Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-09-12
With the Writers.

With the Writers.
Mr.. Hornung has decided to call his
new group OF Raffies stories "A Thief in
the Night; Further Adventures of A. J.
har'es. Cricketer and Craftsman" The
MessIs; Scribner say these adventures
are stu better than the old ones. They
fan novel. THE Wood Fire in No. 8
that It Is just as good as Colonel Car
Ter Christmas" James B. Connolly is
a; az ms best in The Deep Seas Toll" A;
ana u, 'Nipps: The Story of the Simple
Soul has all the qualities one is accus-
TONED to look for in the work of III. G.
WeliS Mr.. Huneker has expended a
ing some short stories to be entitled
Missionaries" But the big Scribner
book this fall will doubtless be Mrs.
Edith Wharton's novel of New York So
clety. The House of Mirth" which has
been the subject of no end of comment
during its serial run in ScribnerS Maya
zine.
Each one of Harper's periodicals. has
novel in progress that is certain to be
one OF the successful books of the season.
Harper Magazine has Booth Iarkns-
tons The Conquest of Canaan in Har-
pers Bazaar Mrs. Mary Wilkins Free
mans THE Debtor" is a leading feature
while one of the main attractions in
iarpers Weekly is The Gambler by
The Masaueradcr These three novels
will be published in book form before the
holidays
The best down-eas short stories come
from the pen of Holman f. Day. himself
down-easter He has now written a
novel. his first. in his own field: Squire
Phin' will be published by a. S. Barnes
and Company, who have also IN press
The Cherry Ribband. by the industrious
and always readable 5. X. crockett: ana
The Mountain of Fears by DIR. Henry
c. Rowland.
The first member of an illustrated art
magazine The Scrip. will be issued this
month by MOffat. Yard and Company In
addition to articles on art SUBJECTS eacn
number will contain IL list of the current
art exhibitions. and space Will De deVo oIt
to the arts and crafts movement. The
editor of the new magazine will be Eliza
beth Luther Cary.
Andrew Lang has been writing an in
PRODUCTION covering his experiences In
crystal gazing for Prot: Ncrthcote
Thought Transfcrence" which the
Dodge Publishing Company is to issue
This is but one of a thousand more or
less, of Mr.. LanG's present literary ac-
tvities. He has lately been engaged IN
working out a solution OF Dickens I'M
finished novel. Edwin Brood
The September Critic tells a pleasant
anecdote of Dr. Furness of Philadelphia
editor of the Variorum Shakespeare.
When he received d letter one Gay from
a total stranger in another city. inquir-
ing the date of his next Shakespearean
reading, he responded at once with two
tickets and his invitation to spend the
night at his house. How could l do
less?" he only asked, wnen his family
expressed surprise.
The latest fruits Of Tom Masson's hui
N h.tfh
collected in an elabora tely illustrated vol
ume to appear with the imprint of Moffat,
Yard and Company. The same publishers
are on the point of bringing out Jessie
Wilcox Smiths new series of child pic
lures in color, to be called First Steps
in Child's Life"
1t is good many years since DIR. j. M.
Ludlow wrote the capital story by which
he is best known, The Captain of the
JaniZaries.' He has now completed an
other on the same pattern entitled Sir
Raoul." in which the scene is CONSTANT
nople at the time of the fall. The vol
ume will be published by the Revell Com
pany. Other books in immediate pros
J. Dawson's Makers of English Fiction
and an account of the recent evangelistic
campaign of; Dr.. r. "A: Torrey and
Charles NJ Alexander. entitled "A World
Wide Revival"
Arthur Rackham's drawings. recently
exhibited and talked about in London. arc
the feature of a sumptuous edition OF
RIP Van Wrinkle which Doubleday. Page
and Company have in hand. Mr.. Rack
ham is gifted with an ina ination, and
he has employed it in producing 2 set of
gnomes and COLLINS as humorous as they
are horribly uncanny.
Joaquin MIler's The Building of the
City Beautiful will be brought out in
book form by Albert Brandt of Trenton.
N J. This Social vision of the veneer
al. in
the pages of the Arena magazine.
Anne Warner has finished another book
of humorous fiction in the vein of her
famous Susan Clegg' stories. The new
volume is to be called THE Rejuvenation
of Aunt Mary" Readers may look for it
shortly from Little. Brown and Company.
along with two books of travel sketches.
Two in Italy by Howe. and The
Florence of Landor." by Lillian Whiting.
The data and conclusions arrived at
though exhaustive. study of Trades
Unions in America by professors and
are set forth in volume in the press of
Henry Holt and Company. These pub
fishers have also in preparation Extinct
Animals by Prof. e. Ray Lankerster of
and How Made" by Silas A. Lottridge; Il
popular book on hygiene. by DIR. Edward
Curtis: the first volume of StopfOrd
Brooke's Lectures on Shakespeare" and
a book on the negro in American politics.
by George S. Merriam. Their fiction an
nouncements include The Professors
Legacy" by Anna II. Sidgwick: story
of American filibusters. called Losers
Luck" and humorous tale of cast
away bishop. by Ronald Macdonald.
A book from the physicians point of
view entitled Vital Questions by DR.
Henry Dwight Chaplin. is forthcoming
from Thomas Y. Crowell and Company
The Sweet O. the Year.