The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-16

bic evidence that they We're genuine pic
lures OF an existing colony of this VANISH
ing animal found in Montana, many PEG
pie would find it impossible to look upon
them with anything but incredul1ty.
Horace Howard Furness. ST., whose mon
umental work. the Variorum Edition OF
Fl Sna axes plays, Is every heae
ton. of Loves Labor Lost, which is to
be. the next volume to be added to this
pany are the publishers. This new volume
comes from the hands of DR. Horace
Howard furness, sr., in accordance with
the plan for division of work, an
nounced within few months, by which
the editorship Of the comedies in the Vari-
Drum Edition will continue to be the work
of the elder DR.. F'urness while the other
play Will be edited by his son, DR.. Horace
Howard Furness, jr.
In the discussion Of the two books of
Messrs. Herbert S. Stone & Co, the book
of prose has surprised the reviewers less
than the book of verse Current opinion,
thinking of such men Mark Twain,
Peter Dunno and George AIDE, gives our
the verse. But this little book proves that
we have many poets with a light touch
and charming wit.
Harold R. Durant, young lawyer Of
printed in the April McC1ure's under in
teresting circumstances. A friend recent
~ mao story accepted by one OF tae
lesser nctlon magazines and was inclined
to gloat over the fact. Durant immedi-
ately offered a wager that he could write
a story and nave 1t accepted by one OF
the best magazines. The bet was taken
DuFant wrote a story Of a prize fight AMI
sent it to McClure's. Tt was at once ac-
cente1 and won its writer's bet as well as
the amateur, Vet bears signs Of ability
# has : 0riza ey,t IN If i5I-ideI,tlxr VIII
ten con amore) that gives it a distinction
and grip to the story, such as is not Of
ten found even in the work of more ex-
perienced writer's.
curing material for further articles on
THE Great Labor Conflicts" the series
writes that he finds Chicago a mine of.
information, the real thing as he eX-
leaders MIR. Baker has met there said
to him: 'McClure's is doing the real
thing This is the first time the labor
problem has been fairly and broadly
discussed
The Kentucky newspapers are stin
waging q bitter, double headed, italic
war over the authorship of the article
on Caleb Powers in the March McClure's.
The anti-Powers papers first claimed that
Samuel Hopkins Adams, the writer, was
a myth FINALLY convinced Of his iden-
tity, they claim he is an unknown writer
of no standing who simply allowed the
use of his name for another's work. If
these critics will read The Little Fat
Fiddler in the April McClure's they will
have any honest doubts as to Mr.. Adams
ability and standing as a writer quickly
dispeIIed.
Henry (. ROWlanu, the author OF sea
Scamps'' and many popular short stories
has gone to South Africa for a two
months outing of hunting and eXplora-
ton. DR.. Rowland IS a natural vagabond
and has fairly encompassed the globe in
his wanderings. His latest story will be
published in the May Mcclure
George Bernard Shaw does not lose his
hold upon the public, as the performance
proved. Whoever acts his plays he him
self occupies the center of the stage. and
it is the play and its characters which
are afterwards the subject of discussion.
To those who have discovered Bernard
Shaw, no other books can quite take the
place of his plays Pleasant and Unpleas-
ant and Three Plays for Puritans-"
The title which Mr. William Eleroy Cur
It's invented for the Japanese, THE Yam
KEGS OF the East, seems particularly ap-
propriate at this time. The book to which
he gave this name is one of the keenest
that has been written by a foreigner
about the nation which occupies the CEN
ter of things at present. It is published
in two volume s.syyitla' many illustrations
The coming Smoot inquiry calls atten-
ton to The Story of the Mormons' BY
William Alexander Linn, published cou-
tbe NTornaons and Norrnonism from its
inception to the present day. It sets forth
the origin of the sect and the character Of
Joseph Smith tells the story OF the sue
Missouri. to Illinois, and thence across
the plains to Utah; pictures Brigham
United States government; and explains
the origin of polygaTny and its place as a
necessary doctrine of the church. The
book is founded on Mormon evidence.
.eWhos Who has come to be recog--
nized as an indispensable handbQok. Of
reference for living persons in the British
Empire. The edition for 1904 IS larger
than its predecessors, in spite OF the re-
moval of various tables to form the
who's Who Year Book" The names, ad5 5
| dresses occupations, interests ana
achievements of IA, 900 men and women IN
the British Isles and elsewhere are mere
set forth
New York Note: William Allen White
| editor of The Gazette, Enporia, Kan,
and author of all sorts of things, stopped
! in New orlz on his way to Washington
to attend the publishers dinner Mr. 4:
| White admits that next to EmDor1a ne
rather prefers New York, and says that
! if he could only arrange to get the cry
country -newspaper), he might transfer l1sf;el
his publishing efforts to the metropolis
! Mr White has just completed an article
4 on the Grand Canyon of Arizona for " C. C.
| Clure's Magazine, which Lundgren Will
! illustrate in colors.