Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-06


| to attract me as he once did. Tom Jones
is store Of wealth in its way but 'Jona-
thar Wild is tG me st;tndins marvel
and the best book OF its kind know of
When I want something stirriDS l re-
read the Three Musketeers. bot I never
ind my desire so strong as to larry me
into TIE succeeding volumes. hIpllnS
grips me hard
Most of the literary pilgrims who
have been jourreying down to Boxhi!l
to help celebrate George Meredith's
| eightieth year drop into the BuriOrd
| Bridge Hotel. a little hostelry which:
| has Interesting associations of its own.
1t was here that Mr.. Meredith made
! the one speech he ever made-at a
| little dinner given him by friends and
| admirers. Moreover. it was here that
| Nelson and lady Hamilton parted when
| Nelson went down tn Portsmouth to
| join the Victory and subsequently win
| Trafalgar. 1t was here that Keats is
salu to have written "Endymion' or
some part Of it.
Thomas Chattert6m. the boy poet,
whom liossetti placed among the five
| lights Of English song, has his first
American bioGrapher in Charles Ed
| ward Russell. IN his book, which APP
| pears late this month, Mr.. Russell re-
| latcs the strange story vi Chatterton's
| life and throws an entirely new light
upon it. While he was preparing for
| his work the author made many visits
| to Bristol, where Chatterton was born
; and educated. and studied there and
elsewhere all the records available.
| These studies lave resulted in tine con-
| cluSion that the gifted hoy had been
| unjustiy treated and condemned with
| out evidence of faults he had not COM
| United. The revelation of the work Of
| another 'lanl in the preparing Of the
so-called "Chatterton Forgeries" is
new thing il. literature.
Mrs. Comstock, the author of Janet
| of the Dunes" says the OF the men at
| life saving stations: 1T has been my
| good fortune to mingle for many sum-
mcrS with little group of gentle,
rather bashful and silent men forming.
with their captain, q crew of one of the
| United States life saving stations. II
| is my hope that my story may in some
measure enchance the not too strong
| interest in which the poorly paid. OBJ
scurely enacted neroism of the men in
this service is held by the general pub
| lie. They have not the advantages like
| our soldiers and fremen Of drcSsy uni
forms and frequent parades. They
would he greatly embarrassed by any
| thing like public homage; yet how ben
l. deficient is their service. The lonely is
| olaton Of the Government houses, the
| long. ofttine dangerous, patrols every
night from sunset to sunrise, their de-
,achment frorl home and social ties all
mon along our coasts and should call
forth from us a grateful and apprecia-
| tive tribute
Colonel Thomas Wentforth 1Iiggin-
son has finished. at the age of eighty
| four, a book of optimistic suggestions
| TO readers of all ages He has entitled
it Things Worth While
The publication Of Anna Chaplin |
Rays new novel, originally called '''rhe |
Penalty has been delayed OWING L,
the necessity for q change of title. The |
book will be brought out this Week. and
| the single word "Quckened" has bee;
| chosen for a title as representing the
| underlying thought OF the story.
"Fou:' Plays for Chil,iren," by Jorn |
| Jay Chapman, is to be brought out this |
spring. Two of the plays have been
acted by school children and the
others are written for children to act
| They are in blank verse of a scholarly |
and poetical character, but the Stas"
settings are simple and the significance
of the plays direct and easily inter
preted. The plays include The Lost
Prince" King Ithuriel," ''The Her
| mits" and christmas in Leipsic.
Little, Brown & Co. have just pub
lished AN English translation of PAU
| Bourgeois novel, The Weight of the
! Name
| Henry Holt & Co are already prepar
ing the Carolyn Wells Year Book for
1909
'The Cheerful Cricket" by Miss
jeanette Marks, professor of English iE
| Mount Holyoke College, has been
| placed on the book shelf Of members
work in the Arts and Crafts Gallery OF
| the Lyceum Club of London. Miss
Marks is a member of this well-known
| association and counts among her fell
| low members such literary persOnages
| as Mrs. G. x. Chesterton, May Sinclair,
Alice Aaynell, Flora Annie Steel, Con-
| stance Smedley, NJ. Z. Rraddon and
Katherine Cecil Thurston.
Miss Fanny Crosby, the blind poet
| esS, celebrated her SSth birthday ami
versary last week at her home in
Bridgeport a luncheon being given in
her honor by the Fanny Crosby Kings
Daughters, and she was also enter
| tanned by the Mary Sllman Chapter,
| D. A. r., at the home of one of the
| friends of her girlhood. Miss Crosby
has lived for the past eight years at
Bridgeport. in a pretty little vine-cov-
cred cottage, where she is surrounded
by her friends. At Il reception at the
| First Methodist Church, Dr. T.. s.
Smith. the pastor presented Miss Cros-
by, in behalf of the people of the State.
with a handsome gold watch.
A. S. Barnes & Co. report a large de-
| mand for proposals to Kathleen" the