Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-10-01
Books and Authors.

Books and Authors.
George Herbert and His Times"
by A. G. Hyde, will soon be issued by
G.. l.. Putnam': Sons. II will have for
basis all available sources Of informa-
ton and will attempt to make any
| future life of Herbert Unnecessary
AS a poet Herbert will be presented as
ono of the group that includes Dome,
ICrashaw, Vaughan, Withcr and
Hcrrick, and he will be looked upon
by his biographcr as perhaps the chief
of those writer's Of verse who sought,
first of all, to minister to "dejccted
| souls"
Mr.. Harold Morton Kramcr's
| Hearts and the Cross" published
September first has already required
Il second edition, which his publisher
| Lpthrop, Lee & Shepard Co. has in
press.
One Of the most important and Ger
| tainly most beautiful Of the books of
| the year is Peter Pan" which will
be brought out early in October by the
Scribncrs This gives the complete
story of the most attractive of fairies,
| the wonderful Peter Pan, as it is con-
| tanned in the play, in the chapters of
"'Thc Littl" White Eird' with some
| cmcndati"ns by the author which
| round out his history. The illustra-
| ti"ns for the book are by Arthur
| lsackham, the English water color
artist whose sketches for Grinm's
Fairy Tales and Rip Van Wrinkle
| made such a sensation. The illustra-
| tons, which will be reproduced in full
col"rs, are as charming and as
dclicatcly fairylikc as Mr.. Harrie's
text and the two together make a
book of rare beauty
The Macmillan Company publishes
TINS week Il new volume of short
stories by Jack London, with the title
"Moon-Facc;" an illustrated book of
description entitled "A Wandcrcr i'm
London by +. V. Lucas, by the
hi"Sraph"r Of Lamb and author Of "A
Wand"rcr in Holland" a new edition
OF Dr. George Birkbcck Ujlrs
harvard College by an Oxoni,u.~ a
Professor Irving Fisher of Yale
University, entitled THE Nature of
Capital and Incomc;" "Yorksbiro
DaicS ana FEELS, painted and describ-
cu by Gordon Home; Readings ON
.iic inferno of Dante" two volumcs).
ny w. w. Vernon; "Stonchcnge and
othcr British Stone Monuments" bv
or Norman Lockycr; q Geography Of
me state of Washington, in the series
Oh supplements edited by DR.. Ralpb
W. Iarr and DR.. Charles A. McMurrv:
ana Exposition in Class Room
Irac'lcc, by Theodore c. Mitchill and
1Tclcssor George r. Carpenter.
MIS-. Sarah z. Mclean Greene. tho
author of Power Lot" which rho
i'aker d Taylor Co. published on Sem
.''ihcr lst, has recently purchased =
mousse IN Lexington, Mass. where she
'htchdS permanently to make her homo |
IN TINS home Mrs. Greene is fndina. ~,
immense amount Of satisfaction ana |
nor little attempts at housekeeping ana |
thc nome comfort after some wears ~ |
wandering and hotel life give her an
unboundcd joy.
Il. ;. Osbon. by Albert Bigelow Paine
tMcClure, Phillips & Coz is announced |
Tor september 18th. 1t is remarkable |
p"ok OF the career of a most remarkable |
man, into whose life has been crowded |
more incident and adventure than is |
given to ten average men to experience. |
capt OSbon followed the sea all his life |
'ook part IN the wars WaGcd against |
| ha hi N,.;,,
with the present King of England; was
active at Fort Sumter and with Farra- |
gut in the Civil War; became admiral |
in the Mexican Navy; and served in the |
late Spanish War His "reminiscences
of notable personaScs are most inter-
esting and valuable.
a magazine feature out of the ordi- |
nary is Count koSui Otani'S account in |
the october Century of "Thc Japanese |
Pilgrimage to the Buddhist Holy Land"
personal narrative of the Hongwanji |
expedition Of 1902-03. The author Of the |
narrative is Lord Abbot of the Western
Monastery of the Original Vow. Kioto.
and the highest Buddhist official in
Japan; and his visit to the ruined cities
and remains of Buddhist civilization
Duficu IN the desert sands of Asia and |
to the Buddhist Holy Land i'm India
means. of course, an experience of rich |
and unusual interest. The illustrations
will be from photographs made during
the expedition.
Iothrop, Lee & Shepard 60. has in
press a ncW edition Of the standard |
juvenile. cats Arabian Nights" by |
the late Mrs. Abbic Morton Diaz.
Sir Gilbert Parkcr'S new novel. The
W"avcrs. begins in tho October number
of {Iarper'S Magazine: The hero is a
young Quaker, an overload in Egypt,
where the scenes are largely laid.
"Many of my friends have constantly
urGc1 me to try my hand at a novel of
modern English life" the author said.
recently. "and so at last decided to do
50. For the sake of avoiding living
personalities l have cast back the plot
some thirty years. The interests Of the
tale are divided between England ard
nd cd nfI