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


Wordsworth is the one VINO has tater,
most pains that his readers shall knnw
tf't| i'n'I"bce and ever expeI fence thai
snapped his life and Verse These poems
ar 'hc story of "a man of exceptional
hdtiir:i cIdcwIHents finding his chnsnr
'ornihnini,s in the liycrs, vouts. lii.
ihd skies. These spoke to him lemon
lelahle things" at fist "A simple messnae
iat"f rc'clation of the intimacy betyyeen
ills nature and his owl, suui lie, 40
sired above All things to be a teac,,ar
and year by year his influence as 4 teach
"r grows. Mrs. MCMILLAN thinks III,
r" lover rT Wordsworth can fail /, va.
'" it"iltiiv tic places mentioned In hi
verse. - @ic Issues this volume illus
tIHt"'i bv SON" :ixty photographs OF III.
Wordsworth country. Iary people sncn
I" fol that the nan Wordsworth VA
c"ld ana distant. living a secluded If,
i i,', choice. But lis letters show him
tHi. Of tenderness and affection: and in
. INC days OF poverty at Dove. Cott,y
| I'll" h"l'.c was USUALLY fun of rr.s,S
wniic the poet split the wood md did
~, W.. chores Tor the sake Of econnnr
| Wien the family grew more prns nernns
the ainpi" roof Of Rydal Mount covorct
| sui more guest among them som. -
: tno most fan;ous people in England Mrs
| McMihAn includes some If The lct,ars
s"f Dorothy Wordsworth Her lnttar, III,
the little daily incidents Of III h,.,nn-
ara Ire walks and talks abroad and
furnish valuable insight into tie n,.nnar
| IN which Wordsworth turned farts I'LL,
poetry This beautiful book viii Ia Az
on the most desirable Of tn. holiday
| looks, and for its admirable taste In ~.
| selection Of letters and excerpts. deserves
q pl.icn or ever library shelf. OChicauo'
A. {. McClurg G. Coz
| Mrs, Miriam Coles Harris. Whose first
| successful novel. "Rutledge' was pub-
| ilShed in 1863. and now at the afe of "A
Drought out another story under the titls
OF IN the tents of Wickedness." She
| wrote the novel in Paris. where she lives
| ana u. theme is the awakening Of an
| american girl brought Up in a French
convent and suddenly plunged into the
| Whirl of the American fast set
The new novel by Miss Elizabeth Rob
| bins which is to be published this month
Is called The Convert and is the story
OF the woman suffrage movement in Lon
don Miss Robbins will be remembered
as the author of The Magnetic NORTH
| and "A Dark Lantern. - -
Kellogg Durlan1. the author Of -srbe
| Ped Reign" which will be published
on Saturday. during the pasr year -tray
visited every section Of European Russia
| crossed the Caucasus and penetrated 81.
hcri:t. He was present at the ,obch1nt,
session Of the first Russian Duma. when
| the Car made his famous speech fyDm
! The throne. The Red Reign rcc0ri3s
| the observations and adventures ,Hsfhe
| writer's travels, his experiences and Iis
| descriptions of the social, economic Aaod
political conditions Of 4Russfa. 49,
b. Apropos the celebratfefk of the sSem}.
centennial Of The Atlantic 3fontIllT svitla
the November issue che followiHs ia I'D,
of contents Possesses MA little nl6tajc
and literary interest: Is 49, s.sfs |,
F,1orentipe Masaic. john Lothrop Mbf483
| Santa F'ilemena S7,s-.s5 80. : - = a M
su Henly wadsWorth Loaste,lexaa
The Manchester Exhibitions A. ,v
A@ EiMl3es Eliot NortSS
The Rommany GirLlThe Cha,tist's
comriaint.--Day -Brah,,,a 4
l The AutocTat of the breakfast Table.
-. -s%sss- Ralph Waldo Emerson
| Illusions. : Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Gift Of Tritfnius, -. =
- John Greenleaf Whittier
The Morning Veil Harriet Beecher Stowe
Pendlam: a Modern Reformer.
John Townsend Trowbridgs
BRUSH lnsiia - ..-....C. C. Hazewell
Akin by Marriage c. w. -PhiIleo
The Origin of Didactic Poetry,
The Financial Elqrty /. !. 8 Park Goodwin
Sonnet -. 80. =. ;,sJanes RnsseH lowell.
1 Music f.,~sfssS ~ ~ 2 81 n n
| Book Reviews & 49, u ~ NJ
I IL De WORCESTERSHIRE names, were
appended to the table, anonymity being
the rule with the Atlantic then and for
| some time afterwards. OF all these con-
tributors only two-John Townsend Trow-
bridge and Charles Eliot Norton are liv-
ing.
A literary shrine in England is the house
of Samuel Rogers the poet. i'll London.
1t was in this house that the dinner took
place at which Rogers and Moore first
met Lord Byron. when we sat down.
asked Byron If he would take soup?
No he never took soup. Woulj he take
some fish" No.: he never took Ash
Would he eat some mutton? No: hs
never ate mutton, ! then asked him II he
| never tasted wire. It Was now neces-
ssry to inauIre what he did eat and drink
nsa the answer ds but hard
neither hard biscuits MOI s1aQ Ngtet scra !
at. hand. and he sGiEed lFpon tAtoe4l
| bruised dowE on bis 1plate AMI dfshe3je&s
with vinegar. My guests stayed I'll VERY
late. discussing the merits OF Water
Scott and Joanna BaAiije. Some dt
| after. meeting Hobho,ise u said 10 htls..
How long will Lord Byron persetere&E
his present Giet 2" Herfeplied:sT Ju1S 1ya
long as you continue to notice HI did,
not know then what now kn0wf ahe;
1act-that Byron. after leaving my bod ny
had gone to a club in St.nqJantes SsttCetS
and eaten Il hearty. meat supper. II !
was in the house in St. James's Place
that Shelley. then known ta Rogers
called, introduced himself. to REQUEST the !
loan of some money which he HtShed. 70 !
present to Leigh Hunt. Here. too. u
was that at breakfast Coleridge ttaiked
tor three hours without frtarH,issipns
about poetry. and so admirably that \
| wish every word he had uttered had been
| written down. 1t was at theA door OF
ills house that. late one night. Il found
Sir Thomas Lawrence no. erinE aRouts
| waiting for my return. He inrnediaSeW
| began tile tale of distress-telling xsfa.
| that h. was in pressing want ofAa large
sum of money. ard that he depended on
my assistance. being sure that / Would
not like to see the president of the Rcyai
Academy a bankrupt I replied thatft
would try what ] could do for him RexSs
morning" Ard surely enough. Rogers;
then iiduo ed Lord Dudley to purchase
some of the presidents pictures. fnc'ud-
ing Raphael, ard advance him con-
siderable sun: besides And it was m
the garden at tho back of this house that
lie often found Lady Caroline Lamb i'm
patiently waiting to persuade him I"
reconcile her to her lover The lover
was BYRON whom she violently loved ana
with whom she otter quarrcled. In her
first letter she lad assured him that u
in want Of money "all her jewels were
at his service" Ard often. when not
invited to parties at which Fvron was
present. she would wait fer him In the
street and insist on Heing driven hone