Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-10-01

| HIS WlSuofn.
| "If you get a bunch of people togcth.
or anywhere you can charge admission
| to those that are outside. They like +,
herd"
! 1T always has seemed to me thai
ever since Columbus proved that H.,
| world was round, Heaven has hoe,
| fiat"
| we've got down to the genius az :,
strike, AN infinite capacity for break
ing pancs.
| 1hcfc Is no huInor in the world So
wonderful as Irish humor-it's like the
little flexible lagcolct of Svcnga!j
which could transform the huInbIcsr
songs INTO the rarcSt beauty without
altering Il note. "killboghan and Kill
| boSSan, icrminic Tcmplcton's story
in the October McClurc's, is the tale of
some Irish peasants and their pig. SO
human are all the charactcrs-eyen the
| pig-and so seductive is the absurd
| nrnscnSical, delicious merrimcnt Of il
all, that one would recognize the mimi
| Table Celtic touch in it if one had
never seen shamrock leaf 1t is one
or the best expressions Of folk life that
MctlurcS has ever publishcd-coIlaI of
its kind to the best songs and legends
Of Yeats.
The fiction of the Century for the
new magazine year is to include novels
by Franc cs Hpdgson Burnett and EIiz-
abcth Robins besides the Running
Water of A. f. w. Mason, which Will
continue for a number Of months. Mrs.
Rurnetts new story will be called THE
shuttle and is described as an inter
national novel of English and Ancri-
can life. Come and Find Ne" of EliZ
abcth Robins will have its scenes laid
in California and the far North
Mrs. Grace S. Richmond's new book.
"Thc Second Violin" which has lust
been published, underwent the same
experience as her first book, THE In
difference Of Juliet" She wrote q short
serial, which became 50 popular that
She had to supplement it with a con-
.tinuation. Then she got 50 many let
tcrs asking for the publication of the
story in book form that she made Il
book out of the original story. This is
the career of The Second Violin" 1t
deals with the adventures Of Il family
of young people temporarily orphaned
because of their mothers illness and
keeping UP the home together.
This month Doubleday, Page & Com
pany will publish "CrumhS and His
Time" by Dolores Bacon; set in An
thority." by Mrs. EvcrarG Cntcs; Tho
Arab Horse" by Spencer Borden
Farm Animals" by f. Y. Wilcox;
confessions TO a Heather Idol" hy
Marian Lee: "Thc Cynic's Word
Book" by Ambrose Biercc, and They"
by Rudyard kiplng.
Frances -Aymar Mathews. whose now
novel, The Jndcflcd." tho Harpe"s
have just published, is the third gen
Grafton to have thu Mcssrs. Harper for |
publishers. In 1886. this firm published |
The Life Of Aaron Burr" by her |
rcat-srandfathcr. Mathew Livingston
Davis, Burr's closest friend and lit0r- |
airy executor. on the other side Of the
house. Miss Mathcwss uncle, Cornelius |
Mathews. had a number of his books |
published by Harper & Brothers, thus |
making her present volume of the third |
generation to appear with the Harper |
imprint. The Indebted" is a novel of |
a very different sort from her ro!lck- |
Goes to Town" 1t is Il work Of serious |
fiction. which deals with an important |
problem in real life. and one that is
bound to interest serious people. The
situation hangs on the relations he |
tween successful young author and |
his clever Wife. who finds ont too late |
the shallow nature of the man she has |
The scenes are mostly laid i'll |
New York.
1t has been frequently said that the |
surcst way to win Il persons sympathy |
is to appeal to his sentiment. Anthony
Hope has proved this before. but never |
so thoroughly as in his new short story.
prudence and the Bishop, which has
the place of honor in the metropolitan
Magazine for October. He has never |
written anything with a rarcr charm.
and the story will win sympathy from
every thoroughly human man and Wo-
man to whom it goes. Miss Prud2nc"
is tho daughter of curate with Il large
family hut small income. When she
faces the necessity of choosing between
a rich marriage for the sake of her |
family or Il poor one for the sake of
her soul, she INDUCES in the quainteSt,
pretticSt sentimental trick imaginable"
and iustificS herself. 1t is the sort OF
sentiment that appeals I" everyone.
and the lesson is a good one.
Margaret Sidncy'S new book. 1.-TWO
Little Friends in Norway" which has
been unavoidably delayed in publica-
ton. will he issued 10y L"throp, Lee &
CO.. Saturday. Sept. -. The
advance orders have been such as to
indicate that the 1.-TWO Little Friends
Series" Of which this will he the first
volume. will rival the authors famous
Pepper Books in popularity.
In London the other day a Miss Iollc-
ma che WAS married to a Mr. IiunncSlcy.
When the clergyman mentioned the
brides name in the course Of the core
mouy he had to call h"r Iyonclia Fr"dc-
-,tnda Cuthbcrca EthclSwltha Id"th
Nsabcl Grace Monica dc Orcllana Planta
genet.