Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-11

Ford, the author-you know the chap,
what writes horse stories When the
PRESBYTERIAN church gave a musical
and literary entertainment In Cop
perthwait hall. Ford was impressed in
to the service. and altogether the
townsfolk looked at Ford as a possess
sion to be proud Of and pointed out
something like the new town clock
that the village women's club put in
the chuIch tower right across from his
home"
The new edition of Anthony
Trollopcs Barsctshirc novels has been
well received and 1t calls attention to
the large amount of money which
Trollope made by his stories in the
DAYS when there were no literary
agents" and the best sellers We're not
advertised as such in the literary
Journals of the day. According to his
Autobiography TrOllope made s35O,000
by his pen in twenty years. Can You
Forgive Herr" and the Last Chronicle
of Barset" each brought him some 49,
900.
Prof. Charles Eliot Norton, q close
friend Of Longfellow during the poets
Cambridge life, has written a memoir
of thirty pages which is published in
the Riverside Literature Series in this
the year of Longfellow's centenary.
Prof Norton includes in the memoir
poems that are genuinely biOgraphi-
cal, and poems that are particularly
expressive Of LOngfcllcW's life in Cam
bridge.
Pcrcival Landon, the English war
correspondent, has collected twenty
five chapters, written in the course Of
annual wanderings over India during
the last five years" which will be
published in the spring under the title
of Under the Sun" The idea of the
book, which will be illustrated is to
indicate the widely different local color
that distinguishes one Indian city from
another. One of the chapters is
Sahib," and will contain some hitherto
unwrtten information concerning the
leader of the famous uprising Of 1854
Miss Alice LDunsbcrry who writes the
popular nature books, has gone abroad to
visit the great desert country, the Sccnes;
described in The Garden of Allah, and
she will spend some time in that region.
II IS MT known whether she will write
aay descriptions Of the country, but she
is at work upon another nature book,
which will be published By the Stokes
Company.
Mr. Henry N; Rideout, the author Of
man. teacher in the department Of
English and q student Of Barrett Wen
dellS. Some time ago he determined to
break away from the university atrnos-
pher" and go out into the world for n
larger view Of life and literature. In
pursuance Of this scheme he went around
the word spending much time in Asia,
where he visited Siam and its capital
I'ankok. the scene Of his story, which is;
now running seriallv and Will be brought
out in book form soon. The plot combines
adventure. love and mystery and centres
around one Of the strange native cats.
which. is brought by the young American
heroine and becomes in her hands the
centre Of a widespread criminal con-
spiracy.
The congratulations which MI kiplin4,
received recently on his forty-first birth
day should convince him that he is 4
rather dubious on that point himself and
said to his biographer when asked to
to YOU that a work of this kind would be
nest published after the subject were,
dead?" While appreciating the enthu-
siasm OF his admirers. he questioned:
view Of the public-to whom after an
Your books must go-is there enough 10
them in anything that Mr.. 1<ipiine has
written to justify one whole book about
him.
Arthur Stringer describes the KcltS-
house III Rome which the kcats-Shellev
Memorial Association has bought. in tn.
room was small, but three PAGES across
and some five PAGES in length. a miscr-
able small and bare and cherries room
with cold; high ceiling, and cold
looking red brick tiles on the floor Two
large windows cut the bare walls on the
row bed OF the ledger who occupied the
room at the time was a framed manu-
script copy of an American poets tribute
10 heats. 1t was the only sign. the only
mark Of remembrance in the room The
house Itself was at the time used as the
Office of steamship company and was
let cut in lodgings. 1t is the purpose Of
the Americans in '' Roma. a to "s make t by
house a permanent memorial to Shellnv
ana Keats and to care for the graves of
the two poets and of their friends in Sc
vern and Trelawney.
=. "Nimrod's Wife, ny Grace Galratin
Thompson Seton. which will appear
among II. carly spring publications. is
an account Of the authors journeys with
her husband, Ernest Thompson Seton
ana furnishes a guide to women who
lind pleasure in out of door expeditions
Ihc new book will he illustrated by Wal
ter King Stone and the various tones
presented include In tn" Sierras In IN /,
Rockies. on the Ottawa, In Norway. and
the now hunting.
In the uniform edition Of "rhr Works
OF oscar Wilde" to he brought out in
England. will he included Tho Duchess
of Padua. a play hitherto unrlibI' shed
and DE PrOfundis" in Il fuller form
Or Luther Gulicl's forthcoming book
,Th" Efficient Life" will have tic fol-
lowing dedication: To Theodore RoGse-
welt. who sometimes leads the simple life
WHO often leads the strenuous life Int
who always leads the efficient life
Edith Ricketts, new novel, "The Golden
Hawk is n story of Provence. MistraI
ms accepted the dedication Of the book.