The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-15

Wheat and other Stories of the New
ties of a Novelist" respectively, will be
published separately, as well as in a |
complete edition of his works that will |
remain a magnificent monument in |
American literature.
An interesting and significant show
ing obtained by the September st.
Nicholas leagues caricature contest
was the favor shown Mark Twain by
the young contestants. OF the carica-
lures of famous living Americans re-
ceived, by far the greater number were
of Mark Twain, the good gray humor-
list, whom it seems all the children as
well IS their parents, have learned TO
know and love. 1t appears curious that
writer who has by design done so
little work for children should have
won so large a share of their regard.
The editor of a country newspaper
recently wrote to the publishers of
Everyman." asking for a picture Of
the author. Since the COMPOSER of this
quaint moral play hourished some
identified, there was a good reason why
Messrs. Fox, Duffield & Co. could not
! comply with the request. A portrait
of Peter Dienst. to whom this moral
ity" Is attributed. would no doubt be
interesting.
The death of the artist whistler has
recalled Du Maurier's caricature of him
IN Trilby. when that novel was run
ming in HarperS Magazine in 1893; and
has given rise to rumor from English
sources that Du Maurier did not like
Americans. If Du Maurier did not like
Americans. why then when he pub
lished his first book did he go to an
American publisher Mr.. James Osgood,
VINO was then established in London as
agent for HARPER & Bros, and was at
that only A 1f@1,n
there? 1t is well known that Du Maui
rier's relations with the EarDers were
most agreeable, and it is the impress
sion of other American friends of his
that he was fond of Americans. He
himself was born in Paris, and was the
descendant of French emigres who had
left France for England at the out
break of the revolution. He was bap-
tlzed George Louis Pamela Busson.
The new novel upon which the author
| OF Dorothy Vernon, of Haddon HalI''
| has been at work since before the publ
| cation of that book is a story of Indiana
| life in the thirtieS Indiana was settled
by curious mixture of races, including
men from the south. east and north
Englishmen, Irishmen and Frenchmen.
They differed in culture as much as in
origin; not a few of the Englishmen
were university graduates The theme
of this story is very near the authors
heart. Its style, method and atmos-
phere are best described as sunny re-
alism." 1t is the strongest and most
human book which Mr. Major has writ
ten. 1t deals with modern human be-
ings of whom the author knows from
| having talked with them and their de-
scendants in his youth, and with a re-
gion which he knows from having lived
in it all his life. The Macmillan COM
pany announce Mr.. Majors book for the
autumn.
AS Golden Fleece" is sort of inter-
national story, it is only natural that it
should find a market in England. 1t is
now running serially in one of the Eng
| fish magazines and will appear in book
form this fall. The English critics find
the fortune-hunting British earl, seek
ing an heiress in America, who is the
central figure of the novel, a ''life-like
and amusing character managed with
out caricature,' to quote one of the chief
reviews. David Graham Phillips, the
author of Golden Fleece is at present
in Paris. His new novel. THE Master
Rogue" Being the Confessions of Croe-
sus. will come out this fall.
About the middle of August Mr.. John
Lane will issue a new contribution to
THE Carlyle Controversy" it's title
1.-The Nemesis of Froude" explains Its
scope and when it is remembered that
last month saw the publication of
Froude's posthumous pamphlet. My
Relations with Carlyle" the subject
matter is scarcely open to speculation.
Sir James Crichton Browne and Mr.. AL
exander Carlyle look to this volume to
| clear Thomas Carlyles memory of the
imputations retailed by Geraldine Jews
bury and eagerly clutched at by his BIZ
| ographer. Whether Miss Jewsbury look
ed "a flimsy latter of a creature as
Mrs. Carlyle called her. readers of THE
| Nemesis of F'roude" will have an oppor-
tunity of judging for themselves from
the portrait which appears as Fronts
piece.
James L. Ford, whose last appearance
| between covers was as one of the COM
pliers of that collection of poetry Every
Day in the Year" will soon publish,
through Dodd. Mead & Co. The Brazen
| Calf" a satire which is likely to take rank
with his Literary Shop" Many of the
papers contained in this book have already
| appeared in The Saturday Evening Post of
! Philadelphia under the title Our Ameri-