Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-21
Books and Authors.

DOOhS dIlQ AullOIS
| The six books which, according to
tine Bookman, have sold best IN the
order of demand during the month are
| !. Mr. Crewe's Career" Churchill.
! (Macmillan)
.. The Lure of the Mask" Mac
Grain. Bobbs- Merrill)
| ,. The Barrier" Beach. (Harper. }
4. '"The Coast of Chance" Chamber
lain. N5ohbs- Merrill)
). "rhe Wayfarers." Cutting. (Mc-
Clure)
6. halfway House" Hewlett (Scrib-
ncr)
A paper in the September Century on
The Early lie OF Robert Fulton Is by
Alice Crazy Sutcliffe, a great grand
daughter Of the inventor. Miss Crazy
has been intrusted by the Fulton fam
| lily With the preparation of a volume
which will BE, virtually, Il new prescn-
| tatiOn Of this famous man, who, as
| painter and inventor, doubly challenges
the attention of his compatrlots. Re
| searches have discovered a number OF
new portraits Of and by Fulton, and
have brought to light new material IN
| regard to his whole career.
| In the midst of the insignificant fiat
| tory offered to authors, in converSa-
| tion especially, comes an occasional
genuine tribute, which the author *
| keen enough to know, and not above
apIreciating. One summer day in the
mountains Kirk Munroe, author OF
those books dear to the heart OF boy
| i>:t, \Irb Ia a
stcry of the problem OF her boys
books. Il couldn't put my fingers on
What was wrong with the books-they
simply didn't seem to me to be sound
| and clean. | was so disturbed about
it that | went to the principal of a
prominent boys school in Boston, ana
| said: Tell mc-What shall | do? Get
some of Kirk Munroes hooks he an
| severed promptly. | got them all, and
| my little sons read every one" And
| what happened to them ." inquired the
author. much amused. "Happened to
| them repeated the mother. half in
| di2nantly. ''Thcy are both in college.
| and we thnk they're dong pretty
Wcll. | don't believe you read Mr..
Munroe's books when you We're boy.
| or you wouldn't ask"
Among the interesting and import
ant books announced for fall publica-
ton by The Baker 4 Taylor Co. are
| the following: In art and architecture
A. Kingsley Porter's monumental
work on Medieval Architecture;
Russell Sturgis' History of Architect
| ure.' second volume; Charles H.
| Caffin's The Appreciation of the
Drama" In fiction-"Hlary on Her
own by Mabel Barnes Grundy.
| author of Hazel of Heatherland;"
Thou Fool" by J. J. Bell. author of
Wee McGregor;" IN Calvert's
Valley by the author of The Sow
ing of Anderson Cree" Margaret Pres
| colt Montague. and THE Car and the
Lady by Percy F. Megargel and
| Grace Sartwell Mason. Miss Helen A.
Clarke, the author of "Browning's
| Italy has written a companion VOL
ume entitled "Browning's England for
this house. and also "A Childs Guide
to MytholOgy'' which will be the
second book in the Child's Guide
Series. Alfred Harcourt and Roscoe
Crosby Gaige have compiled Books
and Reading" in the Humanity Essays.
| and Henry w. Whitney's Life of
Lincoln" will contain much unpub-
lished early material. George Alfred
Williams will add THE Chimes" to the
well known series of illustrated
Dickens books, and Margaret Coulson
Walker will combine Bird Legend and
Life in an attractive volume which
will have an interest for young and
old. The house will also import an
exhaustive book entitled "Contem-
porary Ireland" by Paul Dubois, the
nephew Of the historian Taine.
Arthur Stanwood Piers new book
for boys will be called THE New Boy"
and the scene is once more St
Timothy's school. 1t will be published
in the fan by the Houghton- Mihlin
company.
Kate Greonl,af Locke has written of
THE gardens Of Southern California"
gardens which riot over the slopes
in a wealth of bloom which outrivals
that Of any other known spot on
earth the September Century:
and the article will have a number of
illustrations from photographs made
by Harold Parker of Los Angeles.
Miss Espcramce and Mr.. Wycherly,"
the new novel by i. Allen Harker. author
of Concerning Paul ANA Fiammetta."
will BE- published this month. 1t is a de-
lightful story about very pleasant people
Miss Esnerancc. 2 charming. lovable
maiden lady. and Mr.. Wycherly. an ell
DERBY and scholarly bachelor, take upon
themselves the bringing up of two orphan
boys. The problems that arise in their
training. the difficulties with questions of
religion and cd"caton, habits and be-
havior, are solved by the two guardians
in their own quaint and original way. The
people in the little Scotch town are
skctched with a rare sense of fun and
great understanding. and the escarades of
the children who are inimtaby described
and who get into trouble and out again
in a most amusing way, the gradual de-
velopmeht of the elders and their tender
and kindly observation of the life around