Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-08-12
BOOKS AND AUTHORS

DIVINE Fire" and THE HeIpmateY q
passing the summer in Sussex. Eng.
where she Is writing short stories and
meditating long ones. -
Among the artists who will illustrate
doubleday, Page & Co.'S 1885, pub-
,oa.iois are Anna Whelen Belts.
waiter Iuttie, Siguard Schou.
Laurence Mazzanowich, Arthur Rack
nam, Blanche Ostertag, Thomas
fogarty, George L. Tobin. Albert
Levering, c. d. and G. A. Williams.
robert Goodwin and Harold Heart
50 widespread is the interest lin
Lorna Doone, = not merely in the
novel itself. but in the country and the
country and the people celebrated
biackmorS that new edition Ii a.
pring together every possible I'm III
historical and Typographical material
having any bearing, or throwing ~ \
light, on the story and its characters
MT and Mrs. H. Snowdeil Ward are
writing long Introduction and
coplous notes upon the legends of the
Doones and other personages, with an
inquiry into their actuaIs existence
interesting unpublished evidence AZ 10
the real originals of the Doone
valley is promised, and there are to
pe Illustrations presenting the. pfin-,
clpal scenes of the story, such as Tom
fagguss Forge, Lanacre Bridge the 4
pace where Lorna's mother is buried.
ana Dunkery Beacon. And most
interesting of all to the curious will BE- ~
the inclusion in the volume Of hithertc
unknown Doone story written sbys!
Blackmore himself. - Y Do Fsk5
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The recent death Of George Croal In
Edinburgh, at the age of -ninety-seven.
sewers link that has connected SIR
waiter Scott with the present day..
Mr.. Croal was, in 1927, one Of i party !.
10 which Sir Walter. made the ara
open avowal of his authorship of the
Waverley Novels. and he was more
Than once a guest at Abbotsford. As
long ago as 1858, he wrote a narrative
poem called "Eaglesward" that gained
some repute, and the publication of his
Living Memoirs of an .6ctogenarian"
In 1894 brought him before a genera
.ion mat was practically unaware of
his existence.
Robert w. Chambers's new novel i
The Younger Set" which has been
running as serial will be published
y by d. Appleton & Co.
Boys of the Border" the third vol
ume OF the "Old Deerfield series" of
stories for young people by Mary P.
wells Smith. will be published by Lit
lie' Brown & Co. in the fall The
period is that of the French and In i
liam war, from 1746 to 1855, and the
story relates leading events in the
Deerheld valley during those stirringsS
times, especially incidents connected3
with the line of forts along the north54
western Massachusetts border and up
the Connecticut to the north. %
Rutger B. Jewett, manager Of the
John Lane Company. New York, has
arranged for the publication Of new
novel by William J.RLocke, author Of
The Beloved Vagabond' and "The
Morals Of Marcus Ordeyne" Both Of
Lhese books have been dramatized and
will be seen on the stage in New
ork the coming season. Mr.. Locke's
time has recently been much occupied
with the dramatic work, thus entailed,
but he is now actively engaged upon
his new book.
Brown, Langham & Co. Of London
have secured from Moffat, Yard & Co.
If New York the British rights to
George Sylvester Viereck's "Nineveh
and Other POEMS" and will publish
an English edition i'm the early au-
tumn. A German edition is already
IN the market with the imprint Of
Gotta of Stuttgart. A prominent
Partisan house has begun negotiations
Tor a translation into French.
Henry Holt & Co. are to publish
series of Cornell Studies in History
md Political Science" the first volume
n which, to appear this month, -
Money and Credit instruments, h
Their Relation to General Prices. py
Prof. e. w. Kemmerer Of Corneh
University. Evidently much OF the
literary activity of the academic worid
lust now is going into this field.
The Baker & Taylor Company an
LOUNGES for early publication "Jnans
Yoga. Part H." being further lectures
~ the late Swami Vivekananda, anu
A Man of Sark," by John Oxennam.
author of "The Long Road Ine
after book is illustrated by w. L.
3enda.