Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-25

rowbov": Edward Waldo Emerson, edl-
tor of E:person,s works, and Thomas
wentworth Higginson' author Oh fart OF
q Mans Life.
"Three Acres and Liberty Is the title
NJ Rolton Halls new book which will APP
near This month to solve one OF the vital
rrobleIrs of the day In increasing num-
hers men are dropping out Of the city be-
cause OF i'll health or the inapiiity To- earn
a livelihood on account OF the increased
cost Of living. His book shows the posi-
b;iities Of a small farm carefully euiti-
waited, and tells where ana now such =
farm may be obtained.
Modern SPAIN by II. Butler Clarke
was finished only few months befor1
the authors death. Mr. Clarke lived for
MANY wears in the heart of the Basque
PROVINCES and his hook is written from a
personal knowledge of the country and
It's people. He had, as Mr. Hutton says
in a memoir attached to the book, d
SDauish friends he was able TO learn OF
the intricacics Of modern Spanish politics.
The book begins with the restoration Of
Fernando VII, and includes the Spanish
American war.
Mr.. Characterization while engaged on
his biography of Moliere gathered togeth.
or some five hundred volumes relating to
the French dramatist. This collection.
which the author has presented to Cornell
University, is said TO have only one su-
perior in the United States-that of
James II. Hyde.
"Clarissa Harlowe." written by Samue.
Richardson u6s9-I10G), and generally re-
fsartied as his masterpiece, l. the longesc
novel in the English language 1t ran to
eight volumes. and in publishing 1t Rich
prolixitN l thought ! owed the public
eight volumes in quantity for the price OF
seven" He knew very we'll that it was
not a page too long for the public Ape
lite. which, he wrote. and the result just.
fed his faith in himself as an author
and in the public appetite, which. created
by himself in the first instance by his
Pamela tanother novel of great length
grew by what it fed upon. His third
work. Sir Charles Grandson" extended
Ia seven volumes. I'VE do not" says
Professor Musson, read Richardson's
novels now. These are the novels Of
eight or ten volumes, written in the tedi-
ous form of letters and recording con-
versation and meditations in which the
story crecps an inch by inch without so
much as an unexpected pistol shot or a
trick OF harlequin or rantaloon to relieve
the attention.
The late Mrs. Craigie was very sensi-
tive as to the attentions she received
when she lectured. During her American
certain gathering. the program for which
was SO arranged that Mrs. Craigie ap-
peared toward the end of the evening.
More than this there were several add
tional talks given. in consequence Of
which the author of Some Emotions and
a Moral" was not called upon until very
late. When at last the presiding officer
announced that an address would now be
made by Mrs. Pearl Craigie-John Oliver
HObbes-Mrs. Craigie arose and said, very
simply and courteously: My address Is
Hyde Park, London, and l am far frou,
home, and it is late 1 wish you all good.
night"
Justus Miles Forman. author Of the re-
cent success, "Buchanan's Wife" usually
spends half of each year in travel, and
he loves to go to distant and out-of-ths
way places. At present he is planning u
fit cut a small schooner. and, with crew
of two or three sailors, to cruise about
among the httle-known islands grouped
in the clusters TO the northwest Of Aus.
tralia. 1t would be hard to imagine a
trip more full of potential excitement and
interest.