The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-02


Parnell, Archbishop TAFT and Cardinal
Manning, with scholars, statesmen and
dlVlnes. The historians are fully repre-
scented by Freeman, Green, Lord Acton;
the lawyers by Sir George KesseI ana
LORD cairns In every case the sketch
IS only briefly biographical for purposes
OF exposition; the writer's object is
everywhere to present a personality.
The art of careful writing-the study
OF Styles neglected by so many popu-
lar authors that the chance for those
VINO learn to write with distinction is
all the greater. Miss Martha w AUS
TIN, a young novelist who makes her
nrst appearance with Veronica" the
dencate story of girl who blooms into
womanhood by the power of a deep
love- has style that has distinction
the distinction that belongs to those
who write real literature. It IS pub
ished by Doubleday. Page & Co.
John Burt is the title Of a new nov
81 by frederick Upham Adams. author
OF kidnapped Millionaires,' and creator
on Colonel Monroe's Doctrine" Sep
TENDER -, IS announced as the date of
publication and the book will issue from
the press Of Drexel Biddle of Philadel-
phla The story is an American one
with New England characters. Its ac-
ton is divided between Massachusetts,
CallIornla and New York city. Advance
orders indicate that John Burt" will
more than duplicate the success of The
Kidnapped Millionaires."
In the preface of the Julia Marlowe
edition of The Cavalier, Mr.. George
W. Gable makes a valuable suggestion
to the novelist seeking to dramatize his
book The novel and the play, he
writes, are as different from each 9TH
er as are painting and sculpture, and
der in much the same ways. The
leading me1ium of the novelist is words,
that of the dramatist is sight We read
the book, we see the play Hence in
must begin by selecting those parts of
the story which appeal most knowingly
to the emotions through the sight"
Little, Brown and Company have just
published "A Rose of Normandy" by
W. r. A. Wilson. illustrated by G. L.
Greenwald. 1t is a most entertaining
historical romance of France and Can
ada in the reign of Louis XIV Robert
Cavelier, Sieur de Ia Sale, and his faith
full lieutenant, Henri de Tonti, are
leading characters, the latter being the
hero of the book. The explorations of
La Sale, his hardships and adventures,
the love of Tonti for Renee. the Rose
Of Normandy, their escapes from the
Indians, and other adventures, make up
a story which the author has told with
spirit which is full of action and incl
dent and which holds the readers at
tention from the first page to the last.
]. A. Altsheler. author of Before The
Dawn" just published by Doubleday,
Page & Co, is a successful novelist and
also a successful newspaper man III
New York city. He was born in Ken
lucky during the civil war and gradus-
ted from Vanderbilt university me
writing of books for boys was his nrst
profitable literary undertaking, and he
has since written nearly dozen rove-s,
each with increasing popularity. ME-.
Altsheler so much resembles w. j.
Bryan that he was several times mis-
taken for the Democratic candidate Tor
president in the far west during the fall
of 1900 Once he received the ovation
of a large audience before he could re-
treat from the platform to make way
for the real Mr. Bryan.
Joseph Conrad. author of Youth"
the volume of sea tales which Mcclure,
bears the distinction of being, of all
authors of the day, the least photo
graphed His publishers, when his book
was about to come out having failed
to persuade him to face the camera Tor
a new picture hunted high and low
throughout England and America for
some sort of likeness of him. Many
weeks passed and it seemed as II the
quest were going to be unsuccessful, but
at last buried deep In the flies OF an
old English illustrated magazine, some
one luckily stumbled upon a small oval
head of him, and it is from that half
tone, enlarged and retouched. that all
pictures of Conrad recently published
have been made.
In Stewart Edward Whites novel OF
the Hudson Bay country. Conjur or s
House." recently published by Mcclure,
Phillips & Co, the name Graehme Stew
art is given to one of the minor charac-
ters. Mr. White used this name in the
hope of discovering the identity of 4
traveller who preceded him in the track
less forest wilderness. Whoever the
real Graehme Stewart is. he left his
name carved on a tree by an unnlap
ped river, some hundred miles from the
nearest human habitation, and there
Mr. White, pitching camp, on his long
journey from Lake Superior to Hudson
Bay, CHANGED upon it, A friend of Mr..
Whites said that the tree carver was
undoubtedly the recently defeated can
didate for mayor of Chicago, who is a
woodsman and hunter but this Mr..
Stewart (who spells his first nanns
Graeme) says that he has never pere-