Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-03-11
Books and Authors.


The two new Bowdoin books, Bow.
dOin Verse" and Under the Bowdoir
Pines" which the alumni, under.
graduates and friends of the college are
eagerly awaiting, are now in the hands
of the binders in Boston and will lie
ready for delivery in few weeks
Since the announcement was made that
these books would be prepared and
published this winter, orders for then,
have been received to the number of
several hundred from all parts of the
country. Several i'll fact, have
been received from Bowdoin men
in foreign lands. The books " Ill
be companion volumes in size,
each having about 100 pages,
printed on heavy paper with guilt top
and rongh edges. One will be bound
in crimson cloth with special cover de-
size in gold and the ether in green
cloth with special cover design in
gold. The poems included in "Bowdon
Verse" have all appeared within the
past 20 years in the under
graduate publications of the college,
although many of them We're
written by graduates who have
achieved elninencc i'm the literary
world. The % stories which appear in
Under the BowdOin Pines" all deal
with college life At the historic old in
Stitution at Brunswick and were all
| written by Bowdoin men. Many Of the
authors of these stories contributed
stories to Tales of Bowdon' which
| appeared q half-dOZen years ago and
of which nearly 2000 copies nave been
| sold.
Joseph c. Lincoln has made anot her
nit Two years ago everybody was
delighted with the quaint Down-Eest
sayings of "Cap'n Eri;" to-day they
are laughing over Mr.. Lincoln's new
story, Mr.. Pratt which is brimfuI of
genuine fun from cover to cover 1t is
the story of two keen Wall Street men
| who have gone to Cape Cod for an
outing and to seek the natural life
| They are assisted in their search by
Skipper Sol Pratt to whom they are
as much of novelty as he is to them.
and the funny things they say produce
one Of the cleanest and brightest little
books that will be found on the book
sellers counters this year. OF course,
the love element is not neglected.
| Edward S. Ellis has the first chapter
Of new serial story in the current issue
of the American Boy entitled off The
Reservation
| The late DR.. Henry Martyr Field, au-
thor of popular books of travel, some
years ago related an amusing incident
| or his freshman days at college Being
| only twelve years old when he entered.
he had not reached the point where
| the natural friction between the big
boy and the small boy ceases, and he
| was at q particular feud with one of
| his fellows. a stalwart country youth
fresh from the farm. One day young
FIELD went early to the classroom and
put upon the big blackboard Il very ex-
asperatinE caricature of his enemy.
WIN his name beneath. When the ag-
SrleVed party saw what had been done
he said hot a word. but catching I'D his
youthful tormentor. he used him as
an eraser. and after rubbing out the
offensive, picture, quietly took his
seat.
The Siamese Cat" by Henry Miner
hldeout. which is now appearing serial
~ IN the Saturday Evening Post. will
shortly be brought out in book form by
Mcclure, Phillips & Co. 1t is a very
novel sort of adventure and mystery
story. The scene is laid in the far East
and principally in Siam, and every
page is saturated with its romance and
mystery. The whole is Il BACKGROUND
Tor a very charming love-story.
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ThomaS Dixon, Jr., is completing his
novel 1.-THE Traitor which Doubleday.
Page Company will bring out in the
Spring. This story is the last of the
now famous group which includes "Thc
Laopard'S Spots and 1.-The Clansman."
1t does not touch the negro problem
except as a secondary nature, but deals
for the most part with the decline and
fall through treachery Of the Ku Klux
Khan.
James Kendall HoSmer, PHI D.. LID,
whose scholarly and dramatically writ
ten history of the first half of the Civil
War, ''The Appeal to Arms was pub
lished by the Harpers in January, and
whose volume. Outcome of the Civil
War;" appears this week-the two to-
gether making a full and authoritative
| history of that vital period-is the son
of minister. and was born at North
| field. Massachusetts, in 1884. He grad
uated at Harvard, and was for six
years pastor Of the Unitarian Church
at Deeriield, Massachusetts. He served
| in the Civil War as private, declining
| staff appointment which was rendered
| him. After the war he was for a time
a member of the faculty of the Univer-
sity of Missouri, and then became a
professor at Washington University, in
st. Louis. From 1892 to 1904 he was
! librarian of the Minneapolis Public
| Library. His home is now in Boston
| He is close student of history. and
| has written several volumes on histori-
cal subjects. principally American, in
| Guiding histories of the Mississippi VAL
ley and the Louisiana Purchase, and
biographies Of Hutchinson and Adams
He has also been a special student Of