Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-10

| Harriet L. CQmStOckS new romance
of the Long Island coast, entitled
Janet of the Dunes" just publishej
| by Little, Brown & Co.. Boston, is per-
! haps the first work Of fiction to cal
attention to the much neglected life
saving service, although this is but an
incidental part of Mrs. Conatock's frs,
| modern novel. One Of the characters
in the book is Capt. Billy of the life
saving service, whose adopted daugh-
ter, Janet, has lived all her life among
the fisher folk, life saving service men
and lighthouse keepers.
Alice Browns latest novel, Rose
Macleod" will not make it's appear
ance in book form until it has COM
pleted it's serial run in the Atlantic
Monthly The publishers, Houghton
Mifiin & CO. Of Boston. announce it
for April. 1t deals with New England
! life and character and is believed 10 be
the best work so far done by tbs
writer. Herbert M. Hopkins. author
of 'The Mayer Of Wurwic k," also has
q novel with this fin, entitled 'Pries
and Pagan" q sort Of dare cfer study
Of Americans living in the Bronx, New
| York City
Ami Chaplin Ray, IL her new book,
The Peralty," which il 10 be pre-
| scented early in Narci by Little, Brow i
& Co, deals with Quebec society, at
the same tire giving STUDY of Cath
rlicisln and tho needs it sulI lies. Lit
tleBrcwn will bring cut i'll fort
night, by the way, new story by
| II .,t 4.
InperScnat, etc entitled The
'sr1 cir.." II Il, as Will tire love Of =
riSin" 'rlitirian for Il Young girl an
| hi airit. - t.4t-i las s.. Ii If G''t+
| - .. i.......'tI oman VIII" rejecte
,.;,; trr wealth and position and then
divorced lnr husband in order to get
| back the aan she Tilted.
| Quilted 4 60. Will Eubl.sl: M
month Il posthu.nnus work Of the late
Richard Hoyey, entitled TO the End
| Of the Trail" This collection of poems
will form a companion volume to
"Along the Trail of which Duifield
* Co, recently issued a new edition.
Under the Flag of the Cross" is tn
title of a novel by ]. Hamilton Sed-
berry, which the c. NJ. Clark company
of Boston will publish this month
His theme is a great world war CEN
tury hence, in which America and
Japan confront each other.
1t will be a gratifying announcement
to all lovers of genuine dialect tales OF
d the true New England sort to learn
| that Houghton, Mitftin & Company
| Roston are soon to publish collection
of New England salt water stories by
| Mr. George s. WATSON of klttery
| Point. The title chosen for the book
is The Rote''-and it will be a worthy
companion to 1.-THE Green Shay and
Cam Simcon's Store"
Miss Mary Johnston is spending the
m;dwinter weeks in Nassau. and is
completing q new novel which deals
with the period of Thomas Jefferson
and will be published this year by
Houghton, Miftlin & Co.
The Century company will publish
this month Elizabeth Robins story OF
the far north, "Come and Find Me
now running serially in the Century.
Donald and Dorothy" one of Mrs
Mary Napes Dodges earliest works
has had an interesting history. 1t was
taken over by its present publishers
from the firm originally publishing il
in September. 1893. ten years after
issue. and has been reprinted 16 times
in the IA years since, with every indi-
cation that the present yearly sale OF
100 nr more copies will continue in
definitely.
Josephine Daskam Bacon has writ
ten AN Idyll Of All Fools Day.
which Dodd, Mead & Co. will publish
In it are related the humorous adven-
lures of a man and a woman in April
with circuses, automobiles. snakes
etc.
Thomas Y. Crnwel & Co, Of New
York will publish this month a biog-
raphy, Thomas Alva Edison by
Francis arthur Jones, telling the ro-
mantle story of the famous inventors
career from the time he published 4
newspaper on train at A.
Hamlin Garland, who has been re-
elected president Of the Chicago Cliff
DwcllerS Club, is noted as a novelist
and also has written for the stage
He was born at West Salem, Wis, ir
1859 and was educated in the common
schools of Mitchell County. Iowa, sub
sequently graduating from the Cedar
Valley 0owa) Seminary. When not
attending school he worked on farm
and for a short time he was n school
teacher in Illinois. Mr. Garland began
his literary career in Session, but re-
rlrn-d to the West in 1892 His novels
ard stories have chiefly to do wifi,
phases Or western life.
Yari &, Co announce that
they have ACQUIRED the American
rights in the celebrated burlington