Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-07

musical people have been entertained
there.
A posthumous novel by Rosa Nou-
Ghetto Carey will be published by Lip
pincott this month under title ''The
Key of the Unknown"
The new novels for the fall and the
early winter will include books by
most of the popular authors. Maurice
Hewlett, H. G. Wells, Ellen Thorny-
croft Fowler, E. w. Hornung and r.
Storer CloustOn are among those
from whom stories are to be expected.
DR.. Johnsons bicentenary will be
celebrated with much elaboration at
Litchfield this month. An exhibition
is to be held composed of manuscripts,
editions, portraits and so on, and there
will be various formal exercises. Lord
Rosebery will open the proceedings
with one more of these graceful adj
dresses in which he excels.
Robert Barr has turned his attention
from short stories, and has written a
long novel in the real Barr style, Car
by Frederick A. Stokes Company. It
is a romance OF France under Louis
XIII. and should prove popular with
the thousands of Mr. Bars readers
and other lovers of historical fiction.
1t may be gathered that CAROLYN
Wells has emphatically pleased our
English cousins with her "Rubaiyat of
Bridge" when a fresh demand from
over the water has compelled the Har-
pers to print new edition to send to
London. Meanwhile Miss Wells, in
other recent verse, has been singing of
the two subjects which alone can
rival Bridge in the household heart:
namely, Last Years Sleeves" and the
picture Puzzle"
The popularity in this country of
'The Fashionable Adventures of Josiah
Craig" is being heartily echoed in Aus
traia. There was a large advance
order from the Australian market and
D. Appleton & Co, the publishers, re-
ceived cable for a considerable re-
order few days ago to fill the grow
ing demand for this virile story.
Irving Bachelors hero in 1.-THE
Hand Made Gentleman" was brought
up under three commandments.
Wrought by his mother in colored yarn
they hung in notices on the cottage
wall; but although learned by heart by
the child, they were only understood
when the child became man. The
three were:
BE truthful Be kind Be happy"
Dickens wrote his novel "Old Curl
osity SHOP in Genoa, where he lived
in an old palace, and spent many rec
reativc hours in strOlls around the
richly historic Italian city. Deshler
Welch describes Dickens Genoese life
in the August number of Harper's, and
tells how difficult he found it to dis
cover the house where the novelist
lived and wrote, so quickly do men for
get. There are interesting illustra-
tions OF Dickens haunts, and some eX-
tracts from the ardent letters he wrote
to friends during his foreign residence.
A short time ago, tablet in memory
of the famous English author, Pearl
Mary Teresa Craigie John oliver
Hobbes) was presented to Barnard
College. The tablet. on which is
bas- relief portrait of Mrs. Craigie and
a short inscription, was presented in
the name of her many friends by the
Honorable Joseph H. Choate. and ac-
cepted for the college by Mrs. A. A.
Anderson. Vice President of the Board
of Trustees.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. whose latest
novel. "Walled In the Harpers not
long ago reprinted. has her summer
home in Gloucester. Her house is
wooden structure of square and simple
lines. and stands by itself on the moor,
which is rough with boulders ana
tangled with the furZe of bush and
stumble. and has all the bleakness and
harrenness and romantic isolation ex-
! nected OF a moor. There is tradition
that behind every boulder turks an
artist so much is Gloucester the haunt
of the painter folk Nor far away is
tho section where the late Elinor Ma
cartney Lane, author of "katrlne was
| wont to pass her summers IN her COZ
tage facing the harbor and the Magno-
liza hills. looking out to the deep-col-
ored sunsets which paint that rocky
| coast.
| Rex Beach. no longer to be descrlbe1
as a rising young author, but as one
already risen. grows more ana more
dramatic Going Some the farcl2i
comedy he wrote in collaboration WIN
Paul Armstrong, has settled in New