Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-11-09
BOOKS AND AUTHORS

Much amusing criticism has been
provoked by the frontispiece 10 Mrs
Burnett: new story Of The Shuttle"
in which the heroine is presented as
starting out for a long tramp in fun
garden party dress with bare arms
Iungloved. Both the author and the pub
Usher, according 10 Il New York critic.
who comments On the incident. rernon-
strated with the artist as 10 Settina's
attire and he promised 10 dress her
more suitably. When the picture was
! finally Snt in at the eleventh hour the
artist had left town and there was
nothing TO do but use it Mr. Under
WOODS tAcuses. Then he received the
DELAYED letter If criticism. was Wei.
found that had 10 dress her in that
way in order 10 make q pretty picture ="
! The artists final concession 10 the au-
| thor. no insists 1hat My Bettina
| would never dress that way is THAT
in future productions the young LADY
will wear gloves"
The ANONYMOUS author Of s'Tha
| Mertyrdom Of an Empress mas again
refused To use her name on the title
page Of her new novel. Emerald and
| Ernine.' Some seven or eight books
have bfen written by her during AZ
many years. hut to them all. out Of
| loyalty 10 The unfortunate sovereign
whose life she has written. she signs
only her self-chosen title, The Au-
thor If The Martydom Of an Empress"
She hrs a beautiful home not far from
New YORK ana spends much time there
among her friends and with her books
A set az "Claesics'' has been project ID
BY Messrs a. q. McClurg & Co, and
four volume will be brought out tins
season. They are Old frierds-''Tha
Tale If Two Cities" "kenilvo-1 n. +
oliver Twist ana --Ivanhoe-' The
volumes are u b n handy" size am
viii appear under the general tile 81
| TIE Prairie Classics
Those who ride in Hyde PARK. Lon
don At the fashionable hour have Oh
served sl- CnltI5 Parker monu.
his horse .2ch day Al the foot
Of the Duke OF York street and
haze noled that il was al
ways noon precisely. This clock-like
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which Sir Gilbert Claims Is the secret
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| 4 NV YORK publishing house ms
| Lee! enEa "a ii the uniouc ATTEMPT m
I : eide ~ 4 symposium Of well known
men. the r-'2';va popularity Of tie
worlds fairy tales. Grover Cleve'anu.
Mark Twain. III presidents Of N"ie
| Columbia am Harvard UNIVERSITIES.
| William Dean HoWeIls. I'h1 Fig in".
I Dr. Lyman A5'ot'. br- HecrF N''h
/ Howe. Henry N Alden. and 4 NUM-
ter III other representative men and
werner 81 America have come together
| IN the SYMPOSIUM. The direct question
under discussion by these writer's ard
! statesmen has been, What are tho
! best fairy stories And the concrete
n ravo ef's Fir Ta'~s The c6i'dho53