Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-07-25
What Prominent
Authors are Doing

Margaret Deland is now at her
country home, kennebunkpOrt, Maine,
where she is spending the summer re-
vising the last chapters of new
novel. She has been working stead
| lily on it for three years. Mrs. Deland
this year has added sleeping in the
open air to her summer scheme of
combined rest and work.
Holman Day his given himself up to
holiday now that his new novel,
The Ramrodders," is out. Mr.. Day
bought a fast forty five-foot auxiliary
yacht this spring, among whose at
fractions are a snug cabin and COM
Portable living, sleeping, and eating
quarters. During the middle of the
summer Mr. Day will cruise with a
party of friends, making Portland his
base of supplies. Trips to that city
and along the Gulf of Maine" as it is
called, will take the party over many
of the scenes of Mr.. Days novel, The
Ramrodders.
Rex Beach, who yielded to the blan-
dishments of a newspaper syndicate to
do" the Reno fight story. has returned
to New York, where he is now hard at
work on another novel. 1t is to be a
stirring outdoors story more like The
Silver Horde" than the farcical merri
ment of Going Some" published late
in the spring.
Josephine Daskam Bacon left New
York in the spring soon after her last
book, The Biography of a Boy" was
published, and with her husband has
been entertaining friends at their
country place in Briarcliff, Westches-
ter county, New York.
In a bungalow on Maidencreek, i'm a
Pennsylvania valley, Georg Schock has
taken up her summer residence.
"Georg Schock" is the pen name of
Katherine Riegel Loose, and the val
ley is the scene of her newly pub
lished novel. Hearts Contending."
The bungalow was once a meeting
house for regular weekly worship by
the folk of the countryside
This summer Samuel Gompers, who,
as president of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, visited Europe last
summer. is in the thick of labor
contest, directing the striking cloak
makers The Harpers only a few
weeks ago brought out in book form
Labor in Europe and America" the
result of Mr.. Gomper's Investigations
abroad.
Near the shores of Greenwood Lake,
at Pompton, n. j., there is now going
on the regular summer reunion of
what might be called three genera
tions of Marion Harlands. Children
and grandchildren, some of whom own
homes near hers. spend several
months in this way every year
Marion Harland's Autobiography"
the most recent writing she has done,
was published in the spring.
Kate Langley ,Bosher, whose book
about the life and fortunes of little
orphan Mary Cary" is being widely
read this summer, is now in England.
After spending some time in the Lake
Country she expects to go to France
In his camp in the Adirondack
Mountains, Irving Bacheller is writing
another novel which he expects will
have many of the qualities OF his "A
Hand Made Gentleman" The term
| camp is bit misleading in describ-
ing Mr.. Bachelors place. which is a
permanent structure with every con-
venience for comfort.
A rare thing is really good story
| for girls, but the collaboration of
| Emilia Benson Knipe and Alden Ar
thur Knipe in Little Miss Fales" has
| resulted in tale Of the good old
fashioned sort done with a natural
ness and charm which lift 1t much
| above the average level of it's kind
The book has just ben published by
| the Harpers. 1t is a tale that is
quaint wholesome, and exciting-not
too childish, and not too grown up i'm
| it's sentiment.
Little Miss Fales is named John, be-
cause she should have been born
boy, and the fact that she turned out
to be girl prevented her from in
heriting her grandfather's fortune,
which goes to boy cousin instead.
She does, however, inherit the old
home Of the Faleses in Germantown