The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-10
About New Books and Authors
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The new George AIDE book is out.
- is entitled I'm Pastures New" As
rs lame implies, this is the record Of
A4r- AIDES travels and observations in
foreign countries. The following par
a8Faph from the first chapter in which
ne states the necessity Of going to Eng
land to learn the English language, is
a good indication of the gleeful spirit
IN which he modestly 90 attacks his
subject;
Il do not wish to ak about myself,
yet L can say with truthfulness that
i have been working for a TO en-
rich the English language Most of the
time I have been years ahead of the
dictionaries. 1 have been so far ahead
o. the dictionaries that sometimes L
rear they viii never catch up. 1t has
been nay privilege to use words that
are unknown to LindIey Murray. An
drew Lang once started to read my
work and then sank With a ~bubbIlng
cry ana did not come up Tor three
days"
Then he goes on to say that he is
afraid that in his efforts to enrich the
language, he has made it too rich, and
some who tried it afterward com
planned of mental gastritis. In one
Of my fables. written in pure n un-
dedled Chicago, reference was made to
that kind of table d'hOte restaurant
which serves an Italian dinner for
sixty cents. This restaurant was
EAAAE4 Il @DaElltLLl I0AlAL. MI 4fAAA6 AN
clared hat the a~ppellation was alto
gether preposterOus, as it is q we'll
known fact that spaghetti has no
joints being invertebrate n quite
devoid Of osseOus tissue, the same as a
caterpillar. Also he hOughr that
cinch was merely a misspelling of sink,
something to do with a kitchen p The
book is published by Mcclure, Phil
lips & Co.
ar-- p.~r.++-- STOW sTvbe
Dawn Of a Tomorrow" published by
the Scribners, Is written around an in
teresting type Of a present q rellg-
lOus cOnVerr in the Sums OF london
one of the friends of this convert de-
scribes her religion in the following
words My eye" ~chuckltngs sit was
quser talk. P'aps 1t was lies. but it
was cheerhe lies that clips yer What
i ses is-if things amt cheerful peo-
pies got to be-tO fight it out. The
women in the 'ouse larft fit to kill
themselves when il fust come 'Ome
limpinf and talked to EN- about what
the Idly told 'er. But arter q bit they
liked to ear 'er-just along o. the
cheerfuIness. Said it was i a pan
ternine. Drunken Bet says If she
could get old f 1t an believe it SINE
as Jimmy MOntauben does it'd be as
eheerin' as drink an last longer"
The-real identity of Sidney Mccall
1+A4 us AA=A - 49, 1900
Truth Dexter and THE Breath OF
the Gods" has at last been disclosed.
It is authoritatively announced that
Sidney Mccall is Mary Mcneil FenOl-
Iosa. a Mobile (Ala-) woman, now liv-
ing in New York with her husband
Prof. Ernes T. FenoliOsas the we'll
known authority IN japanese art. Her
real name appears on the title page
of her new Japanese romance, The
Dragon Painter" just published by
LITTLE Brown K Co.
Although a native of Alabama. Mrs.
FenOIlosa has spent much of her ma
ture life in Japan. Born after the
civil war, her childhood was passed
among painful reminders of that trag-
edy, her parents families having both
seriously suffered in the general loss
OF estates.
In her newest novel. The Dragon
Painter" Mrs. FenOliosa's ripest and
most artistic work, h again reveals
The inner depth Of japanese feeling
but along quite different lines. It is
no longer the ard problems faced by
young japanese in becoming West
~ernized," but carries US to the very
heart Of japanese inspiration in the
presence of nature, among scenes and
incidents most intensely native. Nc
foreigners figure in the tale. The time
is indeed today. and there are many
difficulties in the path of the young
artist. of almost demoniac genius. who
scorns recent innovations IN japanese
society
The portrait of the old painter. Kane
Indara. might have been drawn from
any of III Shogun's painting master.
during the Tokugawa age. Artists OIL
that famous family name are still liv-
ing who remember the great era OF
mural painting IN castles and palace.
before the revolution of 1868. But the
deepest interest centers in the sweet
and heroic character of the beautiful
daughter of kano, whom the yOuns
idealist halls as his Dragon Maiden
such wild manifestations of the artis-
tic temperament form the basis o.
o than one Chinese and japanese
legend.
That Justin Huntly Mccarthy is FIRE.
QuentIy confused with his father, Jus
tin Mccarthy, is not surprising, since
besides being Of the same name, boil