Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-16
BOOKS AND AUTHORS

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be published next month. The new
book is called simeon fellows Shad-
| owl
| DR. Orison SWEET Marden, editor of
Success, has just completed book en-
| titled Peace, Power and Plenty
which deals with the power of those
thought-forces and soul qualities which
| cause every man to rise superior to his
environment. It will be published ear
ly in January by Thomas Y. Crowell
s. Co.
| DAYS Spent on Doge's Farm, by
| Margaret SymOnds, the first edition OF
which appeared some years ago, has
now been republished with a new pref
ace which supplements it's story in a
valuable way, for it is an appreciation
and description of the remarkable
woman who ruled the ''Doges Farm
This was Evelina, Countess Pisanl.
| who made the Doge's Farm famous
| The place was lonely and she always
had arms at hand. She never wearled
of her work, and she had always In
herself great resources of friendship
and intellectual interests.
| "Outdoor Schools is the subject of
Worlds Work by DR.. c. Hanford
| Henderson.
| Louisville, KY, might be included
among the literary centers of America
which Mr.. HowellS is fond Of discover
ing. From a recent special article In
a Cincinnati newspaper it may be
learned that verses are written there
by Madison Cawein, styled by Edmund
Gosse as the one hermit thrush in the
world Of poetry who sings from Louis
vile, Kentucky. Charles Hamilton
Musgrove satirist; George AIDE, Charles
r. Rogers, s. j. Duncan Clarke, Young
V. Allison, known for his completion of
Stevenson Fifteen Men on a Dead
Mans Chest" Gale Young Rice, hus-
band of the author of Mrs. WigSs,'
and many other writer's live in the
Kentucky city. Few of these writer's
make a living by verse, except posi-
bly, Mr.. Cawein, whose works have been
collected into q fine volume edition. A
re port that he is a successful broker
in Louisville has greatly amused Mr..
Cawein and his friends.
1.-THE Raven is the title chos = by
George Hazelton for the new 6. anna
which later on is to be written into
a novel founded upon the episodes of
Poe's life. The play has had it's per-
Torrance at Annapolis. The love or
the poet for Virginia GLENN, whom he
married; the struggle of the young
people with poverty after Poe was
abandoned by his patron. John Allan:
Virginia's death and the final tragedy
in Baltimore which terminated the
poets career furnish the main themes
of the story.
Sir Gilbert Parker has been elected
president of the Sir Walter Scott So
ciety of Edinburgh, succeeding the
Right Honorable George Wyndham.
Sir Gilbert despite political responsible
lities is yet devoting his time to liter
arv work and has written several
short stories. '"The Weavers," publish
ed r the early fall of 1907, was one of
the most popular novels of the last
year and it has just gone to press for
new impression. At present Sir Gill
bert, whose London home is at Garlic
ton Terrace, is sojourning in France
and stopping at Biarritz.
More personal and intimate than
either Roma Beata' or 1.-TWO in It
| aly'' will be found "Sun and Shadow
in Spain," by Maude Howe. The cir
cumstaEces in which this book was
written are certain to interest lovers
of bellies lettres, the manifestations of
which are altogether too rare nova
days Mrs. Maud Howe Elliott accom-
panied her husband. John Elliott, the
painter, to Madrid, where he was to
study with Jose di Villegas, the court
painter and director of the Prado Mu-
SCUM. The Elliotts made their home
with the Di Villegas, and, while Mr.
Elliott painted, Mrs. Elliott studied
Spanish life and customs just as she
had studied Roman life and customs
two years before in the Eternal City.
In Madrid she had entree into the
most exclusive circles, whose culture
she was able to compare with that of
the people at large through excursions
| into the provinces. The result is
charming volume of impressions and
judgments, built upon thread of mar
rative and developed through a series
of contemporaneous events in which
the traditions of the past are thrown
into strong relief against modern cpl
sodes and anecdotes Of everyday life.
| Those who have read and loved Roma
Reata'' and 1.-TWO in Italy, need only
to be told that the style of the book
ond tic coono resemble those of the
italian volumes, but here we have