Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-11-04

isaac x Friedman, who lives III Hyde
Park. Chicago is a novelist whose
work. if not conspicuous for its tender
Qualities. shows abundant and growing
Svmpathy and vigor. Mr.. Friedman has
the calis., of his less fortunate brethren
a, heart. as he proved in hi. earlier
novel. by Bread Alone" All MS
shorter storic., too. have a strong soci
illogical flavor. The Radical his lat
est novel. j. an effected study Of pres
err day politics. the hero. sclf-edu-
Gated Chicago statesman. being NOR
fortunate in love than in the senatorial
arena Til" book is thoughtful. witty,
and quick with aprrecia tive Know ledge
of human mature. 1t j. published By -.
.Appleton & Go.
Jerome X jerome. the Eu-l:sh llu-
inorist. who has Just arrived in New
York is posing as playwright be-
cause he considers there is more money
in writing PLAYS than putting books on
the market He is in this country tp
watch the rchearsals of his new play.
sylvia of the Letters. Mr.. J"ror!"
Was born in England in ia. H."
joined with Robert Barr in the rUbli"t-
ton of the Idler. He is best known for
mis- books "Thrc" Men in Boat and
The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
The idaIlic estate of Il prosperous pair
Of nature lovers at Lake Geneva, IN
Wisconsin. not in Switzerland. is de
S,.rihrd il "Our Country Home by
Frances kinSlcy Hutchinson. which A..
G. Mct'l.lrg & 60. will publish
Hall Game is hard at work On q novel
whi2h is to appear serially in ApDiet"n's
Magazine.
Horace Fletcher. the apostle % mast
cation has written Il treatise on "Op-
timism: a Real Remedy 1t VIII be
brought out by \. G.. McClurS & Co.
Robert Aitkcn. whose South American
romance. THE Golden Horse shoe. ~
rnDlished by the John Mcbride Com
pany. is personally something of a fig
ure. H.. stands s feet 4 in his stock
incS. and is built in proportion He was
an officer in the British army during
the Eoer war and has been mixed un in
at least two South America revolutions
| In his last Administering expedition he
was captured and sentenced to he shot
but the shooting was indefinitely pos
poned
| Christion Reid. whose real hane is
Francis Fisher Tiernan and who comes
| from the south. has written 4 new Sro-
nv. which will he published under the
title of "Princess Nadine" The heroine
the daughter Of a Russian prince and
Ian American mother-is an engaging
and subtly charming young woman
! Her lover is mastcrful and rcsourcefu
as lovers should he. and stops at noth'
| ing where the pleasure or his lady is
concerned. Resides these there are 3
| company of elegant workings Wht
dance. intrigue and gossip in an enter
tanning fashion and there are dramati(
situations to engage the readers atten-
ton ami compel interest to the conclu
sion Christion Reid has written Other
stories. THE Chase of an H"iresS.
The man of the Family" "A Womal
Of Fortune and The Comedy q
F.lopemcnt,
| Miss Jean Webster. author of "Whci
Patty Went to College" has returned
nv way of Japan from a journey ROUND
the world In Nikko. Japan. Miss WEEP
ster and a friend set up Housekeeping
for themselves. and from Ceylon the,
brought home "A package of tea picked
and bowed bv their own hands. Mis-
Webster is now engaged in finishing ;
new story of adventure.
| The Robbs- Merrill company publishe
a new novel. THE Broken Lance b.
Herbert Quick. which is said TO GOV"
the same field as Robert Elsnere.
but without "prcachinnSs.
Dorothy Garfield. daughter Of TIL
librarian of Columbia university. an
The author Of several short stories ha
= written novel, 'Gunhild," which Her
r. Holt & CO. will publish this fal
, When C,nhilh first appears to a yOul
! American at dayhreak. he waking fro,
, u revery takes her for a veritable Nor-
soti..ess-anh an odd combination
= goddess and child this Morse woman
who has been reared in Kansas. prove
to be.
George Broadhurst, who wrote I'm
, Man of the Hour" has submitted t"
+ A. Brady and Joseph Grismer the see
/ mario of his new play. in which Dougia
p Fairbanks is to star next season
| rho three new volumes in the Chu,nt
$ | nail sories-Jongfellow's Tales of way
1 | side Inn DiCkcnsS Seven Poor ira
t ve'Iers" and St"vcreo,s ''T~"N
: a Donkey''-issued today by the Centuf
: Company. make thirty-siX volumes III
@ total of these leather-bound classics.
: Closely following Marion Crawford
u latest novel; "Arcthusa. wnic' hae r.
s scene the Consra inOple of the foul
L taenih rnrtu1N will come annt her StOl