Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-30

1T is seldom that two sisters Ore
represented simultaneously on theslist
of q single publisher. 1t is therefore
curious and perhaps unprecedented
occurrence that there should be, net
one. but two such cases on -; pres-
ent fall list OF ThenMcCIure 1JhtHny.
Martin, Ehosef new FjLetiuat .teeps
den's '.Tv3 Royal Foes, nd again
in the. case of]kate Douglas rwisgin.
Whose sfstes. Nora Archibald. smith,
mot only is her 4coliaborator- in the
new vditmes of McChses library of
ChildrgQ's Classics. bpt is. the inde-
pendent author OF one Of the most de-
hshtfur of the seasons juveniles. The
adventure of a Doll
David Grayson. the author OF ."Ad-
ventures in Contentment." Heaps tha
secret. OF his identity with great suc-''
cess. All that the public know of him
must be- had from his book, in which he
Esays:
VI have been for eight years farmer
81 I am neither old nor rich nor
married, though / can not for these
[SipsrioP courage or merit Nor am
Gagged with tags; / do not belong TO
any church or lodge or political party
therefore think whatever please up
on any subject and what think L have
the indiscrstion TO write down-with-
out apology Mr. Grayson lived in the
city. and he says: Through many
feverish years did not work, I merely
produced The only real thing did
was to hurry.
Many readers of, the fiction so Law
ishly provided by F. Marion Crawford
" i'll rejoice to hear that he will soon
publish THE Diva's Rubies." a sequel
to Fair Margaret" 1t will be re-
membeTed that the story of the young
prima donna broke off abruptly at a
n.clodramatic climax.
All bu; the concluding chapters of Grace
s. Richmond's Juliet were written in
England; II spent sis months there to- do
ing a number Of weeks ia each place
which l have described under somewhat
slnilar conditions in many ways as I"
mode of life. although the characters,
conceive a more delightful way Of conf
bning work and play than such a living
the BACKGROUND or one s own
so to speak! Work in the mornings, ex-
plorationS in the afternoons rest In tho
evenings. I should like tc do II all over
aglin-if l could only DO 1t better"
The first fiction story sold for publica-
ton bv Wiiiam Wallace Whitei0ck, an-
thor of when Kings Go Forth to Bat
tie WAS purchased bv 4 fashion maga-
zine Wethcr owing to overcrowding OF
it's columns or a too conscientious regard
for the mandate of the title the editor
did not publish the story until after
six years" and Their check was for g sc
wien Kings Go Forth to Battle" has
gone into a third edition.
Lillian Whiting, who passed last WIN
ter in ZONE. where she wrote ITALY.
the Magic Land" one Of the popular
holiday books. returns to italy again this
season. and after brief soiourns in LON
don and Paris. will locate herself in
Florence where she has passed much
time OF late years. and whose charm
she has aimed to embody in her previous
~ published book called THE Florence of
London"
a. c. McClurg & Co, Of Chicago have
lust published a new novel, THE Real
Agatha. the Unusual Adventures Of Two
Young Men and an Heiresa," which Is the
first novel of q young Chicago girl Edith
Huntington Mason. daughter of the his
torian. Edward G.. Mason, and grand
daughter of one of the early mayors OF
Chicago. The story appeared In serial
form In the Ladia0.i, 1onn6k Journal .xlE