The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-26

Grass all around him everywhere,
He just nibbles here and there;
Like some ne fool autoniaton.
Nothing left but skin and bones;
Looks as if he lived on stones.
Might as we'll look sleek and neat
If he'd just stand still and eat.
Well, perhaps he amt to blame
Since his owner does the same.
Forty years I've moved around;
Never liked no place l found
1 could stay a year so,
Then I'd have to pack and go.
Never no hand to shirk,
If got a job of work.
Saved my money. too. but then
The above will attract the reader by
it's quaint humor much more quickly than
forts. Here is stanZa from another
which belongs in the same class:
o I love to hear the frogs
When fbe they Sod rst begin sa b6 to sing
And vociferate the spring.
How the carol as they croak.
How they mingle, jest and joke
With their solemn chant and dirge
On the rivers Shiny verge
Mr.. Mills first book was published soon
az e me lert Sa m e9rge au would
show the effect of a better trained mind
and the reader will not be disappointed
MIR. Mills second venture an author is
The price Of the book is s1-oO.
The history of Sir. Richard Calmady, by
Lucas Malet Mrs. St. Ledger Harrison) is
York. Readers of Sir Richard Calmady
will find in it a story somewhat out of
In style it is more like the nov
els Of half century ago; In number OF
there is no inclination to skip even the
smallest part of it 1t is all interesting
Of the i story is in England. for the most
part in the country, but shifting to Lon
man of naturally fine mind and healthful
INSTINCTS, is handicapped by physical
man to overcome the humiliation and UNI
happiness caused by his deformIty are
ness ag p his fate and his descent into
the very depths arouse only. deepest sym
pathy. and his final conquering of circum-
tentment command the greatest admira-
ton. The character of the mother is a
fine and noble one: There is much of
healthful outdoor life in the book, as
well as glimpses of London society. Price
s1-50 Through Moore Book and Stationary
company.
ham, is published by Frederick A. Stokes
Co. of New York. and is attracting at
from the Literary Review in Hearst's
Chicago American:
Howard, a very young and ambitious
the News-Record, obtains it, receives an
n 6a bes stye and nds tw ano lines Of
it the. next day among the City Jot-
tings.'
Vulnerable disappointments makes a big
hit with out-of-town lost child story.
ing that work and sleep, the two periods
of Inconsistencies of self, are the two
f Feminine maj" and to charming Marian RE
all of you with all of me- and she throws
over Teddy Danvers, a good natureds
$3.50, COO a year, and WEEDS the journalist,
who in the meantime has gained control
He makes radical changes in the pa
per, especially the editorial page It jumps
for its fearlessness and truth telling. Mar
ian becomes social star and Howard is
mara up IA ans paper that
He publishes splendid, strong, bold ar
ticles. bringing upon ms head storm OF
lation rises 5000 a. day. He makes a re-
lentless attack upon the famous coal con
concerned in it are among their highest
society friends and naturally change to
bitter enemies. He begins to regret his
Causes" cease to interest him, except
of his power. He is weary of sacrificing
his mental freedom, feeling that after ali
there is but one cause for which he would
make sacrifice-himself.
Power, Success, he whispers. At the
election he is offered a bride,
a place in the cabinet or an ambassador
ship and we leave him standing with his
wife before his own portrait in the Royal
discussed, the criticism being: Il see -
a fallen man He was evidently real
man once. but he sold himself
A book of engroSSing interest, analyZ-
ing the insanity of success, superlative
vanity and insistent power.
For some time Mr.. Horace E. scudder
has been engaged upon a. biography. of
lanes Russell Lowell, which +, H!oughton,
Mi Min 81 GO. VII P undlisn TINS month a
that would enable him to make his work
full and complete. He treats of Lowell
in those activities which brought him
essayist, professor at Harvard, editor and
he also reveals the intimate
side of LowelFs life and includes letters
work will have two or more portraits and
4 photography.
The author of David Harum'' wrote
only one other story and this is soon to |
De published by D. Appleton & Co. The |
title is THE Teller It is. said that this |
story viii be accompanied by collec- |
ion of Mr.. Westcotts letters which de- |
scribe the manner in which David Har- |
lm'' was written and the adventures Of |
he manuscript.
A peculiar interest attaches to the life |
IF the first martyr president which has |
1een prepared by Mr.. Silas G. Pratt on |
eoln in Story and the book presents a |
most interesting biography. composed of |
stories told by and about Lincoln. These |
stories are arranged chronologically from
childhood to death and are connected by |
little explanatory text The book is a |
story life of Lincoln and it presents in |
orief and popular form the best of the |
hey form complete narrative. The in |
crest of the book is enhanced by many |