Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-11
Books and Authors.

ing to depict scenes from her private
| NE She has even brought the matter
into court, and the case, as reported in
the London papers, is doubtless provij-
ing MISS Coreli with further op-
poftunlty for wrath against the press
ana the public. Her counsel asked the
| judge to compare one of Miss Coreliic
| recent photographs with the post cards
| and when he remarked that Il gross
| liDei mad becn pcrpetrated upon her
features, there was laughter among
the spectators One card WAS styled
| Shakespeare and his Cont.mporaries. :"
Wnlch looked as if the defendants
suggested that Shakespeare was con-
| temporary of Miss Corelli Other
| cards depicted her on the Avon in a
| gontlola and there Was another card
| entitled Sweets to the sweet" show
ing a pony carriage outside of Miss
Corcllis house. The offence was
aggravated by the fact that after the
staticncrs had stopped selling the cards
the defendants employed a large body
Of sandwich men to parade the place.
| includin" the front of Miss COrclli's
house. With notices that the cards could
be obtained at defendants place Of
business or private house. This had
mad" tho privat" life of Miss Corclli
mtolerdblc, said her counsel, and the
Injunction was Immediately granted.
| n. Holmes and Co." Il humorous
volume 10y JOHN kcndrick Bangs when
will be published on June T.. narrates
the adventures Of Raffles Holmes son
| n TJnI, nd nd of
RafIies-a person of rcmarkab" inherit
lance. being by birth both detective and
lamateur craftsman. Jenkins. his COM
panion, is literary gentleman whom
he engages to write him up.
| A now serial by Mary L. wilkins
Freeman Will appear in an early issue
of Harpers Weekly under tho title of
by the Light of the Soul" Mrs.
Freeman has written what she believe;
to be her most important work of iic-
ton in which is embodied the revciit-
ton of the growth of a young girls
soul.
Fortune certainly smiles on Rex
| Beach just now. His new novel is
selling well, the new play with which it
has been made will be brought out in
the autumn by Mr.. Frohman and 4
gold mine which he had thought value
less is suddenly found to have rich de-
posts of ore. Mr.. Beach has just quit
his home in Chicago to catch the first
steamer to Nome. Alaska. Several
years ago he went there in search of
gold and adventure and though he
found the latter in plenty all the gold
he carried away with him was in the
form of a small button on his coat
lapel and an interest in a gold mine in
which he had sunk more money than
he ever expected to get back. Now the
supposedly valueless claim is yielding
lenornous returns.
How to read and what to read become
perplexing questions in this day of
| books without end. And ii is not thu
youthful alone the ponder over these
Questions. Many middle-aSed and even
older people are often confronted by the
fact that they are retrOgrading; that
they have done little toward stimulat-
ing the activity of the mind since their
schOoldays. They are out of touch
with the spirit of the times.
1t is like trying to answer any of the
other complicated questions of life. for
liffcrert types of mind need different
meth DDS of study and different classes
of books. And it is not so much the
amount of time given to reading as the
persstency of the effort that makes
what IS termed well-read person.
1t has been estimated that 50 little
methodical effort is made by people not
actually engaged in intellectual pur-
suits that the employment of two hours
during each week will make in few
years well-stored mind.
| Whatever you are most interested in
will make q good subject for systcmJ.i"
study. Then reading will become both
enjoyable and profitable A lady who
began study on these lines remarked
| that il was marvellous how everything.
that she picked mp contributed To The
| knowledge she WAS trying to get as
soon as she decided on a definite
subject. She began tho study of tn"
life of Napoleon. and il seemed that the
magazines and newspapers wrr" wins,
with one another to supply interesting
little anecdotes that she would not get
in the heavier histories.
When she felt that she was ready for
q now subject. rs som" Of the masters
of literature, slI" fnunt, til" sam" thing
true again. Material was cv"rywhcre
at hand to help hor in her study.
| 1t is not necessary that We should
scatter our fir" and try to road every
thing in order to bc Intelligent. 1t ia
better to know few authors well. AMI
those who can contribute something for
our permanent good, rather than to
read 1imlcsly . great number of books
and remember little. When on has
read y few historical works it is easy
TO find oneself in the field of history,
and the same is true in poetry. essay
and fiction.
In FrsternaI Circles.