Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-08-12

| INC Lo1uOn press of Hurst & Blackett
Ii VIII have for title "a Man of No I'm,
portance," and will be a romance O
| an inland watering place
Frontier life in southeast Africa ha
been chosen by Stanley Portal Hyatt
| as the theme of his novel, "Marcu,
| Hay" 1t is to be published at ono,
in London by Archibald Constable &
Co., and its author is said to hay,
| made his story out of first-hant
| knowledge gained in the various ca.
pacities of engineer, transport rider
trader and labor agent. AS Mr.
Hayatt has had ample opportunity t.
study the character of the natives
their tribal feuds, their communal
disputes, their weird superstitions, his
book should be a faithful narrative, no
matter what its merits as a novel may
he.
1t is interesting to know that Mrs.
Humphry Ward is a granddaughter of
the famous Arnold, of Rugby, and a
niece Of Matthew Arnold. But it is
not so generally known that literary
connection has been continued by the
..
daughters 10 a grandnephew of Thomas
Darlington Macaulay.
A new departure in books for young
people is Theodore Roberts's "The Red
Feathers which is story of stirring
adventure for boys, laid in Newfound-
land in the mythical Stone Age. 1t is
published by l.. c. Page & Co.
The new volume of the Roses of
Saint Elizabeth series published by L.
C. Page & Co, will be entitled Gar
lota: Story of the San Gabriel Mis-
sion" IT is the work of Frances Mar
garet Fox. and it deals with the story
of famous old mission. in the days
when the people of lower California
lived the life of old Spain, and before
California became a part of the United
States. The same house will also is
sue 1.-THE Red Feathers" a story of adj
venturous exploits written by Theo-
dore Roberts and illustrated by Charles
Bull.
After Is years retirement from
literary work. Mrs. A. l.. Wister, a
sister of DR.. Horace Howard Furness,
in answer to numerous requests for
another of her popular translationS
from the German, has delivered into
the hands of her publishers a manu-
script. THE Lonely House." trans
lated from her favorite author, Adolph
The book will appear in
the fall.
In the fall g. p Putnam's Sons, A. c.
Benson's American publishers. will
bring out a volume entitled The Pillar
of Cloud" This book was originally
as From an Artists
Diary" The author has recently
the title.
Miss Jean Webster. author of when
Patty Went to College, and Jerry
Junior" has just returned, via Japan,
from trip around the world. She is
putting the last touches on her new
book, a story of adventure.
Six new titles are announced by
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. for their
Handy Volume Classics-"Best Ameri-
Henneman: Thoreau's Cape Cod"
vi u.
Assist" "Medtations of Marcus
Drummond's Natural Law
in the Spiritual World" and the
'Religio Medici'' of Thomas Browne.
The series now includes 1873 volumes.
Churchill Williams, while he was
principal reader, is credit
ed with discovering John Reed Scott.
h, ssD
in its fifth edition. He at once predicted
a large success for 1.-The Colonel of
the Red Hussars,' and his prophecies
we're not long in being verified.
Far away among the quietude of the
Swiss Mountains, Francis Gribble Is
spending the summer months in the
writing of novel of modern London
life, doubtless gaining inspiration from
The contrast between the scenes that
him and the world he is
Mr. Gribble is also await
ng the autumn publication Of his
account of George Sand
and her Lovers" which Everleigh
Nash is now making ready for the
press.
A memorial to Whistler will be
erected at the end of the gardens near
Chelsea Old Church. 1t will consist
IF a symbolical figure by ROdin. The
estimated cost will be about 6 1000, Of
which about $1,000 has already been
Colonel Robert Williams, an Ameri-
can Indian lghter who saw much
service in campaigns against the
is to publish his recollec-
lions. The book will be entitled
Memoirs of the Far West of Fifty
Years Ago"
Miss May Sinclair, author OF "The