The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-19

therefore, the announcement that Pro-
press on scotland in the Time of
Queen Mary" In it he deals with the
general appearances of the villages and
towns, the condition of society in the
country, trade, and industry
in the towns, and the economic transit
tons of the period. He treats of other
phases of his subject, and ~endeavors, in
short, to give the reader an idea of
just what kind of a Scotland it was in
which Mary found her tragic destiny.
Football furnishes the theme for two
of the stories in the December Popular
Magazine, millionaire Marsden's Elev-
en-" and THE Delayed Pass" both of
which should prove of exceptional in
terest to all lovers of sport.
An article on Gertrude Atherton in
THE Literary World" of Boston gives
several biographical details about that
clever novelist. She was born in San
Francisco, and in her childhood was al
lowed to browse in her gra~ndfather'S
library, then 1.-The largest private IL
brary in the state" She is quoted as
saying that she began to write when
she was lat some tender age" The
older girls at school gave her blank
books to fill with stories of her own
for their amusement. The first story
she ever published was called The
Randolphs of R~edwoods." According to
her latest bioghapher, lit was Mrs. Ath-
erton's early purpose to exploit the TO
nance of the juvenile age of the far
west. There was a temptation
to depend upon the more or less myth
cal tradition which from time to time
found its way into the a Francisco
newspapers, but Mrs. Atherton put this
aside and went straight to head
quarters. They say that she made her
residence in the old adobe settlements.
and with s~harpened eyes and ears
mixed with these serviving Spanish pio-
neerS."
The trials of an author are many, and
Mrs. Martin finds herself somewhat in
trouble with her towns-people in Louis
Vile through her latest book, 1.-The
House of Fulflment." They say that
Mrs. Martin has drawn the characters
of her book from representative Louis
Vile people. mo-" returns Mrs. Mar
tin. Il have not, decidedly" Il ri
characters in the large, forming my
types from observation here and there
among the people I meet I have not
Intentionally put any single person in
tive only as they represent elements of
southern society and southern life"
Ainsley's for December has a story by
Miriam Nicholson. the author of Gin
the Bishops Carriage and THE Madi-
ganS," a great piece of good fortune for
the magazine and its readers. Those
who have read and enjoyed her two
books will be still further delighted by
1.-The Mother of the Gracchi," which is
an almost perfect bit of short fiction.
II III ~ ~ i OGllCdLC, d1A0 /
there is mingled with it a vein of
pathos that makes it wonderfully effec-
tive.
Guy Wetmore Carryl, just previous to
his sad and untimely death. had put the
finishing touches to a sprightly little
story of bachelorhood. 1t will be
brought out by McClure-Phillips, next
month, under the title of Far from the
Maddening Girls" In it Mr.. Carryl
his good fun with the English language
and, incidentally, with all that crew of
young men who have self-sufficiently
decided that bachelorhood is good
enough for them. He takes a young
gentleman of this type, let's him build
far off In the woods, in which
to worship his idol of bachelorhood-
He k a young lady somewhat beau
but chiefly clever, who lives down
the young man in his occasional lone
wanderings around his domain. He
gives them both leisure, and the ex-
pected-unexpected happens.
The author whom statistics show to
be the most popular of English novel
lists is no longer MI. William LIE Queux
but the Chevalier William LIE QueuX.
The king of Italy conferred the title,
with the Cross of the Order of
the Crown of Italy, for the hi
valuable researches among ancient
concerning Lucrezia Bor-
gia, which he embodied in his latest
1.-The Closed Book"
In the Hobby Hoss Fair" by A. L.
H. M. Caldwell Co., Boston,
have just published what promises to
be one of the most unique Juvenile
books of the year. The authors draw
through his poster work, which, for
and design, is u~nequalled.
is Mr.. Jansson's first book, and
he has spared neither time nor pains to
it attractive.
The authors have contracted with
Klaw & Erlanger for a spec
tacular production of 1.-THE Pearl and
Pumpkin Dearlow's latest juve-
nile published by NJ. II. Caldwell & Co.
and Mr.. West is now at work On the
of an extravaganza with a plot
something new to the stage today. Mr..
John w. Bratton is making the musi-
cal setting.
"E1inor Arden, Royalist" is the ro-
mantle title of a new book by Mary
Du Bots, published by the
Century Elinor Arden is
of the most winsome little maidens
royalist in the days of King Charles I
and the R~oundheads, hse is left an
and goes to live in the family
md the Roundheads, she is left an
her in her desolate childhood;
and the sweet Princess Henrietta Anne
remembers her rescuer and shows her
g~raciously. 1t is a pretty
story, with a charm in its telling that
will hold young and old. and it is at
illustrated.
Romeo and Juliet" "As You Like
It." and Washington Irving's IAN Old
Christmas are the new issues
Century o'sThumb-nails. The
charming overs of these little books
are almost all the work of Mrs. Blanche
McManus Mansfield, whose reputation ;
as an illustrator is high in this country