Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-07-16

me coinrletel novel in the Ju,,,
. Inc Heart of PapriL. ;,
ny d young writer, Jane Ral6o,
~ ii'S previously published notbina'
ioiliouS than short storias 90
re" verses Miss RelfeId We -u
toid, spends her summers ar CO. Ne
ana mere this story was vr,tta,
'ypE's peing accomplished in a 60, le
room over an old annex to her cottaa.
where empty soap boxes and hor,a,
,opp7u win boards served for seats for
ier secretary and herself And baro
Hhc vas secure from her friends" The
NV 10 supposed to be an intimate
reVeiatioh o. the heart of a girl
IL 'He .lood OF new fiction not all tba
old favorltes are forgotten. Misc NJ.
'oi!iH'"li 10 Have and to Hold, fo,
eA"'pie' haS now reached a sale ~
more 'hah "oo,o00 copies, and Mr. r
!'"oNiiisoh smiths Caleb West" has
Just passed the 100000 mark ,roda,.
liGuGhtcn. Mifiin and Comnanv ara 80
publishing these two stories i'm non,,Io,
editions. fpN'''i
! Anne douglas Sedgwick, who IS at
tractihS attention by her new story
Ihe shadow of Life" has lived so l,ns.
III England that most people have for
gotten she is an American. She is !.
/ very reserved individual, who refuses
! 10 pt hiio"h personally or to he dis
| tihsuished by having her name printed
| III P"pilcaQons devoted to literary
cerepritieS' preferring to be known
oi,iy Wy her work. Miss Sedgwick has
| W"is,th Paths of Judgment" 1.-THE
Conlouhding of Camelia," 1.-THE Res.
cue and THE Dull Miss Archinard
MIS-. Mary Dillon, author of an Old
Eellaire' and 1.-The Rose of ola 81
L'uis' mas novel entitled 'The Lead
ef III the press of Doubleday. Page
ana company. In this book Mrs. Dill
ION leaves the field of historical ro
nance for the drama of political life
OF our own times. The subtitle is
Inc POliticaf Idol" and the hero is
man of great personal magnetism
and tenacity Of purpose who leads the
Ioriofn nope OF his party in the face of
overwhelming odds. One of the most
dramatic chapters deals with the last
national Democratic convention at ST
Louis.
Sir Wyke Bayliss. the president of
the Royal Society of British Artists.
gave TO his publisher only week be-
fore his death the MS. of a volume of
"reminiscences. 1t will probably be
published in the autumn. Sir Wyke
was man Of considerable humor. and
1T is supposed that his book will be full
OF anocdote. An acquaintance, by the
way. remembers him as saying,
apropos of Whistler. that the author of
1.-THE Gentle Art of Making Enemies
described with airy nOnchalance on
one occasion the r. b. A. as consisting
of whistler, the friends of Whistler.
and people of no Importance" Sir
Wyke smiled as he acknowledged the
inference that he was himself in the
last category
Another edition of Anthony Troll
lope's novels is coming out in London
This dition includes the Barsetsbire
books, THE Warden" "Barchester
Towers cdr Thorne,' "Framley
Parsonage" 1.-The Small House of AL
lington' and "The Last Chronicle Of
Rarset.' Some of the characters of
these books. it must not be forgotten
are taken into later novels by Trollope
and the reader cannot afford to leave
unread for example. 1.-The Dukes Chill
dren." in which the elderly man who
was once "Planty Pall'' becomes so
pathetic figure.