The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-25


production at indianapolis when the stage
manager fell i'll. knowing that Mr.. Tar
kington had had plenty of experience
with plays during his college days. the
mana cement autographed asking him if
he would be willing to take up the dis
abIed stage managers work Mr. T'arIxine-
ton replied by appearing on the scene ana
achieving the success in the role of stage
manager that he has the habit Of aefieY-
ing in whatever he turns his hand to-
The copy of the first quarto of Titus
brought to its Swedish owner the pleasant
sum of $4,000 from Messrs. Sotheran Of
paid for it is not known. The book has
arrived IN this country and will probably
stay here. The British museum authori-
ties made no attempt TO acquire it. The
history of this copy can be traced for a
little more than a hundred years. The
accountant of the eighteenth century,
whose great grandfather is believed to
nave emigrat ted to Sweden from Scotland
1t is said to be probable that this and
plays were carried abroad BY actors, who
Travelled in the great dramatist's time
nearly as much as they do now.
Dedd. Mead & Co. announce, for early
publications. monumental record of prices
whcih rare and out-of-print books have
OF the last quarter century in England
and America, in 4 vols, Svo. 1t is de-
consulting the back volumes of the two
ANIMALS Book-Prices Current (cnglish)
ana American I5OOk-EriceS a
well, to L considerable extent, of the eat
alogues of the important earlier sales
sucn as the Sunderland, Beckford, Men
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omy of purchasing such a record will be
apparent Books will be arranged alpha
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thor, by titles, the records of sales being
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OF sale, month and year Of sale. Original
number in the SHE cn talop1e and 5 rice
brought, with other nece ssary information
about condition, and about special copies.
A copy of the First Folio Shakespeare
was acquired by the Bodleian library at
Oxford in February 1924. Some years af-
yer Inc DOCK, once cnalned and appar-
entity much read by graduates" vanished
from within those learned precincts Only
TINS winter II turned up again, brought to
Oxford by the son of a Derbysfire fam
century and half. It is still clothed in
the original binding and that, with the
chain marks on it and the threading and
arrangement of the leaves. proved the
Eenuineness of the volume" The Academy
says: An interesting detail is the obser-
walton Of what plays We're most read be-
tween 1924 and the civil wars The most
worn play was Romeo and Juliet and
then, in order, Julius Caesar Macbeth
Wives of Windsor The Tempest and
.Hamiet' The last clearly did not hold
Julius Caesar has dropped behind
That truth is stranger than fiction. was
again demonstrated when a critic recently
complained that the Turing away of Presi-
deHl Grant Dy the Solu Clique IN Frederic
S. 1sham's latest novel, BLACK Friday
is both a sensational and impossible cpl
sode- As matter of fact, the author
found the episode difficult to handle be-
cause there was so much truth in it. Grant
was induced to go to a little town, remote
from telegraphic communication through
the representations of the gold crowd,
headed by Fisk and Could, who desired
him out of the way on Black Friday With
the president at the bedside of a sick
friend, it would be impossible for the gov
eminent to sell gold or to prevent the cor
ner- So much was cleVerly arranged; only
Grant became suspicious of the zeal of his
friends, and in the end ordered the sale
of gold. The subsequent investigation
cleared the presidents skirts of ali com
piicity of Black Friday. "All of which
shows, added Mr., Isham, that Wall
street in those days had as many strings
reaching to Washington as it has todayn