The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-10

the best of DR.. Mitchens historical work.
and as an extraordinary achievement in
literary art.
Doubleday. Page & Co. have printed on
special paper and put in handsome red
eiGTa binding IND 1oo9 nHmhsse i 99pief Of the
is known as !sfh 1e Library Edition" The
price of each copy is 800
Henry Wallace Phillips. the clever hu-
\ morist and creator Of RED Saunders
has side line. 1t is science. His ambi-
ton is to get away from the rich field
west and secure the publication of sci
enee story from his pen For" he writes;
know, it is how to treat Syense-"
It is announced that in the October Nc
Clure's Lincoln Steffens is to tell the in
! side story of the great political struggle
now being waged In Wisconsin for and
! against Governor l4aFollette and the re-
| forms he is advocating The story of this
fierce political war should make dramatic
/ as We'll as instructive reading.
Dr. Edward Everett HaIe's Memories
of Hundred Years" published two years
ago in two volumes, will be published this
fall by The Macmillan company in one
/ terial and three additional chapters. In
1 one Of these DR.. Hale describes his jour
involving thirteen days and fwenty-eight
! changes of carriage.
To those VINO are investigating psychic
! phenomena. nature cure, rational hygiene
achievement of health, happiness and sue
! cess through the application of the princl-
pies of the New Psychology, the Septem-
Der issue of Suggestion (Chicagol will be
/ particularly interesting. Dr. Parkyn, the
SUGGESTION may be used to Danish ill
| health, and several articles relate to the
cure of consumption by drugless methods.
Fox, Duffield & Co, New York. have
| published a book which Will please a few
'.Crozier's General Armory: a Register OF
American Families Entitled to Coat Ar
liam Armstrong Crozier. r r. s., fur
nishes descriptions of nearly two thou
first of the family in America. the date of
his coming and the place in which he set
! tied
The late Thomas Mast. the cartoonist.
whose biography by MI AlPebt Bhlge1ETpw lev
Macmillan Co, died in Ecuador in the
enf 81 fhe as %Sen yeldM fever broke
| out, and stayed at his post, refusing TO
! leave when others did ana TOOK the fever
| and died The material tor TINS biogra-
ply was confided by him in person to the
author, and the book viii be illustrated
with reproductions of about 400 of Mr.,
Nasts best cartoons
The Harpers report excellent sales for
George AIDES latest book of fables err
| titled Breaking Into Society" There IS
no denying AIDES large and growing pop.
readers. Here is the latest skit on the
celebrated fabulist's work:
"A LITERARY DIGEST.
Very fond OF good books was young
For dinner he'd start in with Lang;
He'd wash down Bill Nye
With some James extra dry.
From what Judge Parker said about the
SoIoTado s, situation iiI IN his speech Of aS-
mitted without challenge the statement OF
recent magazine article in which the
governor of Colorado was denounced as
having met lawlessness with lawlessness.
1t might be Wen for the Democratic can
state set forth n The Reader Maya
zine for September before handing down
Peabody VS.. The Western Federation of
Miners. The article is entitled The Su-
premacy of Law.
The Harpers introduced a clever new
writer on September when they publish
ture under the title of The Castle Come
dy'' The author Is THOMPSON Buchanan,
young Kentuckian. who has struck a
very delightful note of romance in his
Iaid DoPk ng scenes t + on en nf f f5e ras
young officer, half French. half English,
distin guished for his daredevil exploits
and adventurous spirit Disguised 4
dancing master, he enters the home of
series of lively escapades in which a beau
tifuI cousin OF the hero figures. The book
and is bound in holiday dress.
VIII Irwin. co-author with Gelett Bur
CESS of The Reign of Queen Isyr' and
The Picaroons.' is an almost idola-
trous worshiper of animals. During his
life he has had almost every kind of a
pet. from a white mouse to a COW. His
dearest animal chum was a black cat,
who. from her prowling. thievish habits,
was given the name of ''PicarOon, which
served later as the title for the last Bur-
gess-Irwin book The Picaroon was a
great inspiration to Mr. Irwin during his
typewriter and play with the rubber
eraser that hung from it by string. MIR.
Irwin, when he came east few months
ago. was obliged to leave Picaroon behind
he received a notwithstanding telegram
telling of Picaroon's untimely death. and
he declares the demise of his favorite has
robbed him of all desire to write.
II is perhaps no more than mere coin
cidence that The Seeker and The Loves
of Edwy'' should appear almost simulta-
neOusly. though from different persons, yet
the c0incidence is striking inasmuch as
they are written by husband and wife
Rose Cecil O'Neill is Mrs. Henry Leon
The Loves of Edwy.' and illustrator of
Mr. Wilson : THE Seeker 1t isn't deroga-
tory to the intrinsic value of Mr.. Wilson
work TO state that his wifes Illustrators
had much 10 do with the success or MS
first novel The Spenders." any more
than il would possibly hurt Mrs Wilson s
feelings to declare that the illustrations
of The Loves of Edwy' constitute half
of the attractiveness of that book MI
Wilson has been assistant in his father 3
country printing Office. stenographer for q
railway official, newspaper reporter, again
contributor to Puck. In 1872 he became
associated with II. C Bunner, then edi-
tor of that periodical, and on Mr.. Bun
ner's death he was promoted TO be editor.
He resigned in 1909 to devote his time 70
writing novels. and he has since pro
ouced three Mrs. Wllson mas peen LOT