Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-29

| author and editor, who recently pub.
| lished his autobiography entitled my
Own Story" has been spending the
| winter in Florida. and has just re.
| turned to his home in Arlington. Mass
| Mr.. TrowbTidge will be so years old
next September.
Robert w. Chambers'S Forthcoming
| book, 1.-The Tree of Heaven" treats in
| the authors peculiar imaginative style
of the mysterious, the unexplained and
the occult in everyday life.
With the publication of "Carmichacl'
a new woman writer makes her APP
pearance. Miss May Wilson. who writes
under the pen name Of AniSOn
North" Although Carmichael" is
her first novel Miss Wilson has done
magazine and editorial work and is at
present in charge of the home depart
ment of a large Canadian magazine.
Miss Wilson's childhood was spent
upon the delightful old homestead in
Grey county, Ontario. She was gradu-
ated with high honors from her college
and was editor of the college paper.
MT. f1DWeliS new mover. lHlOuSH
the Eye of the Needle which is just
issuing from the press of the Harpers,
has for its heroine a rich woman who
is gravely puzzled as to the proper dis
position to make of her fortune. She
marrleS a traveller from Altruria, who
takes her to that country and tries to
teach her how to live in land where
there is no money. and where every one
must pay his way by doing a certain
amount of daily work.
The dedication to Marjorie Bowen 5
"The Master of Stair is; as follows:
ITO Mark Twain with deep gratitude
for the nattering interest shown by a
great man of letters in the work of a
beginner" The theme about which the
romance centres is the Massacre of
Glencoe, which inspired the famous
lines:
10 not lift him from the heather,
Leave him lying where he fell.
BETTER bier We can not fashion.
None be Scems him half so well
"Ackroyd of the Faculty is the title
of the new novel by Anna Chaplin Ray
that Little. Brown & Co. publish. Miss
Ray has written of the life on one of
the larger American universities. en-
bodying in her novel study of social
maladjustment. Intellectual vigor
brings the hero, born of the masses and
wholly loyal to his kin, into close con-
tact with a social class for whose life
he had had no previous training. Miss
Ray has for several years written a
novel for spring publication. and d
story for girls in the fall. Several OF
her recent books have had Quebec for
background but in "Ackroyd of the
Faculty" she has portrayed one phase
of life at one of the larger American
universities Inasmuch as Miss Ray
lives not far from Yale, she will doubt
less he charged with locating her scenes
| in New Haven. Her characters are,
of course wholly fictitious.
/. Ellis Meredith has followed up
Heart of My Heart" with a story of
the trials ard tribulations of a young
woman getting on in New York. to
which she has given the expressive title
Under the Harrow Hittle. Brown q
Cos Miss Meredith is one of the bril-
liant young women writer's OF the
West, as is evident by the fact that
she has been asked for her portrait to
place in the Bibliotheque Natlonale'
Paris. A section Of the library Is to
be devoted to the work of women and
il it will be put the manuscripts, DOCKS
and other literary productions OF Wo-
men. Among the American writers,
Miss Meredith has been selected as the
representative of Western writers.
Miss Meredith is Denver product
a newspaper graduate. "Under the
Harrow reveals the soul of young
Girl battling her way in the great city
It IS a good piece Of work, SOCIOLOGICAL
" as well as ficticnally.
Two volumes in a new series Of IL
Illustrated biographies are announced
by Mcclure. Phillips & Co, under the
editorshp of George Brandes, the ID
nous Danish critic of cosmopolitan
fame. They will make an iconoclaStic
beginning by discussing the lives ana
celebrating the achievements OF no Tess
important figures in modern artistry
than Richard Wagner and Maxim
GOrky.
Smelling reform did not much trou-
BILE Alexandra Dumas fills. He sent 10
a friend one day a twelve line note OF
invitation: and each line, the recipient
declares, was ornamented by a blum
DER in photography. Taken to task for
this. Dumas laughed and exclaimed:
"Orthography, cher ami. that doesn [
concern writer's! That's the business
Iof proOfreaders.
Commander Peary's new DOCK
Nearest the Pole is to be brought
Our during the coming week. Its pub
LEGATION has been delayed to permit the
inclusion Of additional data.
Kate Douglas Virgins New Chron-
icles of Rebecca.' which is published
IN America this week by Houghton,