Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-29

Max Pemberton and his collaboration,
Miss Ford, have fastened the Drama
| tiZation of Sir Richard EScombe ana
Mr. Hackett will bring out the play
| in St. Louis in August. something OIL
the reckless soldiers attraction Tor
Mr. Hackett, whose grace with the
sword even a fictitious hero cannot
| rival, became evident when the story
was described as "a romance with inc
sparkle of steel in the sunlight
The author of the "best selling BOOK
| in America" is not aware or MS sue
cess. for he is hunting wild sheep IN
Alaska, where book lists of best sell
ers are unknown. Recently he touched
at the settlement Of Cordova, where
Il. ii. Hegg runs the best and only
bookshop and paints his name ana
that of his goods on the side OF the
cabin in big white letters. The author
wrote his publishers recently; MI
Hegg handles THE Barrier in this
place and reports big sale. He has
disposed of six already-for cash. Ihat
is going some. Rex Beach
Herbert D. Ward has q story en-
titled 'The Last Class supper in the
June Century.
Amelie Rives, like Edith Wharton.
began to write when she was a Snall
girl. Mrs. Wharton was carefully
trained for her work, but Amelie Rives
was more or less repressed by her
relatives, who despaired Of being
able to direct her to anything else.
Finally they tried the scheme of tax
ing away from her any paper upon
which to write. Carefully smoothing
her starched white frock, the ambl-
tous young author wrote all that she
had to say upon its surface, and those
who had opposed her acknowledged
their defeat.
Mrs. Maude Radford Warren, author
of the forthcoming book 'The Land OF
the Living" is an Irish woman. she
has all the enthusiasm of the genuine
Cet for Ireland and makes repeated
visits to the old country, where she
spent the whole Of last summer. AT
present Mrs. Warren is living in Chi
cago in the university district and tax
ing her place as a leader IN literary
circles, notably in the Little Room
Club, of which she is member. Mr..
and Mrs. Warren were both teaching
at the university when they met. The
romance of their engagement was FOL
lowed by a wedding at the Executive
Mansion in Illinois, both young people
being friends of the Governor.
An order was recently received by
The Mcclure Company for a copy of
the book entitled Death the Dutch
man." by Samuel Hopkins Adams.
The association Of IDEAS that produced
this extraordinary combination is evil
dent. The real title of Mr.. Adams
book is '"The Flying Death" and the
purchaser having apparently heard of
"Thc Flying Dutchman" easily but
unconsciously performed an algebraic
operation by eliminating the common
quantities and counting the remainder
with the above grotesque result
Helen Milcetc, author of '"The Fas-
chatting Nj. Savage" is the author
of the serial story in June Lippincott's
entitled "The Plague of a Heart"
The phrase "The Land of the Liv-
ing" which Maude RadfOrd Warren
uses as the title of her Forthcoming
novel, is quoted from the remarks of
old Callahan, the Irish boss, to his
idealistic young protege, the hero of
the book: Don't try to be a poet
eithe-. They're no good-dead. This
is the land of the living" There are
many other quotable good things in
Mrs. Warrcn's new book. "There new
or was reformer yet that wasn't an
inverted boss" says one man. "They
get obscsscd by their ideas; they want
things done their little way; it's tie
only way. They won't take new
light There amt any new light:
they've got it all" And another says
II diStrust a man that pats himself
on the back because he's honest He
ought to take it as a matter of course "
Jacques Futrelle. the wcll-known au-
thor. has story in Il recent issue of
the Ped Book entitled "The Elopcrs =
The Catholic who's Who" is now
in its third edition. 1t is noticed that
a daughter Of Charles Kingsley. q
grandson of Charles Dickens and a
great granddaughter of Sir Walter
Scott are all members of the Roman
Catholic Church. Mrs. Thurston, the
author of "John Chilcotc, NJ. p" and
Lord Alfred Douglas, the editor of the
academy, are also members of the
Church Of Rome. John Oliver Hobbies
(Mrs. Craigie) was a convert to that
faith. Mr.. Marion Crawford, Mr.. Max
Pemberton Mrs. de la Pasture and
Mrs. Egcrton Castle are all Roman
lists.
'Thc class of visitors" to which the
hero of "'Thc Post Girl belongs is, in
the vcrnacular of Yorkshire, "the
pleasure seeking variety, which comes
for a month. is charged unprotcsting
for lights and fire, never lends a hand
to the washing of it's own pots. and
pays town price for country butter
Our local designation for such guests
when we get them-is 'spawcrs' -"
The spawer who figures in Mr. Ed
ward G. Booths new book is a musical
genius. His vocation is the writing OF
a concerto. His avocaton is the WOO
ing of the Post Girl. 1t is fresh bit