Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-01
Gossip from the World Of
eooks-Rsvisw Of New
Books Authors Plans
for the Ssason-Notss.

We need to learn in order to perform
the operation with success. 1t is the
huin"r which teaches us to distrust
vain enthusiasms and to test all things
by the standards which the masters
have pat into our hands.-New York
Tribune.
Mr.. James 3. Connollys new book
to be published shortly by Messrs. A
>. Barnes & Co, is entitled ION Tvbe.
knolT instead of The Dredgers' as
was first announced. The scene is LAID
at the mouth of Savannah Harbor ir
| Georgia. il region as familiar To Mr.
Connolly as Gloucester. He was for 4
tlInc an Inspector in the government
engineers Office at Savannah.
Rose of the World" bv Agnes and
Eserton Castle, is apparently one o,
the books which are Catching on .
Inc frederick \. Stokes Company re.
port that they We're compelled to orde,
a second large edition on the day OF
publication.
DR.. Cyrus Townsend Brady, autho,
of Indian Fights and Fighters" is an
Episcopal minister, although for mana
Years he has given his entire attention
10 writing. He recently received a
pressing invitation to take the rector
ship Of the fashionable Trinity church
i'll Toledo. O.. and consented to fill it a
least temporarily. until the vacancy
| caused by the resignation of the rect,
should be filed regularly. Doctn,
Brady has. however no intention of re-
inqushing his literary work.
| The Century: Eut according to oui
observation there is vastly too little
| leading done, rather than 100 much
and we think it fortunate that Presi
dent ROosevelt's example has been SET
| forth as an Illustration of what can b.
accomplished. in the most occupied y:
lives. to broaden the intellectual out
| look. His example will serve every
| where as Il stimulus. And the slow
| leader should no. be discourse ed, hut
| encouraged rather; for if he really ha
| the 'dispoSition' to read, the year.
end. under whatever difficulties vii
| give him, also. a list of readings ac-
complished which will shame the in
different and vastly increase his owl
intellectual wealth. Reading for thu
relief of troubled thoughts, as nor.
sedative. is UNNECESSARILY valuable, as
many an Orcrwrought brain has found
and so is reading for tie highest forms
| of pleasure for healthy enjoyment rs
well as for desired information, for new
outlooks, for the broadening of sy:npt-
| tnies and the correction of narrow
views. for culture-abCvc all, for in
| SEPARATION.
One of the chief English booksellers
dc clarcs that there IS Il rover ccasin;
demand for the books OF K; l.. Steven
son. I'VE arc selling Sim almost every
hour" he says.
An English Publisher has been max
ing an odd statement about American
competition. THE American books.
he SAYS (which come over here are sci
ior, of the kind that is wanted: in fact
most of them seem to Dc those tina,
cannot b. disposed of on the other sid'
Of the Atlantic. AS long as this process:
IF dumping inferior stuff on us con
tinues native authors have little t.
fear from The competition. The trad,
in American books IN this country
wants to he entirely rcOrGanZcd
There would be plenty of English buy
crS of the best class If American books
but. in Il general way, We do not Gel
them here
Mr. Andrew Lang is nothing if not /;
lover of wholesome reading. fac'
which makes him an Invaluable force II
modern criticism. Recently he ha:
been locking into the new novels. an,
against them he says. i'm 'LonGman's s
for January. Il humbly beat out my
protest" His objection to them is thai
they are often dull "r dirty. and FRI"
uuently are both. They are dismallN
concerned with n" unwhol"som'
amourS of idle" und@rbrcd people mar
ricd ard unmarried" He turns 70:
comfort to Mr.. Anthony Hope. but finds
in that clever nov"list's latest boot:
In Double Harness" Only dsapn"int
mont. ITO read of thnsc dreadful sets
of naughty married people" he says
makes an F.nGliShman i'll" II
makes us all i'll. II canrot 80 So far.
he remarks. ''as To 1"Spis" the novel o.
icharacter. but do bar the novel ol
bad characters. idle. brainlcss. fulfilled
lustfu maids and matrGns. with their
laprropriat" males. smart Stockholders
AMI others who cumber the ground
There are such people. of course. bu
why should they be considered objects
of interest" They ara so considered by
tn" writer's who invent impossbl,
stories about them for two reasons. II
the first place. the novelist who dcah
lpiquantly enough with these gross
TYPES Is tolerably certain to maxi
money. Secondly. h" is lrst as sure ~
tn. applause of certain readers and re-
Viewers. who will talk at large abou
his libcrality. courage, strength and 50
on.