Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-22
Books and Authors.

Hugh IrndeXtcr, author Of that book
ei drolt and unique humOr, "TiberiuS
Smith" WHicn was published this
month by The HaiperS, finds that the
way of The humorous transgresSnr is
sometimes hard. On the publicatio OF
his book he at once sent u copy TO Il
dear Old lady in his native State,
Maine who has known him since he
was 4 child ana has always felt an in
tcreSt in his welfare. But. alas! the
dear old lady takes humor all TO liter
ally. She read Pcndexters delightful
account Of diSC6Ie ring the town i'll Yer
mont whose inhabitants didn't know
that the civil war was over, and this
part "f the book especially Jared her.
Eltrcupon she Wi0te to him: That
part OF your bool. is n lie from begin
Ming 10 era, and 50 ! fear that other
parts must be also. Hugh. am disap
pointed i'll you. | asked father to read
about that town, too, and he agrees
with me that it isn't so. l hadn't ever
expected YOU to write anything that
ISN'T turc. Why. there never was any
such IL town as that or any such peo-
pie. and you can't make me believe
there was" Pendexter is vainly try
ing, now. 10 win back his old friends
respect.
Miss Marjorie Bowen, author Of THE
Viper Of Milan" has recently finished Il
new novel calico THE Master OF
Stair" and Mcclure, Phillips & Co. will
publish it ut an early date. The
Master of St;ilr' is the father o. Nancy
| Stair, tie heroine of Eleanor McCart-
ney Lanes novel Of last year, ana Miss
Bowers story deals With what is
known ir history as the Massacre Of
| Glencoe. the author having discovered
| in recently urearthed historic mate
| rial that there never waS-a massacre
| OF the kinC handed down in poetry and
| tradition. ;when the entire CLAN Of the
| Macdonalds was wiped Out by the
| Campbells. All the historical figures of
| the time, ircluding William of Orange
are introduced in the story, of which
| the dominating character is the wild
and sinister Master of Stair.
| Kate Douglas Wiggin, author Of
] New Chronicles OF Rebeccd." sailed
this week on her annual visit TO the
| British Isles, and will go direct to
! Edinburgh.
John l.. Given, the author of Making
Il Newspaper" which Henry Holt 4 Co.
| will issue in the near future, was till
| recently on the staff of the New York
| Evening sun. In his book he will give
n detailed account of the business
| litorial. reportorial and manufacture
| ing Organization of the daily news
| paper in II large city, addressing par
| ticularly the young men and women
| WHO want to know the requirements,
best methods Of making Il start, ana
| rewards of Journalism, and also the
| country newspaper workers who aim
| for the prizes of metropolitan Journal
ism.
enc OF Tie most interesting PERSONAL
| tiles among the writer's Of the day is
| Charles L. Stewart. whose new book
| Partners OF Providence" is believed
70 deal largely with the authors own
Iexperiencr and observations along the
| Mississippi and Missouri rivers Mr.
lStcwarI is forty years old When Il boy
ne left Wayland Academy. Beaver
| Dam, Wis. for The West. He went
down the Mississippi and later became
cub" To the pilot Of n. Missouri river
| boat. Once, finding himself stranded
i'll New Orleans. he tramped north and
reached McmphiS-with the river in be-
tween. Then he drGted 10 Ovcrton.
Texas, where he fen in with a black
smith for whom he worked six months
ut the anvil. lie served for two years
as cowboy, and then returned to his
| home III milwaukee,, his parents dcSir-
| ing MN u become Il minister. Instead
ne TOOK to engraving, studying under
the father of Carl Mari. He served for
several years on the different Chicago
papers. usually as an engraver. and
has been active in the Photo-engrayers'
Itnion. Since the publication of his first
book. THE Fugitive Blacksmith" Mr.
Stewart has devoted himself entirely
10 writing, living quietly in Chicago
and seeing little of the so-called liter
airy set of the city
Meredith Nicholson, whose House OF
a Thousand Candles" is doing very well
here, has just sold his Swedish trans.
lation rights, and it is understood that
various other authorized translations
or the book arc to be made soon.
MISS Mary ChOlmOndeley. who has
been IN rather poor health of late, is
now much better, but her medical ad.
| wiser sets his face Sternly against any
| inclination on the part of his distin.
. guished patient to write a new novel
although he has graciously permitted
her to write few short stories. An.
other full-sized novel from Miss Chol
mondeley can hardly he expected fo
tWo or three years yet. Her lates
novel, Prisoners has been, or il
some cases is about to be. pubIisehc
in translated form in France, Italy
Germany, Sweden and even Holland
where. although there is no copyright
Ia conscientious publishing firm ha
paid her for the privilege of translat
ing the book into Dutch. Arrange