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

a new book from Mr.. J. ". Barrie
is on the way. it is understood to b.
a sequel to ''Inc Little White Bird,
which was published about five year:
ago. when Wendy Grew Up" is sait
to be its title.
The Hon. Frances WolScley. daueb.
ter of FiSccurt Wolseley, has, like hei
| father, Il taste for authorship. She al.
SO loves gardening, and her forthcom.
ing book is to Ec devoted to that sub
ject. Size has established q school for
gardening and a market garden neal
the paternal residence in Sussex. and
both promise to be successful finan-
cially. As a practical gardner herself
she believes that there is future for
women in horticultural pursuits.
| An ErSliShElan who was once well
| knoWn to Americans was the late Will
liam Howard Russell, the brilliant war
correspondent. The record of his
achievements goes back to the Crimean
days, and includes our Civil War and
the struggle between France and Ger
| many. He was a talker of rare gifts
and a kindly. genial man, much loved
by host OF friends who We're accus-
toned to call MIN Familiarity Billy
| Russell. There was plenty of material
in his career for an uncommonly inter-
esting biography, and one has lately
been undertaken.
The early history of J. T. Trowbrids sc
is as romantic as anything his imagin-
alton devised later for the entertain
| ment Of his readers. says the Delinea-
! tor for January. He actually lived On
cruSts IN an attic as he fought to make
his way in the world. He wrote fol,
the Dollar Magazine, 50 called not only
because it sold for a dollar q year, Blu !,
| because il paid its writer's a dollar Il
page! 1t is hardly necessary after this
to quote his own statement that he
| was hungry at times He adds
chcrrily. however, no more SO, pro-
| bahly, than was good for me. AMI
never for long 1t was when ne was
mana Sing editor for Our Young Folks
that he began the work that has made
him SO well known and loved. After
they,>had published series OF stories
for young people. written by Mayne
| Reid. Mrs. Whitney. Aldricil, and
others equally famous. he was suggest
| ing names for a successor in their
work. His "clIief" looked at hin,
duizzica,ly and observed: why don't
you speak for yourself. John?' SO John
did. with the result that thousands of
young people nave adored his books.
4 new compilation with the title of
Poems of American History tas been
prepared by Burton j.. Stevenson and
is to be published by Houghton, Mifin
& CO.
What stories do children prefer to
read? Interesting answers to this per
tinent question have been obtained
from children themselves by Claude G.
Leland, librarian of the Board of Edu-
cation of New York city. At his re-
quest teachers in the grammar grades
in tn" public schools, especially those
in charge of the work in English, sent
to him reviews or opinions written by
pupils on favoritc authors or fayorite
books. About four thousand such
statements, representing the higher
classes in nearly every section of the
five boroughs. We're obtained, the
children being between the ages Of ten
and fourteen years. little Women
headed the list. The ten favorite au-
thors in the order of their preference
were: Louisa M. Alcott, Kate Douglas
Wiggn, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Charles Dickens. G. A. Henty, John
Luther Long, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Longfellnw, Sir Walter Scott and
Amelia f. Barr. The ten favorite
books in the order of the preference
we're: Little Women (Alcotn; SARAH
Crewe' tBurnetD; Uncle. Toms
Cabin (Stowe); BLACK Beauty
(SeweID: Birds Christmas Caror
(Wiggin): Robinson Crusoe" CDefoe)
"Iebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (NVig-
eiu: "Oid Fashioned Girl tAlcott)
"Grimm's Fairy Tales" and "Fvange-
line iLongfellowl.
Another novel by Justin Huntly Nc
Carthy will be shortly Forthcoming
from Harpers. 1t will have Tor title
| "Seraphica, and for it's setting early
eighteenth-century France. in the DAYS
when Louis XIV. was boy. and PhiIli.
of Orleans his regent on the throne
. Vatican. the great painter, will form
| a subordinate character.
/ In his latest booi, on Burma Georg,
Scott aiiirms that in all the affairs d
, Burmese life the women appear OF
equal terms with their lords. They car
at any moment obtain divorce. which
prerogative has tendency to keep the
, lords on their best behavior. In al
other Eastern lands woman is regarded
as chattel; in Burma she is the part
ner of her lord in everything, not ex
cepting his business affairs
Mr.. Douglas Crichton is writing 4:
] history Of the family CT Crichton
e which will include special researehe.
n into the career of the ''Admra bI.
e Crichton.'
a
George Meredith recently celebrated