The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-06

story OF the young arch1tecC with Ideals
practlclng his profession with a "cOm
merciaP' firm in Chicago not the least
powerful of them. The editors of the
Atlantic have intimated that Mr.. Her
rick'S plot has a singularly fatalistic
foreshadowing In the recent terrible
catastrophe at the IroquoiS theater in
Chicago. While not wishing to fore
stall the course of the story, they init
mate that its climax, written several
months ago, turns upon a tragical fire,
the result of the failure of builders to
follow the hero's architectural specifica-
tiOnS-a failure winked at by him for
commercial reasons. This is a striking
evidence of the truth-telling and, as it
were, prophetic power of fiction.
Stewart Edward Whites epic novel of
the forest 1.-THE Biazed Trail" has
surely Joined the list of books which
may justly be called classics in their
line, If steadiness of sale is any evil
dence. Mcclure, Phillips & Co., the
publishers, have just brought out the
fifteenth edition. and the sales for this
large as they were the Christmas sea-
son of the year when the book was
first published.
Miss Ellen Glasgow, the author of
The DelIverance, published by Dou-
bleby Page &. Co., saved the lives of
not less than a thousand dogs during
motor car trip through Normandy
and Brittany last summer. She made a
sort of whirIwindy trip on the 45-horse-
power machine. which finished eighth
in the memorable motor race from Par
is to Madrid. Killing dogs is part of
the daily work of a motor car abroad.
Miss Glasgow, who is very fond of
dogs, was very distressed. Shortly af
ter she started on the trip, she read in
Paris newspaper that by using long
whip the dogs could be kept away from
the moving car. At the first stop,
which was very small town in Nor
mandy she entered a shop and bought
long American whip For the rest
of the journey she was busily engaged
in cracking this whip around the legs
of curious dogs, who barked and ran in
front of the moving car. Miss Glasgow
thousand dogs from being killed under
the wheels.
A. D. Blashfeld, whose decorative
interested in black and white art, will |
have in Life during the coming year
an especially well drawn and mysti- |
flying series of puzzle pictures.
The author of THE First of the
Mr.. George Cary Eggleston, |
published by DrexeI Biddle, is one of
the most prominent figures at the Au-
thors' club in New York, where he
spends much of his time when not at
Whenever a visiting author comes to
town he considers It one of his first
duties to call upon Mr.. EggleSton at
the Authors club. At a recent gather !
ing of the Authors club the subject of
starting new magazines came UP for
and the risk attending such
was argued over at
length. Some contended that the field
was already crowded, and that any
launching of new magazines at the
was unwarranted. One prom
inent member of the club stated that
some new magazines failed because
they were established to appeal TO a
class of readers who proved to be too
few and scattered to support such new
enterprises. Mr.. Eggleston said: cit
was many years ago that my brother.
the late Edward Egg1eStOn, and re-
organized the publication Hearth and
Home. When we took hold of this pa
per we found that it had been fore
doomed to failure because of a mfsdi-
rected purpose. 1t was meant to be a
country gentleman's periodical, While
at that time there Were almost no
country gentlemen-in the sense in
which the term is here used-in Amer
lea. 1t addressed itself largely to a
class which at that time scarcely at all
existed, though it is fairly numerous
now-the leisure class that amuses
itself.
Mrs. Virgins s.Rebecca of sunnybrook
Farm is reported a S the best selling book
of The Story of a Bad Boy" does not
profess to be authority on girls, but
he considers that Rebecca is just the
very incest child in American literature.
The town of Sutton. Mass. has just
voted to create monument to General
place. The Memoirs of this Revolution