Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-15


7 Writing of Thomas Nelson Page In
| the Atlantic, Edwin Minis remarks:
In all his Interpretation Of the South
| Mr.. Page has never struck a sectionai
note. There is provincialism--the
healthy provincialism of Burns and
Whittier-but he is right in claiming
in the introduction to the Plantation
Edition. that he has never Willingly
written a line which he did not hope
might tend to bring about better
understanding between the North and
South, and finally lead to more per-
| feet Union In his stories when the
| passion of prejudice is at it's height
| human nature asserts itself. The two
| Little Confelerates bury in their
! garden the body of the Federal soldier;
the heroine of ..Meh Lady, after a long
J and passionate conflict between love
! and patriotism.-yie to the Northern
colonel; and the hero of Red Rock
| dashing soliicrand Ku Klux leaders,
united with the Northern girl. Mr.
| Page has been one of the prime forces
in revealing the South to the nation
and the nation to the South, thus
/ furthcring the most important work of
the present generation-the promotion
of a real national spirit
The Scribners propose issuing short
| ly cheap edition of Steyenson's
| 'Travels with Donkey" This edition
will be 32mo. bound in limp leather
| and uniform in style with "The
Pocket r. L. S." which was published
| last year. The occasion of this
! publication is the announcement by
| another house that they were bringing
| out an edition of the book. The
Scribners will also bring out shortly
an edition. similar to this in size and
style, of Stevensons IAN Inland Voy-
! age"
| Although the Carlyle Memorial at
| Edinburgh was projected as long ago
| as 1895. only 100 pounds has been re-
| celvcd from ninety-tWO subscribers.
| AS the suggested bronze replica of the
| Boehm statue at Chelsea would cost
| about $50 pounds, a meeting will
| probably be held in the late autumn for
the purpose of giving new stimulous
| to the movement.
| Frank Roy Fraprie has been in Scot
| land for the last month or so, renewing
| his acquaintance with that rugged
| country, and procuring illustrations for
his forthcoming fall book to be issued
by l.. c. Page &. Co. At the same time
| Mr.. MiltOun and Miss McManus whose
| recent "AutOmObilist Abroad" is prov
! ing an excellent handbook for tourists,
| have not been at home for five years,
| making their general headquarters in
the artists colony at Les Andelys,
| France. Mrs. Gertrude Adams Fisher
is another writer of travel books on
the Page list. She is now on her way
to Spain and Portugal.
| Moses and Lichens." to be publish
ed by Doubleday. Page & Company in
the early. fall. will contain nearly
fifteen hundred illustrations. forty
| eight of which are photographs in
colors, and black and white. The
author, Nina Marshall. is one Of the
best known teachers of biology and
botany in the United States, and her
book will, be bound uniform with the
Nature Library published by the same
| firm.
The late Henrik Ibsen upheld the
superiority of women in his dramas
|
inferior to men in many lines of use
fulness generally classed as feminine
For example. his friend, John Paulsen
says in the London Times that one OF
lbsens maxims was:
No woman could write a cookbook
ana no woman can sew a button or
fast"
| He lived up to the latter part of hi:
H. hn Intn
button on any of his garments, he re.
treated to his own den, locked himself
In. and with elaborate preparation.
sewed the bNtton on.
i he took as much pains with the jol
as he would with the final. fair cow o.
one Oh MS plays. Then he used to bras
ABOUT the performance, saying that HI
would notA put trust in a bottom seWr
on by any Woman-not even his wife.
HIS wife used to laugh with 6
qualntly ironical expression on thes,
occasions. She confided to Paulser
.hit sne secretly reserved all tn,
buttons That the poet had sewn, sewet
.neih as only woman can, she said
ne always forgot to fasten the thread
ana the buttons would come off in :
lev uaSs II she did not look after them
hut dont undeceive him." the faith
fui wife added, appealingly; at make
MN so happy to think that he does II
CHARLES Z. Goodspeed. a Boston bool
'' mas returned from London
where ne obtained many prizes to b
au.eu % MS collection of books an
relics. The purchase which nJe.se
MIR. Goodspeed most, however. was IN
/ r.
s,ory' IN big fireplace, which is on
~ ,he attractions Of his quaint oil
: DookshoH well Known Throughout Ne,
England. This is the original coppe
''oilex rom the kitchen Of the King,