The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-15

new volume of poems by Paul Laurence
Dunbar, Lyrics Of Sunshine and Shad-
ow," new edition of ''Orley Farm" in
their uniform reprint of Anthony Troll
ope's works, and THE Automobile Rec
ord" designed especially for the keep
ing in handy form of data regarding
runs and expenses.
J. S. McLain. twenty years ago with
the passenger department of the Santa
F7e at Topeka but now editor of the
Minneapolis Journal has written a book
on Alaska and the klOndlke Which IS
pronounced the most authitative book
on the frozen land of gold yet written.
Schiller's centenary is to be celebra-
ted in Paris. the root of this proceeding
springing from his early revolutionary
writings. He was made a French citi-
zen by decree of the convention.
Where did Mr.. Kipling get his title.
'Trafics and Discoveries" A cores
pOndent of 1.-The London Academy
mentions an origin which has doubtless
suggested itself to many readers, name
", the well known title of Hakluyt's
voyages.
Only a few copies of the first edition
of Sydney's Arcadia" are in existence,
and all, it is said, are more or less inn
perfect. One of them was SOLD in Lon
don the other day-to Mr.. Sabtn-for
81, $50. It was sold in 1884 for S56. Some
of the poems were omitted, and all were
revised for the second edition OF 1888
therefore is this rare first edition ex-
trenely interesting in a literary sense.
Strangely enough, in these days when
noVelists have ransacked every nook
and corner of the globe, New Greece,
which carries still about it the romance
Of Old Greece, has almost escaped at
tention. There was Phroso, to be sure.
But George Horton has had a virtual
monopoly. During his period of service
as consul to Athens in President CleVe-
lands second administration, he gained
material for two volumes of verse and
several novels, including the popular
Like Another Helen and the recently
published Monks Treasure. His book
on Greek country life, In Argolis, as
we'll as his novels on Greek subjects,
were favorably received by the faculties
of the different universities of America,
who sent a petition to President Roose-
welt asking that he be reinstated in his
old post. He was reappointed on De-
eember %. 1904 Steps have been taken
looking to a Greek edition of The
Monks Treasure.
1.-THE Wing of Love" is the title of a
dainty. pastel-like little story by Kath-
crime Mary CheeVer Meredith, which
McCIure-P Phillips announce for publica-
ton April Is. About a decade ago Mrs.
Meredith wrote a great deal under the
nom de plume of Johanna Stats. Her
greatest success at that time was
"Drumsticks." The present story. in
which Mrs Meredith takes up her liter
airy work again, is & tale Of life among
the painting, literary, musical and
newspaper Bohemians of New York,
centering around a little girl who is the
comfort and joy of group of attic
dwelling. empty-poeketed geniuses.
During his lifetime Edgar Allan Poe
considered himself lucky if he earned
$500 in a year His wife died as much
from want of proper care and nOurish-
nent as from actual disease. And yet,
the manuscript of one of his poems,
"Ulalume," was sold recently in New
York for $1,000. The poem contained
ten stanzas, 104 lines. but the last stan
"a was never printed It reads:
Said we, then, we two then: "Ah. can it
Have been that the woodlandish
ghouls-
The pitifuI, merciful ghouls,
/ To bar UP our way and to ban it
From the secret that lies in these
Wolds-
| From the thing that lies hidden in
these wolds,
! Have drawn up the specter of a planet
! From the limbo of lunary souls
{ This sinfully. scintillating planet
From the hell of the planetary soulsi' -
Mrs. Jarrens book. Meg Valencia. is
| having a good sale in Topeka.
CHM & Co. have just issued a new
algebra for secondary schools by Pro-