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


Dor. He will be accompanied by the
same man who went to the Yukon with
him They plan to cover about 1,200
miles of the widest part of the Rockies,
on foot and horseback, leading a pack
train OF six horses. While on the trail
Mr.. Garland performs most of the labor
himself, pitching camp and doing all his
own cooking. Arduous physical exer-
else he declares, clears his mind ana
refreshes his spirit.
A number of new sets of the "oilette
Post Cards. published by Raphael
have been recently issued, each packet
containing six post cards, printed in
colors. Three of the packets are of
American scenes, The Ghetto. New
and "Coney Island;' two English,
London and 'Stratford-on-Avon;" the
others belong to the wide, Wide
World series. and contain sets Of cards
Egypt" the cities of Adelaide Par
isl and ''Benares," and THE Arctic
Regions Each scene covers the entire
card on one side. Each card is an oil
Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
OF New York, sold on Wednesday of
last wee a shaspkere auarto Of unusual
history of King Leir and his three
daughters, Gonorill. Ragan, and Cor
della, as it hath been divers and sundry
times lately acted" 1906. The first
pere's king Lear of which this is one
of the plays, appeared in 1903. During
the last Is years, six copies of this edi-
ton have come into the market, SO that
this quarto may be considered compar-
ativeIy common; but the King Leir''
of 1905 is conspicuously rare, and never
before so far as the records show has
a copy been sold at auction. The only
specimen previously known is in the
British Museum.
Alas! What is fame? Mr.. Harold
MacGrath, whose popular novels. THE
Man on the Box and THE Princess
Elopes,'' are selling so fast that is takes
a rapid calculator to keep up with them,
was at his club recently, dining with
some financiers. The gentleman at the
right understood his name when he was
introduced, but failed to associate it
with the greased-lightning novelist. The
talk, OF course, was money, and of
course the talk was interesting. The
need of capital for huge enterprises was
the main spring. Finally Mr.. MacGrath
spoke up to his right-hand neighbor.
Yes, money is always necessary.
need it in nay business too
Pardon me. Mr.. MacGrath. but what
is your business7''
spending it," said Mr.. MacGrath.
Appleton's Booklovers Magazine for
August contains a timely article by
Booker T. Washington on What the
Carnegie Library Does for Tuskegee
Students" The attention of the public
has been drawn to the Alabama insti-
tute of late by the fact that President
Roosevelt is going to visit 1t in the ran,
possibly to return Washingtons historic
visit.
Eden Phillpotts it is understood, has
completed another group of stories in
continuation of his work as the novel
| iSt of Dartmoof.
Mrs. Amelia E. Barr is represented on
Dodd, Mead & Co.'S fall list by a New
York story. "Cecilia's Lovers
| Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett, who is
| spending the summer in England, is
| writing the last chapters of a novel, the
first long work from her pen in num-
Der of years.
Rev. E. Beach, author of ''Pardners,"
has given up business and intends to
! spend all his time writing. At present
| he has on hand a historical novel OF
! Alaska and a series of western athletic
| stories for McClure's.
| The Lothrop Lee & Shepard COM
| pany, of Boston, have received from
Rev. Edward Everett Hale 12-page
| introduction for their reproduction OF
''The only True Mother Goose as pub
| lished by Munroe & Francis, in Boston
in 1888. DR.. Hale regards this reprint
as a matter of great interest to the
| public and has given his happiest eff
| forts to the introduction.
| Some of the newspapers have had it
| that Booth Harrington expanded
! newspaper item to make his story 1.-The
| Beautiful Lady" Questioned in regard
| to this, Mr.. Harrington answered, Il
| was in Paris last July and saw a crowd
| one afternoon, on the pavement in front
of the Cafe de Ia Paix, all laughing,
| everybody up and down the boulevard
/ was laughing. The American bar
| around the corner was doing no BUSH
ness, patrons had emerged to stare. I
| worked through the crowd and saw my
fellow, the man with the painted head
| (Which might have been the title of the
/ story. He was a nice looking person,
| exceedingly well dressed and immensely
| unhappy. Afterward he haunted me.
| What could have induced a man of his
| type to do such a thing? Gradually the
| story came, and 1 wrote it. That's all
there is to it'-except to read it?'
The Baker & Taylor company an
nounces for fall an exceptionally at
tractive list of books. Among the
principal titles are. when You We're
a Boy" by Edwin L. Sabin; THE Poet,
| Montague, ''Fhe Appreciation of Pic
| lures" a companion to How to Judge
| Architecture" and 1.-THE Appreciation
| of Sculpture by Russell Sturgis; I'm
| pressions of japanese Architecture and
| the Allied Arts by Ralph Adams
! Cram, and ''Romances of Old France, !"
| by Richard LIE Gallienne.
| After an absence of nearly year
| spent visiting his native land, Henry
| James has returned once more to Eng
| land. It is said that Mr.. James finds
| his greatest enjoyment nowadays in
4aIx
/ try near his beautiful home in Sussex.
| Though in his novels Mr.. James con-
centrates all his attention upon char
| acter, in actual life he has come to
prefer the study of nature to that of
mankind, and his keenest pleasure
now comes to him, as he says himself,
| through his eyes" His recent visit.
/ giving him the opportunity to see
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