Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-10-30
BOOKS AND AUTHORS

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daughter al his fathers hcne ~ Ohio.
where he is husily working on pictures
| for the autumn Of next year.
| Tudor jerks whose stories and his
torical books for boys have been widely
| popular. takes up new line of work
with "Electricity for Young People"
just published by the Frederick A.
| Stokes Company. He has made his
subject entertaining by tracing the de-
| vel"nme mt If electrical science in MARIA
| tive form.
Lafayette McLaws. the author Of
"The Welding" i the daughter Of Gen.
| Lafayette McJ1aws of Georgia. Her
mother was niece of Zachary Taylor
| and ii II sident of Lexington. After the
| death Of her parents Miss McLlws Iiv-
ed in New York with the late Mrs
| Jefferson Davis. who looked upon her
as her "drI. Those who remember that
the first wife Of jefferson Davis was the
daughter of Zachary Taylor ami know
her husbands memory will understand
| why she took a special interest in the
young Southern author. Miss Nc
Laws has had unusual opportunities to
study tho conditions presented in her
new story. Tho Welding" The ~au-
thol's previous works include When
the Land Was Young and Maid OF
Athens =. -
\ grandniece of the Coleridge, Miss
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge. died recently
at her home in England. after a modest
and unrretentous career in letters that
maintained the literary repute of her
family. She was the author of several
novels. THE King with Two Faces"
| THE Fiery Dawn The Shadow on
| the Wall" and The Lady on the
Drawing Room Floor" and she wrote
| verse that revealed sympathy with
the pre-Raphaelites. She also was the
au;ho of essays. Non Seauitur." pub
lshed in 1900. and she was Il regular
contributor to the Monthly Review and
the Times Literary Supplement.
| Mr. David Homer Bates. whose me-"
| book. "LinColn in the Telegraph Office. -"
| is soon to he published. served in the
War Department telegraph service from
| May. 1851. until August. 1866. when he
| was appointed manager Of the con-
solidated telegraph offices At Washing
| ton. To Mr.. Bates and his comrades
| was assigned The duty Of preparing and
jtranslatIng the cipher dispatches pass
ing he twenn the Government at WASH
lington and the commanders in the field.
Frequently they were called upon to
translate cipher dispatches captured
from the ennmy or brought to the War
Department by Federal spies
| Carmen sylvia. the Queen of 1tuma mia.
VIII" is the author of many poems.
stories. fairy tales and dramas. and in
addition to being Queen Is also q
member Of the Academy Ut Sciences OF
Bucharest. has established = home for
The blind which is known by the poetic
name Of Hearth of Light" The author
of the new hook called THE Near
Fast" has visited this home and saws
that the Queen is very enthusiastic over
her work.
| Cen Morris Schatt dedicatcS his forth
| cornin~ hook. The SPIRIT IT Old west
| Point to Hii- zen. Charles Shaler, I.
s. A.. am, solomon Eu,'il"y Grinen. The
book will appear in an illustrated edition
next week.
"A Mothers Son. by =. ana {. Is.
Iry is ii book of interest on the making
Of an EnSlishman. fer [. +. Fly IS Il
real Admirable Clichton, who mas dis
tineuished himself by his brains III a!di-
tim to being a foremost athlete Of Eng
| land He is the only man who ever won
five Varsity Blues and was president
in tl:"ee different kinds of sport at OK
ford IL Cambridge. He has JUMBO near,
| ly twenty-five feet. and this year as well
as the year before last he has headed
the b"ttini; averages at cricket. He also
won ii scholarship and first class at
Oxford. A Mothers Son is das-hs
Sporting book full of descriptions OF
lsports. racing and hunting ana particular
" interesting as revealing the Kramer IN
" hich man like Mr.. Fry thinks an Eng
lsh boy should be brought up.
| "a Princess Of Intrigue: Madame de
I1ongucvlle and Her Times is to be
Issued soon BY ii. Noel Williams. Tha
sister of the great Condo. WHOM, Du.na
sket ched i'll lis "Musketeer" series, lived
in one Of the most fascinating periods
of French history. and her relations with
MaZarian. De Retz. La Rochefouca uld
and TI1rerne, as we'll as tie part she
played in the wars of the Fronde and her
| share in tie Fort Royal movement. make
the record of her life 2 vivid romance.
| Her love for La ROchefoucauld and her
responsibility in the duel between Maui
rice de Colicny and tho Duke de Guise
are dramatic features of the narrative.
Francis Wilson's daughter. Mrs. Fran
ces Wilson Hrard contributes an articl,
to the November Scribner which she calls
"A Sleepy Little City" Coutances. with
the twin spires of its cathedral at one
extreme aud it's i1smantled donjon at the
other extreme with it's network Of badly
pa, ed streets between its old gardens
and ariStocratic mansions. is chosen as
| the model for quaint and quiet Old towns
in France The illustrations are made b.
Charles Euard who has been long and
ifavorahly known in France for his draw
ingS and rtchin"s. and now contributes
for the FIRST tine To an American Nigga
zine.