The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-12

by an inspector OF marriage Wnel lDe
state has appointed either wife or q
husband.
State inspectors shall be present at
the first meeting of contracting parties,
and see that the law is obeyed.
One kiss shall be exchanged by con-
tracing parties.
At the end Of three years the state
VIII grant a divorce at the request of
either one or both parties. and new per-
sons shall be appointed in marriage to
each one.
Any social citizen who is unsocianstic
shah be thrown to the kraken.
A juvenile Of exceptional attractive
ness TO the younger child, The Jingle
of a jap" illustrated and written by
Clara Bell Thurston. is announced Tor
early publication by H. M. Caldwell &c.
of Boston. Each page will be printed
/ in several colors, giving perfect repro
auctions of the fascinating original wa
ter colored sketches, while the taking
! little jingles of the love of the japanese
doll for the beautiful Partisan one in her
pretty dress of pink are sure to be great
favorites in the nursery. The volume
VIII be bound in effective Japanese
cloth and what win take the eye of all
the little ones will be a fascinating and
real little Jap doll on the cover.
Break ers Ahead the new novel by
Mrs. A. Maynard Barbour, soon to be
published by the Lippincott company Of
Philadelphia has been ordered very
largely in advance of publication. and
bids fair to be as successful as the au-
thor's earlier stories THAT MainWaring
Affair and "At the Time Appointed
John Reed Scott's story, The Colonel
of the Red Huzzars,' which, in spite of
its name, has no bIoodshed or killing
and IS therefore something new in mod
ern fiction dealing with love, adventure
and intrigue. also promises to be a sue
cess, if the interest already taken in it
/ before publication affords any reason
for prophecy.
The concluding chapter of GaIett
| Burgess novel, "A Little Sister of Des-
tiny" published by Houghton. Mifflin
& Co on April IA, contains an account of
/ the New York & Arcadia Railroad
! which is reminiscent of an unsuccessful
/ practical joke at the expense of the
/ postomice authorities in New York last
| year. Mr.. Burgess and his whilom
\ collaboration, Mr. VIII Irwin of the
| Sum- both enthusiastic Californiman-
! iacs, diverted their leisure hours with
a toy railroad which they named the
San Francisco & Arcadia" A COM
/ pany was duly organized and stock was
/ sold by the promoters at twenty-five
/ cents per share. Several prominent
writer's and publishers invested. It was
I planned finally to eircularize the COM
4 pany'S friends, who were requested to
] send in their subscriptions on a certain
/ day. The city editor of one of the New
] York dailies was then to Tip off, the
( secret service agents, who were expect
| ed to bite and to investigate the sas-
/ pected 'get-rich-qHicka scheme being
worked by the Californians. At the raid,
! tney We're to be shown the IS. T. & A.
r. R.. in operation. A federal courts
reporter is supposed to have given the
plot away. At any rate. good joke
/ failed to come off. though stock in the
IS F. & A" is still sold-at premium.
Lady Betty Across the Water" by
G. n and A. M. Williamson. authors
of MY Friend the Chauffeur THE
published by McClure-Phillips The
Wflliamsons have chosen the United
states for their setting, and have
written q novel with all the we'll
known brillianee of dialogue and
/ cleverness of characterization brt
without the motor which has PLAYED
SO important part in their other
! books. Lady Betty Is delightful
! twentieth century feminine Columbus;
/ the Vivacious, younger daughter of an
English noble family who comes to
! America TO see our country and to
write in her diary her amusing i'm
pressiOns Of its people and their ways
/ OF course, so charming a young lady
does not lack for lovers of many kinds
and thereby hangs the tale Of her
book is illustrated with pictures in
color by Orson Lowell.
Your Hoosier is first and last a poll
tician. OF course he win play at be-
/ ing an author in the meantime but
he feels all along that politics is the
only real serious business of life
/ Booth Tarkington's experiences as Il
state senator attracted much atten-
ton. Now the Indianapolis Democrats
a r,F 4,--.
son. the author Of THE House of a
/ Thousand Candles" for congress.
! Doubtless his campaign slogan viii be.
Let there be light"
Mcclure, Phillips & CO. announce
/ the tenth printing of Napoleon: with
/ a Sketch Of Josephine" the second of
The Torch" by George Edward
/ Woodberry. and the third of Ellis Par
ker Buffers Pigs is Pigs"
Perceval Gibbon, author of '.vrouw
/ Grobelaar and her Leading Cases." ar
rived last week in this country to join
the staff of NIcClure's magazine.
The publishers of Emmy Lou re-
Gently received an order for a copy of
/ that book from China and from a
Chinaman, at that, who painted his
letter with a brush on a piece of paper
like a laundry ticket. The letter itself.
however, was written in good English,
and not in hieroglyphic chara cters
which might have puzzled said pub
fishers to decipher
The titles Of books often undergo
curious perversions and lead to funny
mistakes. The publishers Of Ellis Par
ker Buffers little comic masterpiece.
Pigs IS Pigs" recently received a tele-
graphic order for "a hundred pigs
ship at once" 1t was a moment before
1t was realized that the order was for
books, not for live stock.
Til. Benton (the pen name of
latest number Of tbe Revenue des
DeuN Mondes a most interesting ar
ticio on THE Historical Novel IN the
United States After tracing the de-
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