Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-28

running as serial, this time in a maya
zine for the blind. This magazine, known
las Hora Jocunda, is embossed at The Roy
al Blind asylum in Edinburgh, Scotland
1t is said to be very unusual for maya
zine for the blind to contain any fiction
| 1t is we'll known that Mrs. liumphry
Ward, whose influence on the American
public has deepencd since The Testing
of Diana Mallory" has been written. is
an ardent settlement worker, and proEii'
nently identified with the promotion OF
recreation schools. Only recently Mrs
| Ward was hostess at a settlement Sardef
party in London, where the children OF
| the play schools entertained her guests
| the Society of Women Journalists. oi
which she is president, with exercises
| dances and songs. Il have seen Mrs
| Ward' said one woman who was pres, nj
at the fete, ION a platform with the rate
NJ. AuSuste Sabaticr, joining in q dis us
| SIGN on religious and philosophical prob
lens. | have he ard her lecture on Iir! Tt
| Lott. ana address an audience of Learned
people on Modernism in Italy. But never
has she appear more charming Or NOR,
hci .tiiliN tiItiI SttS SOAtt<~'s ~ 'i'H
members of her Guilds Of Play"
| Mary Roberts Rinehart, author of 1.-The
| Circular Staircase" was bonn ~ Pitts
burg. on the North Side, not So ve,y many
years ago The fact is noteworthy, as
! she is Pittsbur2'S first writer Of popular
| fiction. When she was only j. Years old
she wrote a few Of the evening short
stories for Pittsburg newspapers. But she
can not be said to have really begun lie,
literary career until four years aSo. 1t
was while Mrs. Rinehart was recovering
from diphtheria that her trained nurse
called her attention to an advertisement
in one of the popular magazines: asking
for poems Of a certain type. She wrote
three and all were accepted. On. b The
poems were fumisated before they Were
sent. and that's no reflection on the
poelnsl. A few months later her first
magazine story appeared in Sclibncls
Since then her name has made q frequent
appearance in the table Of contents Of
Success, Scribner's, the Delineator, Nun
sey's, Lirpincott's, the American, etc
Mrs Rinnhart has also done dramatic
work, producing a play in New York a
year and half ago, and closing The thea
ter by Injunction when the star began to
mutilate the piece. new play from her
pen, calico "Ey Order of the Court,' is
now in rehearsal. A year or two ago the
Rinehart family took a summer h me not
far from a fashionable golf course Moth
ing exciting happened, but it was an ideal
setting, MIS- kinehart thought for AVS
r..
the thrilling possibilities, and 50 THE
Circular Staircase was gradually Quilt
up A plan of this house is given in the
book, and over to the right appears the
romantic stairway itself.
The Edward Lear known to fame is
the Edward Lear of the Nonsense Yer
ses, but the real Edward Lear remember
| ed by his many friends was man of
| varied genius and infinite seriousness
| 1'orE at Iiighgate in 1872. the youngest Of
twenty-one children in DanisI. family
that had become English generation or
so previously, he began at the age OF Il
to earn his living by the art of Painting
| From time to time his books of draw mg$
| We're Published, the first being series
| OF colored ornithooSical sketches mat he
prepared when ne was but nineteen. In
| 1876 he gave drawing lessons to Queen
Victoria. and at about he sarre time IL
gan the acquaintance With Chichest. I
FOrtescue that resulted in the correspond
| ence out of which has been made the vol
| ume containing Letters of Edward
| Lear" just published liz this country by
| Duffleld g. Co. He Travelled extensively
| over and resided on the cantinenl of Et.-
rope for many years thereafter. in pursuit
of subjects uron which to employ his MT
| his industry and achievement being enor-
! NOUS RE died at San Reno in 1855, at the
age of @eventv-siA
| The Story of Spot, Mustang IN the
| current issue If the American Eoy. shows
i the devotion of a pony 60 his young mas
ter.
| No literary events for year; las been So
amazing an instance of buried Jew els
| brought to light rs the postnunors essay
| by the late Francis Thompson upon Shtl-
ley says the Observer, commenting ON tho
remarkable article on Shelley printed in
| that magazine. Between Journalism and
| books the quarteries are regainica. tnei,
riShtful position and renewing their votth
| The Dublin Review, even under the admir-.
able edition ship of Wifret. " ard mad hith.
Iefto remained a iparativc.y cltiGtere.
publications. 1t has now, FOR the first lime
IN its more than seventy years of eN;st-
ence. lcared into a second edition viii, 4
memorable masterpiece of English prose
| Brilliant, JOYOUS, poignant are these page;
OF Interpretation, as sensitive ard ,aaeica
as the mind of one poet ever lent to tn.
genius of another: yet when we turn from
| "A-Non' Of the Chicago M.tsicai Leader
say: this 1.-THE novels the whole roumtr,
talks about seem written ~ Chicagnans
For example, the two recent novels on al
mems lips are Prof. Robert IIrrrick's 20
gether' and Joseph Medill Plttcrson's "A
| Little Brother of the Rich" These aIl
| thorS are both native BON Chicagoan rs
| Prof. Iierrick heing ore Of ne mas,
| valued members of the University OF
Chicago faculty, while Young Mr.. patteI
son, whose new novel Cor a maiden eff
Tort Is wonderfully clever is grandson
of the great journalist whose name vii
ever be identified with that supcr q cenep,