Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-14

in the Indian Hills. where few people
spend the winter. She is az present III
Canada but will shortly join her hus-
band in Londcn. Her husband was
formerly Deputy Superintendent of the
Indian Museum, Calcutta. with special
charge of the chronological Depart
ment and Lecturer in the Indian
College of Forestry, but found a more
ccngenial friend in journalism and for
some years has represented the Lon
don Daily Mail and a number of Indian
newspapers with the Gort of India.
He has just had very interesting ex-
perience, coming from Calcutta via
China and Japan and going over the
Manchurian battlefield with Japanese
escort-being one of the first civilians
to be allowed to do so after the war;
Grace Mac Gowan Cooke is the
author of the novel entitled Love
Among Thieves" in the January mum.
Der of Lippincott's Magazine.
Thomas w. Lawson's novel Of
financial storm and stress, Friday the
18TH, now running in Everybody's
Magazine. will be published in book
form at the end of next month by
Doubleday, Page & Co.
.n In eommen ..r on Mrs. Fenollosa. the
News Monthly says: I'm her quaint home
IN Tokyo, with its garden where grew
pansies, magnolias, and moon flowers
punctually true Mrs. Fenollosa wrote
her first novel. Truth Dexter a story
of Southern life and character. which.
unlike most first novels, was to meet with
immediate recognition and success When
leaving Japan. shortly before the impend-
ing crisis with Russia, Mrs FenOllosa
was deeply impressed with the dramatic
SITUATION, the immense possibilities in
volved by this great struggle in prospect.
and The Breath of the Gods was the out
come. odly enough. this novel. compact
Oh oriental thought, feeling. tremendous
political issues. deep character, problems.
Saturate through and through with the
very spirit of the East, was written in
inc big, low workroom of her Southern
garden where the blossoming cherry
mingles its petals with those Of the rose
ana the Jasmine. 'Kobinata'-or Little
Sunshine Hill-so- called after the dearly
is best in beauty. both of East and West.
Here bamboo and pine, ash. oak and mag
nolia. the poetic autumn grasses the
POISONING plum and cherry. with rose
feet amity. Indoors and out one meets
with the structural beauty, the aesthetic
arnonies of color learned, or transplant
ed bodily. from that vast treasure-house
OF Things beautiful-Japan. Here also
was was written Mrs. Fenollosa's latest book,
Sued.''
About 20 years ago Mr.. Barrie was
scraWlinS on a bit OF paper at Dumfries
academy something like this: when you
read the following article 1 think I hear
you exclaim. Who is this great literary
genius appearing before our eyes and
takin' our hearts by storms?'" Whether
the article in the school magazine ever
look anybody by storm or not we do not
know. Mr.. Barrie seemed a long way
from from fame and fortune then. But he
tallor who taught him TO repeat the lines:
What can l do to be forever known
ana make the age to come my own?" Mr.
Barrle made UP his mind that the thing
for him to do was to write himself into
fame through many newspapers
Abbie Goodwin Lewis who died recentlv
in New York City. lived in Boston dur
ing the thirty years passionate of her
husband. Rev. John Jay Lewis She wa;
daughter of Colonel Nathaniel Davis
of Montpelier. VT, her home until her
husbands acceptance of the call to South
ing her married life. contributing to Wide
Awake. the New England Magazine the
Ladies' Home Journal. and also to the
universalist periodicals. She was also
author of several popular opercttas and
cantatas. and she was particularly sue
cessful in writing for children both in
prose and in verse. Among her works are
the Christmas operctta. Caught Nap
ping. and a threc-act Operetta, 'R T.
Porter Her serious poems are scat
tered in various publications. no volume
ever having been made Of them Mrs
Lewis is survived by her husband, Who is
now in the lecture field. and by two sons
Leo Rich Lewis. professor of music at
Tufts College. and Orlando Falkland
Lewis. formerly professor of modern
languages in the University of Maine
now with the Charity Organization So
ciety of New York City