Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-07-16
BOOKS and Authors.

foreign trade commissioner Of the de-
partment of commerce. His book is ar
tracting much well deserved attention
DIS it is in every way a practical vol.
uiiie tor business men and travellers
VI. Pierre Lofts new book. "I.es
pesenchantecs," is to appear in This
country next fall in an English trans.
idtlon: The book. which has. bv the
way, been copyrighted in the original
III this country, is said to deal with
llarhm life n Constantinople. The
macmillan company are to be the pub
fishers. pN'
nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr., of Rostnn
the author and advertising adviser
makes it a rule to do a good portion of
MS years work in the OPEN This sum-
iner he will be in the woods near Nortb
conway. n. H., and. from the grand
surroundings. draw added inspiration
ior his literary achievements. He calls
ms ms "Semi-Outdoor Office Among
'iie Pines" There. with his stenO-
sidpherS and other assistants, he will
attehd to the routine of business lie
III addition to the preparation of an
o'her book Dor boys and young men.
his last summers workshop was in
the cabin of his motor boat, where he
wrote his first novel "Gumption." n
oook that appeared last fall and was
received with unusual favor Mr.. Fow-
ief DRIFT of late has been along the
lhes Of hooks for boys and young men.
Little Brown & Co. of Boston will
shortly bring out his new work giving
the truth and inside facts about the
reading lines of trade, different kinds
OF business and the various professions
20 that boys may in this way obtain
IN advance q comprehensive ana in
teliigent idea OF the advantages of the
principal callings.
This volume will be illustrated by
Charles Copeland. etc. a well known
Boston artist. About half of the con-
tents is now appearing as syndicate
articles in more than 1000 American
newspapers, including the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat. Baltimore American,
Minneapolis Journal. Portland Press,
Pittsburg Gazette, Dallas News, and
Chicago Tribune
1hSit W do Il uiScuSSloIl ldSl winter 1t
luncheon of the literary folk Of Phla-
delphia about detective fiction, and on
of the company. Reginald Wright
Kaufman, said that in nearly all such
stories the mystery was no mystery IT
all to an intelligent reader
Il think" he ventured, that it Is q
cheap deception-nothing more or less
than selling goods under false preten-
ses."
But it's next to impossible legimate-
ly to mystify the sophisticated reader"
one of his hearers objected.
'Tll tell you what I'll do" said Mr.
Kaufman, TN engage to write and
publish inside of six months a mystery
story about a real detective of which
none of You can guess the end until
you've read the latter half of the last
chapter. And I'll buy dinner for
every man who cam
The result of this wager is Miss
Frances Baird, Detective" which Mes
Sis. L. c. Page and Company have just
published.
The title of Miss Grace II. Rich
mond's forthcoming novel, THE Sec
oIu Nloiln tDOubltudy, rage anu
Company, invites comparison with a
famous story; but of course the two
have no connection. Miss Richmond's
tale is said to have something of the
flavor of Miss Alcott's stories. 1t is a
quiet narrative of the adventures of Il
family of young people temporarily or
phaned on account of heir mothers
illness.
Langdon Warmers appreciation of the
late Dean Shaler in the June Worlds
Work contains among many character
istic anecdotes the reply Dean Shaler