Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-08

were earlier associated in business
under the name of the Doubleday Nc
Clure company. Mr.. McClure's only
reason for selling his book department
is his desire to devote as much time as
possible to the magazine that bears his
name. The Mcclure magazine is not
in any way affected by the transfer
The Authors Club in London has de-
cided to celebrate the centenary of
Edgar Allan Poe by dinner on March
4, at which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
will preside. The Academy finds
something delightfully."- homogeneous
in the association of the name of Poe
with the inventor of that "wearisome
character" Sherlock Holmes. Edgar
Allan Poe the Academy pronounces
at his best a very exquisite poet and
a prose writer of cunning and poignant
power. He is, on the whole, the finest
product that American literature has
given to the world, and if that is not
saying very much one may add that he
takes his place definitely with the
masters of English letters
The prize offered for the best 200
word criticism of the ending of Fred
erick r. Buttons novel 'Strongheart"
has been awarded to Florence Finch
Kelly. Her conclusion was that the
marriage of Strongheart and Dorothy
was inevitable. "Since Mr.. Burton
she says in his series of events
eliminating in the union of Strong
heart and Dorothy has tried to help
the two races to a truer understanding
Of each other this logical climax OF
his story makes for the realization Of
the universal brotherhood of man"
Sir Gilbert Parker NJ. p, is sup
porting the Parliamentary bill to
abolish the Lord Chamberlains power
in England to censor plays. The new
movement would transfer the powers
now held by the Lord Chamberlain to
the London County Council, which
controls the censorship of the music
halls, q consequence being that the
playwright can sometimes secure hear
ing in the halls when the theatres are
refused to him. One of the writers
who take their stand with Sir Gilbert
is r.. p. O'Connor and another is A. f.
w. Mason. Sir Gilbert's popularity as
a novelist still increases in this
country. His novel "1he Weavcr5"
has just gone into another reprint.
In the list of New Years sentiments
on the suffrage question published in
an English magazine Miss Ellen
Thorneycroft Fowler writes: For
my part l would advise the woman of
today to confine herself to the four
spheres of usefulness which are open
to her and which she is SO well fitted
to adorn-the spheres of domestic life,
Of religious activity, of social influence
and of intellectual culture-and to
keep clear of the one sphere which is
at present closed to her the sphere
of public and political strife--as every
intrusion that she forces into this re-
gion merely serves as a fresh proof OF
her intrinsic unfitness for it." Ellen
Thorneycroft Fowler is Mrs. A. L.
Felkin, and is we'll known in this
country as the author of Concerning
Isabel Carnaby.'
1t is said of Joseph Skipsey, the col
lier poet, that his experience as GUS
tDuid'l III ISlldhcSpCd bii llil'le'tS a.
Stratford was particularly sad in that
he ceased to believe in the genuine
ness of the relics and could not bear
to tell lies about them.
G. Smith Stanton. the author Of
new book to be published Immediate
" under the title of when the Wild
wood Was in Flower is the son of
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the founder
OF the woman's rights movement. In
his book the author will tell of the fiji
teen years he spent on the plains as a
stockman before and after the days of
railroads. He was shipper of live
stock to Chicago before, during and
after the formation of the beef trust
and relates how, with other stockmen,
he was driven out of business by that
gigantic combination.
Twenty-Five Lincoln letters and docu-
mentS in the correspondence between
Lincoln and Senator Trumbull are to
be published for the first time i'll the
February century," Reproductions
of % portraits of the President and q
paper by Mr.. Glider on Lincoln the
Leader" will also appear therein.
A new and complete edition of George
Eliot i'm % volumes will be brought
ont in the spring. One entire volume
of this edition will be devoted to writ
ings of George Eliot ''never before
published in collected edition. A
three volume Life of George Eliot
will be 4 feature of the work.
Cen. Charles King has written the
complete novel to appear in the Feb
ruary Lippincott's. The scenes are
laid at frontier fort generation ago,
in the days when General-then Capt
tain--King was himself taking part In
campaigns against the elusive red
skins General King has written about
so stories, including "The Colonefs
Daughter" and "a Wartime Wooing.'
He was graduated from West Point in
1866 and served in artillery and caval-
nv until he was retired in 70 for
wounds received in action. He served
in the Philippines in the war against
Spain
''Steps along the path" an important
metaphysical book, by Katharine II.
Newcomh. the publication of which
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