Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-30
BOOKS AND AUTHORS

I the young king on his wedding day.
| 1t was this Prince the authors had in
mind while writing their story, and
| they did not send the book to him for
| fear he might recognize his portrait.
A friend sent it to him. however, and
| inspired by reading the adventures of
| the Carlist hero in his dash through
Spain, he decided to go himself in
cognito, as he was liable to imprisOn-
ment if recognized. He had many eX-
citing adventures, but finally escaped
| safely. although the detectives We're
| travelling in search Of him and one
1 man recognized him, but this man was
a delightful person and said nothing.
| Professor George Edward Wood
| berry, whose latest book, Great
| Writer'S has recently appeared, sailed
to Europe about month ago with the
| intention of returning to Africa and
| the Sahara. 1t is two years since he
made his first visit to that part of the
| world, the fascination of which was 50
! great for him that he has ever since
| harbOred the wish to renew the ex-
| perience and to penetrate still further
| into the desert. So far it has been the
| French writers of our own time, be-
ginning with FrOmentin, who have
! come under the spell of the Sahara
and the one English novelist who has
| written of this section of the world
is said to have gone no farther than
Biskra which, now that it has become
the resort of thousands of tourists, has
been fifty termed the "Coney Island of
the Sahara" 1t is to be hoped that
Professor Woodberry's trip will not be
without its literary results and that he
may produce something as a souvenir
that can be PLACED side by side with
his exquisite prose description of
TaOmina.
I Rex Beach's new novel will be called
| The Barrier" Like THE Spoilers" it
! is story of Alaska and although it
revolves around a new set of people.
| the primitive conditions of life in the
| new north country which made The
| Spoilers" 50 virile and buoyant will
| surround the forthcoming story. II
will be remembered that the great
| Alaskan drama which Mr. Beach
describes is one in which he himself
|
/ Barrier" which is to be issued by the
Harpers sometime in March. will be
the first novel Mr.. Beach has written
since THE Spoilers"
christian Reid" author of Princess
Nadine" which the Putnams publish,
is Mrs. Frances Fisher Herman of SAL
isbury, y. G. She is the author among
several other stories. of two tales Of
life in the West Indies, 1.-THE Man Of
the Family and The Chase of an
| Heiress." Both these novels were pub
| lished number of years ago by G. P.
| Putnam'S Sons. princess Nadine
| which was published but a short time
| since, is now being reprinted.
A new writer of detective fiction has
been found in Roman Doubleday,
whose first book. 1.-The Hemlock Ave
nue. Mystery has just been published
by Little. Brown & Co. 1t is a story
| Of the murder of an attorney in a west
ern city and the suspicion cast upon
another member of the bar. The SO.
luton of the mystery is finally made
by western newspaper man. In plot
and treatment the story is rather like
|
The trustees of ShakSpeare'S birth.
place are about to publish, for the USE
of visitors to Stratford and of Shaks
pearian students generally, a small vol
unie dealing with some recent reuuis
itions. under the title. -Four Quart,
Editions of Plays by Shakespeare de
scribed by Sidney Lee; with five illus
| tratiOnS in facsimile"
II would appear that Wilkie Collins
, Is not unread at the present day. de
spite the activity of his imitators i,
the art of writing sensational novels
Harper & Brothers report that tho,
| nave Just sent to press new editions n
his Man and Wife" and IT Say NJ ;,
| KeV. Stopford A. Brooke has ius
finished a volume of ESSAYS mo,
Matthew Arnold. Rossetti. Morris. an,
Arthur Hugh Clough. The yolum
; will be entitled -Four Victorian Poets
, ana VIII be published shortly nv tb
Putnams. These essays continue tn
course entered upon by the sam
: dutnor IN his Studies in Poetry
5 'rutnam). III which will be found criti
clsms Of Blake. Sir Walter Scott, Shell
, ley and Keats
j Anne Warner says she must get an
: otner book out Of her head before sh
sails for Europe in April. for lit is TAX
ing up too much room there" TIL
new story is romance, but there
one character out of real life which tn
: author recently discovered. She is
: village postmistress who said to Mr.,
l warner The stamp came O,
oil one Of your letters an
tried to stick it on agai
naif dozen times, but in the end
I put on fresh one. 1t wouldn't stick-
100 many been at it before you and m.
guess" Mrs. Warner will sal, urao