The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-04

'BoDS the lTnpoSSl le''-Sarah Grand s
Iatest-has made a. hit. The New York
press includes it among sTen Great
Successes" of the year. Reviewers and
readers agree that the +Irrepressible
Babs" will create as great a sensation
as the Terrible Twins Harper &
Bros. New York.
People will never weary of hearing
the story of John Brown and the daring
men who stood by him at Harper's Fer
ry-A supplementary chapter to this story
was enacted at North Elba in the Ad-
irondacks two summers ago, when the
remains of eight of those who had been
slain at Harper's Ferry and buried there
upon the banks of the Shenandoah were
removed to North Elba and buried by
the side of the body of John Brown him
self, which was laid there beside great
boulder in December, 1853 This removal
was made through the efforts of Mr..
Thomas Featherstonhaugh Captain
Hall of Washington and Professor Lib
by of the University Of Wisconsin; and
in the April number of the New England
Magazine the first named of these three
gentlemen gives an interesting account
of this final burial of the followers of
John Brown. It must have been a strik-
ing scene, that of the last ceremonies on
August 80. 1890. The day was the 43d
anniversary of the battle of Osawato-
mie. Bishop Potter, Whitelaw Reid, Col.
Richard Hinton and other prominent
persons were present including Rev.
Joshua Young, who forty years before
had performed the last rites over the
grave of John Brown. Miss Katherine
Mcclellan of Saranac Lake. who has
published a sketch of John Brown in
the AdirOndacks, made several pictures
of the ceremonies; and these pictures.
along with portraits of the men, accom-
pany the article which altogether is a
distinct contribution to the John Brown
literature Warren F. Kellogg, publish
er, Boston, Mass.
Martin Brook" by Morgan Bates.
Ornamental cloth, $1.50. Harper & Bros,
New York. Mr.. Morgan Bates, the auth
or of the much discussed novel Martin
Brook" is a native of Albany, and it
may be that one need not go far outside
the family to find the original of his
principal character. His father was one
of the organizers of the Troy conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr..
Bates, like the author of "Eben Hol-
den,'' is newspaper man, past the fifty
mark, and comes into the field of novel
lists with the advantage of experience
as a writer for the press and the stage.
He resides in Traverse City, Mich, and
has held several editorial positions in
Chicago and the west He is now at
work on a. story of modern life. His
wife, Clara Doty Bates. who died in 1855,
was known as a writer for children and
also of verse.
The history of American medicine in
it's early part is the history of the pat
lent, self sacrificing men, who worked
for small rewards, yet wrought a vast
good 1t is the story of individuals and
of character quite as much ac-
count of scientific progress in its mani
fest form. For this reason there is
broad human interest in DR.. Francis
Randolph Packard's volume. 1.-THE His
tory of Incidence in the United States
which J. B. Lippincott company, Phila-
delphia, publish. The work covers COM
paratively unexplored ground, and is the
product of much study of original doc
uments and of information hitherto I'M
used. The period covered is that be-
tween the earliest English colonization
and the year 1900.
The fourth edition of WHO Goes
There?" a story of a spy in the civil
war, has just bee1 issued by the Mac
milan con pany. Grand Army men
seem to have caught on to this story.
1t has been receiving much notice from
some of the general officers both from
the confederate and northern armies
An interesting point about the book is
that no one seems to know on which
side of the civil war the author fought
AIessrs. Small, Maynard e Co. Bos-
ton, announce for immediate publica-
ton a new novel by Justin Mccarthy
NJ. F.. entitled "B1ononia, Love Story
of 1913" The author of "A History of