The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16

william Allen White has written for
Che October Reader an article on the
light in Kansas against the Standard Oil
Company. The article, under the title
1.-THE Kansas Conscience is written in
the style that is peculiarly Mr.. Whites,
Of which Norman Hapgood says in a
recent issue Of Golfers Weekly: Will
liam Allen White writes about the best
English and about the best morals
turned out by American journalism to-
day. Racy without a touch of slang he
As earnest but never prim. Money, politi-
cal ambition, attentions from those in
positions of authority, personal antipa-
taies-one of these things can turn in
from the even and happy sanity of his
views.
Mark Twain, it will be recalled, was
at one time engaged in newspaper work,
and has written some of his funniest
sketches around various incidents pre-
sumably connected with this portion of
his career. These have been collected into
q little volume bearing the title of ''Edi-
torial Wild OATS which will be issued
by the Harpers about the middle of the
month. In general appearance the vol
urne is similar to Extracts From Ad-
ans Dairy THE Jumping Frog ETC.,
and the humorous illustrations are by
Strothmann, who also illustrated the
other two volumes.
Mrs. Thurstons new novel, 1.-THE Gam
bier" will make its appearance Sept. IA.
The cut and dried Dickens illustra-
tons in grotesque caricature have be-
come so familiar that the renderings of
George Alfred Williams are little short
of revolutionary. The considerable stir
which his work created in Ten Boys
From Dickens" and Ten Girls From
Dickens promise to be rather insignia
cant in comparison with the reception
of his representations Of the more ia
rniliar characters of Scrooge, Tiny Tim,
Bob Cratchit, Caleb Plummer, and
others in the holiday edition of " A
Christmas Carol and The Cricket on the
Hearth" which the Baker & Taylor Co.
is bringing out. The volume is a quarto,
very attractively made with illustrations
in color and line. What Mr.. Williams
says of his interpretations in the intro
duction strikes the keynote of his work:
''If the interpretations seem unnatural,
If Scrooge be not as he has been pic
tured, it is because more human
scrooge is desired, d Scrooge not wholly
bad-a Scrooge to whom the resurrec-
tion described in this story was posi-
BILE. It has been the illustrators whole
aim to make these people live in some
form more fully consistent with their
types.
The Century Co. has in press for fall
issue Washington the Promoter" the
first printing in toto of the diary kept
by George Washington for September,
1874, during his journey in the Ohio Ba-
sin in the interest of a commercial union
between the Great Lakes and the Poto-
mac River. The commentary upon this
interesting text has been prepared by
Archer Butler Hubert, author of ''His-
toric Highways of America
The action OF Mr.. Emerson Hough's
new novel takes place in a little noun
tain town in New Mexico, in the days
when that country was q Land Before
the Law. The characters of Hearts
Desire" are g men, grave, bearded, suf
f1Cient each With
as evidence to the world that all is
we'll" The Macmillan company prom
Use Hearts Desire for issue in the
early fall.
1.-The Memoir of Alfred Tennyson, by
His Son." which has enjoyed a very
remarkable popularity having been re-
printed eight times since it's issue in
1897, is to appear in a single stalwart
volume. The Macmillan company an
nounce also new and cheaper editions
in one volume of Marion Crawfords
Southern Italy and Sicily and the
Rulers Of the South and ave Roma
1mmortalis," both of which are pro-
fusedly illustrated, and of Mrs Hum
phry Wards well-known novel, sir
George Tressady." All these books are
to be published this month. Another
new edition promised by this house will
be that of Mr.. Charles Dexter Aliens
volume on American Book-P lates.'
To Prince Kropotlkin, whose latest
book, Russian Literature is forced
often to deal with the bigotry and rigor
of Russian political influence, it must
be some satisfaction to be able to say
Of present developments: "The abso-
lutte rule of the Russian monarchy is
tumbling to pieces, the old forms of life
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