Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-05-06
Books and Authors.

utation chiefly by depicting the rough
| but deeply religious characters of the
| Labrador coast, notably in DR.. Luke
| of the Labrador" The scenes of The
| Cruise of the Shining Light" are laid
| in the same region, and the story is
daringly original i'll plot and treatment.
1t is published by Harper & Brothers.
Richard Harding Davis will make a
contribution to motor fiction with his
| forthcoming book, The Adventures of
the Scarlet Car" 1t is an account of
some exciting experiences that hap
rened to the Scarlet Car. and to the girl
| and the men who were in it. The new
story will be Illustrated by Frederick
Don Steele and be published in June.
Mrs. II. N. Lothrop, CMargaret Sid
neyJ, has placed in the hands of her
| publishers, LOthrop, Lee & She ard Co.
the manuscript for an eleventh volume
Of the Famous Pepper Books to be
entitled Five Little Peppers in the
Little Brown House" Those who have
| examined the manuscript are enthusi-
| astic and say that it will be the best
Of all the Pepper Books" hard as
| this may be to realize.
But novels are stubborn things"
says Margaret Potter in explaining
her choice of a Russian subject for her
latest novel; novels are stubborn
| things and write themselves 10 Il fa.
greater extent than is generally sup
| posed. Whenever l deliberately try to
write Of America the story persists in
compelling me to place it elsewhere.
! | nI1C0 ht9 If n
America again it will be when tile i'm
pulse comes naturally" Miss Potter
was born in 1881, and although only
twenty-six years of age, The Princess"
| is her eighth novel.
"A new novel by the author of
Elizabeth and Her German Garden
| VIII be published in June. Ii is called
''Fraulein Schmidt and Mr.. Anstruth-
| ef 1t Is love story told from the
girfs point of view, with a background
of life in little German town.
Another new novel by the perennial
Miss Braddon is announced, which.
judging from its title, Dead Love Has
| Chains should be sufficiently sensa-
tional to satisfy the craving of the
most morbid Of fiction readers.
! The Memoirs OF the Comtesse de
Boigre," which have just been published
in France, are to be brought ont soon in
TINS country in translation. The Com
| Jesse was a woman of charm and ability
i ana was on intimate terms with the dis
tnguished people of her day. Madanle
Recamlcr and Madame de Stael We're her
close friends. and her personal rem'nis
c"nces Of Napoleon. Talleyrand, Con-
slant and Chateaubrland are most enter.
tanning. The recollections We're intended
IN tact she chose for them the title
"Rccits dune Tante." and they are writ
ten in lively and graceful style 1t was
on account Of their exceedingly direct
ard frank statements in regard to peopla
land incidents that the memoirs We're not
published many years ago.
Last year new Dartmoor novelist was
introduced by means of "A Pixy in Petit
coats by an anonymous writer. This
year a new volume appears from tho
| West" with n title page inscribed with
the name of John Trevena
Mr.. Douglas Sladcn's forthcoming book.
somewhat portertiously titled The Sc
c'ct of the Vatican is IAN account Of
the things not generally known to thoS.,
who only speak English about the Pope.
his Cardinals, his officials and his
guards.
Ellis Meredith. the author of "Under
tho Harrow has been horpred by i re-
quest for her portrait 10 place in the
Riblio;heque Rationale in Paris A sec
ton of the library j. t. he devoted tn
the work Of women and in it will be rut
the manuscripts, books. and other liter
airy productions of women. Miss Mere
dith has been selected among American
authors as the representative of western
writers
George p. Price, the author of Cain
ing Health in the West was ordered
West himself some years ago on develop
ing tuberculosis. The expe ricnc" derived
from MS eight years soiourn near Colo
RADIO forms the subject matter of his
book.
this week -Four Seasons in thc Garden
q book for the amateur gardener by Ebrr
F. ReXford. 1t is sumntuously illustrates
Primer fnSr 't Of STAT STAT by by A. AS" Eiizabetl
" aGcr-Smith.
/ month a new book by Ellis Parker Put
Ter. author of Pigs Is Pigs" and "'rhl
Ircubator Bahv,'' to be called The Con
fcSsiOns Of Daddy"
Tho books published bv HouGhton. Milf
- fin d Co. today are The Worlds War
; Davis; The Young in Heart a crIIec
t tion Of essays by Arthur Stanwo ID Pier
What Happened to Barbara by Mrs
Olive Thome Miller. and a history o
The Arthur Of English Poets" by DR.
Z Howard Mlynadier.
T Tho Harpers have lust published
book on AfEhanistan. Under the Also
1 lutte Amir written by n man rer,arllabl,
s qualified. The author is Frank A. Martin
n who was for eight years engineer-in- chic
: to successive amirs. and for the create
= part of that time the only Englishmai
in the country.
|, The london Spectator pronounces Mr.
( Howells zone of those just and genial oh
: servers who can make comparisons with
|, out offence" His new book. THE Ey
# o: tic Needle" treats in his humorou
: and whimsical fashion the visit of
: traveller from Altruria in America. whar
: he WEEDS IN American wife and takes he
!. back with him to bis own remarknh b.