Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-29

The Harpers published this week a
| new novel by Justus Miles Forman
author of 'Buchanan's Wife," "The
| Island of Enchantment," etc. The
| title of the new book is, "a Stumbling
| Block David Rivers, the hero, is
| sent away by his guardian, Robert
| Henley, SO that he shall not risk ruin
| ing his career by an engagement to
| Rosemary Crewe. Out in the world
David meets Violet Winter a brilliant,
fascinating woman; he marries her,
and she becomes the stumbling
block"
| Lisi c. Cipriani, the writer of "StO-
ries OF Girl in Italy," which will ap-
pear in the current issue of the Cen
fury, traces her. ancestry back to the
Caesars. and her people for centuries
| have been ''Florentine patricians''
| with estates at Pisa and Leghorn.
| When financial troubles arose Miss
Cipriani came to America, and has
been lecturer..at the University of
| Chicago until. recently. She is now
devoting her time to writing, and these
"stories," which, recall pathetic and
amusing incidents of her mothers
childhood in the, Leghorn villa and in
Paris after her marriage at IA, will be
! part of a book ito be published later
under the title Of "a Tuscan Child
hood"
| "Graham Travers," whose novel,
| "GroWth," published by Henry Holt &
Co, is winning praise, is the pen name
Of DR. Margaret Todd. DR.. Todd took
her medical degree at Edinburgh with
distinction. and practiced for time.
| She came into notice as novelist with
| "Mona Maclean." humorous account
Of the beginnings Of medical education
| for women in Scotland. Since then
| she has not written a great deaA Dut
all she has written bears the marx OF
care. DR.. Todd now resides with her
friend. DR. Sophia JeX-Blake. one 81
the pioneers Of medical education ter
women. in Il lovely retreat in Sussex.
Mrs. Humphrey Wards long prQN-
Used visit to America is announced TO
take place next spring. She WITH
travel in Canada and in the United
States and may gather material for
novel to be written in the following au-
tumn Mrs Ward is now at work on
La novel to be published serially in
Harncr's.
"Thc Holy Grail and Other Frag-
ments," by the late Richard Hovey, is
to be brought out soon, with an intro
duction and notes by Mrs. Hovey and
q preface by Bliss Carman. The vol
Iume will contain Mr.. Hovey's outline,
never before published, of the entire
nine volumes of the Launcelot and
Guencvcrc series as he had projected
il together with certain perfected parts
of the unfinished plays. This work,
long advertised as in preparation, Will
help the reader to answer many OF the
questions which will arise after reading
the four completed volumes of the
series "Launcclot and Guenevere; a
Poem in Drama Several other
posthumous volumes by Mr.. Hovey, in
Guiding a new book of lyrical verse
are said to be in prospect.
| Charles Bocher, who Is in his ninety.
second year and includes in his remi.
nisccnces that which he has been TOLD
at first hand. places upon the title
mage of his "Memoirs"-1160-1 1907. M
Rochers father told him personal ex'
pcriences Of the Old Regime thu
Revolution and the Empire. His; col
lcge professor was Philippe Lebas. Sol
Of Robcspierre's companion in life sant
death. and he himself remembers
Ro5espierre's sister He knew Nine
Chateaubriand and was admitted int
the circle of Nine. Recamer.
A now book now in preparation 70
publication, written by Marshall
Wilder. will be called Smiling Roun,
{ the World The book is the Outcom
/ of recent tour which Wilder made il
foreign countries.
) Richard Pryce, the author of 9TH
, Successor" which has gone through
| | five editions in England and is to be is
> !sued Immediately in America, is
grandson of the second Lord Castle
maine and has had plenty Of oppor
tunities to inform himself concernin
the English social life of which h
writes. The story treats of some
what risque theme, involving the pro
duction of an heir to great Englis
estate and is said to be treated some
8 what after the George Meredith mar
r ner.
Doubleday &c Page will publish soon
new volume by Kipling, From Sea I
e Sea" embracing not only the materi:
q included in tire carly book of that nam
which does not figure in the collecte
s. editions of his works. but also some ma
= ter that has never been published.
10 Miss F.!len Glasgow. vino has rath,
: made a practice of publishing the fir
n novel Of the year. taking advantage
: the clean slate after the holiday cras
. this season brings her book out mo-
D conveniently in the fell. This move
r. which Doubleday. Page & Co. will pu
lie lish is tale of Virginia entitled "Tl
. Beaten Road =
g August Il is the date SGT for tho pu
LEGATION, by Doubleday, Page & Co.,