Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-16
BOOKS AND AUTHORS

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Salisbury Reed. is dainty love story
told in rovel style, and with a sense
of humor that proves the author a
clever student of the willfulness of a
maid when she says one thing and
means another. Philadelphia: Henry
Altemus Co
Clayton Hamilton, writing of the
late Richard Mansfield in the North
American Review, gives "a noteworthy
instance of the great tide Of mood that
impelled the actor to all his under
takings, even 50 serious a one as Peer
Gynt" Apparently the actors fitful-
ness was Il kind of mental mannerism
that rather furtheIed his enterprises
than retarded them. although at first
glance it seems as if Ibsens play-epic
had been little more than a bubble
blown from Mr. Mansfield's capricious
pipe Il had gone to the beach early
one morning" writes Mr.. Hamilton,
and was lolling on bathing raft. Mr..
Mansfield swan out to me, climbed
upon the raft, and said I am going
to do Peer Gynt' this fall; did / tell
you" He then asked me to be at hand
next morning at certain hour, so that
we might talk over the arrangement of
an acting version. AT the appointed
time next day he took me for a walk
around his garden, chattcd of the
weather. asked if l thought the wind
would freshen for a sail, and then
suddenly suggested that we go for Il
drive ventured d hint of Ibsen's
poem. He seemed very much sur
priscd. You didn't really think l was
going to do that, did you?' he asked
He then explained to me why the piece
could not be produced. A few hours
later be telegraphed to New York Tor
the scenery"
Maxwell Gray'S forthcoming novel
"Thc Suspicious If Emcngarde. Is the
history al IN untravellcd traveller on Il
winter holiday at the health resorts i'll
tn" western Riviera. 1t is written in q
light comedy vein and decidedly Ill con-
trast to The Silence of Dean Matt
land" the authors first novel. Max
" ell Gray is an English woman. whose
real name is Nj. G.. Tuttiett. Essays
and poems as we'll as goodly list OF
stories stand to her credit. THE Great
Refusal" her latest story, was pub
'AlisheG in 1906.
d AS was the case with Frank Dandy >
Eurmcr novels. DIR. Phillips" and Pigs
h Clover" many of the characters in
lpr forthcoming novel THE Heart OF
Guild" arc drawn from life. Lady Dor
dhea. for instance, was Il we'll known
fare in London society a few years
are Col Forbes and the case i'll
| WITCH he figured prominently revived
an tunfGrgottcn scandal In short
autobiography which Frank Dandy
has written she confesSes herself a
disdpe of George Moore. Her first
book was written to amuse her hus-
banl while I've was suffering from q
brolen leg. She wrote the chapters ir'
the Sternoon while he was resting and
rcadthcm to him in the evenings. Mr.
Moor was much interested in the book
and pok it 10 an English publisher 1t
ran through seven editions in a lew
months and over a hundred thousand
copies we're sold in America. All the
characters were drawn from life" FOL
t lowing quite consciously in George
+ Moore. footsteps" the author says
, u too have always felt the necessity
for human model from which t
! paint
l.. Alln Harker, who wrote Con
, corning laul an Fiametta," has new
+. novel of English country life ready fol
spring publication under, the title o.
Ills First Leave" 1t concerns {
: young meaber of the Indian Civil Ser
! vice and Introduces small boy wh'
has the same natural humorous quail
ity that nl.de Paul and Fiametta sucl
! prime favGites.
n William Dean Howellss new novel
;. ..Fennel ant Rue" which will make it
y | appearance next week, is said to sym
bolize the emotional state of the her
: VI hen he reflects uron his curiou
treatment of the heroine. 1t is The un
usual quality of the love story that vii
prove the distinctive feature Of MI
= Howelis's story.
el Celeste J. Miller. whose book 18th
Newest Way Round the World is t
be published this north by Casllln
u Co. was born in Princeton, Ill. Vie
u father Henry F. Miller, q descendar
Of noble German family and Ona {
:, the pioneers of, Illinois, was a fritn
- of Abraham Lincoln and present Ii
9 Chicago at the time of the attack upS
:, the settlement by Black Hawks i
;, dams. Miss Miller attended Lombai
College, Eassar College and the Ur
), versity Of Chicago, bat the greater p:'
:, of her life has been spent upon the "
rious trips kat have earned for n
- the ervied title of the most travel
- woman in the world" She has circl
% the globe five times. always traveli
alone and rarely needing an interpr
IF ter and at one time or another she h
10 visited every country and every cai
r tai Miss Miller has been presented
more !llap rs rulers; and she has be
in intert iewed by newspapers III neal
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