The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29

fat. nice worm. He ran as fast as he |
could to the chicken house for fear hls
e eee'f him. "o You are real mean. Mamma
said Always Divide; Now divide and l
I'M ana said: Give me the worm. There,
she said as she ate the worm, don't let
me hear any more of this"
Morning Thoughts to Cheer the Day
is the title of neat little volume selected
n anbli sFFanB by Little. Brown & Co There
are are $40 well chosen and inspiring selec-
daily reading. The writings of a remark
ABLY wide range of the best authors have
been drawn on for quotations OF t E y c1r1s
plete poem
A second large edition of DR., Weir
MitcheiTs 1.-The Youth of WASHING ton"
was needed to supply the demand before
issue.
ELLEN and Mr.. Man" just published:
makes the third of Gouverneur Morris
thor Mr.. Morris has been spending the
past year at San Mateo, a suburb OF san
most constant literary work. He is
graduate of Yale, '9s-
The oft-postponed play by Mr. stephen
Phillips appeared today under the u. fieie t OF
''The Sin Of David" Its theme Is the $40 SO
English civil war. Sir Hubert Isle. com
maTder Of the parliamentary forces in the
wife Of Col. Mardyke, who does not find
in her husband the man whom her being
iorn hope The scene where Mardyke rides
off to his doom is one OF the most ora
matte and Impressive in recent literature;
and the utter hollowness of life as the
punishment falls on Lisle and Miriam nye
\ - - av~arr ~ a,
ern poet would have conceived
Two editions were called for before
publication of Mr. Marion Crawford,s
new novel, ''Whoever Shall Offend" 1t
it T0m thsn have his recent Books. The first
review, that of the New York Tribune,
to his old power to tell story, and that
in adding excitement he has not lost
whit of his former skill and vigor.
The lists of ''best-sellers'' published in
The Bookman show the steady gradual
| in August it was third; In September II
s gise r ia'o crossins a tussie for arst
place before Christmas. This is the more
Miss STRIVES RiVes' novels When it is rememberea
4 that unlike some of her other books. The
Castaway" was pupn.sLh e Mirnoul hoiso
new novel by Rider Haggard is al
| WAYS a promise of exciting reading. The
far of and unusual is Mr.. Haggard's ia
vorite theme. His new book, THE Breth-
with his old ones in this regard. It is a
story of the cruSadeS, in which a young
tured BY his emissaries. carried to Pales-
| tine and rescued by two noble kn1ghts
who are both In love with ner tbio MT; ad if
the kind of adventure, mystery and ro-
| nance which has brought him his tremen-
| dous following. He gives very good pic
lures of the days of chivalry in England
and the pomp and pageantry of the ORR
entail camp.
Mcclure. Phillips & Co. furnish the fol-
lowing information, so it must be true
/ sas'': "a gentleman from Kansas, hav.
ing sent to Mcclure Phillips for a copy OF
that he was not pleased with it because
the book was not finished, the pages no.
having been cut. he Went 1o on TO ar sIe,
} send you a pair of shoes with nails stick
ing up in them, or your taiior sena you ,eya q
tice a little Christianity The Macmillan
Publishing company has played me tn,
| specify that want a finished book, or
don't want it all Though this comes
and this voice from the plains of the ives
. is heard with pleasure on the question o
VS.. the uncut book with its pleasantly ir
, regular edges
|
thor's best friend that palmist foretol
to Mrs. Katherine Cecil Thurston her sue
| cess as a novelist. A little while ago, be
= fore she had dreamed of taking up pen
: Mrs Thurston, who has sprung into wild
. fame with The Masquerade, visited
, palmist, who told her that she would b
famous as q novelist. Mrs Thursto
laughed at the idea at the time, and CAV
it no further thought. Now she declare
she can not but regard the much-abuse
1 science of chiremancy with some respect
=, Stewart Edward Whites first great sue
q cess, 1.-The Blazed Trail" has gone int
. an eighteenth edition.
\ The ephemera1 nature of current novel
2 is often mentioned: and it is a commo
v saving that the life of new novel aver
= ages three or four months. 1t depend
- | upon the novel. Hanlin Garlands Hes
G per, published a year ago, continues |
: | active demand. The Harpers have jus
) | sold a large edition of Hesper to a FRI
: | of Australian publishers for sale in tha
/, country Then, Josephine Daskam Bs
8 cons The Memoirs of a Baby, which til
r | Harpers published last spring, bids fair I
: be one of their best selling books this fal
\ and the same report could be made OF
= number of others
Cures Winter Cough.
Cover 1el N Main St. Ottaw;
r kan. writes: Every fall it has been m
" -uife's trouble to eaten severe cold, an
n therefore, to cough all winter long. La.
v fall got for her bottle of Horehoun
. Svr,1n She used it and has been able
- / siaer soIindly all night long Whenevf