Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-08

OOO 3NIMS
1t comes in vicariously. She feels it
tor Jacob. since Jacob didn't live to
feel 1t for himself. 1t involves a subtle
element of wifely devotion which I
guess you're too young or too ineXperi-
enced to understand. She was glad old
Jacob was gone SO that she could make
his confession with impunity. She was
willing 10 make any atOnement within
her power, since it was too late to call
him TO account. This feminine phs-
chology is very suggestive, but the the
DRY which duplicates Mr.. Howells will
hardly convince those who insist that
The Inner Shrine especially. must
have been written by woman.
An important announcement is made
by Harper & Brothers this week which
reveals the fact that new book by
Mark Twain is to be given to the pub
lie. They will publish late in June
Mark Twains Speeches." thick vol
ume containing, it is said, some of his
best and most characteristic work. Ad
dresses, lectures, and speeches never
before printed are contained in the new
book. Some of them were delivered for
ty years ago, and are in Mark TWain's
earliest rein. Later ones. like his ad-
dress at the AlGrich memorial meeting
and the one delivered at oxford Univer
sty, show the ripe philosopher The
discovery OF this wealth of material
has made the publication of the work
possible, although quite unexpected.
Harper & Brothers have added the
book to the list of their spring publ
cations.
|. Margaret Cameron whose novel THE
Involuntary Chaperon," recently pub
lished is the story of delightful wo-
mans holiday and the romance which
came of it, will not herself take holi-
day this summer She does her writing
in her New York apartment. and there
she will spend the summer, she says. las
Mrs. Harrison c. Lewis, you know" that
happening to be her name.
The cabled accounts of the Queen
Mothers retirement since the funeral af
King Edward comment on the fact that
the first book she took up was the life
story of an American woman. Marion
Harland's Autobiography" This book,
only recently published, attracted her at
tention, the account says, because OF the
graphic glmpses of life and social Gus
toms in the South before the war.
Thomas Hardy, whose birthday was
marked by congratulatory calls from
many Americans in London last week, is
being read more widely than ever in this
country. Harper 4 Brothers announce
that this fall they will add five more
titles to the ''Thin-paper Hardy" which
is finally to include all his novels. cor
respondent who saw much of him on his
birthday gives graphic portrait of Har-
dy in old age. Il happened to be stroll
ing out from Dorchester to Max Gate in
the early twilight of a winter afternoon.
and on nearing the house / saw Hardy
himself standing at his own gate and
looking straight from his tree-embowered
garden out over the gray sweep of down
opposite. Away to the right the homely
lights of Dorchester were beginning to
CLEAN cozIy. But above the hill oppo-
site came the night-wrack, rising vast
and impenetrable over the unpeopled
fields. Chill though the evening was
there stood Hardy gazing, silent and abb
sorbed, at the scene for fully a quarter
of an hour. AS | watched him | seemed
to understand better than ever before the
meaning of his life and work. Has it not
just the significance of this scene-the
joyial. social little country town, with its
gossip, its bustle and its junketings, the
sordid. fruitful ploughlands with their
tale of honest sweat, the tinkling folds,
and around them all the immemorial, im-
movable hills overhung with that cur
tain of black darkness, the symbol Of
Fate itself?"
| Though the letters to the author of
The Var1nint" (The Baker 4 Taylor Coz
are naturally from men for the most
part, yet they include many from femi-
nine readers, among which are the fol-
lowing:
Your story coming out in The Satur-
day Evening Post entitled The Varmint'
is great. l have just finished the foot
ball game and | feel as though | played
In 'Dinks place. l was so excited [
trembled all over and could hardly keen
from shouting. l just simply had 10
write and tell you how much l enjoy ed
1t. They are all a great success and |
shall be sorry when the last chapter Is
finished"
please tell me if The Varmint' is
coming out in book form. / have been
reading it in the Post and it is the most
delightfully."- original school boy story
have read since Stalkey & Co"
Albert Bigelow Paine lightly takes up
| the tEreadbare question of how the
Pyramids We're built in his new. book,
The .Ship-DWellers." The book re-
sembles The Innocents Abroad" as
this hit on the engineering methods of
antiquity shows: Some one says Cain
employed mastodons to do his moving
Cain did employ mastodons, but only
for his light work. Even mastodons
would lbalk at pulling stones like these.
Cain would use brontosaurs for such
work as that. There We're plenty Of
them loafing about, and l can imagine
nothing more impressive than Cain
standing on a handy elevation over
looking his force of giants and six
teen span brontOsaur team yanking a
stone as big as bonded warehouse up
Baalhec hill" Mr.. Paine makes other
discoveries in the long voyage he de-