Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-14
and Authors.

Jordan Lawrence Mott, author of
1.-THE White Darkness" graduated at
Harvard, and comes of a stock with
turn for creation in more Ways than
lone. His great-grandfatheL of the
same name. was an inventor with I'M
common fertility, and NJ. Mott
father has made no inconsiderable
figure in the same field. But Mi.
Motifs own powers of invention are all
lin the way Of fiction. He was born at
Mott Haven, New York City. on
August 18th, 1881, and forms one of q
gifted group of three in the same
family. Since his 15th year Mr.. Mott
has spent a month of every twelve in
the forest regions of Canada-main!y
shooting, fishing, or moose hunting
land mas carried his ranble5 as far as
Newfoundland and labrador. Init
lnsacy with the Indians and French
canadian trappers who people these
lonely wilds has bred in him sympa-
thy with their hard and primitive lot.
land this in turn has reacted on Z
powerful imagination. Through the
kindness of the Governor General. Earl
Grey, and his staff. Mr.. Mott has
pursued Ills SS SltIIIdtiC SluuIS VI lIItSts
outcast types in the Dominioa's wilder
nesses to an extent which has hardly
been possible before.
Anne Warner French, the author OF
the Susan Clegg stories, has cramatiz-
ed her popular story of "The Re-
Ijuvenation of Aunt Mary" and the
play will be produced in New York
next fall In a recent interview she
told a reporter that she wrote 1.00O,-
900 words in the first year she COM
posed for publication, and she claimed
ability to write in legible longhand
1000 words an hour Her claim on
public recognition as writer of
humorous future stories, however,
rests on "Susan Clegg and Her Friend
| Mrs. Lathrop," and her other Susan
Clegg" stories. OF these stories the
| New York Times says. Her Susan
Clegg' stories. rich in pungent humor
and extremely clever in their portrayal
of quaint and amusing character,
deserve Il place among the choice
specimens of American humorous
literature-which means the best
humorous literature i'm the world"
| The AppletOnS, who publish I'm Cure
OF Her Soul" announce third edition.
This book has been linked with 1.-The
House of Mirth" and Lady Balti-
more" as "a third great criticism Of
modern life"
| Virginia Frazer Boyle. author of the
novel entitled Serena" published in
1905, has collected a number of her
poems which have become popular in
the South. where they have appeared
from time to time in various period
icals. She will bring them out. with
additions. under the title of Love
Songs and Bugle Calls" through A. S.
Barnes & Company.
| The hundredth anniversary of the
birth of General Robert f. Lee will be
celebrated on January 18th. and
| Doubleday. Page & Company will
mark this occasion with a new edition
of The RecollectiOns and Letters Of
General Robert E. Lee" by his son,
Captain Robert f. Lee. Perhaps no
book. concerning the life of the great
confederate chieftain. so adequately
makes measure Of his real character
as this. because it tells the story of
MS life in the form of his letters to
his wife and children. This book has
already passed through seven editions
In the United States. and one large
edition in England.
The first publication day of the New
Year for Doubleday. Page & Company
will be January 22nd. when the follow
ing books will be brought out:
'Bettina." by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd;
Inc Sovereign Remedy" by Flora
Annie Steele; my Life AS An Indian
by ). w. Schultz, and 'Daffodils," by J.
w. Kirby.
Maud Howe, author of 'Imperio.'' in
the January Lippincotts is the young
est daughter of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe
and wife of the well-known Boston
sculptor John Elliott.
| Mrs Everard Cotes. whose new book
Set in Authority" has just been
published. is evidently not supersti-
.ous. Neither are her publishers be-
cause this is her 18th book 1t differs
great deal from her other successes
TOT example-"A Voyage Of Consola.
tlon and THE Crows Nest" Mrs
Totes has spent the whole of hei
married life in India but for the last
thfee or four years has been winterine
III London. Her real home is in Simls