Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-03-25

in the near future by The Baker y:
Taylor Co., and is said to contain fea-
| lures Of marked originality. Mr.
| Prcntis resides in Detroit, Mich.
Mrs. Barncs-Grundy, the author Of
"Dimbic and l." published by The
| Baker e. Taylor Co.. is spending the
! winter in Egypt.
Joseph Conrad. the well-known au-
thor, is rather short and stalwart, with
a short. dark beard. and his appear
| ance indcimably suggests the sea, that
| WAS so long his home.
| Gilbert WatSonS "A Catldie of St
| Andrews to be published this month
| is q story in which the golf interest is
strong. The chief parsonage is a warm
hearted, whiskey loving caddie. who
having orce been u fisherman is called
| Skipper"
| ''Itunning Horse Inn is the title Of
a new novel To be published in Il few
| weeks. the scene of which is laid in
! England just after the close of the
NapoleOnc wars, when riots broke out
through the country and the govern :
| nent was threatened. The author is Il
young Englishmar who has published
| little as yet. but who stands high in
the esteem of the English reviewers.
| Myra kellys first novel. "The Isle of
| Dreams" is to be published the first
| week in April. Her short stories will
| hereafter appear in Appleton's Maga-
| zine.
| Owen Wister was made Il Doctor of
Laws by the University of Pennsylva-
mia within q week of the publication of
his new hook. How Doth the Simple
| Spelling Bee
| THE first fiction ! ever wrote, in fact
the first story l ever attempted" said
| fred NJ. White, the author of 'The
| Slave of Silence" and other ingenious
| mystery stories, was a short serial in
| Chambers Journal. That was over
thirty years ago. Since then, + may
say, there is scarcely any publication
| OF repute in England or America to
which | have not contributed. I am a
very fast worker, doing often 5000
words in morning, which is the best
time to work. But though I work rap
| lhlv When | am about it, it generally
takes me three hours or 50 at night to
| think out the next days task so that
when | begin I have practically got it
by heart. During the last year or two
| hav" taken to debating nv manu-
scripts which | find is a great advan
tage. | think, on the whole, it i'm
proves the type of the work. As +,
the rest. | believe as much as possible
in plenty Of exercise and fresh air. and
| am never quite 50 well as when 7
Solf every afternoon, which | generally
do five or six days a week.
Molly Elliot Scawcll. in The Secret
"f Toni Cd. Appleton & Comnanv).
returns to the realm of French comedy
and nanners which she. among Amer
icah noVelists. has made almost exclu-
sIVeIy her own. The book is one to de-
! 'lSht young people and adults alike.
"Phantom Wires" Arthur Stringcr's
new novel. to be published bv Little
Brown IL Co. early in the spring. takes
It's somewhat puzzling title from a
| phrase Well-knoWn in trlcgraDhy
Where the quadruplex system of oDer.
atlnS enables four messages to go oyel
II SOLITARY wire at the same time two
| IN each direction, the three imaginary
| ana non-"xiStcnt circuits are spoken OF
as PHANTOM wires. The phantom
portion of a New York Chicago wire
for instance, would aggregate practi-
cally three thousand miles Of busy and
serviceable circuit without any tanEi
BILE or pondcrabe existence. TIL,
| phrase fpIrS. ,YSaI l.,
by the novelist, since Mr. Strmger'.
book. while by no means q study O
Spritualism. finds it's climax closet,
identified with the transmission of ,
more or less telepathic message in {
moment of great crisis. Since Mr.
StrinGer's original story, "The Wir,
Tappers." was published there hav,
, been calls for another book of thi
unic'le character. Mr.. Stringer ha
responded to this demand in "Phanton
Wires
One of the most important publishinj
events of this spring will be the ap
pearance. about the end of March. o
the new novel by Norman Duncan. TIL
publishers will be the Harpers. AL
though nothing in regard to the plot o
the Forthcoming story has yet bee
announced. it is known that it is a tai
of the impressive region which tn
author so powerfully set forth in hi
> DR.. Luke of the Labrador and "Dl
Grenfelrs Parish There is quality t
) Duncans writing which is not only i
: itself distinctive. but which is peculiar
ly fitting for the setting forth of tn
region and the people about which hi
, fancy loves to wander, and it ma!
: therefore. be looked upon ag certai
that his book will be of high and dis
: tinctive charm.
An eight-year-old boy who speak
1 four foreign languages. and has a re
4 markable knowledge of mathematic
a and physics. has been admitted to tn
J. BroOkline High school Aa l. tLo..al