The Topeka state journal., 1903-06-20
copies three days after the moved was

PuDAASAAGds
Since the war with Spain. thanks to
the strenuous commander Of the Rough |
Riders. the cowboy has risen from the
ranks of the dime novel to that of bound
fiction Mr. Owen Wister has shown in
his The Virginian" what can be made
of him by skilful hand. In The Log
Of a Cowboy" by Andy Adams (HOugh-
that sounds a little more ike the real
thing. It is a story of great drive OF
cattle from Texas into Montana, twenty
wears ago. with all the incidents and
adventures that were likely to occur in
such an expedition. The narrative is in
the first person and has all the marks
of verisimilitude. Very likely it is
true story. At any rate, the reader will
derive from it a lively sense of what
the life Mr. Roosevelt admires is like.
There is plenty Of action and adventure
in the book, which, if not written by
real cowboy, reads very much as though
it had been.=N. Y. Sun.
The vogue of Mrs Ely's "A Womans
Hardy Garden" seems only to be in
crea sed bv the coming into the field of
rival volumes. OF the food of garden
books that followed Elizabeth and Her
German Garden" most were Of English
origin; and the American gardeners
who followed them came to grief be-
cause an English winter and a New
ENGLAND winter are not the same, and
because English soil is not American
clay and dirt, and because American
gardens cannot be made with the help
of English books. Mrs. Ely's book was
the first American volume to contain
just the practical instructions which the
amateur gardener seeks: and 1t has
been in greater demand than almost
any volume of fiction published this
year, with the exception of perhaps half
dozen. Mrs. Ely'S middle name, by
the way, is Rutherfurd, and not Ruth
erford. as many newspaper writer's
have enormously spelled it. The name
comes to her from a very old Scotch
family with a history running back
nearly a thousand years.
Harper's Weekly for June 10 contains
/ two pages of photOgra phs on the sub
! ject of the recent disatrous cyclone at
/ lustrate the extent of the ruin wrought
/ by the tornado. The same issue con-
tains. also. some strilSngly interesting
pictures of the flooded districts of To-
peka and Kansas City.
Prof. George P. Garrison brings out
the interesting fact in his popular his
tory of Texas" just published that
the first official name for the region
which now comprises the Lone Star
state was Nuevas Filipinas or New
Philippines. So we now possess both
the new and the old Philippines, but
| only New Mexico as vet. 1t is said,
by the way that President Roosevelt
is greatly interested in the history of
tAdS ana hopes some time 10 Write a
book on that subject
Mr. Carleton Noyes. author Of THE
Enjoyment of Art" sailed on June 6 for
Italy and will spend the summer IN
Europe Prof. Hugo Munsterberg,
| author of American Traits" has also
Just gone abroad as the official repre-
sentative of the St Louis exposition
cooperation of the German government
and of the educational institutions of
Germany in the international congress
of science to be held at st. Louis next
year.
The discussion which is afoot over
Carlyle's domestic relations, directs at
tention to the letters to his youngest
sister Jenny. These letters, published
by Houghton, Miff1in & Co, reveal, as
no other of his writings do. the tender
ness of his affection and the depth of
his heart.
During lull in the. proceedings incident
to the investigation Of the bribery charges
IN the postoffice department at Washing
ton. Mr.. Samuel Maddox an attorney Ia
the case, said to Postoffice Inspector
Mayer I am reading Anna Katherine
Green's new book, The F1ligree Ball. You
ought to read it. It might help you out in
Mr.. Mayer replied: Glad you're read
ing that book Keep at it and you'll be a
The laugh went with Mr. Mayors reply.
Robert Morris Patriot and FInancier, -
is the title finally selected for the forth
coming biography by Ellis Paxson Ober-
holtzer The Macmillan company announce
the volume for publication during June or
July There will be two portraits of Nor
ris and one of his wife, beside other illus
trations.
Andy Adams whose Log of a Cowboy
IS making quite stir, is familliarly known
at the family home in Indiana as Texas
Andy as there are several other Andys in
the family. He refused to go to college
and his twentieth year found him on the
plains of Texas in fun cowboy war paint.
He soon became a rancher on his own ac-
count and owned large herds Of cattle and
horses For ten years he followed this
life and became familiar with every mile
between the Rio Grande and the headwa-
were finally caught in a fierce nor wester''
and swept away He then became a real
estate boomer at Rockport and Aransas
Pass, Tex, and made a large fortune but
kept his holdings too long. The failure of
the deep water scheme made his property
practically valueless, and, gathering mis-
remnants together, he shook the dust from
Texas from off his feet and in the early COS
turned up at Colorado Springs on the min
ing board of trade, where he prospered ex-
ceeGingly. He became largely interested in
the silver mines at Aspen, and when silver
went broke he kept his white metal
good company. He says he has waved a
fond farewell to three fortunes during the
last twenty years and finds the job very
diverting.
The people of the United States have
gained the reputation Of being the greatest
fiction readers in the world, but now they
seem to be moving on to higher things
The great mass of people which the sta
pendOus advertising campaigns carried oct
in the last half dozen years by publish
ers added to the reading public Is ready
for. another step.-has already graduated
in fact, from fiction to a much more earn
est and discerning-literary If you will
kind of reading 4 am encouraged" said
a well known critic of a New York literary
journal in private conversation recently
when see the success that more
thoughtful books are meeting with today,
have been disgusted in recent years by
the enormous popularity Of swash-buckling
historical novels and novels that succeed
only by specious cleverness, a fragrant sen
sationalism and in many cases by a pure
indecency Recently I was told by the
publishers of the book that Charles Wag-
ner's ESSAYS on the art Of living. The