Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1906-10-11
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is to be called 1.-The Sovereign Rem
edy." Its action takes place in Wales.
The author herself lives in the region
of which she writes.
Mark Twain was once asked by a
charming girl to write something in her
autograph album. The humorist looked
through the book and found the usual
sentimental stuff such as BE good.
sweet maid, and let who will be clever"
Then he took pen, wrote Never tell
lie" and signed his name. This he
carefully dried with the blotter, after
which he added: "P S.-EXccpt to
keep in practice
General a. w. Greeley. Arctic ex-
plorer, for many years chief signal Off
Ger of the United States army, and at
present in charge Of the Pacific divis-
ion, with headquarters at San Fran
cisco, has prepared Handbook of
Polar Discoveries" which Little, Brown
& Co.. Boston, will issue. This book
will contain Il resume of Polar eXplOr-
ations from the earliest voyages to the
present time, and is based upon his
earlier Handbook of Arctic DiscOv-
cries" The material has been brought
up to date and summary has been
added to the noteworthy achievements
of adventures in the frozen North
within the ten years that have elapsed
since it was published.
Booth Harrington, the author of "The
Conquest of Canaan" and other popu-
lar novels, is known among his friends
as somewhat of practical joker. A
good story of his Princeton days is re-
lated in the Bookman. The managing
editor of the Nassau Literary Magazine
at that time was Il person who took
himself and his literary responsibilities
with portentious seriousness. He was
wont to deplore the lack Of suitable
material at his disposal, and to speak
in accents of emphatic scorn of the
quality of the submitted contributions
from which he was supposed to make II
One day lie found in his letter box a
poem which moved him to more than
usual disgust. "See here" he snorted,
contemptuOusly, to group Of which
Harrington was one; this is what
some fool freshman sends in and calls
poetry. How am l going to make u
| magazine out of stuff like this. How
am 1, l ask? ~ "Oh. that" spoke up
Harrington. Yes, l sent that in my
self" so you wrote it. did you?"
srowled the managing editor. NO."
said Harrington, sweetly, II didn't
write it. l only copied it. 1t was writ
ten by Tennyson."
Not long ago Il writer of modern
fame called on Il journalistic ac-
quaintance and proposed that he write
some bright. bitter, epigrammatic par
agraphs attacking the authors latest
novel. why in the world should you
want me to do that?' inquired the as
tonished journalist. For business rea-
sons was the calm reply. My re-
views have been very favorable, but the
book doesn't seem to he going as well
would do it good" 1t is no eXaggera-
ton to say that the high road to liter
AIRY fame is Mcknight deserted. But
he short cuts are so crowded that the
adventures bump one another at every
step. Rumor has it that one asprant
for immortality personally visits every
book stall in the large cities and pre-
sents an autograph copy to the chief
salesman before his volume is market
ed another makes it his business to
procure testimonials from public char
acters on every book he offers; and Il
few years ago a fancy dress ball was
given in Washington by an author
whose guests were actually requested
to impersonate the characters portray
ed in their hostess latest tome! Re
port does not say whether the masks
saved the wearers' faces, but the laugh
, ter that this supreme effort provoked
was happily undisguised.