Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-11

but the old scholar to whom the Pro
mctIlcus'' is itscribed-and chiefly oc
cuDicd in teaching her little brothers
Greek
4 new book by j. NJ. Barrie is Il lit
crary event to be greeted with interest
and delight. The now volume promises
and said To- b. on the way is u sequel
and delight. The new volume promised
me years ago, ana will be called when
W,ndy Grew Up"
The sequel To "Soprano' by Mr.
+! Marion Crawford. will be called The
Print Donna" ana will deal with the
later lii" Of Margaret, the English girl
Who bccalbe 4 famous singer.
Miss Elizabeth Robins Alaskan ma
tcrial 1or her Two books The Magne-
tic North" and Come and Find Me-"
to b. issued this week, was gathered
during her journey in scech of her
brother. Although both the author and
her brother fell i'll and almost died Of
fever in both books the dominant note
! is that passion for the North that is
I like nothing else on earth in the way
. of land love-
Col. Mosby's forthcoming book "Stu-
ar i'll the Gettysburg Campaign" is di-
4 vidcd into two parts. Brandy" and
I "G"ttysbury." The captains under
! "I..tndy" include Hooker and the
4 Army Of Northern Virginia, Culpcrer,
\ Beverly Ford. Brandy Station, &c.
Getty shurG" Includes Gen. Lee Moves
to the Potomac. Hooker at Fairfax,
Gen. F.Well and Gen. Lees Report, &c.
Miss s. Ina LdGerlof. author of 1.-THE
Wonderful Adventures of Nils" has
been sailed tho most popular of living
Swedish WRITER'S She is the only wo-
b, man 20 he honnred by the University
+ OF UFSalA with The degree Of Ii. u.
/ More than 10000 copies of the men
4 toned book OF fairy stories were sold
I within three weeks Of its original nub
lic;,tion il sweden. Mis-. the youthful
zero. is u lad who abuses an elf and,
vi ing turned into one himself, not only
Il ldcrstands all that the animals say
al out him. but also suffers punish
m, mt for wrongs done in his normal
tn; u>latrd by Nelma Swanston How
ard. is published by Doubleday, Page
k& CO.
pipr.rr Lott is IS wears old this
month, and the anniversary has been
celebrated in Il way by the .publicatio
Of an English translation Of his book,
Ii Roman dun Spahi." which he first
published i'll 1881.
4 liteHlry drop curtain. in tho shape
of a sham sampler. has been used for
On 70
aur;rrentty worked in letters Of needle
and colnr,,l thread: Dear Hans Chris
tian Anderson: Dear Charles Lamb
Dear Robert Louis stevenson: Dear
l., NiS carroll"
The Columbus Library of the Inter
national Blreau Of Republics ut Wash
irgton now contains about 1900 vol
unlp. covering Il great variety" Of
commercial. historical ANA general in
formation conc ,rning the different
\ American rtpuh lies" 1t is intended,
We are told. to enlarge this library tc
| the point of ma.<ng it the most COM
plrte collection .,f Amrricpna in the
woIG. 4 perpetual source Of useful
| know ledge. The bureau, it should be
added has lately prepared for distribu
! ton a Inst Of the Latin-American pub
LEGATIONS. historic ~ and descriptive,
noW to DO found in this memorial
!. library.
/ Miss Mary JohnSton's new novel
lewis Rand" will be published dur
| IT.; the coming season.
Homer Lea. author of 1.-The YER
miion Pencil" announced for early
| publication by the Mcclure Company.
| is a Lieutenant General of the Chinese
Reform Army He knows China and
/ the Chinese intimately from the inside,
and lie was mixed up in some mystcr-
Gus way in tho late Boxer Rebellion.
! He is perhaps better equipped for
| writing q real Chinese novel than any
4 living American. and in this novel he
has been able to give a strange moving
story of tragic passion that is hardly
/ surpassed in recent fiction.
NJ" McCl"rc Co'ap1rv rrcertIv pub
| lished 4 book by Miss Eva Madden, Sis
| Lou entitled 1.-Two ROYAL Foes" which
| is the history, written in story fora
/ for children. Of Napoleon and Queer
n Florence, has been writing since she was
\ fourteen. and, like her sister, has con-
I fined herself to stories for cnilderen,
tierec Of her best Known books being
| Tie Little Duke" THE Crusaders" and
| The | Can School" She t"isan her lit
crazy career with n letter i'm the Louis
will" Courier Journal, doing newspaper
| work in New York and la ring stores
acc, nie6 from time To time bv many OF
the leading periodicals.. In 1901 she left
| America for the sake Of her health ana
| settled first in Germany and thNn III
Italy. which she has now made her per-
mahent home. Miss Madden SAWS she
has never written OF q country without
| being in it. and her latest book. "TWo
Royal Foes" Crhe Mcclure Coz has GER
tain'y Interpreted in n remarka bic way
the romantic atmosphere Of Cent raj Ger
lmany, as it was hundred years ago.