Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-28

'''.''Net'ss HIS iioNcl lIldt Is 10 De the l
serial feature of Scribners Magazine |
duflng the coming year. Thomas Mel |
son Page said: Heretofore my work |
IN fiction has been occupied with the
portrayal of Nirginian life and charac- |
Ter. Ihat has been my theme In NV |
new novel, however. the setting | have
chosen, although still Virsinian is not
what you might call sectional or local.
1t is primarily love story, but love
story interviewer with the sterner
questions of the day, which are rife
Just now from one end of the country
to the other. In my novel young
clergyman and an idealistic Jew work
shoulder to shoulder in the effort to up
lift humanity, tand ina it. 'siso / aim
to voice the protest of the great educa-
ted classes against hetencrsstchment
and tyrannieS Of the two forces be-
tween which they Stand--capital and
labor. 1t is to the treatment of sub
lectS of this kind that the fiction of the
day is undoubtedly tending, which
marks a new era in the\ evolution of
the American novel, South as well as
North
For many years. George Wharton
James has been collecting material
about old California. and the result OF
his work will appear late thi.; month
from Little, Brown & Co, under title
Through Ramona's Country" He has
met all of the persons now living who
furnished Helen Hunt Jackson with
material for her Ramona" and he will
give an account of several of his in
terviews with Sam Temple, the man
whom Mrs. Jackson described as Jim
Farrar, thte murderer of the Indian
Aessandro. Temple has never shown
any regret for his crime, and rather
prides himself upon the notoriety that
the book Ramona" has brought him.
Indeed, he thought it would be a good
scheme to go to the Chicago Fair ana
the st. Louis Exposition, and exhibit
himself as the original of the book
character He suggested that Mr..
James manage and finance" him, and
was decidedly taken backs when the
latter said he would rather raise
money to have him tried and hung for
his contemplate deed. Mr.. Wharton
has gathered many interesting anec-
dOtes and he promises to reveal un-
suspected facts regarding thei true and
fictitious features of Mrs. Jackson'S
story.
Two Family and Twin Houses" is
the title of new book soon to be
brought out by William T. Comstock.
publisher New York. 1t Will contain
upward of 80 designs of houses or TINS
class from designs of architects IT
different parts of the country The
purpose is to bring together large
number of designs from the hands o.
architects in AL parts OF the country
who have given their attention to TINS
class of work The book will be found
of value to persons just outside the
more crowded residential districts
where land is too high for is"latec
dwellings,, yet not so high as to demand
the construction Of large apartmen
houses.
INV Lady Hollands Journaf' has
plenty Of fresh literary gossip concern
ing a bygone day. She was not
man with literary gifts, but she couic
talk well and write after d fashion. aht
she could give orders to men llke
Macaulay and Sydney Smith lh%
Centurion," wrote Macuiay after ms
first visit to Holland House, did not
keen his soldiers in better order thar
che kent her guests" one good thing
she wrote is particularly applicable to
tho present time: Il have been read
ing French literature OF deSultolS
sort in desultory way. both pefhlci-
Gus to the mind; for by confusing ths
memory it destroys the power OF th'
understanding. l can speak from *
nerience, as have completely opScufe'
nv faculty by too great an aVldlty U
read or rather devour books without
any method in my pursuits.
The Macmillan company has Just
,,h,ished 1.-The Epistie to the
Hebrews." edited by Prof. Edgar >
Coodspeed Of the university of ChlcaG'
which is the first volume OF ne"
series entitled THE Bible FOR Home
and school" The series is edite" Wy
Prof Shailer Mathews of the uhiVer'
sity of Chicago.
"The Mjstletoe Bough" in the title OIL
a story by Lucy Pratt in the Deceh-
ber Century.
ALASKA: the Great Country MIS-
Ella Higgnson's new book, taxes u"
titla from the Indian meaning o' ,he
mama of the country. Ihe srea.
country" is the translation OF tht oio
indian name "Al-ay-ek-sa, ana the
writer holds that the name is peculiarly
onnropriate to the territory. vi ne'
repeated journeys to Alaska Mis
Eigginson has seen and heard srea'
variety of entertaining and unusual
things. and she writes of them III ie'
hook in very informal manner WIN
shrewd comment and amusing ahec-
dote. Ella Higginson is hah'as
woman. a writer of stories ana verse
She won the $500 Mcclure prize i"r 'ht
hest short story with THE Takm III "'
o,d Mis- Lane" She lives at Belilhs-
ham. on Puget Sound, Wash
Mr.. Robert Hichens, we are toiu' was
absorbed in music and poetry before lit
baean to write novels Ihere cdh'e an
evening when famous prlma uoiih"
warhled one of his songs. Il TOOK d
so.t a,d waited in Il fever of anxiety
tbe novelist is quoted as saying. he
,,n;a,;s,, was tremendous, and L was ir
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