Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-05-27
Books and Authors.


Bobbs Merrill company, Mr.. William,
De Morgan had written "Josenb
Vance" The hero Of The Rrass
Bowl is Daniel Maitland, and it only
remains for Maitland to write "Mr n
Morgan" and then the matter will be
fairly settled. Still, it was careless Of
Mr.. Vance to have been christened
Joseph. 1t seems almost an IN
fringement of copyright, possibly &C.
tiOnabl
TRANSACTIONS of Friday the 18th"
are being made into Dutch, Swedish
ard German. Negotiations are in pro-
Sress for the translation of Mr..
Lawson's novel into Danish-Nor-
wegian, French, Spanish, Italian, b.
hemian, Hungarian and Japanese.
Nearly fifty thousand copies of the
book have already been sold and plans
for dramatization are in progress For
a novel barely two months old this
looks very like record breaker.
young author from Chicago, Miss
Charlotte Teller, a graduate of the uni
NerSity, and for some time a settlement
worker. makes her first appearance as
q novelist in The Cage" which D.
Appleton & Company publish. The
scene is Chicago at the time of the
Haymarket riots, and the plot is dar-
ingly realistic. In the words of one
reviewer, her first book advances her
at once to the front rank of American
noveliStS."
The advance orders for Craze
Thompson Seton's book 'Nimrods
Wife" were 50 large that the publish
ers, Doubleday, Page and Company
have been obliged to double the first
edition. They have also received a
cable from England ordering a first
edition of 5000 copies Mrs. Seton
has great many friends in England
and is we'll known there as writer
George Bernard Shaw IL great
lover of music. He was invited by
friend one day to hear q string quartet
from Italy. Throughout the program
he sat with a stony look on his face.
The friend, To draw a little praise from
him, said: Mr.. Shaw, these men have
been playing together for II years"
Twelve years." SAID the other. in an
voice Surely. We've been
here longer than that"
i he hardness. the spirit of law. the
yearrins for justice, and the unquestion-
ing courage of the great Western cattle
ranges Eas finally been successfully de-
plcted IN the form of fiction in "Langforl
Of the Three Bars, written by Kate and
Virgil d. Bovles. and published BY A. c.
McCiUrs d Co, with admirably conceived
and executed illust atoms J., y. c.
NNeth; The hero. who lends his name ID
TIE volume, puts down the CRYING evil Of
cattle ruStlinG with the aid Of a county
attorney who cannot lie intlnidated, even
the attractive young women o. the story
hearing lard in the long fight against
EVIL. 'LanSford' was brought out April
10. ana a large Canadian edition is being
issued by William Briggs of Toronto.
That there are two. Duncans, both of
then, authors has given rise, in some
quarters, to a confusion Of the two. They
are brothers; Norman Duncan and Rob
ert Kennedy Duncan. Norman Duncan
Is the author of the new novel THE
notable fiction. Robert Kennedy Dun
can has won wide popularity as a scien-
tiiic writer.
1t is not only prominent American au-
IhorS who have recently reached what
Mark Twain calls Pier Seventy" Mark
N'iii Il-:llSPli recently reached Il, as 0lu
also William Dean Howells AMI Henry
MILLS Alden: and now the pier has also
h i,G reached by Algernon CharlessSwin-
nulhe, April being his seventeen birth
nay. Many have had the impression that
SWinhurie is dead. ard the publication by
the Itarpers, within a year or two past
q collected editions of his poems and
tragedies. and a few months ago Of
volume Of his best lyrical poems. some
Eow added to the repression Mr. Swim
nurht. however is alive and cheerful ana
vigorous; and his home is charming
pace called The Pines" at Putney. IA
England. The English like to say of him
.ascriling the pleasantly to Theodore
watts Duntor. the poets close friend
that "Swirburne has linked ParnaSsus
ara a, Putney. making them as alike as two
4 writer in the London Daily News has
ms 10 say OF the late Tan M1clarens
work and the school of fiction to which II
belongs: "'rhe sudden death of Ian Mac
laren will have caused sorrow to the hun,
dreds of thousands of people who READ
~ hooks A dozen years ago he was IN
popular novelist Of tie dav. his frs!
book. Reside the Bonnie BIier Bush
gaming him instant recognition at w
hands of the. public, Fashions hayws
may be doubted whether SO quiet. gente
AMI unostentatious a work would nov
win success so quickly. He was one o.
the last of the VictorianS. and ne va
lust in time "a make his appeal 70 W. w,
lovers of gentle sentiment and lMthenc
humnr before the South African War IT.
augllrated the present period ~ Woleh'
and stressful literature. I noticed the ON,
er day that some autlor was reported
have said that tears are out OF fasnion
in r1odern novels. This is not quite true.
fer 7. NJ Barrie. who was the predecessy,
of Tan Maclaren in the Kailyard Scnooss
still wins applause by that knack whicim
he has OF combining tears and smlles, r.
his progressively modest PLAYS; anu ,rslg
Hall Gaines characteristic novels ha rin
ever fail to produce tears. Still. the staand
ment is broadly true The storm a.a
stress which Kipling popularized was ps Ln
ceded by n humorous fearful age IN WIZ
Ian Naclaren, Mr. Parrie and Mr.: CrocS
EFT fourisked Although Ian Mao,a,sa
was not tho first kailyard novelist III
lievc IL was the title of his first pnun
taken from the old song. There grc MH,
bonnie brier bush in our kailvar6; VIZ" VIII
gave the name to the school. The cav
haze garden story came 10 have sSaait
perfectly recognizable Qualities. u Urn Urn
with little group of people who nVou :"
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