The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-12

BOOKS AND SEASONS.
Maud Wilder Goodwin in the August
when daffodils are out, and tender veil
OF green mists all the willows by the
Our hearts are drawn to thy beloved
wordsworth. thou prophet of the hill
when Fiper summer sweeps her scented
Above the rose. dehowered. our senses
Themselves in verses deep and calm
sheIiey's '@AIastOr," Sponsors faery
When autumn whistles shrin. its skies
Heiae,s chill smile and omars smiling
To TIE warm hearth-hre on a winters
The Roman and the Florentine draw
Each poet claims season for his
Sweet Shakespeare. the round year is
thine alone
Mr.. Thos. c. Plat, the senior senator
from New York, remarks on his seven
second birthday, that he has had many
days and months and years, some of
them fruitful, some barren, but none of
them worth while" Being in a philoso-
phica1 mood, he now realizes, or says he
does. that his life might have been 80
much better or so different from what
e~ON'
that his. life was not worth while, -
but that "the political game as played
It was not worth while, and that if I
could do it all over again I would play
seem that the estimable senator took his
text for this interesting disserta ton
from 1.-THE Plum Tree" a book which
he has been recently reading. Says the
great political boss who is the central
figure in Mr.. Phillips story: t'I sudden
~ had a clear understanding of my abb
eorption in this wretched game 1 had
been playing year in and year out with
Wretched game with its counterfeit
stakes; and the more man wins the
poorer he is
The Smart Set has planned some no.
table literary features for its summer
numbers. The novelties in the July.
August and September issues will be
written by three of the most distin-
guished American women authors-Ger-
trude Atherton, Mrs. Burton Harrison
and Molly Elliot Seawell. Mrs Atherton's
story, which will open the July num-
her, is called 1.-The Travelling Thirds -
and is a delightful record of the adven-
lures which befau a party of Americans
who for the sake of an experience.
travel third-class through Spain.
A romance of Cornwall. entitled "a
Child of the Shore has been added
to the fiction published by John Lane.
It is by S. NJ. Fox. The scenes of the
story are those in which lived Robert
Stephen Hawker, the vicar poet
who solemnly assured visitors that he
had on occasion seen mermalds- in the
sea along the beach.
4, In the August issue Tales once more
presents a remarkable collection of
great stories translated from various
Europeans languages. The issue con-
tains a complete novel. an installment
of a serial and a round dozen short
stories, supplemented by the usual in
teresting notes, biographical and criti-
cal, on the authors represented. Five
of the stories are French. three Ger
man, two Russian, one Italian, one
Spanish, one Swedish and one Aneri-
can.
In the new edition of 1.-The Life of
Franklin Mr.. Bigelow says that the
portion of Franklin's life in which he
As commonly thought to have placed the
world under the most considerable OBJ
legation was spent abroad in diplomacy,
a calling in which a lasting name has
rarely If ever been achieved. That
Franklin proved an exception, he con-