The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-09

said to be not only veritable in its
! origin, but is also a most intimate
disclosure of the workings of a wo-
| mans mind.
John Lane is preparing to publish
an English translation of The Life
and Letters of Tschaikovsky,'' by the
composers brother. NJ. Modesto
Tschaikovsky, editions of which have
recently been published in Russia and
Germany. The translation is being
done by Miss Rosa Newmarket
Atethe commencement exercises of
| Radcliffe college, June %, Helen KEEL
ler the wonderful blind and deaf girl.
author of an essay on Optimism .
THE Story of My Life and several
articles, received the degree of
bachelor of arts. 1t is stated that she
is graduated with distinction. having
done we'll in all her studies.
IS Carleton" the author of that
romance of a Novia Scotia swamp,
The Micmac." just. published by
Henry Holt & Co. is the wife of Lieut..
Col. Carleton Jones. secretary to the
lieutenant governor of Nova Ecotia.
She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and
has come to the front as writer of
short stories of the woods and nature.
A life of Tom Hood, whose Song
of the Shirt" appeared in Punch in
1843, is being written py Walter Jer-
rold, a grandson of another famous
Punch contributor, Douglas Jerrold.
1t is said that Mr.. Jerrold has in his
possession some very interesting new
matter relating to Hoods career
A new novel by the welI-known
French painter and illustrator, Andre
Castaigne, is announced. The story
class atelier. the boulevard, the stu
dent restaurant, the circus. and the
Quarter Latin. M. Castaigne will il
lustrate 1T, as du Maurier illustrated
his "Trilby." The Century company
will publish the book.
Booth Harrington, the author OF
1.-The Two Vanrevels,' having spent
bilious in the direction of art. AS a
college man he was noted for his
ability as a draughtsman, and it is
said that he is now warming again to
his first love and will himself illustrate
some of his stories, which are to ap-
pear in the near future.
The story of "Gwen" is told in the
new novel by Ralph Conner which
will be brought out this summer by
the Fleming H. Revell company. 1t
answers the question, Does God Send
Trouble ?" The chapters will appear
separately. Each page is to be deco
rated with marginal drawings and
printed in two colors. Gwen is q
self-willed girl, who was crippled for
life in saving one of her fathers
cowboys.
For an artist who pretends that he
is mot up on cowboy life" and
doesn't know the west" A. B. Frost
furnishes some marvellous illustrations
for a Red Saunders, story by Henry
Wallace Phillips in the July McClure's.
Mr.. Frost must be one of the few
humble artists who would underrate
"a n al h q a
He has caught the spirit of the west
admirably and his scenes and char
acters are alive and true.
Booksellers have written the Mac
milan company to complain that their
copies of whistler AS Knew Him.
by Mr.. Mortimer Menpes, have "a
seeming imperfection in the frontis-
piece. Over the forehead there is
white spot which looks like a blem-
ish.' With all Whistler's vanity about
his single lock of white hair, and all
the pains he took to call attention to-
it, it seems strange that people should
still not have heard of it.
Henry Savage Landor, author of'the
book of travel in the Malay islands,
1.-The Gem of the East" just pub
Iished by Harper & Brothers, is a
grandson of Walter Savage Lander,
the English man of letters. His ca
reer as a traveller began with a tour
through Japan, China, Korea, South
Mongolia, Thibet, America, Australia.
and Northern Africa. He was the
first white man to reach both sources
of the Brahmaputre river. He
marched with the allied troops to Pc
king in 1900, and was the first Anglo
Saxon to enter the forbidden City"
James Montgomery Flagg. whose
laughable collection of Hmericks and
drawings entitled ''Tomfoolery'' is
having a successful sale, is a COM
paratively young man, having been
born at Pelham Manor. N. Y. twenty
seven years ago. His artistic educa-
ton included studies at the Art Stu
dents league in New York, in Paris
under Victor Marco, and in London
under the celebrated portrait painter,
Hubert Won Herkomer. He has drawn
for Life, st. Nicholas and the Harper
publicat tons, and has for the last few
years been on the staff of Judge. Mr.
Flagg married in 1899 the daughter
of S. T. Mccormick, of st. Louis. and
is spending the summer in Europe
Philip Verrill Mighels, author of
"Bruvver Jim's Baby" is recovering
from a very severe operation, to which
he was subjected just about the time
of the publication of "Bruvver jim
It seemed for a while as if he might
the experience of his father,
Henry Rust Mighels, who wrote a
book called "Sage Brush Leaves" in
1879, and died a short time before its
or the experience of the
author of David Harum.' who did
not live to know the measure of his
own success. Mr.. Mighels is now up
and about, and has left New York to
recovery.
TOM MAssON's BOOK.
Life Publishing Company Makes a
Collection of His Poems.
In Merry Measure, verse by Tom |