Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-08
Books and Authors

NNoNtIS. VIII DC5iH It's serial nIIhII-
cation i'll Harper's' Magazine for
October. The principal scenes of the
story are laid in England and Egypt,
and the author hassendeavored to re-
produce the glamor and mystery of
the latter country. The hero is a
young English Quaker. who, by an
irony of fate, is forced to become an
overload in Egypt, and the important
actor in a romance of thrilling inter-
est. Sir Gilbert has been hard at
work on this story for several years.
NJ. Fernand Henrys translation into
Ere nch verse of Mrs. Browning S "Son-
nets from the Portuguese" was
"crowned' by the Academy at a recent
sitting. The Academy has also Civ
en- him 500 francs. part of the Prix
Langlois. for the same book This
prize is for TRANSACTIONS, and parts of it
are awarded also to NJ. Auguste Ray
mond for a translation of German
book on Greek Thinkers" presum-
ably that of DR.. Gomperz; to M. Ur-
balm Mangin for a translation of Fer
zero; and to NJ. Alauzit for aversion of
Professor William James's book on
"ReIigiCus Experiences" Another
French poet. who also had the happi-
ness of being crowned" is NJ. Paul
Hubert. to whom has been awarded
the 1906 Prix Sully- Prudhomme, of the
value of 1,500 francs. The poem
which won this distinction is taken
from volume entitled Horizons
dor" to appear shortly. one member
of the commission appointed to make
the award describing it az LES
Georgioues de la France" NJ HUI
bert was until recently connected with
lie Monde Moderne, and is native of
| Languedoc.
Norman Duncan is summering in
the Muskoka Lake district. He has
lust completed sea-book for boys
which. under the title of ."The Ad-
ventures of Billy Topsail." will be pub
lshed by Fleming H. Revell Company
this fall.
Mr.. F.ben Phillpotts. who lives in
Devonshire and spends all his time in
the beautiful English country of which
he writes so much. has finished a new
book called my Garden" which will
be published in English Country Life.
1t will contain the thoughts and con-
illusions of literary man who is also
something of a gardener.
A new edition of Mr.. Swinburne'S
famous study civilian Blake; q
Critical Essay is to be brought out
Immediately in England The text will
remain unaltered, but there will be
new preface, in which Mr.. Swinburne
will discuss what he considers to be
fantastic theories lately advanced con-
corning the meaning and value of the
prophetic books. Referring to the
fact that some of the, critics have
claimed for Blake a Celtic origin, Mr..
Swinblnnc reiterates an opinion for
merly expressed that the existence of
Celtic literature is 1.-THE misleading
theory of a writer who knew nothing
about the subject-MHtthew Arnold.
Mr. Swinburen contends that there is
no Celtic literature OF value -- .--
Emil Reich's new book. which has
come out in England under the title of
plato and the Criticisms of Life" has
some singular statements, like the fol-
lowing: -
"The man who has had the most cod
Cl1lE,. Ine ffItSt' hlSStS anu tii' iiiot't u
a mothers love and tenderness. that is
the man who will make a great hero.
II is the women who make the men.
There is England's greatest hero, Mel
son. He was frantic about women ana
there would have been no Nelson. no
Trafalgar without Lady Hamilton. He
was as delicate and tender to her as he
could be, but TO his enemies he was as
hard az he was delicate to her.
Napoleon cried like child; he always
was his mothers bambino. and he was
the terror of all Europe" Mr. Reich's
views and ideas are meeting with OPP
position in England. where the general
belief is that it is by sending the boys
away to school at an early age where
they can't be coddled. but have the
softness knocked out of them by severe
sports. that England has developed her
resclute and much enduring race
great explorers. mighty hunters and
brave soldiers and sailors.
The silhouette drawings from j. h.
FoIev's Songs of School Days re-
suited from an interesting little episode.
Miss Catherine G.. Buffom. who lives in
Prvn Mawr cut out some black figures
| in paper to illustrate some fairy tales
| for q small relative. She pasted the
black figures on some white paper, ana
| the eilhouetteS were so striking that
her friends persuaded her to take up
the work seriously. One of the hrst
successful results was the Songs from
| School Days drawings.
An interesting exhibition of old news
| rapers. for the most part German. was
opened at Frankfort recently, and the
archives of the city as we'll as several
private collections were Hberaily
drawn upon. The oldest German news
paper in existence is dated March II.
1872. but the first daily German news
paper is known to have been started at
| Strassburg in 1909. Another feature
of the exhibition was the display OIL
daily newspaper in French issued at
Frankfort from 1889 to 1879.
| David Graham Phillips. the novelist.
| lived for long time on the east side
| of New York. He went there with the
impression that he was going to find
a strange sort of human beings, quite