Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-11


the complete novel entitled Nance ii
the current issue of Lippil-o;-s mag
aZinc.
A book on Jamaica" was announced
by the Macmillan Company on the day
V hen the news was received Of the
earthquake at Kingston. 1t contains
an account OF the history and chief
features of jamaica and is illustrated
in color. The book is written by a.
:. Frost and dedicated to Sir Alfred
Jones.
In the Editors Easy Chair" OF the
current Harpcr's Mr. Howels traces
the origins and limitations in literature.
! Tolstoi he claims is without a rival in
the whole histo Of fiction, or rather
without an equal and yet this ''un-
equalled artist, this unrivalled origin
al owns himself II follower of Stend-
hal in the writing OF warfare. There is
no such thing as originality in art. Mr..
HOWeilS writes. From Cimabue and
GiottO we have Botticelli: so from Dry
den, Pope; Cowper. Wordsworth; Keats
Tennyson; Goldsmith. Irving; George
Eliot, Mrs. Funphry Ward Zola,
George Moore; &c. After all, what
we want is not originality, but excel
lcncc,' MIR. Howels concludes. "To
better your instruction is the highest
achievement of which you are capable"
Commander Peary opens the Febru-
airy number of Harper's Magazine with
the first complete report Of his latest
expedition in search of the Pole. in the
course o. which he reached the highest
Of all records for northern exploration.
CopiouS photographs and a map mako
clear the terrorS and hardships of the
journey as well as its successes.
A. c. Fox-Davis, 4 London lawyer
who has written "a volumes, many on
the pecrage and law, has broken into
the field of fiction in "Thc Dangerfield
InhnTitance"-a detective story in
which he warrants that the law is all
right. He wrote the book just be-
cause he found the law all wrong in
one of the best Sherlock Holmes
stories.
Will Lilibrdge. author of Ben
Blair has written a new western
story, entitled "Whorc the Trail Di-
vides," which Dodd Mead & Co. will
publish this spring.
Two now volumes will be published
by Houghton. Miffin & Co. in "The
Chief Poets Series" Their titles will
be "The Chief English Poets to the
Time Of Chauccr." edited by Professor
c. q. Child, Of the University Of Penn
sylvania; and THE Chief English
lany," edited by Professor w. A. Neil
son and DIR. Kenneth G.. r. Webster of
Harvard university.
Ono of TIL" most talked of books in
England at present is THE Priest" by
Harold Bcgbic. a well-known London
journalist. Dodd. Mead &, Co. will
publish tho book this spring, under a
new title, The Penalty"
'Brewstcrs Millions" BY George
Barr McCutcheon, has been drama
tized, and is enjoying a successful run
at the New Amsterdam thcater in New
York
Following upon their discovery of
the fact that the Ccdarton Of Sewell
Ford's stories in his new book, True
gate of Mogador.' published by the
Scribners. is really Toms River, n. j..
in disguise, the citizens Of that village
are reported to be busily engaged in
reading and discussing the merits of
the book. 1t is also evident from the
following extract from a late news
paragraph that they are proud of his
real success in making a book out of
their sayings and doings. The clip
ping says that when they found him
out: They looked upon Ford as an
acquisition. and used to point him out
to the summer visitors with look Of
conscious pride, as That's Ford, Scwall