The Topeka state journal., 1906-03-31

ply and religion. and foresaw the pre-
eious harvest Of the twentieth cen
fury"
Herbert Quick. author Of sDoubls
Trouble Is leading the quiet life He
has betaken himself TO Palmetto Beach,
Alabama, there 80 write q new novel.
His library VIII be Of interest 10 evsry
one who has tried TO figure out what
books he would take with him were he
banished to q desert isle. It consists
Of Rogets Thesaur1Iss Webstsrs Die
tionary, Omar's Rubaiyat Prrton's 9
kasidah. six OF Shakespeare's plays,
Thomas play Arizona, and the New
Testament Ir. Quick's new story in
process OF writing is said TO be IN a
very different vein from the rolltcking
comedy Of Double Trouble
The coasolidati ton Of 1.-THE Culturist'
with 'Tomorrow's Maga zine" OF Chi
cago. will be Of interest," to our readers.
The Culturigts' was q progressive Jour
nal. edited and published by Walter
Hurt in Cincinnati Ohio. In the con-
solidatiOn Tomorrow" takes over the
entire business OF The Culturist." in
Guiding subscriptions, contracts, adver-
Using, etc, and though Mr.. Hurt 3
health VIII not for the present permit
him to be actively engaged in tae work
Of publishing, he becomes one Of the
editors associated with Parker H Ser
combe Of the Tomorrow Magazine -
and VIII contribute his quota Of effec-
tive articles and graceful poetry each
month.
Eleanor Talbot Kinkead's forthcom-
ing novel. THE Invisible Bond" Is a
book of goodly size, very effectively
I presented. Tt is nearly 500 pages In
length. within forty pages OF .'Ths
I House Of Mfrth" which is distinctly a
long novel for these days. The illus
/ tration follows a new and striking plan,
/ consisting Of a double frontispfece IN
fuu color by @ Allan Gilbert. The two
women around whom the action re-
| wolves are pictured on opposite pages,
their strongly contrasted types Offering
/ the artist a very unusual opportunity
/ which he has availed Of to the utmost.
/ The significance, respectively, of each,
/ is further emphasized by the remarques.
/ the lily and the rose, carried in colors
/ under the pictures Moffat, Yard &
/ Co. promise the book early in April.
/ Most fishermen are philosophers, If we
may rely upon Walton, and most philo-
sophers are readers If one may Judge from
/ experience. Most readers will become
/ fishermen is prophesied, If by chance
/ they happen upon Mr. Charles F. Holder
I new book, The Log of Sea Angler
/ which is published by Houghton Minlir
and Co. this spring. Mr.. Holder is per
/ haps the best known living American
gamy fish of our coasts. He is a master
of his art as well as of his subject, an6
like most of his brethren of the angle, he
/ can spin a good yarn. Angling. in Mr.
/ Holders informal definition, means the
/ taking of fish in a spOrtsmanlike manner
] whatever the means employed; and some
/ Of the most exciting adventures in th'
| book are with the grains or spear Th'
/ rod, the reel and the grains are his i'm
plements. To him game fish are all thos'
/ that are gamy in their behavior. He ha'
4 made many discoveries in this direction
and has been the pioneer angler for SOM
almost unheard-Of fishes Sharks, savag
moray eels and devil fish are some Of tn
/ big game which play important parts i
these adventures
Miss Ida NJ. TarbeH. whose essay Com
merciaI AIachiavellianism,' in the Marc
1 NcClures s has excited so much discussion
made a flying trip TO Indianapolis las
week to read a paper before the Contem
pOrarv Club on Abraham Lincoln as
man 0f letters Miss Tarbell is probabl
better fitted than any American writer Z
discuss Mr.. Lincoln Her biography OF n N
war president, which was puDilsned %
McClure's IS one Of the most authorita
tive documents we have on his life
A full list of McClure-Phillips' sprin
publications is as follows; Lady Bett
Across the Water" an Anglo-America
story by c. n and a. NJ. Williamson
authors Of MY Friend the Chauffeur
'-The Lightning Conductor, etc;
Our Town. sketches from the eddrorl 2
sanctuu of small western community
bv William Allen White: Red Saunder
Pets and Other Critics. humorous an
NAL tales by Henry Wallace Pnlilps. al
thor Of Red Saunders; The Four Mi
lion " stories of New York, humorous an
otherwise bv o. Henry. author of "Cah
pares and Kings ''VroUw Grobeiaer an
fhe Veldt Of Perceval Gibbon: More Ste
,see of Married Life by Mary SteWaT