Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-25

Yesterday; don't preach; let the Dogs
Of the book be active, clean, anu
wholesome, with plenty OF BACKBONE
and a good foundation for character
huilding. and then let the story point
IT'S own moral and teach its own
lesson"
new field in American fiction Is
opened in 1.-The Sowing of Anderson
Cree" by Miss Margaret Prescott
Montague, who will be remembered py
her charming idyllic novel, The poet
Mics Kate and L." In this later WORK
Miss Montague tells a feud story III
ferent from it's predecessors in similar
fields in that the scene is laid in the
West Virginia mountains and the feud'
begun under a misapprehension, ends
In a dramatic situation totally uneX-
pected. The book will be published in
!! the early spring by The Baker q
Taylor Co.
II is not generally known that Miss
Lena Ashweil, The English emotional
actress. who has been appearing on the
American stage this season IN Ihe
Shulamite." is sister of Roger
X,
book ''FollOwing the Frontier, was
published two years ago by Mcclure.
Phillips & Co. Though this is Miss
AshweNS first visit to this country,
Mr.. Pocock is thoroughly at home here,
especially in the Western states, where
he had many of his most thrilling ad-
ventures. He has also served in the
Canadian Mounted Police, and was one
Of the first men to head q large party
into the Klondike when that region
was opened to the gold-hunters.
Stewart Edward White and Samuel
| Hopkins Adams co-authors of 1.-The
Mystery" (McClure, Phillips & Coz,
have an interesting method of COLA
| boration. Each writer prepared his
| part Of the work independently of the
| other, The two parts were then ex-
changed for criticism and fitted into
the work so ingeniously that the story
appears entirely uniform, although
| written by two persons. The splendid
| reception accorded 1.-THE Mystery"
serves again to refute the idea that
January is a poor month for publish
ing The publishers report Il third
large edition Immediately
Among the amusing stories told
about Kipling is one of a young woman
admirer who, after years of waiting, at
last met the man of the plain Tales.
"You." she cried, staring at the
author. You, YOU are Rudyard
Kipling!"
Naturally Kipling felt embarrassed.
yes" he murmured modestly.
The lady continued to marvel.
But l thought" she finally ex-
planned Il thought you were-oh,
how shall 1 say it?-something quite,
quite different"
ooh, l am Kipling FASTENED to tell
her in a very confidential tone, Il am,
| madam. Only, you see, this is my day
off,
Miss Jean n. MacIlwraith. who is
writing the introduction to the large
print library to be brought out by
Doubleday, Page & Co.. was before
taking up her editorial work closely
identified with the making of Canadian
literature. She is the author of some
half dozen books, chiefly historical and
biographical. and of 1.-THE Curious
Career Of Roderick Campbell" now
coming out in new edition. The first
books to be published in the large print
library will! be "Wutherineton
Heights" by Emily Bronte. and
Charles Reade's Love Me Little Love
Me Long"
Na-ta-ki, the heroine of ]. w.
Schultzs book MY Life as an Indian"
was a beautiful squaw of the Black
foot tribe. Her mother was a medicine
woman and noted for her good deeds
Na-ta-ki, whose name in English
means sun" or blessed woman"
married the author and proved to be a
devoted wife and mother. Her son is
now on the reservation of his mothers
tribe in the Far West.
Dick Donovan" the novelist (other-
wise Mr.. Preston Muddock) has
written book about his own adyen-
turous life. Some of its pages have to
do with his experiences in India during
the Mutiny.
Inc announcement by the Lippin-
colts of the publication of Mrs. A. l..
| Wister's translation from Eichendorff.
under the title 1.-THE Happy Go Lucky,
calls to mind the fact that it Is more
than 40 years since the publication Of
the first of her TRANSACTIONS from tho
German. She is a sister to Horace
howard Furness, the Shakespearean
critic.
Jacques Futrelle is a writer who has
rif