The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-30


have Farrabee, the "Undergrounder,'
who represents, the. lofty idealism and
courage of the abolitionist. And
BASQUE! What southerner has not
known Pasque2 What Yank has not
met in him foe worthy of his steel?
Gallant, noble Pasque Indeed, the
spirit OF the great war breathes
throughout the entire book. And all
through the medium of the characters
Joseph r. Buchanan's clear, concise
style is Wen adapted to the subject Of
~ nus SO Do 2. The story Of a Labor Agi-
rnbI3st when nc the Outlook Company
pupAsh In telling his personal ex-
periences in the stirring labor field, he
passes rapidly from one event to an
9Iher' bringing in all the human Incl
uelits Wnlch give the book its real in
tefest. Mr.. Buchanan has a true love
Tor the Workingman, and in putting
Iortn 1acts IN a most convincing light,
MAKES strong plea for him. The
clean.
Lincoln steffens' opening article in
ms series on Enemies of the Repub-
llc' IN the April McClure's, has
aroused the most widespread. COM
ment- Aside from the significantly
llberaI newspaper discussion, the edi-
Tor or the magazine and Mr.. Steffens
nave received many personal letters
testifying to the effect created by it's
startling array of fact and logic
ScnooI teachers, government officials,
editors and ministers have been among
the many to signify their appreciation
OF and sympathy with such efforts,
proving clearly correctness of Mr..
SteHens' argument that there is a con-
SIDERABLE element in this country which
does care. after all.
The title OF Maeterlineks new book
VIII be The Double. Garden This
title indicates that the contents of the
/ book will be of two sorts: first pas
torals, dealing with flowers, bees, the
/ dog, etc; and, second, philosophical or
mystic essays. The book will be issued
in this country by Dodd, Mead and
/ Company very soon. The titles of the
essays are as follows: The Wrath of
the Bee, the FOretelling of the Future,
Field Flowers. News of Spring, Chrys-
anthemums. Sincerity, Universal Suf-
frage, The Temple of Chance, The Por-
trait of Lady, In Praise of the Sword
Death and the Crown, Old Fashioned
Flowers, Modern Dramas, The Death
of the Dog, Motor Car Impressions.
Mr.. Eden Phillpotts' new novel, 1.-The
American Prisoner" went into its sec
ond edition on publication. His work
has long been ranked by the elect with
/ that of BIacknlore and Hardy, and his
new novel has qualities which seem
likely, the critics say, to give his work
a very much wider popularity than it
mas nlIneELO enjoyed
Mr.. Austin Dobson's recent. Life of
Fanny Burney brings out the fact that
of six children in the family, she alone
was not sent to school or placed under
a governess. She was not brilliant,
but shy backward and retiring" Still
she was interested in the world. The
alphabet interested her and she learn
ed it herself; then she learned to read
| without waiting to be sent to school.
After that she continued to be interest
ed in an increasing number of things
until she became what Austin Dobson
thinks her-a genius
Mr. Writ Gerrare, author Of Greater
Russia published a. few months ago
by The Macmillan Company, has been
offered an engagement for long term
1 by a manufacturing firm I'm Germany,
who make q condition that he shall
not contribute to any periodical or
write books. The whole of the infor-
nation obtained by Mr.. Gerrare while
on his travels viii be purchased by his
i employers for their own private use as
traders in the markets of the world.
This appears to indicate a new career
for observant writer's who do not crave
publicity and are content to forego
fame if they can gain livelihood by
their pen.
A book of sociology. which is as en-
pertaining as it is profound, is Char
lotte Perkins Gilman's Human w ok. -
which Mcclure Phillips will bring out
the beginning of May. This book
brings to a logical conclusion the the
cries advanced by Mrs. Gilman in her
former works, The Home Women
and Economics" Concerning Chill
dren," etc. It is almost revolutionary.
Mrs. Gilman takes a very optimistic
point of view, and argues that it is
lman's gentler social side that rules him
and not his more animalistic, crueHer
and selfish instincts. She claims man
is essentially a social creature and that
it is his social impulse which leads
him to work. and not his british desire
to advance himself at the sacrifice OF
others.
uTrMOR M THE DAy