist.
Susie M. Best. in the American Illus
| trated Magazine.
In examining the papers of l.. F..
Austin, the useful man Of letters who
died in London the other day, a touch
ing revelation of Henry Irving's low
ing kindness was found. Austin. It
appears. was to Irving a sort of all
| moner-"Once a week"-the "Chroni-
Gle" says-'paying out sums regular
ly to the old friends who were side
tracked. Irving never figured as the
giver of huge sums to advertised
charities. But one remembers Sir
George Trevelyan's discovery in Lord
Macaulay's private notebook Macau-
lay never put his name on charity
lists. But Trevelyan found that his
life had been one of almost unexampled
| generosity. The phrase will fit Iry-
| ing"
] Richard Mansfield has written for
| 1.-THE Atlantic" a professional study
which he calls THE Art of Acting
| versus the Art of Talking" 1t ought
to be an uncommonly interesting bit
| Of work. Another article in this field
which will be brought out in the De-
| cember number of the magazine is
one entitled. rs the Theatre Worth
While?" by James l.. Metcalfe, dra-
matte critic of Life"
What promises to be a story with
something of tragedy abo9t it is an
| nOunced for the Christmas number of
"McClure's Magazine" 1t is by Jack
London, it is called Love of Life"
and it describes a fateful struggle in
a lonely waste of snow between man
and a wolf.
Golfers $1,000 prize for the best
piece of short fiction produced during
the summer months has been awarded
to Miss Eleanor Hallowell Abbott's
1.-The Sick-a-Bed Lady," and appears
i'm the issue of Golfers for November
IL.
The romance in the story is entirely
new in its conception, and the literary
skill with which it is handled is not
least among it's charms.
The question whether the serial
publication of novel lessons it's sale
when issued in book form is certainly
answered in the negative in. the case
OF Booth Tarkington's new novel, 1.-The
Conquest of Canaan the advance Or
ders for which were SO large that the
novel was ready i'm its fourth edi-
ton on the day set for its appearance
between covers. Mr. and Mrs. Tark-
ington, in company with Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Leon Wilson. are now in Italy.
They have leased together the villa of
Elihu Vedder, on the island Of Capri,
where they will spend the winter.
The lavish promises of a year ago
were spendidly fulfilled in The Cen
fury during 1905-its verse and eS-
says, it's pictures and fiction, its ar
ticles of timely interest and permanent
value. went beyond all promise and
expectation. The feast in 1906 will be
even richer than in 1905. There will
be the new novel by Mrs. Humphrey
Ward "Fenwick's Career" a new hu-
morous serial by the creator of "Su-
san Clegg," and short stories by the
ablest and most popular writer's Of the
day. There will be authoritative ac-
counts of such wonderful work as our
| construction of the Panama. Canal.
w. S. HARDWOOD will tell of Saving
California's Crops" The director of
| Cornell's School Of Agriculture, Pro-
fessor l.. H. Bailey. will discuss the
and the farm. There will be many
other articles Of kindred value and in
! tereSt.
| Lincoln the Lawyer"-the law ca
reer of Lincoln has been neglected, in
the opinion of authorities like Presi-
dent Mckinley and the Hon. Joseph
H. ChOate-Will begin in the December