The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-08
LITERARY OUTLOOK.
Delays in the Book Trade-Kipling as
an Artist.


The book and magazine publishers are
likely to be seriously delayed with their
output because of the strikes now going
on among their employees. With every
printing plant running there IS not SUI
6cient means of production for the extra
large numbers of books to be issued TINS
fall. Almost every publisher is far be-
hind in his work-some books are en-
tirely out of print and orders for many
of these are piling up daily. Now comes
a strike among the pressmen and scores
of shops are closed. Even though the
strikers return to work in Few days,
the publishers will be delayed still fur
cher. and it is not at all unlikely that
many orders for books will be untitled
1or weeks to come.
In spite Of minor difficulties. how
ever. the book trade has a most promis-
Ing outlook this fall. The heavy adj
vance sales of many new novels ind1-
Gates a confident feeling on the part OF
the dealers. Booth Tarkington's Tine
Two Vanrevels'' has sold to the number
Of co 900 copies, and the story has just
been published. THE Fortunes of Oliver
Horn" by f. Hopkinson Smith, is near
to 10000 copies; Gilbert Parker's 'Dono-
van Pasha' is being ordered heavily,
and the serial publication of The Little
White Bird" Barrie's new novel, has
created a large advance demand for the
book. These are but few of the best
books whose popularity is already as
sured-
Kipling's Just So Stories are at
tracing more attention than IS usual
even with a Kipling book, because the
author has illustrated the stories him
self-and even the most severe cr1tl5
must acknowledge that the work is well
done. NJ Rudyard Kipling inherited
not only the ink fever from his father,
but a keenly developed sense of the ar
tistic in other expressions than that of
letters The elder Kipling is we'll known
as an artist. and but for his more brit
liant son he would probably have made
a worldwide reputation as a man OF
great learning. He has marvellous
memory; Re knows more about India
than any other Englishman The editor
under whom Rudyard Kipiisg worked IN
India once described the father as the
most delightful companions he ever
met. The whole family seems to have
| the passion for writing 1t is said that
more poems by kipling's mother and
sister, now Mrs. Fleming, has the repu-
tation Of being able to quote every line
in Shakespeare's plays.
In this seasons output of American
/ fiction, two distinct types are to be
/ noted-the psychological novel. such as
/ The Wings of a Dove by Henry
James. Our Lady of the Beeches'' by
I baroness Won Hutton and in the Con
| fessicns Of q Wife" and the realistic
novel. which records contemporary lif7
and business. such as CAPTAIN Mack
lin" by Richard Harding Davis. ''Dono-
van Pasha" by Sir Gilbert Parker, THE
Fortunes OF Oliver Horn by F. Hop
/ k1nson Smith. and THE Blazed Trail" by
/ stewart Edward White. The latter book
IS not exactly a fall book, having APP
peared in the spring, but its growth II
popular esteem has been so continuous
tnat It ranks now with the better clas;
of fall books.
AT the present time four English nov
els are running seriaIly in Paris news
papers St Ives in the Temps; The
Last Days of Pompeii' in the Soliel
DOUBTLESS because of Frances interest
IN Mt Pelee. Or. Nichola" in the viz
Hustle and THE Mystery of Han
som Cab in the Matin. In addition t.
these, another leading paper there i:
anxious to increase the list by publish
ing a translation of THE Hound of tht
Easkervilles"
Those 3lack Diamond Men" a com.
nlnauon of short stories and move
was fortunate in having made its an
, 9earance Just at time when al-nos
everyone was beginning to discuss coal
coal strikes and coal operators. TIL.