The Topeka state journal., 1902-11-15
Crane & Company, Publishers, Topeka, Kan.

parodying in "Stories Three Stevenson is
the victim of the satirist in ''Jonn Long
off Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes very
neatly The book is. in fact. a body Of
criticism combined with humor.
A second edition of Miss Alice Woods
novel; Edges" is on the press and will
soon be ready The demand that made it
necessary may be understood by a glance
a some of the authors own savings:
Why don't people, instead of trying to be
equal to one another, come outside and try
being equal to trees?"
Neither of the women was foil to the
other, because it was so well done that
each did the service to the other without
losing first place for herself.
Lying in the dark with ones face to the
land of dreams one takes on a vast cour-
age and no little wit Every man is
Napoleon and never a Waterloo; the man
beaten in life for petty honors struts like
Her eyes filled as she stood looking
into the sunset the great burying ground
of every ones past and the open field for
every ones future"
The only people who are really bad off
m naton snd hey dont ehea Know
Anthony Hope. whose new novel, 1.-The
again prominently before the public, has
lately been busy, in cola boration with MIR.
H. G. Rhodes. in dramatizing a short story
Captain Dieppe." which Charles Frohman
is to put on the stage this season Not
eiist iisa and i dramatist ma st. Mr.. Ia Kin
is said to have political aspirations.
1t seems to be the fashion for English
men of letters when they write matter
that is more or less personal, to publish
it anonymously So, Musings Without
Method which is published this week by
Mcclure, Phillips & Co.. appears with nc
authors name upon its title page These
peared in the editorial section ct BLACK
woods Magazine" They are written by
man who is in close touch with the lead
ers of British craftsmanship, as well as
with the best literary and social life OF
the nation. Much of the personal matter
In the Musings" is written in a manner
which, with all due difference to the Jaw
ment, in printing the book anonymously.
George Kibbe Turner, whose novel of
New England's Industrial feudalism, The
published by Mcclure, Phillips & Co,
the cities that are dominated both in a
political and industrial sense, by the great
manufacturing interests. Mr. Turner l., :
owner, and much of the young author $
early life was spent in the factory town IN
that some of Mr.. Turner's friends should,
in view of the nature of his story. accuse
him of socialistic tendencies. He declares.
however that he has no dogma to set forth
in the novel: that his only design was TO
present a phase of life as he saw it. THE
Taskmasters'' is his first novel. but he has
made a reputation both by his verse and
by lis short fiction sometimes signing
his proper name and sometimes using tne
pen name Geik Turner.
President Roosevelt, in a speech a few
weeks ago at Bangor, Me, said this Of a
book recently published by Mcclure,
Phillips & Co.: 1.-The other day picked up
up little book called The Simple Life
written by an Alsatian. Charles Wagner;
and he preached such wholesome, sound
doctrine that I wish it could be used as n
tract throughout our country To him the
whole problem of our complex. somewhat
feveriSh modern life can be solved only
by getting men and women 10 lead better
lives. He sees that the permanence of lib
erty and democracy depends upon ma
jority of the people being steadfast in that
good. plain morality which. as national
attribute comes only as the result of the
slow and painful labor of centuries. and
which can be squandered in a generation
by the thoughtless and vicious. He
breaches the doctrine of the superiority
of the moral to the material. He does not
undervalue the material. but he insists,
as we of this nation should always insist,
upon the infinite superiority of the moral
and the sordid destruction which comes
upon either the nation or the individual
if it or he becomes absorbed only in the