Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-05-27

hafSdFcl 1Ottef goes not believe i'll
putting reliance upon inspiration or
moods" she is 4 tremendous worker
and believes that in hard work lies the
principal secret of success. She finds
particular delight in philosophy and
history and seldom spends less than
eight hours a day in writing or III
study. In preparing to write THE
Princess and the story Of Russia,
which preceded it, she went over
masses Of material to verify impress
si1nS AMI 10 secure Knowledge of all
Kinds Of affairs in the country of the
CAR.
Considering the quantity-of course
not the quality-it might be pertinent
TO inquire whether the new books are
being read. Only 1900 have been pub
lishtd since January and, as Life puts
it, if one is Industrious and determined,
he can qualify himself for polite con-
Ycrsdtior before the spring flood of new
publications leaves him hopelessly
flcundcring in the stream Of thought.
AprOpoS of the recent publication of
"OConnell's Early Life and Journal"
BY The Baker &: Taylor Co, it appears
that Mr.. O'Conneli was, as a law stu
don't. an omnivorous reader. Il read
tins day and last night" OConnell
writes in his journal, ''eighty-five pages
of Ossian's Poems, one hundred and
eight pages of Godwins Political Jus
ticc, and two hundred and thirty-four
of Pindar's Poems" Mr.. O'Connell was
at this time about twenty-five years of
age.
1.-The Romance of Steel, the Story of
a thousand MiIliOnaires," by Herbert
NJ. CaSson, will be published in book
form soon and will describe in detail
the career of the billion dollar steel
trust.
Margaret Prescott Montague, the
author of The Sowing Of Anderson
Cree" has sailed for Europe in COM |
pany with Il friend, to stay all the
summer and to find in Spain the possi-
BILE material for a new novel. Miss
Montague new book is winning very
favorable notice from the reviewers.
Miss Inn COOlbrith was one Of the
victims of the San Francisco disaster
of last year. All her books and literary
material, including the manuscript of
H.,
ton OF Which Size had devoted a large
part of her time for the last ten years.
We're destroyed by fire. A new edition
Of her Songs from the Golden Gate"
which has been virtually ont Of print
since the fire, Is now being issued.
Arrangements are being made to cell
citrate the centenary of the birth of
Edgar Allan Poe, which occurs in 1909.
Richmond, the city in which Poe spent
his early Years. has collected $4,000 for
a monument TO him, and the University
Of Virginia, which has an excellent col
lection of Foe literature and a Raven
Society" has placed a bronze medal
over the door Of the room where he
STUFFED and is arranging to celebrate
the centenary. The monument which
now marks Poc's grave was unveiled in
1871, the cost OF it having been largely
betrayed by G. VI. Childs.
1t has been printed in many papers
that The Silent Door" by Florence
Wilkinson. published hy Mcclure. Phil
lips u CO. this snring. is this authors
first novel. This is a mistake. as She
has had two novels published pre-
viouslv, namely. The Strength of the
Hills" published by Harper BROTHERS.
and The Lady of the Flag Flowers"
published by Herbert S. Stone.
J. ". Schultz's book my Life as
an Indian" which has just been
brought out by Doubleday, Page &
Company disclOses a real romance Of
the plains. The heroine Nat-ah-ki
was beautiful squaw Of the Piegan
Blackfeet Tribe which in the early
eighties was one Of the most powerful
of the Northwest. Her mother was
a medicine woman ana noted for her
good deeds. When she was eighteen
years old Nat-ah-ki. whose name in
English means sun or blessed wo-
man" became the wife of Mr.. Schultz.
who had gone West as a young man
and became enamored of the Indian
life. She proved to be devoted
wife and mother. Her son is now on
the reservation of his mothers tribe
in the far West. In his book Mr..
Schultz has described very intimately
his whole life among the red men and
he probably was the only man who has
ever lived among them for any long
period who was able to write
graphically of his experience.
William Sage, the author of 1.-THE
District Attorney" published last year.
has written new romance of love and
politics entitled by Right Divine"
which Little, Brown & Co. will bring
out in May. The story deals with the
struggle between a United States
senator and young governor for
political supremacy in their native
state, and is complicated by the love
of the senator's daughter for both of
the contestants
Mr.. Louis Joseph Vances new book
is called "Thc Brass Bowl" but
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