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

his eighticth birthday in his home at
F7oxhi,i, Surrey. where ne has lived
Tor more than half n century Reading
is his chief recreation, and he rises
carly every morning to read the morn
| ing Papers. In every question OF the
day he is eagerly interested and well
| informed. lie reads all the new books
Of Importance and writes letters to his
friends. An occasional preface in
which the keen appreciation of the
| crl:Ic II still apparent or little verse
| is all the literary work he attempts.
In the wealth of culture accumulated
during his years of Intellectual activity,
in the consciousness OF work well done
he enjoys the leisure of his old age am
! the iI.riories OF his long life.
! Tho new book to be published by
Agnes and Egerton Castle in the
spring Will be called Flower - the
| Orange 1t IS q collection of stories
ranging in time from the latter part
OF the sixteenth to the beginning of the
| nineteenth century.
MIS-. Everard Cotes, who wrote the
| story Of An American Girl in Lon
| don" has another story Of similar
theme ready for publication under the
| title OF "A Canadian Girl in London"
The new book will contain Mrs. Cotess
latest views OH the triangular relations
! OF the English. the Canadians and the
| Americans OF the States.
One Of the most interesting Diogra-
plies in the Book of Noble Women"
Mr.. and Mrs. T.. NJ. Wilmot Buxton, is
that OF Mary SOmerviie. who gave her
name to Somtrville College. Her par
entS filled hcr days with piano playing
and sewing. took away her candles at
night, but She managed to go through
| the propositions in Euclid mentally at
night thc.t she had worked OUT in the
freezing mornings wrapped in blank
cts. Though she was delicate Wo-
man, she livcn 10 lie over - and on
the day of her death revised and com
lieted q treatise OH the "TacQry Of
Differences" rejoicing to tinl that sjle
| could understand and develop difficult
formulate of science as easily us when
she was young.
\ correspondent of r. P.'S Weekly
has been writing reninisccntly OF
Stevenson and he tells his tales as they
were told to him by an eyewitness.
Dne day Stevenson ana a friend were
proceeding along George street on their
way to college when they met 4 party
Of six men carrying on their shoulders
| Il large sheet Of glass; rolled i'll Il dark
cloth Or blanket. The men were NOV
| ing with great care and gravity, and
| the effect of the whole was extremely
| like that OF a funeral procession. This
| struck +. l.. s. as irrcsiStibly comic.
| and as soon as he and his friend had
| passed the group he wheeled his
| friend round. and the pair, lifting ofe
| their hats, and with downcast visage,
| fell into line as chief mournerS. Il
| took few minutes before The men
| engaged and tine pasSerSby saw the
| humor of the situation, but as soon as
| they did the rlirth rose high, and the
principals had to beat Il precpitate re-
| treat. On another occasion the friends
| were passing a building just erected in
IA very ornate style of architecture by
an insurance company. which had
created a good deal Of jeerinG in Edin-
| burg. when Stevenson drew his friend
| off the pavement and the pair COM
| Inenced gazing up at the ornate front
with. great earnestness. Stevenson
gestlculating with some visor. Soon
| the whole of the clerks inside assem-
bled at the windows imagining that the
| place must at least BE- on fire 10 create
SO much excitement among the pass
| erS by. AS soon as +. L. S. had mat
| ters thus int train, he left his friend,
and advancing up to the building and
| Wettng his finger. commenced trying
| if he could rub away the surface of the
| fine ornament After a few seconds Of
vain effort ne turned round and shook
his head to his friend. inferring that he
had not, after all, found it sort of
| confectionery, and arm in arm the
pair walked of leaving the Office staff
still puzzled and nervous
Herman Whitaker, whose latest book
is called the Settler" has lived the
settlers life himself. There is some
plain description OF frontier hardship
| in the Settler" but the truth is that
| Mr. Whitaker has drawn the picture
| very lightly III comparison with the
| facts as he knows them. II actually
| lived til" settler life set forth in my
book, writes the author to his pub
| fishers, the Harpers. It was during
the years between the springs Of 1887
and 1925. Eight burning summers.
eight frozen winters, did I endure in
that cast-irOn climate. 1 have seen the
| thermometer register I2 degrees below
zero; have travelled twenty miles De
hind an OK team at a temperature OF
S. below. but neither experience can be
compared with the night thar l ran
fifteen miles, loaded down with furs.
behind my cutter, against seventy
mile wind with the instrument mark
ing 30 below. So cold was at the end
of the trip that I had to twist tine
shafts off my cutter and leave the
'horse i'm the stable all night with shafts