Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-19
BOOKS and AUTHORS

Following his article in the May. Cen
fury on college Men and the Bible III
America, Mr.. Clayton Sedgwick Cooper
has written for the June Century OF the
present remarkable conditions OF biple
Study in India" Mr.. Cooper. who is
secretary of the international committee
in special charge of Bible work In educa-
tional institutions, finds, among otner
facts of great and vital interest, that the
English Bible is being more faithfully
read by the students of Hindustan than
any of the sacred Vedas. and that this
Bible study is surely, though slowly, I'M
dermining the great oligarchic caste in
f1uence.
In his presentation of Track Ath-
letics" in the June Century. Mr.. Walter
Camp will give special attention to the
development of the spirit of the old
Olympic games in our country today and
will tell the story of the most remarkable
race ever run in this country between
college and athletic club men. that be-
tween Henry Stanford Brooks, Jr, of
Yale, and l.. E. Wyers.
Rex Beach's new book, which the Har-
per's are bringing out this week, is called
Going Some" 1t relates the sprightly
adventures at a house-party on a West
ern ranch and is plentifully supplied with
humorous sketches by Mark Henderson.
Mr.. Beach took for the basis of his rO-
nance the play by himself and Paul
Armstrong
a. RrOthprc this Wpak
ting to press five of Mark Twains books,
each for a large reprintng. They are
Life on the Mississippi" "Roughing It.
"A Tramp Abroad" "Pudd'nhead Will
son." and sketches Old and New" The
demand at the book stores for these vol
umes by Mark Twain has increased
greatly since his death. Libraries, also.
in many parts of the country. have re-
ported that his books are asked for in
greater numbers than ever before.
Women writer's who take a masculine
pen-name seem peculiarly attracted by
the name of George. perhaps because it
carries a suggestion of solidity and
strength that is satisfying to woman
who means to write something very diff
ferent from the conventional feminine
| novel. Two of the earliest Georges"
were George Eliot and George Sand. An
American author, Julia Constance Fletch-
er, writes over the name of George
Fleming Now Comes George Schock
without the e completing the historic
| number of -four Georges Her new
| novel. Hearts Contending," is said to
live up TO the general Georgian tradition
of marked individuality and independence
of thought.
Possesses fun as we'll as thrill. and is
original both in plot and treatment
say the critics of the second mystery sto-
ry from the pen of Roman Doubleday
Hunor is q rare quality in the average
detective or mystery story. and it's ap-
pearance in THE Red House on Rowan
Street will prolOng the life of that
novel beyond that of most stories of it's
kind.
Roman Doubleday made his first sue
cess with The Hen.lock Avenue Mys-
terry" which ran through five printings
in as many months. His new book has
been sent to press for the third time.
This young American writer must now
be recko1ed in the same class of enter
tainers with Anna Katharine Green, ct
ais. His publishers are Little, Brown
a. Co. of Boston.
new book by Selma Lagerlof, the
famous Swedish author, to whom was
recently awarded the Nobel Literary
Prize of $40 900, is announced for i'm
mediate publication by Little. Brown &,
Company, Boston In this new volume,
The Girl from the Marsh Croft Miss
Lageriof has courageously chosen her
heroine a girl who has gone aStray,
making her innate honesty and goodness
the redemptive qualities. Miss Lager
lof here ahandons her former world OF
Romanticism and enters the world of
naturalism and realism. The book is
Translated by Nelma Swanson. Howard
and is published with the sanction of
the author.
The same publishers announce that
Miss LaPerlof's masterpiece. 1.-The Story
of Costa Berling," is now in its eleventh.
American edition