Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-07

| been busy during the past month il
thoroughly revising this great work
which is the result Of years Of labor
w. B. Maxwell, the son Of Mrs. JOhl
Maxwell Miss M. f. BraddOn) ha
written his publishers that his mex
book will be much lighter and bright
err than The Guarded Flame 1t will
be a tale with an innocent love inter
est and a happy ending"
| Dolores Bacon, who first excited thu
| interest of the reading world will
The Diary of a Musician" appear.
| to have had an interesting career. Sh'
was born in Kansas, went to Paris il
her youth to study music, and on re
turning TO this country sought tn,
fame of the footlights by joining Franz
MayO's company. The stage did no.
hold her long, and she then returned
| to Paris as a correspondent of the
New York World. She is. SO the pub.
fishers of her latest book, "Old New
| England Churches and Their Children
| inform us, now resting from the eX-
elements of the old world amid the
suburban seclusion of Yonkers.
Thomas Hardy is working upon the
third and fourth volume of his poem
| ''The Dynasts." He is in fact engag-
ed in revising and shortening it. The
poem will end at Waterloo, as the
great historical drama which it depicts
| concludes with the battle.
Carolyn Wells has an article in the
| current issue of the Smart Set entitled
"The Inconsequent Bridegroom
Clifton Johnson's recent travel
ckpfnhnS
by the Macmillans into a volume en-
titled Highways and BywayS of the
Mississippi Valley" The majority OF
| the sketches have already appeared
in the Outing magazine. where they
have attracted considerable attention
Mr.. Johnson rambles from one length
of the great valley to the other, his
pen and camera depicting the country
folk Of various sections. Starting in
at New Orleans, Mr.. johnson takes his
| reader by easy rambles clear to the
head waters, stopping to tell of PLAN
tation life in the south, of farm life
in Iowa, and to give interesting anec-
fdotes and graphic sketches of many
picturesque towns and cities, such Us
hannibal, Mark Twain's boyhood home
| and NauvOo, once the stronghold OF
| the Mormons and Icarians.
EaNy in January the Harpers will
publish a new story by Mrs. Mary T.
Wilkins Freeman. by the Light of the
SOnl." 81. is said to be based upon a
situation "strikingly unique in concep-
ton"
The CentHry announces that early in
the coming year it will publish an ''im-
portant literary and historical study
by President Roosevelt.
The J. B. LHpincott company has
lately published a beautiful collection
of facsimile reproductions of the draw.
| inSs of Jean Frarcois Millet, accom-
panied with an Introductory essay by
Leon Benedite of the Luxembourg gal
lery. The book is am imperial quarto
thus allowing reproductions of such a
size that the work of ttis most extra
ordinary figure of nineteenth century
art may be fully compRhended and
studied to the best advantage. There
are fifty reproductions fnsiudin. all
the well-knOwn and many osher draw,
| ings.
Mabel Ward has a story entitled "a
Singer of Scuthcrcek" now runE1ng If
| tIlc New England Magazine.
Harold McGrath's new novel "Hs,f 9
Rogue" published by Bobbs-MerxH
| Company. Indianapolis deals with twt
such diverse topics as writing for tn.
stage and municipal politics. War
| rinStOn, the hero, is successful play
wright, who in later years makes ;
campaign for Mayor in his native cit,
of Hcrculaneum-a typical name for ;
typical town in the interior of New
| York State. His career in association
with the stage has a direct bearing or
his campaign. Organized labor anf
social intrigues. with resort to tn,
fouleSt of anonymous letters, are en-
plOyed against him. He is defeated h,
a narrow majority, but is consoled will
the trusting love of a forgiving girl
Some important questions of persona
conduct and social morality are in
vOlved in the novel. Warrington ha
admittedly led a loose and dissipatet
life in the earlier years of his pros
perity. But there has been nothin,
more than elpfulscomradeship in hi
close relations with Kate Challoner
the actress who has done much for tn
success of his plays. Yet this Bohe
milan cameraderie is given an evi
significance and arouses jealousy am
black suspicion under the suggestion
of the anonymous letter writer Kat
has married John Bennington, one o
WarringtOn's dearest friends. TIL
woman whom the playwright loves
Patty Bennington, Hates sister-in-lav
Bennington is a millionaire, who
called upon to fight strike. Thi
leads to the introduction of the labo
question. The fact that Kate has bee
an actress arouses bitter social antag
onism. and one. of the provincial
LEADERS of society in Herculaneur
writes libelOus and scurrilous letters t
Bennington and Patty. Thus it is tina
the sins of the former years arise t
punish Warrington and bring unde
served suffering to the innocent Hal
a Rogue" is broad-gauge, generou
treatment of it's main theme, facing tn