Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-07-09

work deals with hero VI "'''
origin and tells how ne ioVes
baugbtv maiden who regards MIN with
contemnt and what effect his generous
nature finally has upon hei'
new edition Of Mrs. Gaskelrs
works called 1.-The Knutsford Edition
will appear. soon under the futham
;mnrint II will be "biographicar
EDITION in the sense in which MRS.
Ritcbies "Thackeray" Is so called.
The work upon it is being done under
the editorial supervision or Or.
Adolphus w. Ward, Master OF feter-
house, Cambridge.
1ustus Miles Forman's dramatic
novel "Ruchanan's Wife" which has
inst CONNECTED serial publication in
farmers Weekly, will be published in
hook form some time In August.
The writer who signs herself ''E.
Nesbit" is i'm private life Mrs. Hubert
Bland and she lives in an old place,
Well Hall, Kent, I'm England. Mrs.
Bland is well known as writer of
children's books, but in her forthcom-
ing novel. 1.-The Incomplete AmOrist."
she has written story fOr grownups
with a character somewhat after the
order of Sentimental Tommy'-a
man who is universal lover and
finally becomes affected by a real pas
sion himself. Mrs. Bland is an
enthusiastic Outdoor" woman and
takes great delight in swimming and
boating.
| Robert Kennedy Duncan, author and
scientist. has gone to the Canadian
woods for a quiet summer in order TO
| finish his series of articles on THE
Chemistry of Commerce" Prof. Dun
can recently returned from abroad,
where he has spent an entire year in
|vestigating great Continental in
dustries, especially in regard to the
practical application Of scientific dis
cOveries to the uses of commerce. He
| finds among other interesting facts
that one reason for Germany's pro-
gress is that the large manufactures
profit by the practical assistance of
noted scientists, retained by them at
| high salaries.
Louise Closer Hale, the author Of
"A Motor Car Divorce" and her hus-
band, Walter Hale, who made the
illustrations for the book. have gone
for an automobile trip through Spain.
Miss Carolyn Wells has sailed for her
first European journey, a large part Of
which will be made by motor and will
follow 1.-The Winding Road" The
latest book from Miss Wells pen is
1.-The Rubaiyat of a Motor Car
Hilaire Belloc. one of the new MEM
bers of the present British Parliament,
who is distinguished for his literary
work. was born in France but was
brought to England at the early age of
three months and was educated at
lOXford
A curious story has come to light
recently through the finding of some
documents concerning the resting
place of the heart of Louis XIV and it
is retOld in the current Harper's
Weekly. Various rumors have been
believed, but the truth seems to be,
according to these documents, that the
heart of Louis XIV. was stolen by a
painter for the sake of 'coloring pig
ment called mummy" which origi-
mated from the aromatic substances of
embalmed bodies. and that the heart of
the monarch is actually preserved in
Droling's painting in the Louvre,
called 'Interier lie Cuisine"
) Edward Clary Root, whose first
novel Huntington, Jr.," is published
this month. is a new candidate for re-
lcosntlon among American authors.
He was born in New Jersey in 1877
and lived in Greenwich. where his
father was the head of a private
school. He was graduated at Yale,
studied at the Harvard law school and
Is member of the Massachusetts bar.
His home is now in New York city.
THE happy motorist," says Mr.. Fill
son Young in his new book, lis he who
has the freedom of the roads without
being in bondage to q pastime or a fad.
TO be monarch of miles is very well,
but to be slave of motor cars is very
lila waste of life and damaging to
reason. Yet to gain the freedom of the
open road most of us have to pass
through time of moral and physical
servitude. being in bondage to the
| tfltl HdDlN we may attain the
end; and they who escape from this
bondage as quickly as possible are the
wise and happy motorists" Mr.
Young's new book. entitled The Hap
py Motorist." will be published this
month for the benefit Of those to whom
the possession of a car is q cause OF
anxiety rather than of delight
Prof. James Mark Baldwin of Johns
Hopkins has in preparation a three vol
ume work which is to be published un-
der the title of Thought and Thing;
or, Genetic Logic: a study of the De-
velopment and Meaning Of Thought
The first volume which is to be called
"FunctiOnal Logic; or the GenetiC
Theory Of Knowledge" will be ready
for publication this month. 1t traces
the development of knowledge through
the sense. memory. play and image
modes and carries the research vel
into the rise of the processes Of re-
fection and thinking proper. which arc
to be the topics of the second volume.
When Archibald Clavering Guntnl
began the series Of novels which We;
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