Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-03

Edith Little Mason is the daughter Of
Caroline Atwater Mason, and has
grown UP among literary people and
literary pursuits. Her early years
were spent in New Haven. From there
she was taken on a trip to England
Holland, Belgium and France. All that
she saw at that time made most vivid
impression on her. After year at
boarding school in Bryn Mawr she went
TO Vassar College. She took all the
English courses that were allowed her,
doing special work in description and
narration and in Shakespeare. She
wrote for the college magazine, which
published many of her short stories,
sk'ts, essays, parodies, etc. She re-
celved two prizes in her senior year,
one for story, the other for Shakes
pearlan essay. She was graduated in
the class of 1906, and the following
spring she went to Italy, where she re-
NAMED four months. She was with
the Italians Il great deal and studied
them and their language with the deep
est interest. After leaving college Miss
Mason had continued to write, but had
sent none of this work to the maya
zines, preferrng to wait. On her re-
turn from Italy, she began her first
novel, THE Traiers," in which she
tried to do justice to the Italian tenn
permanent and point of view, as we'll as
to the Americans. During the past two
winters she has worked somewhat
among the Italian immigrants of
Rochester, especially among those who
did not speak English She has con-
tlnued her study OF music and Ian
SuaSeS, and has made an earnest study
Of modern Italian history, American
literature. also immigration. Miss Ma
son has large class interested in
working girls and is interested in social
and economic problems and in psyche
logy.
NIarshall SauEderS's story of "Bcauti-
full ICE" has been translated into three
torelSn languages and more than i00,-
600 copies of the book have been sold
The name Ct the author. Marshall
Saunders, is usually considered to be
that Of man. But Marshall Saunders
is really woman, Margaret Marshall
Saunders, who lives in Halifax, N. S.,
and is the author of many other sue
cessful stories, including The House
of Armour" Rose a Charlotte a now
ell and princess Sukey"
Charles Klein is his own novelizer |
He has made over his play, 1.-The Mu-
sic Master" into narrative form, and |
with a great deal of necessary elabor-
alton it fills more than three hundred |
pages of a volume published by Dodd,
Mead & Company. The extravaganza,
The over-elaboration, the melodramatic
of the play are present also
in the novel, which although effective
and entertaining. lacks the humanizingl
Iuietude of David Warfield's PERSONAL
ty to make it convincing. Colored il
ustraticns are supplied in which the
figure is that of Mr.. War
field
The Canadians. apparently as Il re-
ward for his intrepid attack on the Ca
NADIA -Fakers," have adorned one of the
town sites along the new Grand Trunk
Pacific Railway with the cognomen of
Arthur Stringer, whose wireless ro-
nance, 1.-THE Gun Runner" has just
been published by B. w. Dodge Il Com
pany. AS d matter of fact, about two
thousand new names were needed for |
this country tO-be, and as the line
had run through the full list |
Of Well-knoWn politicians from Laurier |
to Oronyteka, and all the established |
cow names from Aberdeen-Angus to |
Sussex and Shorthorn, to say nothing |
q the patronymics of every official, |
employee and stenographer in the
home offirpC native anthnr fMn
worked in very handily. When the au-
Wire Tappers' learned of the honor
that had come upon him. he wrote out |
to the incipient city of "Stringer" and |
the contingency of proffer-
ing the newly christened community |
with d limited free library of his own
books. In two weeks an answer came |
back. 1t was signed by one sid Wap-
per'' 1T said Don't bother about |
sending the mhoks out to this here me
tropolis called Strngcr. I guess they
are good books. all right; but the |
Crow Breed who runs the water tank |
cnein aint eddjected in English and I'm |
busy track-wallling. z. S. Us two is !
the metropolis"
Irving Bdcnellef Is To nave Il new |
novel this spring. The Harpers are |
to bring it out before the end |
Of the month.
Booth Harrington and Harry Leon |
Wilson are in Minneapolis with Otis |
Skinner. They have been collaborating |
in play for Mr.. Skinner which they |
have just finished.
The letters of Joseph Joachim, the |
are to be given to the world |
next year. the editors of the correspon- |
lehce being his son. DR.. Johannes |
Joachim, and his old friend. Professor |
Andreas Moser. The request is made |
that all who possess letters written ny |
this eminent musician should lend them |
to the editors.
Boys books which are reprinted on |
the Harper press include Rick Dale
BY Kirk Munroe: The Eagle Badge"
by Holman Day; Fire Fighters and |
~nnH "a AEuuR n ~ |