Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-01-08

f-lcn am LOST wave tHIl l.lpScS is likC Il
closing door;
I'is closing doors they shall hear at last
who soOn shall hear no more.
Who soon shall hear no more.
Ely. Ely. Ely. call low. come back.
My heart you have broken, your tro.h
t"rsakcn. but love even vet can ic:
Conc near, call low. for closing doors are
as the waves; q the sea,
Once closed they are closed forever, Ely,
lost, lost for thee and me,
Lost, lCst for thee and mo.
Fiona Macleod
1t was With genuine regret that many
readers learned recently that the doors
had closed forever on Fiona Macleod -
one of the leaders of the Celtic Itcra ry
movement. And coupled with the an
nounccnent of the death of the poet,
came the interesting statement that
"Fiona Macleod" was the pen maine Of
Scotchman. William Sharp, who lad
concealed his identity even from his
publishers. Speaking OF the matter,
the New York Mail and Express says
The death of William Sharp has re-
vcolcd the identity of that leader Of The
Celtic RCnaSccncc. Fiona Macleod. She
- '..iill W say IL ~ ~ oI!t VI lll's
most successful literary mysteries Of
this Kind, carried ON with genuine
yes; that is betrayed in such details as
the entry in the English who's Who"
which declares the non-cEiStent iady's
recrcations to have been sailing hill
walking, listcninE.' Fiona Macl,ri's
pu5li: hers furnished this information
to Who's Who" ami shr--that is Mr..
Sh1rp-IurniShcd it to the publishers.
who always declared. and in all truth
as now appears that they themselves
had lever sccn this gifted woman and
know nothing about her all businssi be-
t,vc"il them being transacted by iottc:'.
or through friend. Quite reccntly
Mrs. Helen Hopekirk. a composer living
in S"stOn. received from Fiona Mac
ieod' lcttcr regarding sone songs
which she hal SGT to music. 1t was
probably Mr.. Shlrp's last addition 10
the mystery.
The i:lntt remarkable phase cf tho
whole affair lies in this, however. that Il
man c",i.i write verse of r,oet u!Iroln-
mon quality for ION years. and sign it
with feminine pscudonynl. without
the s"X q: ita author eyer being uucs-
toned by even the Sha"rcst Of critics.
III DrlngS Ia IN" fore again The Wkol.
question of Sex lit crc:.tivc art, its
limitations anl halimarks. This must
he said i'll conclusion. that there is not
line in the poctical work of .Fiooa
Macleod that would lead one 10 sus
poet II to be the product Of Il mans
brain. imagination or feeling. Whctt,.
er this. too. was part Of the lnystifica-
tion. or whether William Sharp's poetic
Eift naturally took this feminine turn.
are questions which may porhans he
answered in the near future by an cx-
PLANTATION left By tho dead man.,
The Princess TroubetzKoy (Amclic
NlVcS). author of "Selcnc," reached
New York November 90. after a few
months sojourn in Italy. She was
present at tic dinner given on Dccen1-
Der . by George Harvey TO celebrate
Mark Tvain's Seventeen birthday.
and on the eight of December rctu,nc.,
to her home in Virginia for the winter.
Sne mas taken up HOY literary worl,
with renewed enthusiasm, and stories
from her pen will appear from time to
time il Iarper's Magazine.
Inc Grafton Press tNcw York; an
h"uiit"S TO? publication early in Janu-
a'y new Eook from the pen of Henry
Wallace Phillips. whose Red Saund-
crs' i'as made him well known. Thn
new book is entitled Mr.. S,ra-n-s :,
and is the personal account Of incident :
IN the strenuous life If one Of Raj
- oil NJ
AT times mourniul individual. has
aldcd considerably to the hilarity of
sncA parts of the country rs have has,
inc good fortune 10 make his acouairt-
ancc.
'he Of The early novels Of 1906 viii 10
MISS Ellen Gl1s,ow's "1'hr Wheel of
Lite which Doubleday. Page & Go.
VIII bring out on January Il. The pub
H'ati"n of a new story by Miss GLASGOW
IS an important literary event. Its IN
tcr"sfs will Dc hiyhte;cd by the fast
thht after winning brilliant success as
an Interpreter of Virginia life. sh,.
shifts the scene Of her new novel to
New York city. The hero is a literary
n'n. 1t is tn" l'rGcst and most am
bit;nus novel 50 far by the author of
The DclivcrancC.
George cary EgglrstolI. Who has been
spending IL" sumncr at his Lake
George home, near the stone building
containing thc historical library. col
hctf't hS his brother. the late Edward
Er@i"si"n. has completed his Little
History Of Colonial Life with Il r.v-
Volume. Life liz .h"Eighternth Gem
t1iry. which viii bc publisnct. in Oct
iobtr. with lare" number of i!lustra
tions, by y. :. Barnes &: Co.
Mainc readers will be Interested to
learn that The Parpers are publishing
another edition of that charming story
"ttrbc"ca Mary written by Mrs Annie
Hamilton Donncil Of kent's Hill. Sev-
"r2l Of tha press notices have referred to
Mrs. Donnells' "Rebecca Mary" as a
follower Of Mrs. Riggs little heroine
ftch"rca. rs i matte: OF fact "R.bec-
ca M3rE'' anpo9raG in ,,rint xn,,,o