Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27

who knows of a community in which
there are three or four churches of
different denomination. each struggl-
ing to support a pastor. perhaps
burdened with debt and veXed with
dissensions. will appreciate this story.
The young clergyman trying to build
a new church is met by the problem
of tainted money offered by the town
millionaire. His own love affair COM
plicates the situation. as do matters
of town politics and the saloon ques-
ton. The book will be published next
month.
L. Marion Crawford has recently be-
come the possessor of an important
letter written by Beatrice Cenci $
father, and he has from this and other
unpublished documents written the
true story of Beatrice Cenci, which
appears in the January Century. He
calls the story "a great love drama
less noble but even more human ana
surely far more awful than the Bride
of Lanmermoor.' Shelley. he claims,
who is largely responsible for the
Cenci legends, derived his information
from inaccurate accounts. The real
facts ARE broader, less sentimental.
more natural and more dramatic than
the legends that have grown upon
them and fed on them almost
smothering them out of sight. AS
for Guido Reni'S portrait. which all
deluded tourists contemplate with
pity. the artist is known to have been
| in Spain at the time of Beatrice's trial.
and did not begin to paint in Rome
| until nine years after her death.
Susan Hartley SWEET the we'll known
| author whose death occurred in Airing
ton. Mass. Jan. H. was the daughter of
| Robert SWEET of Brewer. Me. and q sis
| ter of Sophie SWEET. also a poet and au-
| thor who is now an editor of the Youths
Companion. Her family resided in Brew
er in what is now the Prentiss residence
| on State street. and her childhood was
passed in that city. Miss SWEET was di-
rectly descended from Gov. Dudley.
whose daughter. Ann Bradstreet. was
one of Americas most brilliant women
| of letters Miss Swett's book of short
| stories published in 1893. entitled Field
Glover and Beach Grass, gave her first
rank as Il writer Of short stories and
| they reflected in Z happy manner her
| love of nature. a woman of great Gull
ture and refinement her loss of Doth
friends and profession is of the greatest.
| Miss Marie He'll is back in England
fror her long tour. She is writing a book
| in which she will relate the amusing and
| touching incidents of the trip. At OF
tawa. Ontario. the famous vinlinist had
an application from 'knockabout &C
l'ohat'' who wanted to go into partner
ship with her. saying that he was sure
audiences would appreciate it if he put
in a turn during the programme.
| A bclated novel from last season.
princess Nadine BY Christian Ried
is published this month by the Putnams
by Edward Earron. which is entitled
1.-The Lost Goddess
The great Russian basso Chialiapine
who is the sensation of the Manhattan
opera this season. tells OF his early
friendship for Maxim Gorly. whose novel
Mother" was written in this country
Somewhat as the illustrator c. D. Glib.
lson and the novelist Robert w. Chamber:
took their first drawings together to ar
editor and came away, Chambers will
an acceptance. Gigson with rejection
so the Russian novelist Goriy and tbs
basso Chialiapine went to the same thea
ter long ago for position in the chorus
Chialiapine was sent home. Gorlky goi
ithe position Chialiapine was a cobbler'.
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