Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-25
ROCKS AND AUTHORS

Irving of Sunnysidc," has been written
apparently by another hand on the III
side cover. With the exception of a
few blank leaves the book Is filled with
notes in ink and pencil in Irving's very
fine and almost undecipherable hand.
j. B. Lippincott Company have post
poned until early fall the publication of
Richard the Third" edited by Horace
Howard Furness, Jr., new volume of
the New Variorum Edition of Shakes
pcare. Although Mr.. F'urness made
the rcvisions in the second edition of
his fathers Macbeth" this is the first
volume entirely his own, and it's COM
petion is awaited with great interest.
Edwin Markham, who has been
seriously i'll all winter, has now re-
covered and resumed work on his
books, THE Poetry of Jesus" and
"Virgilia and Other Poems" They
are announced for this spring and
next autumn respectively.
The Rev. J. B. Cohu, rector of Aston
Clinton, late of oxford, has just pub
lisied through Thomas Whitaker,
Inc, 1.-THE Sermon on the Mount as
Viewed from the Modern Standpoint"
in the form of seventeen sermons.
Mr.. w. w. Greg, librarian of Trinity
College, Cambridge, has discovered by
means of careful and minute COM
PARSONS that four Shakespeare
quartos which were believed to have
been printed in 1900 and 1908 are real
ly of later date. These are the
midsummer Nights Dream" and
''rhe Merchant of Venice of 1900 and
the Henry V" and king Lear" of
1908. He has also established to his
o"n satisfaction, at least, that what
has been cherished as the first edition
of The Merchant Of Venice" bearing
the date of 1909, was not printed until
1919. Collectors, beware!
Gouverneur Morris, writer Of a new
volume of fiction entitled 1.-THE Foot
print" is a grandson of the Gou-
verneur Morris who won revolutionary
renown as United States senator and
statesman. The present bearer Of
the distinguished name is Yale
graduate and lives in New York. "a
Bunch of Grapes" his first published
volume, appeared in 1897 a year before
he left college. Later he wrote '"The
Pasan's Progress" and ELLEN and Her
Man. His new book, ''The Foot
print" is a collection of first-rate
stories. touching life at many points.
It is published by Scribners.
lucille Baldwin Van Slyke, who
made her debut in magazine fiction by
her stories in recent numbers Of The
American Magazine, recently sent out
five stories at one time to different
magazines, and all five were accepted
Mr. Samuel S. Green, the author, and
the librarian, for thirty-seven years,
of the Worcester Public Library, is
about to retire from that post, with
the purpose of combining his energies
to his literary work. 1t is remem-
bercd that Mr. Green was the first Ii
brarian in New England to open to
readers on Sunday the doors of a pub
lie library.
In his volume of sketches of old
time boyhood called "NNhen Daddy
Was d Boy" Thomas Wood Barry
presents many a humorous picture.
Daddy, it seems, was brought up on
an old-fashioned plantation. and his
favorite playmates were Jimmy and
Henry two little black boys The
escapades Of these three, their fun and
their childish sorrows, are told by
Daddy to his own little boy, an I'M
fortunate city child, who does not
know what a branch is, or a smoke
house.
Simple as it is this book is full Of
interest, not only to children, but to
groWnups, to whom these stories
represent their own lost childhood.
There is humor here and unobtrusive
pathns, and there is also a picture of
conditions that will never return
The illustrations are delightful Kan-
sas City: Franklin Hudson Publish
ing Company
Won 10 Post has written rafting
story, overlooking with adventures.
and laid in the romantic long ago of
bow-men and men-at-arms, which ne
Gales "Retz." 1t is published by the
Mcclure Company.
Another volume of "Everyman's Lii
brary" has appeared Miss May Sin
clair has written with her usual charm
and distinction the "forewords" to
Jane Eyre" and Shirley" and Mr..
Chestcrton continues his introduction
to Dickens stories. Mr.. Dents
purpose is to publish a thousand
volumes in this inexpensive edition
George Meredith Is paying dearly
for one part of the honors attending
the celebration of has SOth birthday.
He is suffering from an attack of in
fucnza. which is believed to have been
communicated by some of the
enthusiasts who journeyed to Boxhill
to convey their congratulations in per-
son.
a translation of Christoph Won
Schmid's story Easter Eggs" has been
brought out in England. AS its title
implies, the story incorporates the
legend as to the origin OF Easter eggs
is tale that has long been popular
in Germany-Von Schmid, who was a
Bavarian, having written it some
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