Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-09-05

appears In the september metropolitan
Magazine THE Great Monopoly is a
tremendous business drama, with Il
tragic ending. Every business man
will be captured by its stirring realism
and to all those who have avoided
business its strange facts will come as
revelation. The story is Of England
but perhaps 1t might have been told Of
our own financial struggles.
Charles Stedman Hanks, the author
Of Camp Kits and Camp Life" was
born In 1856, in Lowell, where there is
still Hanks street named after his
father He was graduated from
Harvard in 1879 and took up the study
of law. Since then he has Travelled a
great deal all over the world and has
taken the greatest interest in all sorts
Of outdoor sports and games. His first
book, Hints to Golfers" has sold more
than fifteen thousand copies. and his
present book is the result of his many
trips to the woods. While in Russia
on one of his journeys, he became 50
much interested in Russian wolf
hounds, then almost unknown in this
country that he brought a number of
them home with him and started a
kennel. Many of his summers have
been spent on his hOuseboat "Clarna''
but at present his chief interest is in
the rate bill, the study Of which he has
taken up at the request Of the Presi-
dent. He has delivered a number of
speeches on the subject, and had
several hearings before the Interstate
Commerce Commission i'm regard to it,
DIR. o. S. Marden, author of the
widely translated Pushing to the
Front and other works dealing with
the problem of success, is bringing out
a new book, entitled Every Man a
King" Its nature is better explained
by the subtitle Might in Mind
Mastery" and it is spoken OF as n
powerful plea for mental influence 1t
will be published by Thomas Y.
Crowell & Co
Among the new novels promised by
the Macmillan Company for the fall
season are Jack LOndon's white
Fang" the story of the tanning of a
wild animal by human association;
Francis Marion Crawford's "A Lady of
Rome: Israel Zangwlls Ghetto
toiIltdltS, COIllulIllIS SoIne Oh MS
most delightful studies of Jewish life
and character; Miss Murfree's "The
Amulet a tale of the Tennessee
Mountains. and Pierre Lofts Dis
enchanted"
1t is the inside history Of a woman's
club with which Miss Helen NJ
WinslOw will deal in her Forthcoming
rEa %
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company an
nOunce it for publication early in
October
In her Power Lot" to be issued by
the Baker & Taylor Company next
: month. Sarah p. Mclean Greene will
seek to give us realistic view of the
Nova Scotia country and the Nova
Scotia character.
Sept. 6 will see the publication by
Doubleday. Page & Co Of James Wat
sons Dog Book" which has been APP
pearing from time to time in parts. the
issue of which was completed last
month with part 10. The work is pro-
fusely illustrated. and treats fully of
the dog in America. Mr.. Watson gives
suggestions for buying and breeding
Information concerning the care of
dogs when well and i'll. and other
matter of use to the dog lover.
Sir Gilbert Parkcr's new novel
THE Viewers" will be started serially
in Harpcrs Magazine for October
The principal scenes are laid in Eng
land and Egypt. The hero is a young
English Quaker. who. by strange irony
of fate. is forced to become an overload
in Egypt.
Percival Gibbon is Il Welshman who
knows South Africa as n man knows
the back of his hand. ana who is writ
ing about IL as no one has ever written
about it before. His story In the Sep
TENDER McClure's. "The Trader of Last
Notch" is 4 tale of Manicaland. and is
full of the fire and passion and glow
OF the tropics. The adventures of the
Trader-his meeting with an outlaw
who first pulls him out of a quicksand.
and then claims his protection; their
flight across the veldt; the hiding Of the
outlaw in the Traders hut: the arrival
of the pursuers: and the Traders
s ",
ar. told with breathless rapdity and
splendid climax. There is curious
and immensely interesting psychology
running through the tale. The outlaw
has committed the ultimate crime of
the Coast-he has shot a women. When
this fact is dramatically announced by
the pursuers. the Trader finds himself
caught between the cross fire of two
sentiments: his antipathy for the man
and his crime, and his deep sense of
obligation. His solution of the situa-
ton is unexpectedly characteristic.
Holman Day has story-"Old Noe
of the Mellicites"-in the September
number of the American Magazine
with two illustrations by Gordon Nc.
Cough. 1t is one of Mr.. Days best.
"a Handbook of Polar Discoveries
has been prepared by General A w
Greedy, and it will be published by Lit
tie. Brown 6. Co. this fall. The bool
will contain an authoritative resume
bolar explorations from the eariies