The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-06


piece by Frederick Dow Steele has .occas-
Toned an extraordinary amount of COM
ment as a most novel idea in fiction Illus
Ethel II. Martin of Columbus. g., who. as
Miss Wells says, came from there because
other place, and Joseph Rodman Payne,
the wonderful dog of Umbagog house,
teiry. -
The number of railway accidents that
quick succession has aroused the press of
the country to demand that something
be done. Just what that something
ably the fullest and most intelligent set
ting forth of the nan-killing situation
Reader Magazine. His Indictment has
been vigorous. yet well tempered and sane.
public is charged with it's share of the
responsibility and suggestions are made
speed-demanding traveller, should prove
particularly interesting and timely.
tuition now that it viii be of interest to
know that the first verses that were ever
years ago by Tom Mason. who has in
cluded them in his characteristic collec-
issued by the Life Publishing company.
u wrote the verses one February, said
storm and the only thing could think
of was The Summer Girl. >" The poem
after became part of current speech.
Even the best books on birds that con-
tain numerous figures in color as a rule
only picture the male bird. Frank M.
Chapman, who is a foremost ornitholo-
gist as wen as a writer on delightful ma
ture subjects, is completing a work about
all the wide family warblerS in America
the little birds that sometimes even be-
wilder naturalists themselves-in which
not only the male bird is shown, but the
female and young as we'll. The work is
~ in Bird Lore, the organ of the Audubon
society. and when it appears complete It
identify these sprightly little denizens of
the woods.
seph Conrad, author of Romance (Mc-
Clure. Phillips), is a Pole. have probably
sounding name The fact is, however.
that Mr.. Conrad has hidden away a name
which. If he used i, would leave no doubt
as to his nationality. Should he use his
full baptismal title it would be Joseph
Conrad korzeSniowski. Mr.. Conrad Wnen
man, found his messmates incapable of
dSopp@d ftso esR ter ar
people are spared another name to add TO |
the list of impossible ones. which already
includes Sienliewicz. Tourgenieff, Dos
toievski etc.
Little Lord Fauntleroy.' whose. story of
I'm the Closed Room" is now |
appearing in MCClure's Magazine, has re-
turned for the summer to her English |
home, Maytham hall. in Kent. |
Mrs. Burnett's estate is very. old one.
lying in the most beautiful part of Eng
lands most picturesque country. The
years old and the old church on the |
grounds IS mentioned in the Doomsday |
book. Attached to the hall are two |
quaint villages. Rolvenden street and Roll |
venden lane. The section of Kent in which |
Mrs. Burnett lives is very popular with |
literary people Henry James, Joseph |
Conrad. Ford Maddox Hueffer and Nine |
Albanesi all have homes within few
miles of Maytham.
That Everybody's Magazine really has
the biggest scoop" of the era in Thos.
W. Lawson's Story of Amalgamated" is
shown by the first installment
Of the series proper which is In the Au-
gust number. The foreword was porten-
tous with promise of startling disclos-
secret organization of Standard Oil and |
It's actual master. who is person al
most unknown to the public. 1t is won
ierful picture Mr.. Lawson gives of the
huge business machine which has its
at 26 Broadway, New York,
and he paints. for the first time in his
real colors, the man he declares to be
he greatest business genius of the period,
Henry II. Rogers. Then. with brutal di-
-ectness, he describes how in dividing the
profits of the amalgamated deal the big
yest fnanciers in Wall street were trick
ID and deceived like the veriest crowd of
If the double cross in modern finance