Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-09-16
BOOKS AND AUTHORS

c0nlla grafton, Is unburnable. The in
terror columns in the library. too, are
protected against fire by hollow blocks,
for it has been proved by tests that
steel gives way when exposed to very
great heat.
The principal reading room is in thel
top of the building and its windows
look on Fifth avenue and on Bryant
park. by day all light will be fur
nished by the sun. and the big room, on
account of it's lofty and open position,
will be especially well lighted.
Henry Wallace Phillips, the author
who has selected Portland, Me, as his
future home, was born in New York,
Jan. II, 1869, but spent the greater part
of his earlier life in the West, living
at various times in cities in Dakota,
Montana and other western states. His
father was Charles Jeter Phillips and
his mother Adelaide Augusta (Smith
Phillips. Early in his life, Mr.. Phillips
showed an adcptnesS for the canvas and
brush and he occupied the greater part
OF his time in painting but, finding u
craving for the field Of literature >in
himself and proving that he was adapt
ed for the work, he branched out in his
new line and made name for himself.
He married. Louise Moore Millspaugh
of Richmond, n. Y, on Aug. II, 1893,
and in Richmond he has spent the
greater part of his time since. Miss
MiiIspaugh was an authoress and she
IS also skilled in art. Mr.. Phillips is
greatly interested in music and vari-
hi
ception room attest the use az well as
the love IF this art. Among the books
which Mr. Phillips has written are
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An early number Of the Book News
Monthly is to be devoted to DIR. s. Weir
Mitchell Several writer's are being
asked to contribute appreciations of
Philadelphia's leading literary figure.
Doctor Mitchell, who is still at Bar
Harbnr. is member Of a committee,
with T. w. HiggiEson. Bliss Perry, w.
d .Howells. Mark Twain, Richard Wat
son Glider, Thomas Nelson Page and
others, to erect I, memorial to the late
Thomas Bailey Aldrich at Portsmouth.
n. H., immortaliZed in the latter's books
as "Rivermouth." 4 house which was
owned by Aldrich's grandfather and in
which the poet spent his youth is to be
purchased, and his family, will deposit
there many of mis- n}kiUscripts and
literary relics. 1t is ''Hoped to raise
S1O,00o for the purpose in view. Con-
tributiOns may he sent to any member
Of The committee or directly to the
treasurer of the Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Association. care Of Houghton, Miflin
& Co, Boston.
Elizabeth Shipper Green, owes her
artistic development largely to the in
flucnce of Howard Pyle. She was born
in Philadelphia, and her work in maya
zine and book illustration is largely
done for the Harpcrs. As is known. she
lives in the Red Rose Inn. out the Main
Line, Il rambling, claiming old house
occurred by herself and three other
Young women artists, with number OF
mothers, and auntS as friends ana chap
crOns. A big barn near the house Is
even more attractive than the house
itself, and within it four studios have
been fitted up, each with its separate
entrance from the outside. From the
initials Of the surnames of the four
young women &C., Q. { and 81. and WIN
lea" added for picturesqucntsa and
ourhony, they have made the name
.Cogslca' and given it to their studo-
home.
A new novel by Anne Robson Burr.
of this city is announced by HouGhtcn.
Mifilin & Co. 1t is entitled ''The Jessopl
Beuuest," and is said to be the kind of
story that will he talked about" 1t
may be taken for granted that 1t Will be
in a good. graceful English style. for
Mrs Burr's earlier work is an assurance
of this. She is a granddaughter or
brother of Charles BrOckden Brown, the
first American novelist, and, therefore,
has excellent literary connections.
Hitherto, she has written under her
maiden name Of Anna Robson Brown,
but the appearance in the field OF Anna
Robertson Brown Lindsay, also of this
city. wro has lately published several
books seems to have induced the change
to avoid not unnatural confusion.
In honor of the centennial of the birth
of John Greenleaf Whittier, Bliss Perry
has prepared a biographical sketch of
the Quaker poet The anniversary falls
on December Il. 1907. Because of Whit
tiers residence in Philadelphia in his
youth and his lifelong interest in the
city and its neighborhood it is proposed
that the event shall be suitably COM
memoratcd here. Some plans are al
ready being made toward that end by
Charles F. Jenkins, who possesses what
IS probably the most complete eXtant
collection of Whitticr's writings. in
Guiding many rare first editions.
Frederic Mistral, whose Memoirs
are to appear this fall from the house
Of The Baker & Taylor Co, has been
n winner of the Nobel prize which,
with a singular devotion to the cause
to which he has given up his life. he
bestowed on the foundation 'of mn-
scum in Aries where are to be pre-
served the monuments. relics, weap-
ons, costumes, etc, of the Provence.
1t is interesting to know that Mr..
Roosevelt has been warm adfnirer
| of Mistral, and an agreeable CORE
| spondence has been exchanged pc
tween them His Memoirs are de-