Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-24
THE REALM OF BOOKS AND AUTHORS
To Ny Books.

To Ny Books.
III scanned the tattered volumes DER and
| By genius of dead poets family stirred,
| And as by magic ev'ry written word
Flamed strong and comforting, alive once
more.
For here great minds have laid their
| marv'lous store
And here my saddened heart hath
| The joyous lay of some harmonious bird
Since pOetry's muse hath tapped upon
| my door.
What though their moss grown graves
| have come between;
| What though the boundaries of eternity
| Still keep them from me through the
| SloW-shod years?
Yet, have l learned all that their songs
| may mean;
Naught else of speech need be 'twixt
| them and me,
share their joyous laughter and
| their tears.
John j. Finegan
There is an interesting rumor that
Mrs. Humphry Ward has written a new
novel which she will call Robert
Elsmere Twenty three Years After
1t will not be published until the
autumn.
A copy of the rare first edition y:
Mrs. BrOwning's first poem, tn
Battle of Marathon" brought at auc-
ton in London, the other day, the sum
of $4S5. Another copy was sold not
long ago for $40
| The Mrs Hermann Bosch whose
story, 1.-The Duffer," recently won one
of the New York Herald's short story
prizes is the author of Bridget pub
lished last year by B. w. Dodge &
Company
| Bliss Carman, author of Songs from
IVagabondia," More Songs from Vaga
bondia.' and Last Songs from Vaga-
bondia,'' has accepted an invitation
from the programme committee of the
Vermont Lake Champlain tercentenary
commission to write the memorial
poem for the public exercises 70"
burlington Day" which will be held at
| Burlington on July s.
| The modern author is not without
honor in her own city. Among the
many special attentions which Miss
Grace Donworth has received in her
home town of Providence since the
| marked success of her inmitable
| Letters of Jennie Allen" an aSSocia-
ton of many years standing known as
THE Doctors Wives recently devoted
an evening to the letters. The amusing
red post cards which the publishers of
the book have issued. containing
humorous extracts, were distributed
among the guests, each one receiving a
saying that was supposed to be applo-
pirate to her character Requests for
these cards have come from Italy, Fin
land, and Japan. =
| Selections from the verses of the latt,
Arthur Epson, whose death by drown
| ing last August removed one of the
| most promising of American poets,
were presented i'm the BibelOt for
March. Mr.. upson's poems including
| his "OctaVes in an Oxford Garden"
I 1.-THE City" and the romantic drama in
| blank verse, THE Tides of Spring"
which Small, Maynard & Company
| brought out shortly before his death,
have gained q remarkably enthusiastic
| following among Americans VINO read
poetry. The Epson Memorial Com
| mittee announces 1.-The Complete
| Poems of Arthur Epson" in two
volumes.
| For more than sixty years Mr.
Arthur Gilman has spent his summers
| in New England villages. and ne has
| written in a meditative way soma IF
| the thoughts and feelings inspired by
his varied experiences in book to he
published this month under the title
| Of MY Crawford" Mr.. Gilman is well
known as m educator as well as an
author. He was the originator of the
wOmen's department at Harvard Uni
versity. which developed into Rad
cliff College. He has published many
volumes. but my Crawford" is the only
book he has written for several years
His "Cranford' is chiefly Hollis. N. H..
where many of the sixty summers of