Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-08-06

| tract with the BODDS- Merrill company
| for George Middleton's decentralization
| of Meredith Nicholson's novel, ''The
| House of u Thousand Candles" Pro-
| duction Will he made i'll September
| Ernest Shipman is arranging for
! dramatic version and presentation OF
| Mr.. Nicholson's latest success, ''Tht
| Port Of Missing Men" Edward E
| Rose is making the play, which will
| also be produced in the fall.
| Margaret Hannis, whose story. 'The
| Emancipation Of Miss susanna" is now
| appearing in serial form in the Circle
| Magazine. will be published between
covers in the fall by Funk & Waknalls
| Company.
The Harpers have just issued a new
| edition of Katherine" by L. Temple
| Thurston. and a new edition Of William
Dean Howclls's Through the Eye of a
Needle"
A. c. Benson's new book. to be
brought out in the fall by Putnam's. Is
entitled 1.-THE Pillar Of Cloud" the
name having been changed From an
Artists Diary
r. p. Dutton & Co. have just pub
lishod "i3acheIor Betty" a new novel
by a new writer, Miss Winifred James.
and "a Handbook of Egyptian Re-
lgion," by Adolf Erman.
Torn Mason is no more. With his
autumn book which will be entitled
"A Bachelors Baby" Thomas l.. Mas
son has taken his place. ''The change
was first suggested to me-" said Mr..
Mason "by Edward w. Box, who In
sisted that. in spite of Mark Twain.
Jack London and Tom Paine. mine was
an extremely undignified name"
George w. Jacobs & Co. of Phila-
delphia, are publishing volume on
| "Siena and Her Artists" The author
| is Mr.. Frederick Seymour.
DR.. Albert Shaw, editor Of the Re-
view of Reviews, vas the first lee
turer on the Blumcnthal Foundation
in Columbia University.
William Henry Schofeld, Of the chair
of comparative literature at Harvard.
the third exchange profe ssor to go to
Berlin. is the author of work of dis
tinction on "English Literature from
the Norman Conquest to Chaucer,"
published by Macmillan last year.
Owen Wistcr's new novel. which is to
be published in the autumn. will bear
the title of Mother" Dodd, Mead &
Co. will bring it out.
CO 10 Co, l.
ing of memorial to Frederic William
Maitland. who died some months ago
after distinguished literary and
academic career at the University of
Cambridge. 1t is proposed to erect a
personal memorial in the. Squire Ii
brary at Cambridge, and to make use
of any uncxpcnded funds in the pub
| LEGATION of his works, or by the found
| ing Of a course of lectures, as may be
deemed most cxpcdicnt.
Miss Clara Laughlin's drama. "Felic-
| ity," is not to be dramatiZat ton oi
| the novel Of the same name. but rather
| a play founded on the character OF
| Felicity, the heroine.
Williams College has honored her
self and her son by comforting ar
| LII. d. on Henry NJ Alden, the veteran
| editor Ct Harpcr's Magazine. 'Tht
| fifticth anniversary of DIR. Alden's
| graduation at the college was also
thus celebrated. Not long ago Mr.
| Alden recalled. in Harpcr's Weekly. hi.
| carly days as an editor at Franklin
| square.
i
! Miss Rose Kingsley. in her new
| book OH "Evcrsley Gardens and 9th
| ers.' give US, as we noted the othel
day. some glmpses of her father. the
novelist, at home. Here are two o.
| them.
I hardly ever smell syringa without
| recalling an experience of my ia
theirs boyhood, which he used to sa!
had been one of the lessons of his life
AS i small boy he was passionatel!
fond of the scent of syringa; and ont
day he thrust his head into bush ant
drank in the fragrance, till it suddenl!
turned into a nauseating stencil, 81
that from that moment his horror o
it was as great as his former enjoy
ment. and never, as he would tell us
did he forget that sharp reminder tina
one might have too much of a goot
thirg.
When my father settled at Eversle,
Rectory in 1874 most Of the garde,
consisted in a line Of fish ponds, run
ming from those in the glebe field, pas
the house. and joining the large pom,
belonging to the Church Farm, benin,
the church. He at once became hi
own engineer and gardener. The pond
except three in the glebe field, which
in course Of time were stocked witt
trout, were drained. What had beel
y wrctched chicken yard outside th
brick floored room which my fathe
took for his study was laid down ii
turf with wide border on each side