Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-11

duced to the public this fall by Double
day, Page e. Co. is Harry l.. Stewart
His book is called rhe weeping Cross
ard is tale of New England in the
days Of The Puritans The hero Is an
Irish Jesuit and soldier who is sold by the
crown into slavery in New England
1.-The Wild Geese" Mr.. Stanley Wey-
mans new story-the last. it is said, that
he means to write-is tale set in the pc
Rod of the early eighteenth century. The
wild geese" were those Irish soldiers
who Joined the armies Of foreign States
in that period.
For publication in September, the 10th
rop. Lee & Shepard Company announces
a novel hy@ Charles Clark Mum. entitled
Myrtle Baldwin" In it MIR Mum will
seek to portray the actual lives Of tho
workaday people of busy city, with his
heroine likely young girl who is con-
fronted with the difficulties of earning an
honest living.
There is & pleasant little anecdote of
John Bright in the "reminiscences which
Mr.. John Hare is contributing to THE
Strand" The actor met him in rail-
way carriage, and they fell into talk
How do you account for the fact. Mr.
Bright asked Hare. chat most great
poets have been Liberal in their poll
tics?" The statesman Immediately res
piled, at is not difficult to understand
that, for the noblest the ne by which a
poet can be inspired is Freedom
"The story of how | became a novel;
ist." says Hall Caine, beginning my
Story" in the September Appleton's,
takes me back nearly fifty years. when
as a child of | was living off and on
| a intervals in q little matched cottage
| on the high road through one Of the re-
rOter parishes in the Isle of Man" The
great novelist's autobiography is full Of
fascinating facts and details, told in
| his usual fine style.
There is to be a service in commence
| alton of Milton on December at Bow
| church, in London--the church in which
| the register of the poets baptism is
preserved. Verses from two of his
metrical psalms will be sung, and some
passages from his works will he read
and also poem by Mr. William Vat
| son WordswOrth's Sonnet Addressed
to Milton has been set to music for the
occasion, and that. too, will be sung.
| Everybody knows that Sonnet-yct IS
there any one who will not have a mo-
ment Of joy in reading again those fine
| concluding lines:
| Thy soul was like star and dWelt apart
Thou hadst voice whose sound was like
the sea:
Pure as the naked heavens. majestic,
| free,
So didst thou travel on life's common
way
In cheerful godiness and yet thy heart
The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
| Benjamin Robert Hayden, in one OF
his letters to Miss Milford. says of
| Keats: THE death of his brother
wounded him deeply, and it appeared t.
me that from that hour he began t.
droop. He wrote his exquisite ode t
the Nightingale at this time, and as ".
were one evening walking in the Kill
burn meadows he repeated it to me be
fore he put it to paper. in a low, trem-
ulnus undertone which affected me ex-
tremely." The ode was suggested t.
| Keats by the song of nightingale
which. in the spring of 1919. had built
its nest close to Wentworth Place. al
Hampstead. "keats.' says Lore
| Houghton. "tOok great pleasure in mel
song, and one morning took his chair
from the breakfast table to the graS;
plot under a plum tree. where he re
n,aned between two and three hours
He then reached the house with some
scraps of paper in his hand. which he
soon put together in the form of thi:
ode"
Mary Austin. author Of Santa LII
cia," the California novel of suburba,
life and married uncertainties which
made its appearance through the Har
pers simultaneously with May Sinclair
The Judgement of Eve" is experienc
ing her first taste of Italian atmos
phere. Mrs. Austin. who is herself
californian, is sojourning in Florence
and has rot yet fixed upon the date fo
her homecoming.
Elizabeth Bisland contributes to tn,
August number of the North American
Review a lively article on "The Moral!
of the MouCrn heroine. she says: III
the new and intense self -conscousnes.
of women. and of the men dominate;
by the modern feminism, one of tGt
oldest and most important facts OF life
!, is in danger of being obscured The
woman of our day. with only nalf ;
!; century Of education. has succeeded il
stepping into a new place upon the hu
man stage. She is so new in this place
that every eye is turned upon her II
tho endeavor to analyZe and place he
in the general scheme of things. But
if she is to be placed apart from thu
higher idealism, she will have los
something for which all her treasure
trcve of liberty and education will b.
but small compensation. With all thu
calumny and scorn that men have
heapcd upon women, they have yet KEEP
her an ideal. They have treated he
much as tho Italian fisherman does thu
image Of his patron saint; he smacks +
when in a temper but worships II ahC
locks up TO it as something better thar
himself al! the while. Now. an ideal
~ on xyhon treated nretty ro,,phly ie .