Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-20

each Oh the travellers tells story, and
these toles include all sorts OF themes
sad and glad, foolish and sentlmcn-
| tai.
MY Day and Generation" by Col
Clark q. Carr, the author OIL Ihs
Illini'' and Lincoln at GETTYSBURG
will be published this week Col. Carr
has known personally and intimately
rnanv of the great men and women OF
this country, and his recollections COW
er our history from the period of the
anti-slavery agitation down to the
present time The authors public ca
reer has Identified him with the Re-
publican party since its inception,
throwing him into intimate relations
with Lincoln, Douglas, Grant, Sher-
man, Logan and others prominent IN
the Civil War. 1t has also included
his service for four years as Minister
from this country to the court of Den
mark.
1.-THE Sentimental Adventures of Jim
my Bulstrode," by Marie Van Nost,
lust published by the Scribner's. has
for it's hero d character whose attrac-
tive and likable personality gives the
book rare charm. He is good-na-
tured, kind hearted and generous to
friend, enemy or beggar, ard these
traits of character coupled with I'M
limited wealth, lead him into many
adventures often sentimental and al
ways amusing. Back of his easy ma
ture is the chivalry and courtesy of
gentleman in the finest sense of the
word, and he is always a strong, fine,
and delightfully."- original character.
1.-THE Master of the Inn," by Robert
Herrick, first appeared as short
story liz the Christmas number of
Scribners Magazine. 1t is such re-
markable bit Of realism and has APP
pealed so strongly to those who read
it that there has been a general de-
mand for it's publication in book form.
The Master of the Inn was a doctor
who had given up his practice and
lived out in the country where he kept
an open house for all those who were
worn out with work and worry, or dis
couraged and beaten down. These
men he kept with him until they were
anxious and ready to take up the bat
tie of life again, and then sent them
back refreshed and strengthened in
mind and body by their life with him
in the open air. The book will be pub
lished in ar edition similar to Mary
Raymond Shipman Andrews story,
1.-The Perfect Tribute" some time this
month e..
y. Portions Of the biography of Richard
Mansfield, written by Paul Wilstach
who was for some ten closely
associated with the great az,
business capacity, will appear hls NJ
the pages OF Scrbner's Magazine.
date OF it's book publication being
scheduled for next August. In his pre-
paration of the work, Mr.. Wilstach has
lad the cooperation of Mrs. Mansfield,
who placed at his disposal many i'm
portant private documents and much
valuable correspondence.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle will preside
at the eighteenth Readers Dinner to be
held in London in May. The Readers
pensions committee has been able to
found four pensions at cost of just
more than $4,000 and it is hoped that
the forthcoming dinner will be devoted
to establishing a fifth.
new book by Beatrice Harraden,
author of ships That Pass in the
Night" is now in preparation and will
be published under the title of 1.-THE
Interplay" The name is taken from a
line by an old English writer, "And
there was playe and interplaye of mu-
Cic[s 1iNs,rc inc
other in curious fashione.''
Mr.. William Dean Howells stopped
during his recent visit to Rome in a
house in the Via Veneto just below
Queen Marghertas palace The pre-
vious visit of Mr.. Howells to Rome
was made forty-four years ago 1t is
expected that the present one will re-
suit in novel which has it's setting
| in modern Kome.
Mary Austin's new story which will,
| appear among the early fiction of the
spl ing. is to be entitled Santa, Lucia. >
1t is a story of California, the newe,
| suburban vicinity of San Francisco
| and not the city proper which has fig
ured so prominently in fiction since thu
CdI
f. w. Howe of Kansas. whose new
book Daily Notes of a Trip Arount
the WORLD has recently appeared
wrote The Story of Country Town
! many years ago. He could not find
publisher for his book. The countr.
| fair had not then arisen. But he Sc
| it up himself by hand from the Cease
| in a country newspaper Office in Kan
sas and it first appeared in the forr
judged artistic by the country publish
err The book has since been repub
lished by Houahton and has it's plac
among collections Of Representative
fiction, because it is O. genuine truthfu
book, telling the facts about the earl
period in the West when romance ha
not yet come in
1t is indeed literary event of i'm
portance to have Mr.. Barrie break hi
long silence with a new book, "Whe
Wendy Grew Up" The title of til
volume indicates it's contentS
The American "Squaw Man." of whic
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