The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-29

Cyrus Townsend Brady, formerly
Archdeacon Brady of Topeka, has
promised to complete the rest OF the
manuscript of the True Andrew JOCK
SON. by August 1. He has been more
than two years engaged In collecting
material for this book. and the pub
fishers anticipate the issue OF vol
ume which in fund of anecdote snail
not be surpassed by any other volume
of the series of True Biographies
DR.. Brady is working at Toledo. Ohlo'
where he recently took up minis
terial charge.
It is an old trick of Kipling to pre-
face a story with scrap of verse.
He has chosen for introduction to
IAN Habitation Enforced" which APP
pears entire in the August Century,
these lines of Thomas Tusser:
MY friend. if cause doth wrest thee
Ere folly nath much oppressed thee,
Far from acquaintance kest thee,
Where country may digest thee,
Thank God that SO hath blessed thee
And sit down, Robin, and rest thee.
Students of Dante the world over
will be interested in the announce
ment that the great Dante library, re-
Gently purchased by Leo S. Olschki,
and combined with his own important
collection. has been presented to the
city of Ravenna, the burial place of
Dante, as a memorial to the great
poet. Some time ago the citizens of
Ravenna started a movement for the
erection of a costly monument to
Dante, and considerable money was
raised for this purpose. It IS now
urged that this money be used in
erecting a library building on ground
to be set apart by the city, to house
the Olschki collection and such other
donations of Dante literature as may
be offered in the future. The colIec-
ton contains every translation, even
At ft1ra
''Divine Comedy" that has ever been
in print, as well as the minor works
of Dante.
After writing "The Sultan of sulu"
and THE Shotgun" George AIDE took
a trip to Japan. 1t might have been
to make sure he had got his local
color right, but it wasn't. The extent
of AIDES trip was entirely accidental.
He set out for a brief cruise in the
West Indies. but while in Havana was
attracted to Vera Cruz, thence to the
City of Mexico, then to Ell Paso, and
finally after landing In San Francisco,
he got an attractive Whit of the Ha-
waiian islands. On the way to Homo
lulu he took a liking to the COrea, and
decided to continue on her to Japan.
If. as Booth Harrington says, you
can't suppress AIDE" perhaps, in spite
of Henry w. Savage, he will put into
reading form some of the observa
lions of his trip. If he should bring
to bear upon them the rather more
serious literary talent he showed in his
book of short stories, ''In Babel" the
result would be sure to be shrewd and
informing. Considering the variety Of
visits he made, it's too bad he has
already used the title.
Writing from the japanese front to
a New York friend, Richard Barry,
whose stirring book, Port Arthur, a
Monster HerOiSnn," is receiving such
wide attention, humorously compares
his condition now with that before
Port Arthur. Then, it will be remem-
bered the brilliant young corre-
spondent lacked almost everything in
the way of equipment; he had not
even q newspaper backing, having
gone to the front on borrowed money,
and far too little of that, to see war
for himself and find his own market
afterward. There is a difference this
time he writes, 81 have a horse, an
interpreter. servant, complete OUTFIT
and new leather clothes. The only
thing not new is my nonchalant assur-
ance that the trip will pan out" Mr..
Barry represents Golfers this time,
and is with Nogi's left, covering a
movement which, if peace does not in
tervene. will soon make startling his
tory.
Senator John w. Daniel who is
editing the memoirs of General Early,
after an extended trip in the search
for notes and additions to the book.
has returned to his home at Wash
ington, D. c., where he will devote the
next six weeks in completing the man
uscript
Hamlin Garland, who has been spend
ing several weeks at his old home in
West Salem, Wis, is planning to 'hit
the trail again. and will shortly go to