Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-09

| A book on "Tyrol and Its People," by
Give Holland, has been illustrated in
colors and monotone by Adrian Stokes
and will be published in London by Meth
uen & Co. Mr.. Holland in it deals fully
with the history and scenery Of the Tyrol
and the manners and customs of its peo-
| pie.
A fourth American edition and a Sec
ond Canadian edition of ''Tono Bungay''
bear testimony to the steady popularity
of H. G. Wells latest novel. But Mr.
Wells is not content to rest upon his
laurels, and he is therefore hard at work
| upon another piece of fiction which we
may expect to see before the present year
is over or the new year we'll begun.
George Hibbard, whose stories are fam
iliar to magazine readers especially Har-
per's, and who is best remembered by his
two capital stories, "A Lion in the Way"
and THE Ambassador" is spending few
weeks in New York. For half dozen
years Mr.. Hubbard has resided almost
continuously in Buffalo, which he ac-
counts his permanent home.
In few days Henry Holt & Co. will is
sue 1.-THE Infamous John Friend" by Mrs.
r. S. Garnett, daughter-in-law of the late
Richard Garrett 1t is to be a romance
of the time of Napoleon's projected inva-
sion of England, and among the great
people who figure in it are Napoleon, Mrs
Fitzherbert, William Pitt and Charles
Fox.
Several copyright novels by American
authors are included in the list of the
Macmillan pocket series of books to be
sold in England at the astonishing price
Of sevenpence. Among these volumes are
the late Marion Crawford's Roman
Singer" Mrs. Wharton's House Of
Mirth," and Mr.. J. L. Aliens Choir In
visible" The volumes are bound in blue
cloth with gilt lettering and each has a
frontispeiece All for sevenpence.
Jacques Futrelle has written some
very interesting and entertaining sto-
ries, 1.-The Simple Case of SUSAN 1.-The
Thinking Machine and 1.-THE Chase of
the Golden Plate" but his most recent
novel. ELUSIVE Isabel" published by
the Rahbs- Merrill Co., Indianapolis, is
by far the best tale that has come from
his pen. 1t is a story that commands
the readers interest from beginning to
end--a book that he is not likely to lay
aside until ne has read the last word
of the last chapter 1t is dramatic
tale of love and mystery in which the
hero is an agent of the United States
secret service and the heroine a secret
agent of foreign power. The duties OF
both cause their paths to cross, and in
the conflict OF wits that follows they
are pitted against each other.
F. Marion Crawford's novel 1.-The
New Governess." the opening chapters
of which appeared in the July number
ably the story which the novelist is
said to have left practically complete
1t is a story of English country life,
and the heroine is a charming girl who
masquerades as an ugly, deformed, and
shy school-room dragon. 1t is already
indicated that the heir of the estate
is interested in this unlovely person.
1t is stated that Mr. Crawford left also
| the manuscripts Of another novel, as
we'll as that of a "HistOry of the
Papacy in the 10Th Century" The first
volume of a three-volume History OF
Rome in the Middle Ages" in which
he had collaborated with Prof. Tomas
setti, is now in type.
Three novelists of high rank are
among those who during the. past sea-
son have appeared before the English
public as dramatists: Henry James
John Galsworthy, and Robert Kitchens
There is nothing to indicate that any
of the three intends to make the de-
parture the rule and turn permanently
stageward, although this has been
rrophesied of at least one. Mr.. Gals
worthy. Mr.. Kitchens play, which APP
| peared shortly after his latest novel