Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-02

or brings gold, ana for iron, silver; and
for wood. brass; and for stones, iron.
The crude ore is refined, and the raw
material fashioned into Il thing of
beauty. 1t has been pointed out by Mr..
HUH, in his Life Of Buckle" that
there is Il kind Of pedigree in litera-
turc. Dante avows his indebtedness to
Virgil as the latter himself was under
obligations to Homer. ArioStO owes
much to Virgil, and Spenser borrows
frequently from Ariosto. Sponsors
'Faerie Queene" gave birth to Fletch-
er's Purple Island" and this to Ber-
nards isle of Man." and this in turn
to Defoe'S Robinson Crusoe" and
Runyan's "Pilgrims Progress"-all
alike So may blossoms rising from the
one stem. Shakespeare has been called
1.-The great Warwickshire thief so in
veterate is his borrowing habit He
invaded literature like n Napoleon end
brought back the rarest art treasures
to enrich and bcautify his verse One
is surprised to learn that our drama
fist has no original plots, that he has
given to poetry no new rhythm or
StanZa, and that 'he ran not only in
the old road but in the same old ruts"
His 'AS You Like It. is taken from an
old romance. The characters Of his
Julius Caesar are old Romans taken
from IlutarcE. Rut what borrowing,
Dry bones are turned into living men.
The comm"nest materials are taken
into the lambent flame Of his genius
and transmitted into airy beauty.
The new story by the author Of
"Tlizlbe an Her German Garden
"Fraulein Schmidt and Mr.. Ans
truthcr''-has just been brought out by
the Scrioners' ~IsHN
Leroy Scott'S forthcoming novel, To
Him That HATH" will be ready in
August. 1t will be published by
Doubleday, Page & Co.
Justin IIuntly McCarthy's nome in
Kent is called Her'lhnlt, ii name which
puzzles the novelist's friends and WISH
tors. MIR. Mccarthy found the name in
one of his favoritc books, the Lax
daelG Sa"a,' in which Il famous
Scandinavian hero who CHANGED to be
of the irish origin lived in Il house
called Hrrdholt. The house is sur
rounded by Il spacious garden ana
stands on the crest of a hill. 1t was
at IIerdholt that Needles and Pins
and other works of the old time
France. which Mr. Mccarthy SO loves
to picture, were written.
Thomas DiN"n's long delayed novel
The Traitor" viii be published next
month. Mr.. Dixon in this volume does
not discuss the negro question, but has
chosen fer his central theme the
kukluX klan. With the Traitor is
completed the authors trilogy on the
South. vhic.l includes 1.-THE Leopard's
Spots and The Clansman."
Neil Munro. whose story of Bud"
WAS among last weeks publications, is
Il Scotch Highlander by birth and halls
from lnvCrory. His ancestors were
among Il body of Munros. ardent Prot
eStants. who left Scotland for the Con-
tinent to join the forces of GuStayu;
Adnlphus. the Protestant champion of
the Thirty Years War. The survivors
or the band returned to Scotland after
the death of Gustavus and settled in
lnVCrary. where their descendants Still
live. Neil Munro went to Glasgow and
became an editor ana writer. lie has
often Eccn URGED to 60 to London, but
to him "London is Il dreadful place
see II Sometimes in nightmares" he
SAYS. There is only one part of the
world worth living in and that is the
west of Scotland" His home is q com
Portable old fashioned house a few
miles outside Of the city.
The new volume of Bernard Shaw
Just ready includes "John Bulls Other
Island. Major Barbara" and How
He Lied to Her Husband"
The making Of n novel is described
by Mrs. G. n. Williamson in an ac-
count of the processes in the writing of
her latest work in collaboration with
her husband: This book was begun
when We were staying at an old castle
in the Austrian TyrOl. Partly the
idea Of the heroine came to us from
Princess Helene d'Orleans, who used to
live near Kingston in an old house
lent by the queen She was such a
pretty girl. so full of fun and high
spirits. and thought of such amusing
things to do. She and Princess Maud,
now Queen Of Norway, used both to
take the name of Miss 'So-and-So' and
go about visiting their companions. We
We're in Austria just at the time when
one of the Austrian grand dukes was
about to make one Of the Romantic
love matches the Austrians are always
wanting to make. and we also saw
some beautiful ceremonies and attend
ed some Of the charming entertain
ments given at the time Of the en-
pcror's birthday; so altogether this is
the way the story came to us, and of
course it isn't half as romantic as the
real story Of the old emperor's love and
cnurtship when he met his poor.
beautiful, murdered empress. Now for
the hero. He came to us in this FASH
ion: The German emperor goes off
shortly incognito with an aide-de-