Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-21
THE REALM OF BOOKS AND AUTHORS
In An Old Library.

In An Old Library.
There In the dusk Of this dim Widowed
The weary minds of generations rest;
Poor prisoner ghosts, by sad neglect op-
pressed,
In dismal companies along the wall:
Long phantom lines of poets and of seers.
Ihelr songs grow cold, their raptures
needed not
And all their wisdom YEARLY begot.
turned foolish through forgotten years
Fair summers that will never come again.
Ihey wasted out with trouble prodigal,
ana springs and falls and winters beauti-
That here might rest in store for careless
men
The boarded ignorance of time Alas,
What perishable fruit their labors bore:
The hungry crowds go roaring by their
door,
Nor wait one moment as they pass
Across their prison-house the creeping sun
Dials the endless days upon the floor;
The crafty spider binds them DER and DER
Win letters THAT may never be undone,
| Oh. for the days they lost in labor vain.
Here in the dust all molder silently,
Save when across the panes some prison
Raves for his open fields again.
Raves for the sky. the meadows and the
trees
Wild with the dark. frantic with mad dis
OF this dim place of WEAKNESS and dust.
| Round him the great of out-spent CEN
| turtles
| In gaunt procession listen silently
Dead oracles no questioner comes to seek;
Their words, which woke the world, now
grown more weak
| Than the shrill droning of a frightened
bee.
-Geik Turner
ALTHOUGH she could make others
gay, she was never gay herself; and
although her face was a sad one, she
was never sad,' is Grace Kings char
acterization of Mrs. Mary Humphreys
Stamps, of whom she writes in the
June Century" under title of "a
Southern Educator
Among books recently reprinted we
note on the Harper list Cherry by
Booth Harrington. Mr. Harrington
has been better known in late months,
perhaps, for his part authorship in
"The Man from Home"
The COlquohoun Club of the Royal So
ciety of Literature made Mrs. Kate
Douglas Wiggin it's guest of honor at
| recent dinner in London. Mrs Wig
gin spoke on the subject "Who's Who?
The Authenticity Of Genius
Smith D. Fry has story in McCalls'
magazine entitled can Interrupted
Wedding.'
Joaquin Miller is planning to estab-
llsh colony Of poets and to conduct
a school of poetry near his home at
Fruitvale in California He has given
an acre of land to Henry Meade Bland
and another to Herbert Bashford. They
expect to build cottages there and help
found this colony.
Fleet Street, and Other POEMS"
which is probobly the last work of the
English poet John Davidson, is to be
published soon. The volume is a col
lection of verses dealing with crowds,
movements and wanderers. John Da-
wilson disappeared ten months ago and
1t is generally believed that he took his
own life, as he was bitterly despOnd-
end over the lack of appreciation he
found for his work, his poverty and
loneliness
The leading feature of the June Cen
fury is a rather curious bit of fiction
called with the Coin of Her Life" the
first of a series which is to deal with
the Thirteen at the table superstition.
The name of the author is not given.
but from the style one is given to
credit it to Margaret Deland. 1t is a
rather fascinating tale.
Ralph Waldo Urine, author of "In
Tune with the Infinite" said recently
in a speech at the booksellers dinner
IF I We're asked my opinion to which
is ore of the best actual or spiritual
attitudes that we can have regarding
this life-this common life-I should
say it should be the habit Of looking
for and always expecting the best in
ali things in all occurrences and in all
people, thus drawing to us the best in
all people and in all things. To me
there is nothing fruer in all the world
but that thoughts are things What
one lives in the thought world he will
find sooner or later projected into his
world
bulI S-Hd'lleF. FRESHMAN, Is one OF
the regulation college stories for boys, |
and the author is James Shelley Ham |
ilton. In this case the wonderful lad
goes to Il small college evidently Will |
liams), and there proceeds to sweep |
everything before him in his freshman
year. Doubtless there have been such
prodigies of popularity in some institu-
tons, and usually die very. very young. |
Butt is not much of an athlete, but he |
is elected everything and has all sorts |
of a good influence on other boys. The
book will be a valuable addition to any
Sunday school library. 1t is published
by d. Appleton &, Co. of New York.
Marie Corelli is the possessor of q
still unpublished manuscript by Peter
Heylin. which she CHANGED upon and |
secured when she found that 1t con-
tanned an allusion to Shakespeare's
Venus and Adonis." 1t has always
been matter for wonderment that Hey
lin. a gossipy and inquisitive contem-
porary, never refers to Shakespeare or
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