Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-20

Brooks Adams, who has been at work
for two or three years upon bio
| graphy of his grandfather, John
Quincy Adams, will soon furnish the
manuscript to George w. Jacobs & Co.
who have engaged to publish it IL
their american Crisis Biographies
The work is made up from new
material in possession of the family.
| Harper &; Bros, announce the fol-
| lowing new publications.: The
Shoulders of Atlas" a novel, by Mary
+. wilkins Freeman; "Sir Richard
Escombe," a novel, by Max Pember-
ton; "Quicksteps Through Scandi-
navia," a book of travel, by S. q.
Bayne. author of "On an Irish Jaunt-
ing Car" and adventures of Pirates
and Sea Rovers," in the Harper
Young People Series" by Howard Pyle
and others.
The autumn book season is to bring
forth reminiscential volume by w.
| Teignmouth Shore upon Charles
Dickens and his Circle" 1t VIII
| presumably be published simultanc-
| ously in England and America.
The perpetual popularity of Miss
! Alcott needs no proclamation, but the
forthcoming printing by Little, Brown
| & Co. of no less than 100000 copies of
popular edition of Little Women"
| indicates confidence in the continued
approval of the immediate future. It's
| special feature Will be more than two
| hundred illustrations by Frank I.
Merrill and picture of the home of
! the little women reproduced from a
| drawing by Edmund II. Garrett
| The story of 1.-The Burning of
Chelsea will be told by Walter
| Merriam Pratt in a volume bearing
that title and issued with the imprint
of the Sampson Publishing Company
| of this city. Illustrations from photo
graphs representing the city before,
| during and after the fire will diversity
the text, and as Mr.. Merriam was
actively engaged in saving life and
property, and was on military duty for
! week after. his opportunities for get
ting first hand information are I'M
questioned.
MANY Waters the prize story by
| Margaret Dcland, which a few years
ago moved readers to ponder on the
different ideals of honorable dealing
that may almost divide a man and his
wife, has been included in the new
book BY Mrs. Deland just published by
the Harpers, entitled "R. Us Mother
and Some Other People"
| -rit 1h
Wall Street he must expect that Wall
| Street men are going to be his first
and worst-critics, let the rest of the
| pubic praise or blame as it may.
| Similarly q man like Holman Day,
who writes in King Spruce a novel
about the lumber world of the woods,
might be sure that lumbermen will
hold their own little exclusive concert
of opinion of his story For this
reason Mr.. Day should take some
honest pride in the words of a letter
some one has come upon which was
written by a st. Louis man: Il am so
we'll pleased with the novel called
King Spruce that have given several
copies away to friends in the sawmill
business" And yet for all this King
Spruce says much more about men
than it does about sawmils-as a
novel would have to do, we imagine,
| to please sawmill men.
The author of The Servant in the
House, Charles Ram Kennedy, is an
| Englishman. thirty-seven years old
He was born in Derby, but spent most
of his youth in Warwickshire, and was
a resident Of London at the time of his
departure for America last fall. He is
a descendant Of the famous Cam
bridge kcnncdys,' who were Greek
scholars of great renown, notably
Ram Kennedy. his great grandfather
who was the famous Greek master OF
King Edwards Grammar School, Biz
mingham. and a memorable figure in
the England of his time. Mr.
kennedy's father. Charles Ram
Kennedy, was one of the most eloquent
men at the bar in his day, and enjoyed
the rare honor of being Fellow OF
| Trinity College, Cambridge. Mr.
Kennedy has sister Mrs. Harold z
Gorst, the novelist, who recently wrote
The Thief on the Cross and is the
wife of Harold Gorst, brother to Sir
John Eldon Gorst, who succeeded Lord
Cromer in Egypt. His wife is Edith
Wynne Matthison. who interpreted
'Everyman'' in America with such as
tonishing force, and who it at present
playing in The Servant in the House
Mr.. Kennedy possesses vast scholar
ship, immense brilliance of converse
| ton. and is man of signal democracy
He has written several plays, some oI
them pantonines, and has many plans
for future work. The success of his
book, The Servant in the House, which
the Harpers have several times re-
printed, is astonishing even i ~ Men NY rk
1t is next to the top On the list Of the
best-selling books in the city.