Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-03-25

| to be the youngest High school boy in
| the United States. He is the son of
| Dr. Boris Sidis, the eminent author Of
| Multiple Personality" published by
the Appletons. and speedily accepted
as Il work of the highest scientific i'm
portance.
T. the series Of Chats With Zig
Trowbridgc. Mir Trowhridgc has d sum
mer home DIT KcnncbuAkport.
J. ]. Bell, the famous Scotch author has
turned from children to whales ana Iris
most recent story of the latter sort APP
pears in The Ped Book Magazine for
April-'Thc Thousandth Whale
In reply to a letter from an American,
recently, asking for information abou-
herself Mrs. Eora Annie stss who's s
Just been brought cut, wrote as follows:
i have been married. ! have borne chill
| therefore lived through the life allotted to
woman and the only novelty before me is
death.
After Doubleday, Page & CO. had
| printed ana sold Il first edition OF The
Issue" by Edward Noble it was discov-
| cred that a book of the same title by
| George Morgan had been brought out ten
years ago. The next edition of the novel
will bear the name ''F'isherman's Cat.
under which it was published in England.
| Noble is regarded as second Joseph
Conrad. His :7tories are of strong virie
men and of the sea. The scenes of Fish
crmen's Cat are laid along the Thames.
beside Still Waters" Arthur c. Ben
sons latest volume, has just been pub
lished in London. 1t presents an imaSin-
| AIRY portrait and traces, with slender
| thread of biography. the evolution Of 4
mystical type of character on the religi-
Gus, artistic and ethical sides.
Harold BiEdlos. whose latest book.
The Dust of Conflict" has Just been
| material and a wide knowledge Of hui
| manity 10 draw upon for his stories. He
has made his living in Assiniboia. on the
| Pacific Coast and in Cuba, and has
worked his way on the Gold Coast ans,
| the Canaries. He has been carpenter
MECHANIC. locomotive engineer, salmon
or and merchant. Most of my plots"
MIR. Eindlos says, turn on an industrial
| or mechanical struggle because | know
more about that than anything else. Most
| of my real friends were always up to tn )
eyes in mire grubbing out a living.
start with the idea of a kind of industrial
epic and find it won't work out i'll a
shape that will tempt anybody to read
| | want to describe ii prairie harvest or
| life in a red hot oil factory, and always
rim up against the limitation that it mus
| ana effort peeps out 1 have TO be salts
fed
"Ackroyd of the Faculty is a new
novel by Anna Chaplin Ray, to be pub
| lished THIS week. The story is written of
the life in one Of the larger American
| universities ard embodies study of 50
cial mnladjustment. Intellectual ability
| brings the hero born of the masses and
| wholly loyal to his kin into close con-
tact with social class for Whose life he
had RI
will he rcmembertd for her novel ''On tn"
| Firing Line" for her Teddy" books and
her stories, of college life and youthful
haroinfs. She is a Smith College gradu-
| ate and lives in Connecticut.
When Conan Doyle arrived for the first
time in Boston he was instantly reCoG-
| niZcd by tho cabman whose vehicle h.,
had engaged When the great literary
| man offered to nay his fare the cabman
| said quite respectfully:
| IF You please, sir. ] should much pre-
fer a ticket to your lecture. If You have
| none with YOU visiting caro- pcncilcd by
yourself would do"
Conan Doyle laughed.
| Tell me- he said. how did you knox
who | was. and | will give you tickets
for, your whole family w
| ''Thanl1 ycu sir" was tho reply. willy.
we all kncw-that is, all the members of
| the Cabmcn'S Literary Guild knew-that
YOU wer" coming by this train. | happen
| to be the only member ON duty at th,;
| Sldthtii tillS morning. II You VIII cNcuSe
| personal remarks Your coat lHpC'S arr
badly twisted downward whcr" they have
| been graSpcd by TIE pcrtinacin,r9 New
York reportcrs. Your hair has the Quak,,
| erish cat Of a Philadelphia barber. AMI
| ynur hat. battered at the brim IN from,
| shows where YOU have tightly Gra-ncd il
in the struggle to stand Your ground at 4
| Chicago literary luncheon. Your right
| overshoc has II large block Of Buffalo
| mud just under the i1Stcp, tn" o1or of u
l-tici. cigar hangs about your. Clothing.
| ly brushing of the pnrtcrS of the through,
slcepors from Albany. and stcncilcd upon
the very end of the Wellington in fairI.
plain lettering is your name. Conan
| Doyle.