The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-31

/ commission. II was put on press ana
| simultaneously almost. its publisher
closed his doors. Mrs. Fsrankau was
certain then that she was "hoodooer."
and for twelve years after this last
novel, Pigs in Clover the best thing
she has done-howeyer. seems to have
redeemed all her i'll luck. and TODAY is
one of the bsst selling books in Amer
lea and England as well.
There is said to be a touch of Steven
sons humor in 1.-THE Strange Adventures
of Mr.. Middleton soon to be published
by Herbert s. Stone & Co.. in the mat
ter of course way in which the most
extraordinary incidents and contrasts
are described. 1t is as though these
things happened every day in South
Clark street. Mr. Middleton, like THE
Young Man with the Cream Tarts"
talking with policeman on the corner
or running to escape an electric car on
Archey Road. This attitude gives a
tone to the book which has charm.
Novel readers, book reviewers, and
literary critics have been asking each
other who is Philip Payne?" His re-
cent novel of Chicago life and American
politics entitled The Mills of Man."
published by A. c. McC1urs & Co., is
being read and talked about in every
large city in the country. Some review
ers have credited the book to Mr.. Will
Payne, the author of "On the Road to
Fortune and similar stories of Chicago
business life. Others imagine it has been
written by Mr.. William Morton Paine,
the author of Little Leaders" We I'M
derstand, however, that THE Mills of
Man. was really written by Mr. Philip
Payne. Chicago newspaper man, who
in this book makes his entrance into fic-
ton. The story shows that Mr.. Payne
is intimately acquainted with the social
and political life of the great city and
hos
live and move and fix themselves in
ones memory. The book is particularly
strong in characterization, which is
genuine blessing in these days of fic-
tional plots and counter plots. The read
ing public will do well if it distin-
cuisines between the literary work of
Mr.. Philip Payne. Mr.. Will Payne, and
Mr.. William Morton Paine, all of Chi
cago and all writing of the life the city.
Messrs. Herbert S. Stone & Co. will pub
lish this fall "A History of the
tison, which will have a special value for
students and the large public that is in
terested IN art AS a critic Mr. Pattis on
book down to the present time by taking
up many contemporary artists and their
ideas and ambitions.
The brisk attack on snobbery that was a
leading feature of the October Every
body's has been followed up in the No
vember issue by significant article on
Successful Men Who Are Not Rich"
Success without money seems anomalous
to the modern American; yet, on refec-
ton. the most eager devotee of plutocracy
can not deny that such men as Senator
Hoar of Massachusetts, President Eliot of
Harvard, DR.. Rainsford and General Joe
Wheesr are in sns Pest nr sense 9r 5he
of the most successful man in the United
States today-Theodore Roosevelt-is said
to be well under $500 yearly. It is good
to be reminded of these triumphs that are
not measured in dollars.
Miss Barbara Yechton's new tale, 'sIIon-
or d Eyerel,'' published by Dodd, Mead &
Co, is this authors best story and most
striking work. The young heroine, Honor,
is a genuine girl, warm hearted, natural
and very lovable, and the story, while re-
lating certain incidents in her life, gives
also a graphic and entertaining account
of the social side of life on an island in
the Caribbean Sea. That this particular
island holds a place of its own on the map
and is one of the group of three islands
for the sale of which the U. s. gov
mark, will undoubtedly invest the story
with added interest for many readers.
How the Ladies' World can. afford to
give much for the money as 1t does.
the fact remains that this magazine at
so cents a year, or five cents per copy,
offers matter to its readers of quite as
high grade as The Ladies Home Jour
nal or The Woman's Home Companion.
Quality, not. quantity, seems to be the
judging from the forty pages in the No
vember number, no one can reasonably |
complain of quantity. From the attrac- |
tive cover to the last page of this delight |
full Thanksgiving number, the features !
therein compare favorably with those of
any ether high class publication. In fact
there is not a line of matter which is not |
readable, combining as it does entertain |
ment with instruction.
There are three or four authors who |
have a faculty of interesting every class
of readers. Among these is Mr.. H. G. |
Wells. whose War of the Worlds proved
one of the most popular tales ever printed
in a magazine. The November Cosmopoli- |
tan contains the first instalment of Mr..
Wells new scientific romance. THE Food
of the Gods, fascinating in plot, holding
the interest of the reader by its thrilling
situations, yet having throughout a philo-
sophie vein characteristic of all the au-
thor's work. The story is marvellous, yet
plausible, intensely interesting, yet in
structive.
r. E Young, in her new novel, sally |
of Missouri just published by Mcclure, |
Phillips & Co., furnishes new proof that
the great American west is an almost bot |
tomless mine of literary material She
has discovered" a part of our country
that has distinct character of its own, |
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