Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-12-18

''ui"rly wei, and Yarmouth ,,b
many OK the scenes of 9TH. M
ere are Iaid, is Sidmouth in Sa,,.,
avon. OF herself she writes. ~ ou'h
iiVed very quiet life in Tia ,.
uhtli he last nine years. c,, .,y
pest II: the country and worl. INK
town-the former. straneo az Isl IN
SEEM oilers too many distrac,i,S
FOR the last nine years Misc g.,
I.as maze her home in or near ro,,iSl' ID
Whiie her work shows that gha raaa
ses an unusual amount Of classicaI ,
general scholarship, she has ma a''n
niue education in the technical saS
Shr studied at private school TO- ' &
year, and at the Ladies' COLLEGE CIV. p"e
tchham, for another year. Bevond ~
aiie ildd 10 hclp except III her own VAT,
ing Ihis was by preference RAJ, i
Trcek classics and from tho woalt,
EliZabethan literature. Her ,i,a VI
HE began by the writing of verco tn
FpiuineS OF poetry We're pubIisbed :,
1914 ana 1870 respectively. and she has
contributed sonncts to the maraz;no,
AZ various times. Experiments /
piihk verse drama, which yera u.
carried beyond the experimental c.,
may have given her practice in th,
writing of dialogue and in the plappin,.
ii Z story. and so made the trapsi,ia,
70 hovcl-writing less difficult
r.adlng during convalnsccnce ~.
BRUSH Medical Journal prescrihes H, "
tur' that cheers but does not inabr;a.
iIld warns persons recovering from iIlnes,
against writers whose style, like tbat .,
george Meredith, puts a constant str, =,
On me understanding of the reader nr
II artlliclal glitter, or like that Of MARI
coralH. annoys by its frothv imr na.e
mrn lt.s iosc Dickens should 20 wen during
least in surgical cases because az ~
MANY side splitting episodes which r.o,ii
play havoc with the union of parts E'
the same reason. in order that heaIin,,
EXAMINATIONS may rot be nterfarod ,,';,i5
Mark Twains works are absolutely inter''
diCtrd inter-
Smiles Self Help is quite nnocuo,,s
says the learned journal. hut W shonia
be cautious in recommending il in nr%n.
that the patient NAV not thereby no Icd
10 mediate over misspent career and IA
have suggested to him all the opportImi,
ties in life lie might have grasped, bnt did
not. A dependency might thus be in
duced which would delay a restoration n
health. ANA which might even prove fatal
ThacKeraY. except Vanity FAIR which
is pessimistic book should 60 very well.
'Pendennis' and Barry Lyndon will cer.
tainlY entertain
New Haven Register: Tho dinner river
in honor of Mark Twain Tuesday evenips,
by his associates in the Harper Brothers
literary shop and by his literary contem-
porarteS. upon the occasion % MS seven
tie,h birthday. was the most remarkab.
thing Of its kind we have any rpcollectioY
Of. He found himself surrounded by ali
any ornament abcre whom he lowered
as the leader of them all Americas
greatest an6 most subtle, as well as witt
est sage and philosopher.
His speech will live as the brightest and
sweetest he ever delivered upon This del
cate occasion. Tie closed il with this
delicate reference to the years that har,
Come ami gone.
IF YOU shrink at thought Of night ana
winter ana the late homecoming from
the BANQUET and the lights ard Ihe hugh
ter. through the deserted str"'t~-:i deso-
latiOn which would not remind You now
as for Il gene ration ii did. that your
friends are sleeping. and You must cr".p
III a-tiPtoe ana hot disturb them but
would only remind YOU that vnU NERD, not
tiptce, YOU can never disturb thea rt"r .--
if YOU shrink at thought Of th"S.. things.
YOU need only reply: Your invitation
donors me. and plcaseS me because yOn
still keep me in Ynur remembrance, hui
am seventy: seventy, and would nestle in
the chimney corner AMI Smnk'' my lhi"''
and read my book. and tax" my r"~.
wishing YOU well in all affection, ami thar
when YOU. in your turn. shall "rr.vr AZ
Pier No. 20. YOU may step #hnar1 Your
waiting ship with a reconrilcd spirit. H"i
lay Your course toward the sinking sun
with contented heart
Nothing more characteristic of the man
was ever spoken. and we can well believe
his friends found their eyes wet with
tears anG their lips trembling With SUP
pressed emotion as he took his seat IL
was q literal heart beat.