Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-07-30

HI Is there any American essayist who's.
Whims are so sane and yet so humorou!
as those Of Agnes Rapplier? Tn,
solemn influences Of her birth in Phil.
. adelphia We're cOunteracted by hel
French parentage. Though convent
bred. she was given the honor of the
title OF Doctor of Letters" by the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania.
| But even this melancholy distinction
has not shackled her lightneSs and
feetneSS Of touch, as may be seen by
, her latest essay, "Children and Their
Educators. published in Appletons
Magazine for August. 1t is a delicious
satire on the horrible moralizing of the
| Older books in which, az she says
"children We're Wonted to stroll by the
lake of birthstone and contemplate their
own speedy Immersion She tells of
Miss Edgeworths theory that children
should not be permitted TO speak with
| servants or even to read q book in
which the child might run across per-
sOnal appeal to be dressed. AS Miss
Repplier comments ironically, He
might-who knows?-be so far corrupt
ed az to have asked his own nurse to
button him up" The text is illumin-
ated by the drawings of Henry Stroth-
mann, whose humOr vies with Miss
Repplier's in piquancy.
Mark Twain has completed two
part story, entitled "A Horses Tale" and
it will begin publication in the August
Harper's Magazine. Part of the MARIA
tive is told by the horse. Mr. Clemens
is spending his summer near Dublin.
L..
| exceptionally braclng and stimulating,
and so excellent an aid to hard and
| continuous work that he is almost
| ashamed to confess what a pile of man.
uscript is growing under his hands.
st is possible l could have done it
| elsewhere he says. Il do not know;
1 have had not had any disposition to
try it before. I think l got the dispo-
sition out of the atmosphere this time.
| l feel quite sure. in fact, that that is
| where it came from"
| A reader of Kenneth Browns spirited
| romance, "SirOcco," recently wrote
the autOr asking why he had not, dur
| ing the entire story. disclosed the
| Christian name of the hero. 81 have
| grown SO fond of Duncan that 1 want
| to call him by his Christian name.
which 1 do not find in "Sirocco." Mr..
Browns reply reads: "While Duncan
| is mentioned several hundred. time in
| 'Sirocco' it is quite possible that have
not given his Christian name. To me
he was always plain Duncan, but if you
have paid for your copy of 'Sirocco'
you may call him SAM"
Hamlin Garland. author of "Hesper,"
"The Tyranny of the Dark etc, is
now in England. where he will visit
Henry James and Rudyard Kiplng in |
Sussex before crossing over to Paris. !
| Mr.. Garland has almost entirely recov-
| cred from his recent illness, 50 that he |
writes his publishers, the Harpers, that |
he "fees like working on the novel |
| again" After Il few weeks i'm Paris |
Mr.. Garland will spend some time in
| Aries, Nismes, CarcasSonne, and other |
famous old French towns before going |
to Italy.
In the August McClure's Jack London |
| has n story that in its vigor and power |
must rank with his very best. He sets |
| the scene in the country he likes most. |
Alaska, ard with incidents of a most |
| thrilling and bizarre kind, hammers out !
=
full murder of two mining companions.
| the painful and crafty death watch Of
long weary weeks kept over him at
risk of body and brain, by the remain |
| ing man ana his wife, and the final
hanging of the culprit by the woman
in the presence of a group of Indians
| herded at the gun-point to be witnesses
Of the event. 1t will be remembered
lae, In, Mo
Clure's Love of Life" was based upon
an actual occurrence: as Mr.. London
| declared when some facts of the story
were brought into question. This new
story is also real human document,
based upon an incident well known
| among Alaskans: the hanging of
Michael DENIM by Mrs. Edith Nelson
which took place at Latuya Bay in 1900.
| The story is powerfully illustrated by
four full-page pictures in color painted
by Z. l.. Blurnenschein.
DIR. c. Stanley Hall. the psychologist,
| has a word to say in defence of the
much decried dime novel. His plea is
| in part Endorsed by the Worlds Work, |
which says of the despised yellow COW
cred shocker; "The heroes worked
hard. They played fair. They were
alert: They had both daring and
| imagination The good hero always
triumphed. The villain was shot.
But in the changing fashions another
| form of literature has come that is
| worse than dime novels ever were: and
| its victims are women. If a thrilling
story of frontier life made a cowboy of
| a lad now and then, the society novel
probably plays worse havoc with the
women who loaf in Florida in winter
| and at Atlantic City in summer, and
with girls who regard the life of the
| loafers as the ideal life
| 1.-THE pleasant business Of exporting
Japanese silk may be denied to
foreigners in future" says Charles
! Edward Russell in Soldiers of the
Common Good" in the August Every
body's.