Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27
THE REALM OF BOOKS AND AUTHORS

Writers will be grateful to Professor
Lounsbury. of Yale. for calling general
attention to some of the difficulties of
English grammar with which they
have constantly to struggle in their
desire to avoid obscurty and be cor
rect at the same time. In Harper's
Magazine for February Professor
Lounsbury takes up the use of
whose as a relative pronoun refer
ring to inanimate objects, and justifics
its use. since nothing better can De
devised. He discusses the use of the
singular pronoun with the word
Everybody" as in, There everybody
met his friends" This is manifestly
inadequate. and his or her friends is
clumsy. Jane Austen, writes the pro-
fessor, avoided the difficulty by using
the plural pronoun. as in her sentence,
'They say everybody is in love once in
their lives" He thinks no satisfac-
tory solution of this problem can. in
the nature of the case. ever be
reached.
Leila Burton Wells. daughter of
General Burton of the Army, is the
author of powerful tale of military
life in the Philippines. in the January
Lippincotts. Arrangements are being
made to dramatic the story.
AIRED y. CroZier, whose novel, "Tha
Magnet has just been published by
the Funk & Wagnalls company, has
been for 20 years a lawyer. and has
also been manufacturer. and inter-
ested in financial and political affairs.
For HFe years he was treasurer of the
natlonai conference of charities and
corrections of the United States. He
IS credited with starting the move
meht Tor Delaware ship canal and
the inland water route from Cape
COD to Carolina All his varied
interests are reflected in his novel.
| which deals with public issues of the
| moment.
The title of the new story by George
Barr McCutcheon. to be published this
| spring by Dodd. Mead & Co, is The
husbands of Edith,' a title which
seems to point at a complicated plot.
A novel called THE Magnet" has
lately been published, and among the
spring novels to be published by Dodd,
Mead d Co. is THE Loadstone," by
VIII Llliibridge, author of ben Blair
Dr. Lillibridge is Dakota man, born
and bred in that country He has
been farmer, rancher and cattlenan.
He declares that even now. busy as he
is with his profession and literary
work, he has a mania for being out of
doors.
| A new story by Herbert NJ. Hopkins,
author of THE Mayor of Warwick
vii, be published under the title of
Priest and Pagan The scene of the
new story IS laid in the Bronx, New
York.
William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet
has written a new play, The Unicorn
From the stars in collaboration with
Lady Gregory, which has been great
ly admired in Dublin and in England
The new play will appear soon in this
country along with two of the authors
early prose plays. kathleen n
Houlahan" and The Hour Glass; the
latter having been revised for this
edition. The volume is to be uniform
in style with the two volume library
edition of Mr. Yeats's poetical works
Miss Elizabeth Neff of Cleveland i:
new writer. and her Forthcoming
, h""F- "Altars - Mammon.' has for it.
setting small town near the borde
line between Ohio and Pennsylvania
) but the conditions are those which
? may be found in hundreds of simila1
lElaces in the United States. Any on,