Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-11-14
THE REALM OF BOOKS AND AUTHORS

growing region of South America The
story is told with vivacity and with ahun-
dance of wit and humor. The heroine is a
cheerful lovable girl of education and
good breeding, whose delight in life, is
infectious Her observations and her
capital bits of description alone make
| the book a notable work. But ii is
primarily delightful romance, in
| which an old lover from New York and
| an aristocratic Spaniard. cleverly con-
trasted, are rivals.
Dr.. Joseph Spencer Kennard contributes
to the October number of the North AM
erNan Review an entertaining paper on
woman in the Italian Novel. He says:
| mot only are Italian women every
where asririns after better education
and seeking for larger personal inGe-
penience. but. as the pursuit of these
aims has established closer affinity
between women's organizations. Italian
women have discovered many suspected
J reSCmblanceS. which. in the aggregate.
[ make up the italian type'-a type whose
psychological and social aspects will be
best revealed through the Italian novel.
| if that novel satisfies Tane's luminous
definition. LIE Roman est la confession,
dune Societe. because this confession,
besides avowedly and pnrposely present.
| ing facts, describing customs. painting
portraits and landscapes, also unmaskS
| the feminine soul. For the most sincere
confession will disclose emotions uEsus-
pected even by the penitent There is
elounence in omission, ard retcence may
be rs instructive as speech. How true
iS Of
much they write about their countiywo-
! men But bow much there is which they
neither say nor comprehend, D'Annun-
zio's romarces are masterpieces of Hug-
gestive poetry: Fogazzaro's novels ere
philosophc studies; hundreds of Italian
novels supply valuable information on
many subjects. yet how often do these
| writer's inlrerfectly understand feminine
psychology"
The announcement of n new novel by
Miss Beatrice Harraden arouSese keen
| interest among those who have been
| charmed by Ships That Pass In the
| Night" and her other stories Miss I1ar-
raden is one of those few present-day
| novelists who do not misuse their talents
| by hasty work, depending on previous
| her work is sincere: and she is conse-
| ouently rewarded by the closest atten-
| ton of admirers. Her career has been
| one of steady preparation for greater
| things which could result in nothing
| less than unusual growth Her father. a
| lover of music and philosophy, (ivey for
some time in India, whence it is entirely
possible that Miss Harraden derived her
| absorbing mysticism. She studied for
| scholars career. but was turned aside
| from her plan purely through love for
| writing, which overcame her. Her seri-
GUS intellectual aims and her intense
| love of music are indicated in her work.
which is at once dignified and harmonl-
GUS She has. as French review APPLY
phrases it, 1.-The good taste of clearness
and of consiceness.'' a quality too often
| lacking in modern English fiction. I'm
| discouraged by an apprenticeship of
| failure, unspoied by a great success, she
is today one of the best fitted. purest
| and most noteworthy of the literary ar
| lists who are holding high the loren OF
sincerity over land darkened by an al
most unparalleled literary Commercialism.
| ellison WilletS says, in a recent issue or
| American Magazine: "As an answer TO
| the letter from a discouraged short story
write, in the July Pilgrims Scrip can
| show by convincing. specific. practical
facts that starvation is not necessary in