Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-03-11

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plete novelette, in the March Lippin-
cctts entitled 1.-THE Smugglers" This
story deals with the modern manner
OF getting jewels into our country with
out asking Uncle Sans consent. The
characters are convincing in their roles
and the plot rapid.
'"rhe first fiction ever wrote, in fact
the first story l ever attempted" said
Fred NJ. White, the author of "The
Slave of Silence" and other mystery
| stories, twas q short serial in Cham
ber's Journal. That was over thirty
years ago. Since then, may say, there
IS scarcely any publication Of repute in
England or America to which / have
not contributed. I am very fast
worker, doing often 5000 words in
| morning, which is the best time to
| work. But though l work rapidly when
am about it, it generally takes me
| three hours or so ut night to think out
| tie next days task, so that when /
begin / have practically got it by
/ neart. During the last year or two I
have taken to debating my manu-
scripts, which 1 find is a great advant-
| age. l think, on the whole. it improves
the type of the work. As to the rest
l believe as much as possible in plenty
| of exercise and fresh air, and I am
never quite SO We'll as when | manage
to put in about six miles of golf every
| afternoon, which I generally do five p
six days a week.
The following facts with regard to
the highly excited career of Thomas w.
Lawson are made public by Doubleday,
Page g. Co., who are issuing his novel,
Friday the 18th AS a boy he lived in
Cambridge. He had read the story of
Aladdin in 1.-The Arabian Nights" and
became filled with desire to make
money. Running away from home at
the age of twelve, he saw a sign
BOY wanted in front of an old finan-
cial house and when he got inside he
saw man shOvellinS gold, as they still
continue to do in the English banks.
Upon being asked what lie wanted In
do, he said, Il want to be a financier."
His earneStneSS impressed the man and
he was at once taken on. As soon us
his parents found out where he was, he
was promptly brought home and re
turned to school. But the love of
finance was still on him. SO he ran
away again, and was once more re-
turned to school. The third time he
ran away, his earnestness and determ
ination SO impressed his employer and
his family that he was permitted 70
stay.
Again in another novel will Margaret
Horton Potter seek Russia for her
scene and characters. 1t will doubtless
be The second volume in the trilogy OF
which The Genius was the first. and
Harper & Bros. will have it ready this |
month.
Carolyn Wells has written a novel Of !
mystery which is soon 10 appear In
Lippincott's Magazine.
New and interesting material about |
Daniel O'Connell is contained in hi
ed in April by The Baker and Taylor Co. |
Arthur Houston. X. c., LII. d., edits the |
Journal, which has never before been |
of delightfully."- humorous nature an |
account of O'Connells parentage early |
education, reading and earnings at this /
Bar. Altogether the book is one of gen /
The new book b. Carl Ewald. the
author Of My Little Boy" and Two |
made up of short stories. all dealing; /
with natural history themes treated in |
imaginative and poetic style To compel |
the interest of children and entertain old
er readers us well. THIS method Of natuiu
story is original with Mr.. Ewald and has
been happily Illustrated in his former
books. The new stories. which will III /
clude Aunt Elder Duck The Weeds"
THE Queen Rec and others, has been
translated from the Danish by Alexander /
TciN.ira lie MattOS.
The first medal which the Camp Fire
Club has given in nonOr of an outdoor |
hook S waa Of ST N t. Ii HS1as
Park for his book Camp Fires in tic |
Canadian Rockies" Ernest Thompson
Seton presented the medal. Since his re-
turn from the trip described in the book |
rr. HGrnaday and Mr.. Phillips, who took /
the mountain goat photographs which IL /
Illustrate the narrative: have been making |
efforts to induce British Columbia to set |
aside their late hunting ground per |
ranent game and forest preserve.
The two most popular English books in |
Russia ut The present day, according to |
the Daily Mail, are Milton's paradise |
Lost and THE Adventures of Sherlock |
HOlmtS.'
T.. Temple Thurston's new novel. 1.-THE |
Evolution of Katherine" is a character
study of a woman who thinks she has IA
fatal disease and who shapes her life ac-
cordng to that idea. The publication Of |
this novel which will soon be broughr |
out here. is of interest for two reasons. |
Mr.. Thurston is an English writer who
has attracted much attention on both |
sides of the Atlantic by his vigorous and |
daring stories and he is also the husband !
of Katherine Cecil Thurston, the author
of one of the remarkable novels of the
day. THE Masqueraders.' She and Mr. |
Thurstcn were mearried in 1901, ami |
their home is in Kensington. London |
Mr.. ThurstOns book will be published |
about the middle of the month. |
Harold Rlindloss. the author of The
Dust of Conflict" q. new novel soon to bs
published in whach the Cuban war and
the destruction of the Maine are dra-
matte features of the plot, is an English
man who lives a quiet country life at
Great Corby, Carlisle. His diversions
from literary work consist Of bicycling,
boat building and gardening. His books
are stirring descriptions of the widest
part of western America and British Co
lumbia as well other regions remote,
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