Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-28

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novel, is to be published as serial IN
The Pacific Monthly" The first chap
tiers appear in the current number. IL Is
limited that the early struggles of the
hero are those which the author himself
| once knew.
Another novel of Dartmoor. by Eden
| Phiilpotts. has Just been issued in Eng
| land and it is now announced for issue in
an American edition by Moffat, Yard d
Co It's title is The Virgin in Jldg-
ment."
The best story for young children that
| Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett has writ
ten for some years will be published i'm
mediately by Moftat, Yard & Co., under
the title of THE Good Wolf" Already
| through its serial publication, the wolf is
one of her most popular heroes, and the
book is destined to large fame and sale.
| cousin Cinderella" the new novel by
Sar2 jeanette Duncan CMrs. Cotes), has
a Canadian girl for heroine, and her first
| visit to England serves to evoke various
| interesting comments on English manners
| and customs.
Max Pemberton is English writer.
| but his books are quite as w'll known t"
| Americans as TO his own countiymen His
| 'Sir Richard Escombe,' made from the
| play which has been successful in Amer
| lea, will appear in both countries early in
he autumn.
Several new novels are coming from the
press Of Dodd, Mead & Co. One. entitled
The Man from Brodncys,'' is by Mr.
George Barr McCutcheon Another. by
Mrs Florence Morse Kingsley, is called
"An1 SO They We're Married." These
publishers announce q new story by Mrs
Amelia f. Barr, THE Strawberry Hand
kerchitf and novels by Mrs. Katherine
Cecil Thurston and Jerome X Jerome
The September issue of McClure's mag
aZine contains a story hv Harry Graham
entitled I'm the Shadow of the Scanold."
A wear without n novel by George f.alr
and we may therefore take pleasure in
he assurance from Dodd. Mead & Co.
hat "'rhe Man from Rrodney's'' his lat
est work. Will appear without further de
lay. It's heroine is a princess and its hero
a dashing American. and in it Mr. Nc
Cutcheon has returned to the GrauStark
manner that made him famous Very
socn, also. the same house will publish
The Fly on the Wheel" by katherine
Cecil Thurston The Passing of the
Third Floor Back" by Jerome X. Jerome
and ''The Strawberry Handkerchief" by
Amelia f. Barr
DIR. De Morgan's latest novel, Some
how Good has had a notable success in
this country, new 'printings'' of the book
being called for again and again.
The late Norman Maccoll was not con-
spicuous as an author of books, but he
was widely and apprcciativey known
among literary men as the editor of THE
Afhenaeuc1, memoir of him and q
portrait will be included in the history of
that periodical during his editorship
which is to be published next year by Mr.
John c. Francis.
The HarperS will soon bring out in
book form Mr.. Robert Hichens's latest no
vel This is called "A Spirit in Prison"
| The scene is laid on little island in the
| Bay of Naples.
| The 1Ioughton MIflin Company announ-
| COS for immediate publication Mrs. Clara
| Louise Burnham's new novel, The lea
ven of Love" 1t is romance Of life in
Southern California.
Mary wilkins Freeman had a story en-
| titled '"The Selfishness of Amelia Linn
kim in the August number of Harpe s
| maeaZinc.
Tie central idea in climbing up to
Nature" by Florence ]. Lewis. is boauti-
| ful young woman comes to an ugly
| suburh, where life is dull and unint crest :
| ing, where the women, the home-ma llers,
are utterly without inspiration and totally
| lacking in civic sense. The newcomer sees
this lack of beauty and spiritual life. and
by Eer efforts succeeds in bringing about
| a change. Ugly streets and yards take on
n now beauty: mean gossip gives way to
more intelligent and kindly conversation,
and life is Transformed for these women
| who "cimb up to nature" out of the low
plane of their former lives. There is some
| romance here, but the story of the climb
| ing is the only phase of the book that has
value. OBoston: The C. NJ Clark Publish
| ing Company.
| Joseph Conrad is to follow up THE Sc
cret Agent with two more stories having
anarchism for their theme. Both will be
| shoIt. In one of them he makes a char
acton say: II don't understand anarchists.
Does Il man of that-of that-persuaSion
| still remain an anarchist when alone, quite
alone, and going to bed, for instance?
| Does he lay his head on the pillow, pull
| his bedclothes over him and go to sleep
with the necessity of the chambardement
general, as the French slang has 1t, of the
general blow-up always present to his
mind? And if so. how can he?"
| THE Gail of the CITY, is the title of a
| volume of graceful ESSAYS by Charles
milford Robinson, soon to be published
by Paul Elder & Co. SO much has been
written about THE Call of the Open that
| it is high time for some one to take up the
| ,o Nj,