The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-31
GERTRUDE ATHERToN.

been made by women novelists, and
when one considers that the fiction of a
period supplies coming historians with
an insight into its manners, thought
and dress, the Importance of woman
position as the novelist OF the day can
not be too highly esteemed. 1t may pe
that to feminine, not the masculine
writer's future ages will turn for true
picture of the social conditions now ex-
listing.
Of women's great literary successes
of the past year in fiction Miss Mary
Johnston led. with ITO Have and to
Hold" that sold, up to Dec. /, z45,ooV
copies, her Prisoners of Hope toiloW-
ing. with a sale of SIS, 600; Marie Corel-
lis Master Christian has already
scored a sale of 10000 volumes Wnile
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, Win
} IN Connection With the De WlilougnDy
Claim" has disposed of $4,000 BOOKS
Mrs. Humphrey Wards Eleanor, al
though it was issued in book form only
few months ago, has already acnleVeu
a sale of $4,000 copies; Mary Cholmon-
deley's Red Pottage' made announcer u
the seasons phenomenal successes anu
sold over 81, 900 copies; Gertrude Amer
toms Senator North satire on
Washington social and political me
also was a great success, attaining
quite as great a popularity IN EhslaAAu'
where the author has resided Tor sew
araI years. as in her native country
America. Mrs Cralgle tJonn CilxeA
Hohbesl. with sRobert Orange, a Sc
o,1el to her .sSchool For Saints" ana
.sTrhe Wisdom of the Wise, achieved
Dossil,lv more success in England than
IN America Mrs Craigie is an Amer
lean by birth, though claimed Dy the
British, in whose land she has for many
z,ea,-s resided Ouida, away in Italy,
lott CT
being q story called THE waters OF
Edera Mime. Sarah Grand will soon
have a new book before the pubic, Tor
she has beer. publishing serially Story
called ssBabs. the Impossible, a char
acter study. the object of which IS to
show the evils Of unwise training on d
neculiarlv sensitive and lmpresslonaDle
young girl. Mrs Margaret Delaho hsS1
not recently published any long story,
INF her studies of great women, issued
in serial form, will probably make up
her next book The studies are what
ono vUo,lld EXPECT from Mrs. Deland's
rather conventional point OF view
Miss Ellen Glasgow, Vlrglnlan' Nlrs
Kate Douglass Wiggin, Mrs Frances
Burton Harrison, Mrs Mary " h Ter
hume marion Harland), Amela r
Barr. Beatrice Harraden and Katherine
lyman are among the best known
names in fiction.
Miss Mary Wilkins, whose hand is
skilled in the painting of prose pasteiss
has inst finished series of sketches
called Flower Stories" They are IN
her usual vein. Miss wilkins has many
admirers. but her writing is apt to
seem monotonous after one has read a
couple of her books
sarah Orne Jewett and Octave ina
net may be said to belong to the same
school as Mary wilkins, for they have
acquired distinction through their ad-
nirable delineation Of types of charac-
ter. in themselves rather provincial and
Interesting. Ruth McEnery Stuart
whose delicious pictures of negro IRE
have charmed so many readers, is said
to be at work on a new book
Molly Elliot Seawell, whose play
1.-THE Sprightly Romance Of Marsac,
made a hit, is scoring another triumph
with her last book, The House of Egg
remonte" Miss Seawe1 is an Amer
lean woman. a grandniece of President
Tyler, a native Of Virginia and res
ident of Washington.
Mrs. Katrina Trasks whose volume or
poems. Under King Constantine, won
high praise from critics a few seasons
ago and whose novel, John Leighton
Jr.'' was later favorab1y received, has
brought out a unique collection of sto-
rfes called Lessons In Love-" They
are psychological studies presented in
the form of fiction and have all the