Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-23

"a les, "A &c co Tbye fayal Mss
ranch; Climbing ur to Nature" by
character sketches, "A Random Shaft"
by Jude Macmillan embodying a strange
experience in the island of Luzon;
Under the Flag Of the Cross by j.
Hamilton Sedberly. with world war of
Links" by Job Taylor, dealing with life
and labor conditions in the great coal
bolt: In The Mountains Shadow by
Mary Rodney, romance of ranch life
in Idaho; The Law of Love" by Charles
St Morris. a story with a purpose;
hi'hs 6 Gro Mm5e Clark k"manee and Of aha
seln:a's KISS by Marion Beveridge Lee.
was given I" the city of London ON the
Dirt hday If Charles Dickens. consists of
sex cral rare editions of the novels, of
eighteen large volumes of magazine arti-
clcS from iS2. to the present day dealing
with Dickens and his works. 300 portraits
of the novelist. plays, pamphlet speed hes
and autograph letters. 1t is "A rare cnllec-
ton. mainly got together 10y F. >. Kitten.
sold to the Dickens Fellowship by his
wife after his death and now appropriate
~ placed in the city which the novelist
endowed with 50 E!any interesting asSo-
Citations.
Tie plot Of Mr.. T"well's new book,
| "Fennel and Rue to be published this
week. deals with the experiences OF IA
master maker of stories who receives an
urgent REQUEST from an unknown cores
pendent for information regarding the
ending of serial. the correspondent al
leeinS that she will not live to read to the
final chapter of the story that has So
deeply interested her The scenes of Mr..
HOWcllS'S romance are laid in New York
and the Story depicts the social and lit
erary elements Of metropolitan life.
'"T he Girl and the Game ard OtEer COL
lege Stories is Jesse Lynch Williams
lcontrih1;tion to the sentiment. study and
sport-all that makes mp the collesc life
of the daV-enter into these sales. There
are seven short essays OF a1vice To a kid
brother in the book which are full Of
humDIC us wisdom.
'The Greater Mischief" by Margaret
| Westrup. one of the recent books pub
lished ny the HarpeTs, is remarkable as
| being one of the few English stories
which bear even Il remote resemblance,
in method ard conception of character,
to American fiction. Miss WeStrup's
heroine is Il distinctive and verv English
erection; yet she is a reminder Of the
New England 'naijis OF Mary +. wilkins
| Freeman. and in ner childhood she re-
Har,ilton :0onntil TIE Puritan temper is
one of the most English things we have
in this country, and the auIhnr of The
Greater Mischief is to be congratulated
y
in her Own land of Il typc that is dear to
American hearts,
Mr.. Winston Churchill is an exception
ally careful worker From mis- own ac-
count it appears that although his books
have appeared at intervals of ut least
two or three years, even these Intervals
do not correctly measure the time he
spends in writing them Ills new novel
which he is Just now completing ne
claims was actually in his s. mind some
consequently before his calnpdiSl for the
Governorship of the State. 1t will be
interesting to see whether Nh Crewe's
Career embOdies any Of the experiences
which Mr.. Churchill gained in that cam
paign.
Tie Jubilee of the publication of Dar-
| wins Origin of Species neTt year Will
be concentrated by the issue of a medal
on which the Joint lahors of Darwin and
Alfred Russell Wallace in the field of
Dr., Wallace. born in 1892. is still alive
= '';oarwinism,' MANS lice in, lie
Universe.
Cu-hullin Sage" mas written a new
Text book of Irish Literature which is
i puhlishel in Belfast The book begins
with the earliest serni-',v meal poets and
covers the pt Rod down to .he early years
of the sixteenth GENTRY
Preparations are Jnin;, made for the
international celebration OF the eightieth
anniversary of the birth Of Count Leo
Tots;ny 1t is hoped that the Counts
rlacn. may he purchased for 4 Tostoy
museum 1t has been decided 10 issue a
book containing articles by George Bran,
DIES. knut S;,IuS0G Octava Mirheau and
other ritci'S of I'll nations.
Arthur Strin=er. whose new .tt,val If
adventure Tine UHdrr Grooves1s about
to he dramatizei confesses that he was
once young and foolish enough to write
a farce and take it to a busy Broadway
manager only to have the manuscript re-
turned to him; I've read tn, this paE of
and I find that unless it's punctuated by
frequent and prolonged applause it's go
ing to run forty minutes short. md after
going through thre" acts of yours | don
soc where that punctuation is going to
come from
Edwin Forests first love affair when
he was Young actor in New Orleans. is
mentioned in all biographies of the ira
sedidn. Fe sought fOrgeIfulness among
the Indians of Mississippi. and his visit
to his friend Apuc,amataEah, tho famous
chejftain. was made not long before the
tribe forced to seek new land of the
territory under the pledge that it should
and water runs 1t is Of these people
that Mrs. Mary Holland Kincaid has
written in her new story. THE, Man of
, Yesterday. Romance Of a Vanishing
Race" Indian Territory. in the last days
of tho tribal existence Of the Five Ma
TONS is tho Sccna of the novel.and
Pakali, the daughter of n wealthy Indian
and n white missionary, is one of the
leading personaSeS.
GLEANiNGs AND GOSSIP.
IF a Chicago girls nose is worth $3.50.
what would one of her feet be worth?
ST. Louis papers will please answer