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

Great Britain by Archibald Constable
& Co, Ltd, in Germany by Tauchnitz,
and in Sweden by BANNER.
| Miss Norah Davis, author Of The
| Northerner," has another novel ready
which will be printed April y under
| the title of The Worlds Warrant"
| Miss Davis is native of Huntsville,
Ala, and grew up in an old fashioned
Southern house full of Books. AS a
teacher, a newspaper writer and a
| court reporter she made her way all
over the South. Her first novel, THE
Northerner,' was the result of her ex-
periences in the courts of Alabama.
There had been an atrocious lynching
and the perDetrator were tried in the
Federal court where she was a clerk
She asked for q months leave and
wrote the novel as it stands today in
twenty-ci2ht days. OF her forthcom-
ing book, The Worlds Warrant" she
says: Il hadn't any idea of writing
that sort of book; | had the outline
of another book in my head and sew
eral chapters written, when the story
began to take shape. growing from
bit of real life that | had CHANGED
upon. an atom OF experience merely.
In the vanity of my literary aspira-
tons | had worked out quite a differ
ent title. The characters quietly and
firmly put me aside and worked out
their own deStinics to suit themselves.
L was only spectator-their amanu-
ensis, in fact"
Two well known English women are
contributors to the spring fiction using
nom lie plumeS to conceal their ident-
ity-M. Hamilton. author of The First
Claim" and Anison North, writer OF
Carmichael" NJ. Hamilton, like Flora
Annie Steel. is an Indian enthusiast.
having lived in India many years. She
is the wife of an officer in the English
army and the daughter-in-law of an
English general of distinction.
The Real Blake" by Edwin j. Ellis.
is a portrait biography of the Eng
llsh poet and artist William Blake an
nounced for spring publication. Mr..
Ellis, with the assistance of Mr.. Will
liam Butler Yeats. prepared the first
fuil edition of Blake and is recognized
as one of the leading authorities on
TINS subjecI now attracting so much
interest. The purpose of the writer is
10 give complete picture of the life
and of the mind of the great poet.
Al the jamestown Exposition there
will be exhibited Model libraries for
mothers and children in the mothers
and childrens rooms Among the
American authors represented in these
libraries are Kate Douglas Wjggin
L. b. Aldrich. Margaret Deland. Eliza
beth Stuart Phelps, Sarah Orne Jewett
John Burroughs, Olive Thorne Miller
and Norah Archibald Smith.
Margaret Potter does not believe i'm
putting reliance upon ''inspiratlon'' or
moods. She is a tremendous worker
ana believes that in hard work lies tho
principal secret Of success. She finds
particular delight in philosophy and
history and seldom spends less than
eight hours a day in writing or in
study In preparing to write "The
Princess and the story of Russia
which preceded it, she went over
masses of material to verify imnros-
sions and to secure knowledge of ali
KINDS of affairs in the country of the
Gar.
george Cary EggleSton has lust sent
10 ms publishers. Lothrop. Lee &
Sheppard Company. the manuscript
Tor an historical story of unusual
interest entitled Long Knives" based
upon the famous George Rogers Clark
expedition. from the hero of which Mr.
f'ggieston is collaterally descended.
=.
me smith profeSSorship at Harvard
"hich has been vacant since the death
vi Lowell. has been filled by the an
polhtment of Prof. ]. D. M Ford
duthor ana editor Of many works con-
,iected with the Spanish and Italian
languages. He is now writing q
Toiuine on The Novel" for Types of
English Literature series. which is
appearing under the general editorship
OF Prof. William Allen Nelson.
A new book by Ellis Parkar prtrar
author Of Pigs is Pigs, and "Tbe
incubator Baby" will be published
next month by the Century Comnanv
IL Is called The Confessions of q
,'audy and is a fathers story of how
ne ana ms wife believed themselves
very happy without children. of their
dehght IN the coming Of a daughter
and of the first spank"
shakespeare may spell ruin for the
a'iical managers and aspiring stars.
out DOCK publishers have only reason
20 De thankful that he. as Alexander
dumas said. latter God, created most"
Ihey declare that Shakespeare is still
the best seller on the market. There
is more profit in issuing new editions
OF Shakespeare than there is in re-
peatedly bringing out such successes
as Richard Carvel." The Gambler,
or The Pit" Writing in the New York
evening Post. w. G. Fftz-Gerald as
Serts that at least 10000 sets of