The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-11
felt his hand grasped by another man.

felt his hand grasped by another man,
who said to him:
rs your wife a club woman? Mine
is. and that's why I'm here"
Mr.. Bogue replied that his wife was
not, and, vouchsafing no further infor-
nation, the stranger continued:
Can you tell me if that is the row
of honesses UP there?"
Yes"
Which is the Royal Bengal?"
THE one standing next to the prest-
dent" replied Mr.. Bogue.
They chatted there for moment or
two longer, drawn together by the sym
pathy of castaways. As they separated
the stranger once more shook hands
with Mr.. Bogue. You needn't ask my
name" he said. I'm only known as a
club husband; but 1 would like to know,
if your wife is not a club woman, how
you come to be here"
oh" said Mr.. Bogue, I'm the hus-
band of the Royal Bengal"
D. Appleton & Co. publish this month
Love Letters of Margaret Fuller" a
remarkable series of which the biog-
rapherS heretofore have made no men
ton whatever The letters were writ
ten in New York when Margaret Full
Ter was living in the house of Horace
Greeley and was contributing regular
ly to the columns of the New York
Tribune They cover the years 1845-46
ana were addressed TO James NaIQdn,
young business man of New York.
The Messrs. Appleton will publish
them with an introduction by Julia
Ward Howe, and also will reprint in
the volume the "reminiscences of Mar
garet Fuller written by Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Horace Greeley and Charles
It Congdon, which afford interesting
and striking glimpses of her person
ality, but have not been familiar to the
reading public in many years.
James Lane Allen appears to have
a penchant for changing the titles OF
his books. The name of his new novel.
first announced as The Crypts of the
Heart" is to be altered to 1.-The Mettle
of the Pasture" One critic suggests
that it must be a mysterious story, in
deed, for which two such entirely Diff
ferent names will serve equally
well. The change was made, it was an
nounced, because the new one served
better. THE Mettle of the Pasture
the same critic remarks, suggest is
Kentucky blue grass, sunshine and a
glorious day for a horseback ride, and
has breeze and life in it, while 'Crypts
of the Heart has bark from the
tombS' air, with prepare to meet thy
doom sequel promised"
Andy Adams, author of Log of a
Cowboy" is not a college graduate, and
for that reason the critics refuse to
believe the good English he uses is his
own. They accuse him of having his
work polished off, by other hands. As
a matter of fact the language of the
book is precisely that of the author.
The publishers, Houghton, Mifflin &
Co., state that the only editing done
applied simply to punctuation for
which each printing office has its own
rules. Mr.. Adams is a modest mar,
and makes no pretensions except to
Intimate that he knows what he is
writing about.
Lockwood Kipling will illustrate the
Outward Bound" edition of his sons
Just So Stories" which will be issued
in the autumn. There will be a new
Just So' story added to this edition.
In the Macmillan series of Little
Novels by Favorite Authors the next
story printed will be Gertrude Ather-
toms Mrs. Pendletons Four-in-H Hand"
to be followed by a story of William
Stearns Davis. Saint of Dragons