Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-12-31
Books and Authors.

Charles G. D. Roberts, who writes
| about the backwoods and the forest
kindredS, and the fascinating game of
| trap and snare and chase, has written
| one of his most robust ana exciting
narratives in ION the Night Trail in
| the January McClures. The story or
| the backwOOdsman who captures a
lynx and then turns it into an ally to
help him fight 4 pack of wolves, mas
| the swift, vigorous action and the keen
breath of Out-of-do0rs adventure
which has not ceased to charm and
| thrill us since the days when we read
| Cooper.
Josephine Daskam Bacon, who will
| begin q series of articles entitledrWe
and Our Servants" in the February
Inurnher of The American Magazine,
has written to her publishers that she
"is beginning to get the funniest let
| tcrs about the articles" construction
has begun to pour in." she says.
| Doubleday, Page & Company an
nounce a new contribution to their
geogra phic library. in THE Awaken
| ing of China" by DR.. w. A. p. Martin.
Dr. Martin is perhaps the best-known
| American authority on China. he
went out as missionary in 1850, and
| subsequently acted as Interpreter FOR
Minister Reed in negotiating the
| famous treaty with China in 1853. He
| helped to found. and was president of
| the new imperial University of China,
which was broken up. by the Boxers
| in 1900 AS is well remembered, he
figured in the famous siege Of the
| Legation in Pekin. and stood on the
firing line with the very youngest
soldiers. Dr. Martin has the some
what extraordinary distinction of hav-
| ing been made Mandarin of the
second class by the Empress Of China.
He is at present in China, where ne
is one of the principal advisors of the
government on 'Htters of interna-
| tional law.
"W. A. Fraser, author Of Thirteen
Men, is a Canadian both by birth and
residence" says Book News. "his per-
manent home and study being at
Georgetown, a pretty village near To-
rpnto. A civil engineer by profession.
he has travelled widely in many parts
Of the world, spending several years in
the far northwest of Canada, and other
wears in India and the East. Both re-
gions. distinct and distant as they are,
have proved fruitful in supplying this
clever story-teller with an extended
frange of themes and characters one
set of tales will have the kiplingeSque
touch of the Orient; another, in con-
trast, will deal with the red man. the
| yoyageur the trapper in the more re-
| mote domain of the Dominion.
! Grant Wallace, we'll known as a
writer and war correspondent, has an
article on Cuba in the current number
of the Times Magazine.
Katherine Perry has story in the
January Red Book entitled "Thc AM
put:.tiOn of Il Baron
| Very few writer's on nature sub
| iects have succeeded jim combining
an intimate knowledge of natural his
tory with literary grace to the de-
gree attained by Miss Mary c. Dick
ersOn, author OF 1.-THE Frog Book.
etc. Here is the work not only Of
an enthusiast, but of trained scien-
list and writer. One year ago Miss
Dickerson started ON year-long task
for Country Life in America. She has
been observing and photograrling
fora and fauna of the woods and
fields. day by day and month after
month. Some OF her photographs are
remarkable. and many of her dis
covcrics are startlingly new. The
work was done almost entirely in
Rhode Island and southeastern
massachusetts, and the author made
no attempt to study any but the better
known animals and plants.
"Sias Strong. Emperor of the
| Woods" the most recent book If 1rv-
ing Racheller, has been published on
the other side of the Atlantic and has
been cordially received there. The
| Westminster Review finds it to be
fragrant with the pine forests Of the
Adirondacks. Mr.. Bachelors appeal
for the preservation of these noble for
ests has caught the attention of the
English, and Punch drops into several
l StanZaS Of verse in regard 10 the DOCK
itself, which it deems a good one. and
even more in regard to Mr.. Bachelors
desired crusade for the deferfce of The
woods. The first stanZa is:
IF Irving Bachelor had left
His Silas Strong simple story.
| should have deemed him passing deft
| Within his special category;
| But nO-he sticks a 'FOreword in
| To tell me how he came to write II,
And of the cause he'd like ITO win
If only L would help him fight 1t.
Jane II. Findlaters name is known
to American readers as that of one Of
the cOllaborators with Kate Douglas
Wiggin in 1.-THE Affair at the Inn," a
gay little romance all the world was
read' I a year ago. Among the sea-
sons ew books is one by Miss Find
late one, "The Ladder to the Stars