Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-24
which he writes have been spent.

and some years ago issued "Duse and
the French critical study. He was
at one time director of the New
Theater in this city. Of his many
plays, produced in Paris, New York and
Chicago. "A Flower of YeddO,"
Caesars Return Captain Barring
tom and THE Undercurrent" are
among the best known. Partners
Three" is the story of a warm hearted
adventurer and the two little waits
whom he befriends 1t is published by
the Frederick A. Stokes Company.
William Allen White, the Kansas
journalist. who wrote "What's the
Matter With Kansas" has a new nov
el ready for publication this month.
"A Certain Rich Man" is the title of
the new book.
Macmillan Foster, the author of
that charming novel of romantic mys-
terry in present-day New York, recent
ly published under the quaint title,
"Corrie Who?" has had his first play,
THE Whirlpool" produced. The open
ing night was April 26, and the place
of the first presentation was Washing
ton.
10 the publishers Of her romantic
tale of temptation, 1.-The Panther"
Anne Warner discloses an interesting
glimpse of her everyday life when she
writes: Il want to tell you a delight
full story. My little girl. who shares
all my views of earth ard heaven, has
a baby rabbit a week old. The rabbit
was nibbling her button this morning,
and my little disciple exclaimed, Nam
ma, it's fixing it's soul SO when it's a
girl it will know how to sew buttons
on" The author is back in Munich
where 1.-THE Panther" was written
Peter, Peter" Maude Radford War
York couple who fall out of the fire of
the honeymoon into the frying-pa of
money-all-lost, and remain incurably
happy in spite of it all and twins be-
sides. will be issued in book form
about the middle of May, ccincident
with it's final instalment in Harper's
Balar Additional attention has been
directed to Mrs. Warren's story serial
~ by the great number and ingenuity
of drawings furnished for it by Rose
O'Ne:ll Wilson. These are all to be in
cluded in the book.
Horace Traubel, who has been lee
turing in Boston on "How Walt Whit
man looks to a Rebel" is unique fig
ure among American writers. He is a
hoy" of about fifty years, an Ameri
can of GermanDutch ancestry, an art
list first in his fathers studio and then
in anything he has done during busy
life. An enthusiastic lover of books,
of nnrin1 roo1inr 1
umes a year, he ranks among the best
reviewers of serious literature in
America. He has been welcomed by
some of the leading actors as their
sanest critic. In his great blank verse
poem, "Chants Communal" which has
been translated into German and Ital
ian, he sings the song of labor and the
economic struggle.
A sequel to Charles Pierce Burton's
1.-THE Boys of Bob's HILL" entitled 1.-THE
Bob's Cave Boys" will be issued at
once by Henry Holt & Co. Like the
earlier book (already in it's third
this new story recounts the ex-
ploits of a group of boys in New Eng
land village-is it not near Greylock?
Little, Brown & Co, has just pub
lished 'J'he Strain of White" a novel
by Ada Woodruff Anderson. whose first
book, 1.-The Heart of the Red FRS"
went into four editions last year It's
scene is laid in the Puget Sound
country, the authors homeland, and
the story touches the conditions in the
Pacific Northwest in the fifties; Sing
ing Bird" the daughter of the COM
mandant of an American garrison near
Fort Nisqually. and a Yakima Indian
as heroine.
Francis Lynde, who, of Puritan an
ceStry and eastern birth and education.
now lives at Chattanooga, Tenn, is a
novelist of conscientious methods and
marked ability. THE King OF
Arcadia" vivid romance of Colorado
engineering is dedicated to the
daughter who acted as the authors
lmanuensis in the writing of the book
The strength and conviction of the
railway epistles described is not sur
prising. in view of the fact that Mr..
Lynde's early manhood was devoted to
many kinds of railway service This is
his tenth novel. "A Case in Point" be-
ing the first published and tine
irafters" and THE Quickening" among
the most popular. 1.-The King Of Area
iia' is issued by Charles Scribner's
Sons
Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor,
whose new novel, flames Pathway"
effectively presents a romantic episode
IN the early life of Moliere, is a Chicago |
nan by birth and residence, though he |
also has lived much abroad. Mr..
Chatfield-T Taylor, who has received
many marks of distinction from foreign
powers and literary organizations, be-
ng Chevalier of the French Legion of
Honor, as well as of the Spanish Order
If Isabella and the Portuguese Order Of |
st. James. previously has published |
several other successful novels, among
hem With Edge Tools" 1.-TWO Women
md Fool" THE Idle Born" and THE
Crimson Wing" The immediate prede- |
lessor of flames Pathway" was
'Moliere, Biography" in the prepare
Ion Of which the author undoubtedly
secured the material for his present
story. The new book is published nv
Duffield & Co.