The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-11

I land, is of greatest interest There are
! the usual departments and other mat
ter of interest to women within and
without the home
DR.. Lyman Abbott's recent sermon at
Harvard university, which has provOk-
ed widespread discussion, is soon to be
published in booklet form by Messrs-
Thomas Y Crowen & Co. 1t is enti-
tied God in His World" Newspaper
critics and theologians have been great
ly divided in their opinions over the
published accounts, some calling DIR.
Abbott an atheist. others a pantheist,
while still others warmly commend the
utterance. A large demand has arisen
for the publication of this notable adj
dress in permanent form, and wide
sale for it is therefore predicted.
Harper's Bazaar says: 1.-The exclama-
ton point, in conversation or in life
betrays emotional lack of balance and
waste of energy POise reserves itself
for the right occasion. and emphasizes
important things without the need of
its owner from unnecessary words or
acts, and prepares her for necessary
ones. Unless one have an aim in life,
pOise is never really attained. It is
not mere repose. 1t is the collecting
and balancing of ones forces. A we'll
known modern doctor asserts that a
woman with a perfect bodily carriage
is always noted for exceptional power,
either mental or physical, but generally
both If this is true of bodily poise,
what power must come from the right
poise and aim of the whole nature!'
A book which promises to be one of
the most absorbing of the year is the
Memoirs of a Great Detective-Inci-
dents in the Life of John Wilson Muir
ray, edited by Victor Speer and pub
lished in the United States by the Ba-
ker & Taylor company. John Wilson
Murray was chief Of the Ontario de-
tective service, and one of the cleverest
and best known detectives of this con-
tinent and perhaps of the world His
methods and his success have never
been eQualled, outside of fiction and
indeed the stories which appear in the
records reveal such remarkable clever
ness and tenacity as to make them at
times almost incredible. Mr.. Murray
was known as "Old-Never-Let-Go Muir
ray" During 80 years he solved hun
dreds of murder mysteries, forgeries
robberies, and uncovered some of the
most notable counterfeiting gangs of
the world, tracking criminals over two
continents and fighting desperate bat
ties when defeat meant death. These
memoirs comprise a series of detective
tales which are literally true and yet
reveal stratagems as clever as those of
Doyle and Gaboriau. There is further
a dramatic interest in the volume which
equals anything in fiction.
Apropos Of the new and definite edi-
llOu OF SW1nDQTne-S poems. winch IHe
Harpers have just published a friend
of the great living poet writes this an
ecdote: He told me once how he had
longed to fight for England in the
Crimea. It was in the days of his boy
hood, when. for his passionate love of
cliffs and desOlate shores, he was called
the Sea-gull. The tale of Balaklava
was firing England when he left Elton
and FASTENED to his mother with an
eager entreaty that he might draw the
sword for his country and lead Eng
iisnmen into the smoke of battle To
all his entreaties, however, Lady Jane
Swinburne turned deaf ear. and the
schoolboy-to whom the army was then
the only profession worth rush-went
out from her with a bursting heart
But it suddenly occurred to him: After
all, how do I know that I am worthy
to lead a forlOrn hope?' In front of
him rose the Culver Cluff, sheer and
awful, probably yet unscaled by man. |