Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-11-30

fire. Ard this from an author whose
capture of the public was recognized as
complete with the unfergotten Wee
MacGreggor.
A new book Of fiction by Elizabeth
Jordan is to be published by the Har-
pers this month. and will bear the title
MANY Kingdoms" This will be Miss
Jordan's first book since Mary Iver-
son." her literary endeavor having been
directed to an occasional short story
and to the direction of Harper's Bazar,
of which she is editor.
Boys-sirlS, too, for that matter
may soon add to their adventure books
The Young Alaskans." which the Har-
pers are about to publish, an exciting
and novel story by Emerson Hougll.
who wrote THE Story of the Cowboy"
THE Mississippi Bubble etc. The
scene of this new story is Kaludiak
Bay, one of the widest spots in Alaska
and there are three heroes
One OF the things that Amuses Mrs.
Wilson Woodrow most-and she has a
very active sense of humor-is the as
sumption, ON the part of good guess
ers" that she is the wife of Woodrow
Wilson, the president of Princeton uni
versity, and that she has turned her
name around as literary pleasantly
or an evasion of direct responsibility.
Mrs. Woodrow's new story of New
York socity ~"The Silver Butterfly"
has gone into its third large printing
within a month of publication.
In the good old days when religion
was not SO largely a matter of con-
duct as it is thought now, but was
more in the nature Of contract with
the Creator, it was the custom to
reckon up ones blessings from time to
time, and see how the balance stood
If you had. for instance, had your
health for long period, or had been
very successful in business, or had
harvested uncommonly heavy crops, OF
had An extraordinarily good apple year
or had escaped the malice of a freshet
or a fire. or had worsted an enemy In
a lawsuit, or had in any other wise
come out on top in your affairs or eX-
| periences, it was proof not only that
you had fulfilled the conditions of tho
| agreement, but that the divine party
| Of the second part had not forgotten
them. OF course, you did not put it SC
crudely in acknowledging the facts, ant
| if you had more truly imagined Goo
| than most men had rnen, or have yet
| imagined Him. you did not enumerate
| TIE misfortunes of your neighbors az
your blessings in disguise. You die
| not thank your Maker that while a
had been laid up all winter with rheu
matisn you had escaped without
| twinge: that while r had gone t.
| pieces in the dry goods line you hat
done so we'll in your grocery: tina
while G had cut no hay worth men
tioning your NOV was filed to burst
| ing; that while DIS want of foresight
| in dealing with caterpillars' nests th'
| year before had left him without {
| pint OF cider. y1ir barrels oTeTfoWed
| You did not intimate in your praye
| or praise that the burning of Els hous'
| without d cent of insurance, while ;
J high wind blew the flames away from
| yours. looked almost providential; o
| that the jury which found for yOl
| against + had seemed to follow di
rect leading from on high. Yet prob
! ably 1T the bottom of your heart som
such shabby convictions were lurking
and if your Thanksgiving refused then
| utterance, it was because you did no
feel it quite seemly to mention them
and not because you cid not harbo
them Or did very good people some
times allow something like them to &c
into wordso Was not it thought wei
to fortify ones faith by contrasting
ones own good luck with the bad lucl
of others? Or at least, was not it, or i
not 1t still considered right to looI
about ones in moments Of rebellion Q
affiction and see if one is not as we
off as other people?-W. d. Howells, i
Harpcr's Magazine.
Mrs. Elizabeth NJ. Wheelock's 'Sto
res of the Wagner operas Told 70
Children" has been adopted for tn
public school libraries of Rochester