The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-17

and editors, and students OF the art Of
typography.
Iobo. wahb. Blanca. Molly Colonial.
Rebuff Silverspot and ali the other ami
nals OF the plain and forest that Ernest
Seton-Thompson has known and written
about will shortly appear as stage char
acters in a play for chilrden. There have
been such persistent calls for more OF
Lobos. Wahbs. and their comrades ad-
ventures that MIR. Thompson has con-
scented to put all his Wild acquaintances
on the stage and let each one tell its own
joys and sorrows in song and story. and
dance and make merry. Costumes have
been specially designed by r. II. Birch.
who illustrated and staged Little Lord
Fauntleroy," for each of his animal char.
acters. so that the children of the play
will exactly resemble the originals of
wild Animals l Have Known" There
are seventeen characters in the play.
which can be acted in half an hour 1t
has been secured by the Ladies' Home
Journal for publication in the July issue.
The versatile author Of "How TO Be
Happy Though Married" the Rev. T.. j.
Hardy. was for thirty-two years connect
ed with tho British soldier as a clergy
man is to his parlshioner.
He has entitled his new book mfr.
Thomas Atkins for fear OF mot being
sufficiently respectful should he descend
to Tommy Atkins"
Mr.. Hardy thinks that when mfr. At
kins" engages In fashionable war the
British public is inclined 20 make a foul
of him. He feels that the soldier could DO
with fewer Cardigan jackets, handker-
chiefs, bottles of scent. tracts threatening
him with hell. suggestions about dropping
comforts on him from balloons and other
favors that he receives during war. IL he
were treated more civilly In places of pub
lie resort in time OF peace
The authors profits In this book are To
be given to soldiers dsab led in active SER
wee, to their families or TO something slse
that is for the benefit OF "Mr. Thomas At
kins."
Inc Putnams announce that the steady
demand FOR that famous detective story.
The Leayenworth Case" by Anna Kath-
artne Green, has induced them to manu-.
facture an entirely new set OF plates from
which to print the hundredth thousand i
new and attractive cover-design is another
feature of this edition. which IL already
on hand from the press
Poems" by W. spaling. Of Avon. Wash.
will be published the last OF June by a
Seattle firm
The demand IN Great Britain and her
colonies for James Lane Aliens new novel
THE Reign OF law. a Tale OF the Ken
lucky Hemp Fields has been 50 great that
the final date for publication has been fixed
for July 5. The book would have been
published two weeks earlier but for the
difficulty In getting the necessarily large
editions ready for simultaneous publication
at such distant points.
The vacation number q the independent
is gay in a colored cover and fun OF an.
propriate matter. including an article on
Outdoor sports by Caspar Whitney,
Hunting With n Camera" by @. Shiras.
Ill. and "A bay in the Fraruonia Noun
tains." by Bradford Torrey.
Tho June number OF The Impressions
list" contains ar article by Katherine Met.
cafe Roof. Concerning the japanese
Players which IL almost the only sym
pathetic and coinprehending on Of critic
ism received by The Oriental artists who
amused New York so greatly this winter