Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-03-18
Books and Authors.

The latest story which they are tell
ing in England Of the English Winston
Churchill, author and parliamentarfan.
concerns his jealous guarding OF his
dignity. Though he has been in the
House for years and is somewhat over
80 Mr.. Churchill has youthful face
and a boyiSh manner His intimate
friends pronounce him 'Iovable," but
his abruptness on meeting compare
tive strangers is at times discomfort
ing. Recently the Under Secretary
met a lady distinguished in a rather
different field who held out her hand
at an evening party. saying. "Mr.
Churchill. how pleased / am to see
you But l never saw you" Mr.
Churchill answered, and he said moth
ing more. e-
A second edition of Sampson Rock
Of Wall Street" has been demanded,
although the book has been published
only few days. One Of the charac-
tiers, Mrs. Collyer, was directly inspired
by the career of a woman whose Wall
Street experiences We're short and dra-
matte. She came into the Street with
$11 900 in cash and within five months
had made a fortune Of half a million
dollars. She was dealing entirely in
margins" and in spite of her brokers'
warnings let all of her speculations go
into one line. The inevitable crash
came and she walked out of the Street
pcnniless. but handsome and self-pos-
sessed. No one ever heard what he
came of her afterward.
The striking feature OF Basil Kings
stories is the great variety OF scene
reproduced in them. His first novel,
Let Not Man Put Asunder." took the
reader from New England to London
and thence to Italy, and some of its
characters We're Americans. others
Europeans. His second novel, "In the
Garden of Charity was a tale of tie
coast of Nova Scotia. His third book
was written about quiet old CambY dye
and it's university. His new story. to
be published Immediately, is located at
Monte Carlo and Paris. but most OF its
characters are Americans.
Margaret Potters new novel "The
Princess" which will be published this
week, is a romance of Russian life CEN
tring about the figure of the Princess
Catherine. a woman high in power and
peasants and lords, ministers of state,
the procurator of the Holy Synod and
even the Car and the Czarina figure in
the story, which has dramatic compli-
cations ana great variety of detail.
DIR. Henry Van Dyke has an interesting
article IN the current number of the
Book News Monthly entitled. james
Whitcomb Riley As a Person"
Mr. Barnes. American" is the title Of
the sequel to Mr.; Barnes, OF New
about to publish. The first part of Mr..
Barnes's story has carried the name of
its 81; aut iS A C. Sumter. into many
into nearly all modern languages.
w. G. Rawlinson published his wei,
known work on Turner's ''Liber Studio
meantime he has accumulated much new
information on the subject, and this he
has used in the preparation of a revised
edition. which has just beer issued by
the Macmillan Company.
Miss Marjorie Bowen. author of The
Viper of Milan has temporarily desert
ed Italy for Scotland and has written
a book entitled THE Glen of Weeping
a story dealing with the massacre of
Glencoe.
Hanehton, Mihin & Co will publish
thelr HrSt group OF DOCKS Tor the spring
Mrs. Ellen Olney Kirk: a new edition Of
MY Lady PCkahontas," by John Esten
Cooke: issued in honor of the jamestown
Life Of Teacher" by DR.. Edward Hicks
Masill. ex-presitent Of Swarthmlore Col
Holmes mtedy e Of oT camo Msnd 81
George b. Ives; Lees Centennial by
Hon. Charles Francis Adams; Los Pas
torres, Mexican miracle play. traISIat-
ed and edited by Mrs. Otto b. Cole. and
a lD, ecIti%n of DIR. w. J. Roifes
by a coincidence that is purely acct
or Clare. about to be published by the
Lippincotts. presents view of Richard
III at variance with the traditional ons
searches of the author Of a serious hfs-
Usher
Grace Gallatin Thompson Seton has
written another book '.Nimrod's Wife"
ume TO her "A Woman Tenderfoot" 1t
viii he Illustrated not by her husband.
as might have been expected. but by
Walter King Stone, and will be published
Henry James's new series of papers on
me Manners of American Women" viii
begin in the April number of Harper,s
BaZar
A new volume of poetry by Joaquin
Miller, entitled Light, - is being brought
out by Herbert B. Turner & Co.
Thomas Wright's 1.-THE Life of walter
Pater." which the Putnams will soon
bring ont. will be in two volumes and
WI. contain 20 Illustrations. Under tho
imprint of the same, publishers primes
kropotktn's 1.-THE Conquest Of Bread"
Will soon appear in a translation
Sick Headache,
largely a woman's COMPLAINTS
chiefly caused by indigestion, constf-