The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-03

which incident the poet is said to have
taken as a happy amen.
I'm all his wanderingS, after he left
London in 1916, Byron showed close in
wants. He continually refers to one OF
another in his letters to Hanson, his So
licitor; to his sister Augusta, and to
Moore In 1920 when WiddowsOn died
the poet was living in Venice, and the
epitaph was doubtless sent to England
inclosed in one of his letters to Mrs
Leigh, many of which carried frag-
ments grave or gay. One cannot es-
cape the presumption that the man who
wrote the splendid epitaph to his dog
would have given these half dozen lines
to the memory of his favorite gardener.
IF Byron did not write them, who
did? Some one certainly connected with
the abbey. They bear no marks of rus
ITCHY. And what gardener buried in a
country church ever had a classical and
original epitaph before? Besides, the
very phraseology is Byronic: witness
Sons of Flora and 'Votary's urn,' not
to speak of the peculiar inversion and
climax of the closing couplet."
The Cleveland Leader says:
Newspaper men will delight inJoseph
A. Altsheler'S Guthrie of the Times, y
because it puts the enterprise, the en-
durance, and the ethics of their craft
before the people with vividness and
truth.
The world undertakes the reporter;
puts him in the wrong class. This will
enlighten it as to the way in which he
regards his work and more particular
ly to his sacroSanct attitude toward
the moral obligations of his position.
The opening page starts in with this
needed education. After he has finished
the chapter, the reader will estimate
the reporter higher, because he will
know him better.
Guthrie is the correspondent of the
Times in the capital city of a southern
which one. readily recognizes as
Kentucky. He has been given excluS-
i've information of the crime of ayoung
society man who holds a political office
which enables him to steal the money
from famous family;he has a mother
and a sister. The Silver-haired bishop,
who had confirmed Guthrie, comes to
him and begs him to suppress the news.
did enlightens the reader.
Being of the south, the story is po-
1itical. 1t also is feministic in the same
way. Where you encounter southern
in life, book or play, there, also, are
chivalry and romance.
The lovemaking in the book, though,
does not monopolize 1t. Politics Is its
main theme, and politics of the kind.
too, that one recognizes as true. NE.
Altsheler has been through the journal
listic mill. No one who had not follow
ed with the men who gave commands
and the others carried them out; who
ndQ not set QOWn night aIIeE night IIlG
speeches of the candidates and ended
with the nominating conventions, could
place such conditions and the men be-
hind them with such before the reader.
And, by the same token, the life
social, political, legislative-of a cap
ital city during the session of the leg
islature, could not be known so init
mately or reported so graphically un-
less there was personal experience be-
hind the pen which told OF them.
Still, this Guthrie of the Times is
not story for newspaper men alone.
They will glorify in it because it glori-
fies their craft, and because, also, the
next best thing to talking shop is read
ing of it.
But the everyday man or woman will
like the tale because 1t has good red
tells about-the people to whom he in
PRODUCES us-are not only real, but IA
miliar.
The book is a slice out of the great
cheese of life at which we all have
When one has finished it he Will have
made the acquaintance not only of
Guthrie, but of the large body ofyoung
men. who sat unconsciously for Mr..
Altsheler as he drew him; honest, brill
liant, high-minded. brave, and modest
newspaper fellows who make other
men famous every day in their lives
and keep in the background them
selves, content with the doing of their
day, Page & Co., New York.
Josephine Daskam's new book Her
Fiance" has just been published by
the Henry AltemuS company of Phil
adelphia. 1t is a book of short stories
of college life that will prove of special
interest to a girl. The volume is illus
trated by Elizabeth Shipper Green.
Aesop's Fables arranged for children
by Nellie Perkins Dobbs and illustrat-
49,
press of Crane & Co. of Topeka The
book is neatly bound and is printed in
large clear type. The text is simplihed
so that while the idea of the ancient
writer is preserved the language is
such as will easily. hold the attention
of children for whom the volume is
designed.
Christmas books are not so common as
they once were. But on those we have
there is lavished a care and skill in
decoration, material, and workmanship
which was almost unthought Of few
years ago. The Christmas book of to-
day must be something more than a
classic embalmed. 1t must attract the
eye because of Its artistic enbellish-
ments. but ii must also appeal to the
reader by the quality and sentiment of
its story, whether it be in verse of
pose. Awhile ago Ralph Henry Bar
bour, the author of several successful
books, wrote a story entitled Kitty of
the 1AOS0S- Inc SNSclUeSS u
this love story at once determined his
publishers to spare no effort in empha-
sizing its charm by the use of illustra-
ton and dainty binding.
So kitty of the Roses has just been
published with full-page illustrations in
color and illustrations or decorations in
tint on every page, by Frederic ]. Won
Rapp. Published by the j. B. Lippin-
colt company of Philadelphia. 1t is
bound in ribbed vellum cloth, with in
laid pictures, is printed with broad mar
gins on fine coated paper, and presented
in decorated box
The Crane classics. published by