The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-14

nOVel1sIS-a name that goes at once
to a place near the head of the list
She was born at Rockport, a beau
tiful little Hoosier town on the bluffs
of the Ohio. Most of her life she
has spent at Evansville, where slAs
conceived and executed the plot Of
her novel. 1t, too, is Of Indiana, deal
ing romantieally with the intrusion
of love at the celibate Rappite com
munity of New Harmony. Recently
Mrs. Blake moved to Minneapolis.
A new book by Gen. Chas. King
viii be published this fall by the Ho-
bart company. of New York. It will
be called "a Soldiers Trial. and cpl
sode OF the canteen crusade.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward has recently
returned from a trip to Munich, where
she has been to consult with Albert
Steiner the artist, over the illustra-
tons for her new novel, sFenwick's
the Century. beginning in the No
vember issue.
There are several novels by well
known authors on the fall list of
Messrs. Dodd, Mead & co. On Sep
TENDER 1 they published the follow
ing novels: ssNedra," by George Barr
McCutcheOn; 1.-The Edge of Circum-
stance by Edward Noble; Sunrise
Acres" by Benjamin Brace. On Sep
tenn Der 20 me RESURRECTION OF MISS
Cynthia, by Florence Morse Kings
ley, and "Cecilia's Lovers by Amelia
g. Barr. These will be followed by
1.-THE Man from Red Keg," by Eugene
Thwing; THE Mystery of June 18TH
by Melvin L. Severy, and MY Lady's
slipper" by Cyrus Townsend Brady.
Frank L. Baum, a Chicago writer,
is the man who originated the Woggle-
bug. The Wogglebug was born of a
careless reply to a little girls question.
The child found a small dddle-crab on
a California beach and ran to ask Mr..
Baum about it.
"Oh, what is it?" she cried.
"a Wogglebug," Mr. Baum an
swered using, as he tells the story,
the first term that came into his head.
The little girl was Immensely
pleased by the funny name; and Mr..
Baum at once put the Wogglebug into
a continuation of his famous Wizard
of o. on which he was then at work.
Business Philosophy is the title of
a new book by Benjamin +. Cobb,
recently published by the Thomas Y.
Croweu company.
''The Regeneration of Aunt Mary" by
Anne aWrner, which Little, Brown &
Co. published on October 2. has al
ready gone into a third edition. The
author in her latest book has written
q SLQAS CALEA4AiA6 III AAltEAESA UQLA gu
san Clegg and Her friend AIRS. Lath-
rop," and "A Woman's Will" accord
ing to the critics.
Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co. will soon
issue "A Life of Charles Dickens" by
Gilbert K. Chesterton. author Of va
ried Types" There are few men whose
position in English literature is more
fiercely disputed than Charles Dickens.
Mr.. ChestertOn's contribution to the
controversy is bound to be novel and
worthy of attention.
Mrs. John Elliott MAUD EIowe) who
is at Oak Glen, Newport, R. L, with
her mother. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. has
been giving readings from her forth
coming volume of Italian studies and
sketches, Two in Italy, at the resi-
dences of some of the prominent New
port cottages: at the first, given at the
house of Mrs. E. Rollins Morse, Ana
crap" being the subject. On Monday,
October 2, Mrs. Elliott read "Buona
4 ortune," at Mrs. William Storrs
Wells, and later. at the house of Mrs.
William G. Weld, The Hermit of
Pietro Anzieri" was the theme. Mrs.
Elliott's new book. to be published by
Little, Brown & Co, Boston, late, viii
be illustrated from drawings by Mr.
Elliott