Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-08-19

| II WdS iDt 80 years ago, lO
the author Of THE Cruise Of the Shin
ing Light" is still a young man, tina
| Norman Duncan was slender lad per
i forming the duties of assistant town
| clerk in little town in Ontario. Hi.
remuneration was the princely sum o
/ five dollars 4 week; but, after all, h
was very young and the work and tn
hours were very light. Duncan Wor.
ricd about that salary good deal.
didn't strike him as being just right
ard to Duncan, in those early years
| not to be right was to be very wrong
| indeed, for he had been reared und,
the Strictest sort of surroundings. H.
| knew it was his duty to perform his
work properly, and he also knew that
| il was due to himself that proper
| salary be paid. So one day he APP
preached the chief clerk and, with
| some hesitation for the clerk was an
| elderly gentleman who took a personal
interest in him). suggested that the
amount IF salary might with pro-
| rricty be altered. The clerk looked at
him for a few moments in dumb
amaZement.
| DO you mean to tell me. Norm, that
you want your salary changed?' he al
most roared, at length.
| Eyes, sir said Norman, bravcly.
"because-"
| use here, Norman. isn't your work
| light enough?"
! YES. sir, but"
and you don't have to stay around
here, Duncan, more than two or three
hours a day, do you?'
"That's so, sir, and
"Then what / want to know. Nor
| man Duncan" interrupted the old gem
tleman, colby, "is what you mean by
daring to tell me that at your age, and
with this easy work, You want your
salary raised"
"That's Just it," cried Duncan eager
| "; cit doesn't seem that I'm doing
right for taking 50 much money every
week for doing almost nothing"
Tho old gentleman gasped-and did
not decrease his salary.
Dr. w. A. P. Martin. author of ''The
Awakening of China" Doubleday,
Page & Co.'S recent publication, is the
subject of an Interesting monograph
by DR.. Albert Porter, which will APP
pear soon in The outlook.
Cupid the Cow Punch" is the racy
| title of new book by Eleanor Gates,
author Of "Thc Autobiography of a
Prairie Girl" to be published in the fall
by Mcclure. Phillips & Co. This is not
! like "The Pillow Woman" a fully de-
veloped novel, but sketches with q
light touch prairie life as the author
remembers it.
r. P. Dutton & Co. are publishing
| "SoldierS of Fortune in Camp and
| Court" by Alexander Innes Shand
| author of days in tho Past
| "The Cali of the Father" by the Rt.
| Rev. DR. A. F. w. Ingram. lord bishop
of London. has just been published by
Thomas Whitaker. 1t consists OF
| sermons preached at Il progressive
mission in East London. and has been
put out both in a regular edition and
| in a limited popular form.
| Early in September Cyrus Townsend
| Brady will publish through Moffat
Yard & Co. a new novel. '"The Blue
| Oceans Daughter" a romance of the
war Of the Revolution. Mr.. Brady has
published little of late, which promises
all the better for the new book.
| James Pott e. Co. of New York an
nonnce for fall publication "The
| Cathcdrals and Churches Of Northern
Italy" by T.. Francis Bumpus.
| The Macmillan company will pub
| fish in the fall n novel by John Luther
! Long. author of "Mme. Butterfly
| Like several other wcll-known con-
Temporary writer's. Mr.. Long is by pro.
| fcssion Il lawyer.
| The Raker & Taylor company viii
have ready in the spring Of 1908 a new
novel by Mrs. Mabel Barnes Grundy
who is now in England and hard a
work at it.
| In their last book c. n. and A. M
| Williamson switched off to the field 81
| historical romance. but they come back
again to automobiling in 1.-The Car o
| Destiny" the scene of which is SPAR
at the time of the recent coronation q
| the king.
It is said that Mr.. Carnegie himsef
| has become rather doubtful about tn.
| constant value of the libraries t.
which he has made enormous gifts. HI
has suggested that no novel should b,
added to a collection until it shall b,
three years old. It is known that ;
free public library has a tremendous
power for evil, without more sever,
directing influence and without SOM
further limitations than librarian
have been able to impose The read
Jig habit, especially in the case of chill
dren. may be as pernicious as an!
habit that dissipates the mental ener
gies. "Peoplc cannot read stupiditie
with imrunity." said Victor Hugo. I
is not necessary that n story-and tn
story is the great demand of book Dor
lrowers-should be immoral in order t