Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-15

by George Lincoln Walton; Life and
Works of Christopher Dock" edited
and translated by Martin b. Brum-
baugh, and Observation-Disclosures and
Lefthandedness," by George M. Gould,
whose recent book, Concerning La
fcadio Hearn," is creating such dis
cussion.
The heroine of Edith Macvane's new
novel. THE Duchess of Dreams"
which appeared as a serial in Lippin-
colts magazine is copy of a certain
RUSSIAN parsonage we'll known to
Paris society and a great friend of the
author. Miss Macvane has spent
much of her time yachting on the New
England coast and the character OF
the Maine anarchist introduced in the
novel is drawn from n captain Of a
yacht who had the habit of bringing
dynamite on beard in spite of the
terror of those who were to sail with
him.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, in the third
instalment of THE World Invisible" in
the current Harpers Bazaar, says:
There is Il certain romance of suffer
ing which life takes well out of us be-
fore we have come to SO years.
+ Il Il My dear said woman of
the wise world to a young girl, never
tell people how You feel Nobody
wants to hear What is true of
bodily disorder is as true of mental
phin, Nobody wants to hear. Repres-
sion, reserve, courage, replace the first
natural outcries Of suffering.
Then from the rebellion Of youth,
from the endurance of middle life, We
pass on into the patience of advancing
age. An impatient old person is a
scholar at the foot of the human class.
He may be tolerated, but he will not
be loved, and he will speedily find out.
if he did not know it before, that he
who has outlived his welcome in this
world might as we'll be somewhere
else"
Max Pcmbcrtnn's new novel, Sir
Richard EScombe, is to appear under
the Harper imprint early in June. The
author himself describes it's romantic
setting in the stately English of that
period: Some pages from the life
story of Sir Richard Escombe, Bart,
particularly concerning his relations
with the notorious Society of st
Francis, as founded at Medmenham
Abbey, on the River Thames, by Sir
Francis Eastwood and John Wilkes;
of the manner in which he brought
that society to an end; also of his
l., =; Il11nponrn NJ
Sherbourno, in the County of War
wickshire: of the misfortune which be-
fell him when he drew her name in the
lottery; of his subsequent service at
Windsor Castle. The whole giving a
true account of certain social practices
i'm the reign of George II. and OF a club
but remembered in the present day
though entitled to perpetual obloquy.
The demand for Winston Churchill's
new book, MIR. CreWe'S Career" is
enormous, as a matter of course. The
first edition, said to be the largest first
edition of a novel ever prepared, was
exhausted in Il week or so, and q sec"
ond large edition was more than half
sold out in advance of publication
Critical opinion varies good deal, and
most OF the reviewers seem to think
the book inferior to "Coniston." But
this is the case in which critical opinion
has little to do with popular demand.
The relation of the novel to Mr..
Churchilrs political career would in it
self stimulate interest. But in addition
to that, it is a good story, and its real
ism is vigorous and telling. Mr. Crewe
himself is new type in fiction, land is
an amusing specimen of the genius
bounder.
Miss NJ b. Willcocks, whose novel,
"A WineieSS Victory" appeared about
a year ago and was much COMPOUNDED
with novel by an American author,
"A Winged Victory" which appeared
about the same time, has written q new
book "A Man of Genius" which is to
be published soon by the John Lane
company.
'"The Cheerful Smugglers," by Ellis
Parker Butler, published by The Cen
fury Co., is just the sort of book you
may expect from this writer. 1t tells
of the scheme Il young married couple
devise for the education of their in
FAINT son. They impose a tariff on
everything that comes into the house,
and the efforts of their friends to
smuggle create many a laugh.