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

to the admirable, the Incompatible his
tory it revealed in his voluminous cor
respondence.
The Harpers are printing a new edi-
ton of ''Trilby'' to be sent to England.
The revival of interest in Du Maurier's
masterpiece is considerable in England.
This is the third time in the last few
months that a new edition has been
ordered for the English market, and
the American sales have been good.
Wilton Lackaye expects to appear in
the role of SVengali in the dramatic
version many times this winter in the
principal cities all over the United
States.
An attempt to tell in straightfor-
ward way the story of the romantic
and picturesque events in the life of
one of the most interesting women in
history, has been made by A. H. Miller,
in MARY Queen of Scots: Her Life
story" just published by Charles
Scribner's Sons.
Frederick A. Stokes company will
publish early in the fall Anthony
Public" also. a volume of stories en-
titled 1.-THE Black Spaniel by Robert
Hichens. 1.-THE Garden of Allah is
now in its seventh large printing and
Rose of the World''s in its fourth
printing.
The Century company has in prep
aration for fall publication a book on
Versailles and the Court Under Louis
XIV" by James Eugene Farmer, in
structor in English literature at ST.
Pauls school, Concord, and the author
OF Essays on French History" etc.
1t also announces the first Red Saun-
ders novel, plain Mary Smith," by
Henry Wallace Phillips.
Fox, Dufie1d & Co. have in prepara-
| ton an illustrated edition of Kenyon
Cox's "Old Masters and New publish
ed this spring.
H. Hayden Sands, the traveller poet
of Haydenville. Mass, who is known to
magazine readers from his occasional
poems which breathe an other age mys-
ticism, has just completed a more am
bilious work of verse, 1.-The Valley of
Dreams" which will be issued shortly
from the press of t N Fouls F.din-
burg, and Alfred Bartlett, Boston. The
volume has been daintily illustrated by
AdolfO de NeSti, the clever italian artist
whose pen has added to the enjoyment
of d Annunzio's works. Mr.. Sands read
the proofs of the volume in his favorite
retreat at Burford Bridge Inn, Box Hill,
Surrey, England, where he wrote most
Of the lines. and is now cruising in the
far-reaching lochs Of Scotland. THE
Valley of Dreams sets forth a philoso-
Ply of life, seeking to lift the reader
from the material to the enjoyment of
Beauty. which is the poets higher god.
The volume includes a collection of the
authors shorter poems and sonnets.
Samuel NJ. Gardenhire, the New
York lawyer and former Topekan, who
is the author of two recent successful
novels, LUX Crucis" and THE Silence
of Mrs. Harold" CHarpers), has just
sailed for Germany. His wife accom-
panies him. They plan first to go
through the German cathedral towns,
then down the Rhine, and take an
automobile trip through Austrian
Tyrol, Switzerland, the Swiss passes,
and Lake Geneva, the Rhone river val
ley, and the French cathedral towns
following the general plan, in fact,
outlined in 1.-THE Lightning Conduc-
tor"
Miss Ethel Barrymore's engagement
to Captain Harry Graham reminds one
that Captain Graham dedicated his last
and most successful book to her. The
clever pages of misrepresentation
Men, were preceded by a portrait of
Miss Barrymore and dedicatory verses.