The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22

.. NJ. Gdrdenhlre, formerly VI IppS-
Ia, has a thrilling detective story in
this weeks Saturday Evening Post.
Mr.. Melville E. Stones fifth paper on
THE Associated Press in the August
Century, will tell with plenty OF anec-
dote, how the association works in war
time. Mr. Stone will also discuss in
this installment the assertion, so often
made. that the Associated Press is a
monopoly
Roger Pocock's cowboy story Curly, F."
has taken the British reading public
captive. The English critics are hail1ng
Mr.. Pocock as a second Bret Harte. In
this country where more western stor-
les are published, Curly is being read
for its capital cowboy humor- Inc Out,
look, New York, pronounces curly
quite the best cowboy story since The
Virginian."
There will probably be a second edi-
ton of Meg of Valencia" Myra Will
Jams JarrelPs novelette, published by
Crane & Co.
August 18th has been definitely de-
termined upon as the date OF puollca-
ton for Harry Leon Wilson's new
novel, 1.-The Boss of Little Already, =
which the Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
company. of Boston, have in press, to
be issued under their Lothrop imprint
This book, like Mr.. Wilson's former
novels, has a liberal number of illus
trations by Rose Cecil O'Neill, the fam
Gus "O'Neill' of Puck"
Harold Bolce, whose articles and in
terviews on economic subjects have Gre
ated quite a stir of late, has an article
on conditions of foreign trade, with
especial reference to the recent retalla-
tory Chinese boycott, in the next issue
of Appleton's Booklovers Magazine.
Apparently there is a never-hagging
interest in Mark Twain's works, for
real humorists are few, and the busy
world is always eager for a laugh.
Some time ago the Harpers issued
uniform subscription edition of six of
Mark Twain's books, calling the set
mark Twain's Best Books" This was
followed by six more volumes, MARX
Twain's Funniest Books" Both these
sets proved so popular that they nave
recently issued eleven more uniformly
bound volumes, making in all twenty
three volumes, the same number as in
their Eillcrest edition of Mark Twain's
complete works. A large new edition
of the first series. the BEST Books" has
just been ordered printed.
Phillip Verrin Mighels, whose latest
novel, 1.-THE Ultimate Passion" was re-
Gently published by the Harpers, has
left Pleasantville, N Y, and has gone
with his wife to California for six or
eight weeks. Mr.. Mighels plans a camp
ing trip through the Yosemite Valley,
and will also visit the Lewis and Clarke
exposition at Portland.
Rex E Beach, known in the literary
circles as the author of "Pardners," is
familiar among sportsmen for his Prov
ess in swimming. He holds medals for
prizes in many contests; captured the
one mile handicap swimming race at
the Olympia games at the st. Louis
exposition, and is the present captain
of the Chicago Athletic club swimming
team. His ability to swim fast Mr..
Beach ascribes to his early training.
When a little shaver living in Florida,
he spent naturally a good deal of his
time in the water. He had wholesome
fear of the alligator, and he early de-
veloped an astonishing facility in get
ting through the water whenever he saw
anything approaching that seemed like
one. He had several real escapes from