The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-25

to mention only well known authors.
There will be volumes of essays by
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Samuel M.
Crothers, Henry D. Sedgwick. 5r:. ana
books by John Burroughs and Bradford
Torrey A biography Of Henry Ward
Beecher, by Lyman Abbott, is promised,
as we'll as Prof Simon NeWcombs
"Reminiscences of an Astronomer" two
volumes on American Tariff Contro-
yersies in the 18th Century, by Edward
Stanwood, and ultimate Conceptions of
Faith" by DR.. George A Gordon. Ihere
will be six or seven new volumes OF
poetry.
One of the little touches which evil
dence closeness of study on the part OF
an historical novelist occurs IN a
Spectre of Power Charles Egbert Grad
| docks recently published book where an
Incidental reference to the presence or
smallpox among the Indians is made.As
a matter of fact, the TaVages OF that
disease among the aborigines OF North
America are to be classed among the
appalIing plaques of all time. Whole
tribes were exterminated by it, and his
torians estimate that the total number
of it's victims ran up into the millions.
1.-THE Log of a Cowboy" by Andy
Adams is the first technically western
book written by a western man. On
the life of the true cowboy Adams is
right unconsciously, and always right.
He did not cram up" to write this
book: he did not get his knowledge
through a notebook or series OF
sketches. but through his own skin He
absorbed it and did not study for it, The
east has written about the west and has
thus far established the standards for
the west. But westerners have been
quick to detect that these eastern
writer's are always wrong in some de-
tail, just as any man who goes into a
limited field with the express purpose OF
studying it will invariably be wrong in
some essential point With Andy Adj
ans it is an entirely different story, and
his book is meeting with success all
over the country.
Mary Catherine Crowley. the Detroit
novelist. delivered the address at the I'M
yelling Of the Nine. Cadillac memorial tap-
let, erected by the ladies' bi-eentenary
committee of Detroit in memory OF the
first white woman to land upon the shores
of Detroit go years ago. Miss crowley mas
made a thorough study OF the carry history
deal of new information has been incor-
porated in her three novels. the last OF
nance of the war of 1872 In a letter to
Miss Crowley, Mayor Maybury OF Detroit
says: Il take this occasion to say that oy y
this community has been developed ana
made the subject of study than has been
the present or past. I think you are well
worthy of this compliment"
In the southern town where Will N. Ifar-
ben author of The Substitute. lives. there
is the usual supply Of men who have &C
duired, by courtesy of their fellow towns
men the title Of Colonel" 1t struck Mr.
Harden that the old soldiers of the town
who possessed hard earned genuine titles
were somewhat obscured by the younger
set who were colonies in name only. So
Mr.. Harden wrote an unsigned editorial
for one of his town papers, in which he
ably set forth the cause of the veteran as
against the amateur soldier in the matter
OF titles The editorial made a sensational
impression and did result in discouraging
the colonel habit. 1t has now leaked
out that Mr. Harden was the guilty man
and his fellow townsmen are retaliating
by calling him colonel and saluting him in
the streets. One old confederate soldier
was heard 10 remark: "Of course Harden
deserves promotion. He killed more colo
neIs in one day than Gen. Lee did in four
years of war;