Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-29
BOOKS,AND-A AUTHORS

, it entertaining and unlike any other
| book of the season.
Harrison Rhodes has society story
| in q recent issue of Everybodys Mag
azine entitled 1.-THE Way to Mrs. Nor
| points"
Mrs. Humphry Wards home in Eng
| land is one of the beautiful old man
sion houses for which England Is not
| ed. Years ago in the days OF the early
| poets Waller lived on this estate, which
| dates back so far that it Is mentioned
| in the Domesday Book. niche hcWh
out of huge old tree is called the
poets Seat" The authors work
room, where Lady Roses Daughter.
'"rhe Marriage of William Ashe" and
| 'FcnWjck's Career" were written, is Il
small! chamber with beautiful out
| look over rolling country and green
meadows. The name of the house is
"Stccks," which is singularly unm-
| portant name for so beautiful! an es-
tate, especially in a country where
! every farmhouse has dignified ana
picturesque title. Even a jerry built
| cottage in Il row is called villa
ana an ordinary country house is des-
ignated as a "mansiol" or a hall"
| "Bred in the Bone. or Born an Elcc-
trcian," by Edwin j. Houston, one of
! the foremost authorities on electricity,
| is the title of a new serial story which
began in the June number of the
| American Boy.
| Marion HILL author of "Mal-Gobbn''
has story entitled His Little Red Hen
in a recent number of the American
Magazine.
Mr.. Edgar Jepson. author Of Tan
gled Wedlock," which has Just been
published by The Mcclure Company
though IL descendant of robustious,
hard living race who have lived in Lin
conshirc since the days Of Hercward the
| W AXE was born in London, which conse-
| quently he declares to be the only place
| in which d sclf-rcspectinS EnSlishll an
would allow himself to be born. His
| Duyhood was spent at the village of Ken
| ilworth, 50 rich i'll romantic associations
ana he is Il graduate of oxford CniVers-
ity While still at college he developed !;
taste tor literature, but thinking that he
| would like to learn something OF the
| world and human nature before he be-
gan to write about them, he started with
| two college friends on a tour OF inspec-
ton. In a little tin pot of steam yacht
| they went coastinS along the shores of
| Franc" and Italy, and in six months had
as many narrow escapes from drowning
as the average seaman enjoys in thirty
years. They saw many cities came safe
tbere nver,nd 1h,n,"h I,.nn on" ~ E'r
lana Arter MAXIM, his pr.,nd lam ~ IN liz ~
modern fashion, Mr.. Jvpson went into
| tcrinr and tbcnre to tho wout nfino
where he srent three ycars NJ Jensnn:s
."rbe passnn nf mn q n ,, eltltieo
he * hest Enown aS ,he 3nthn, 81 thrpc
| invia.oratinn iIvcnilee ."rhn dn,i,.tiie
! Tiker' .Tini,er Two" ant; n adv MN
| peeress W civ us A''7a'
| Innz HAYNES Gilmore whose first novo,
| cline J,.onara, has ;,,st boen n,,hiiehc,
by i. w. Hucbsch Of New YORK lives
| al Prootlra mi h,s net ,,ot ,,,,ieJ fra,r
!. Season sncnt ahrnad With ho, h,,sl.,na
| ~ ''l
! of ."rhe Pow .,nd ~ p,rn,, " f,t
| coming, The lille is .|rhn Wei in ~ nc ~
| Desert. and the .cannI are ,aid iii '' ~
| Arizona Iar~o1v i, ,ho dos.rt ,,hn,, +l =,
writer lived for MANY ~, w nonIhs ,Inna '''e
| Horny Holt e. r. ,ro ,,ro,d, h,,;,
to send Mis- Nav Wri"ht pl,,, nav i,i
| "Rnv and Rav in Mexicn,'t =. tbirr ali
| tinu' ,rh;,. aS - ~ NM Nm. ~ ,'lliu t"i-
enro,;ramed tban, !" ~r.rc o'' 81, bo ~ nrs
which viii he ssi,e3 ea,,w in II tbe f,I,
"''' ~ 'u-o e'ilS III 'i'e i"'i
| Marparet Potter viii nass tho S,,,,,,,,o,
in ItaII win Pon,e &c ha,' baado'ta,
| and oi,,c;om,1 i,,,nts ~, thl ' i,.I;i
cnl,ntrv Mrs pottnr i I've iroi nv , -, ia.
to Follow In win ! simiI,r sto,.r, UNIV
Golden i,adder" mh;ch m," ,n1'iissboa ~ u,
Inc Harncrs only a fn,y "eni,s ,n e" ~
which has beon namnd nv, onn NJ . ..',
unyarnished story which strike. ono az a.
:. hinhl,- v.,rnished nbras NN' VIZ '''
|
| The r p T,innincott con,n,nv win ,,,h
Ish shmtIv .rrhn pcrfont' C, T,1' l'u -,
dener and an EnSIisb exnnrt ~, ~ n.rin',
ing ana hortic,IIturn MI wr;,,Et ~,
Written Milan ,,nnn tbns, s,,,i,7.t. a',''
describes in his nnu honl, ,nnT, - - 81" e.,
practices ana methods in r,sn in i,nr,n ~
that have made English rardcns fan"o,1.
throughout the world Tho hook ir iII,,s,
tratnd in mack and vb;to ,na .'l,,, hns ,
| number of nict,ues in coIcr o 1850
|
Announcement has bccn m,ao of tho on
cacoment of n Ucsl,rtb pri,.b,rd ~,
Young author who contained tln E.n., is't
team of rrickctors that nlayed in Americ.
last wear. to Lady FlizahCth t;rimeton
daughter of Lord VerlIJam and nieco ~
the duchess of Montrose Two of NJ.
Prjchard.s hooks '"rhe chronicles of 10,
@" and ''Don o in the Sierra have lee,