Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-01-15
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And were Bernard Shaw,
We'd soar through mystic maZes
OF super-subtle phrases;
The subjects we'd eXhOrt on
4 Would fill the world with awe.
! II YOU were Edith Wharton,
And l were Bernard Shaw
If you were Henrik Ibscn,
! And | were Maetcrlinck,
We'd cut like babes on coralS,
Our wisdom teeth on morals;
, Wed write sardonic squibs III
| imperative ink.
| II you were Henrik lbscn,
| And l were Maetcrlinck.
| If you were Lyof Trlstoy.
/ AnI | were Turgcnicn.
i We'd write tn" quccrcSt movers
! About high jirks in novels:
\ man W hr was a coils toy,
/ a hero held in feon
! If you were Lvof Tolstoy!
| And | were TurgcnicH.
If Won were Rudyard kiplinS.
And ] were Conan Doyle
We'd watch with eyes a-daflclhS
Cur verbal rates advancing,
And ever ives be TRIPPING
Our hoard of golden spoil,
If yuu were Rudyard kirlinS,
And l were Conan Doyle. -
-,'nrolvu Wells ia the Christmas lAfc.
Four novels by wcll-knOwn writer's
holl prominent place in the spring list
OF ID. Appleton IL co. They are Inc
| Lake" by George Moore. The Heal
rrs.'' by Maartcn Martens. The
'rrium,hs Of Eugene Nalmont.' and
.'rhc Great Refusal" by Maxwell
Grey.
Justus Miles Forman's new serial.
"Buchanan's Wife," which began re-
Gently in Harpers Weekly, deals with
| the eternal problem SO often presented,
so dramatic and cngrossinS and so es-
scntially modern in spirit. The old
time romance ended with the melody of
| wedding bells: the modern story begins
with the discord of mismtted married
| Dcopl,. This story is one that grips
| the readers interest from the first and
! bids fair 10 be even more successful
than was the Weelly's last serial The
| Gambler
The secret of the authorship of Our
Best society" the novel of life among
| New York miIlionaircs. has finally been
| revealed. The book is by Mr.. John d.
| Barry. known as the author of The
Congrcss:han's Wife, novel dealing
| with graft in national politics which
several years ago won the first prize in
! the Smart Set competition and of "A
! Daughter of ThespiS." pronounced by
| Mr.. W. y. Howells the best novel Of
stage life ever written. Mr.. Earry's
name Will appear on the third edition
of Our Best society,"" which is now in
press.
1 'Tbo mast rom, ri, bln thing "a out the
career of Justin Mccarthy. who has
been brought prominently TO the front
again, both i'll literature and in politics.
! is the tremendous amount of work he
has been able to accomplish. Novelist,
journalist. historian, politician and
party leader, he has found time to
travel widely and to cultivate delight
| full social relations with most of the
| leading literary. artistic and political
people of his time. And i'll spite of the
/, energy and thought devoted to political
causes, ne has been continually push
ing on some special and important
literary undertaking of enSrOssing in
tercst. involving an enormous amount
| of labor. How he has accomplished it
all it is said that no one except perhaps
his wife has ever found out.
Kate Douglas WiGGin and Florence
Earle Coates, the poet, are among the
| few American women who have been
invited to become members of that
august body known as the Lyccum
Club of London. The Lyccum Club
membership is confined to women who
| have published original work in liter
3ture. journalism. science. art or music
or thosr who have special university
qualifications
| Now is he time to get busy with
| those rc;IuinS courses. The days are
short and the nights are long. Kcro-
scnc oil is not beyond our reach as vet.
! and if We hope Ia learn anything this
/ winter, we must begin carly. No ION
| ger hay" "" a JapancSc-ituSsian war
| to take up our attention. There is no
excuse for delaying the work IL day
| longer.
! Miss Marie Corclli is slowly writing a
new Eovcl. She is reported to have
| chosen Il very singular and beautiful
| subject for treatment. "The hero"
| AIDES the Photographer of THE London
| Daily Mail" lis Il character unique or
| nearly 50. to the best Of our knowledge,
| in modern fiction. and the whole story,
| strange and distinctly original in con-
| ception. deals with what one may call
| the 'sublimated' passion Of love"
Agnes and F,gerton Castle are writ
| ing series of romantic tales to which
they give the odd title Of THE Mad
Moon" These deal with the period of