The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-17

Lafayette lTcIsaWs. author of Maid of
Athens published March "A by Little
Brown g Co, Boston, is a native Of Geor-
s0ogneIa li5srary workers living IN NeW
york city. She was born IN Augusta, Ga
less than 90 years ago, was educated at
nome ana y private schools " hen tne
Land Was Young" a romance Of the days
when Englishnen and Spanlards fought
FOR the Etorida border and when bucca-
neers sailed the Spanish main, published
IA 1901 was popular success This was
followed by 'Jezebel." Maid Of Athens
81 q romance of great charm. dealing
with the love Of Byron for Thyrza, the
Maid of Athens to whom he wrote i'm
mortal verse and whom the author por-
rsrsr6 81 dsnrer. T7he hiesher and more
tender side Of Byron complea character
and the noble personality and compelling
charm Of the lovely Greek girl form the
whose woof is the brilliant background
Of court life on the shores Of the Bos-
phorus and an attempted Greek uprising
ct Athens. Readers Of When the Land
Was Young" need not be told that Miss
1EcI.aWs Is gifted with a wealth of crea-
tive imagination
In printing q new edition OF Mr.. Russell
Gturgds' Appreciation Of Pictures, pub
company, fl was found that much criti-
cism had been evoked by the chapter
heading Beginnings OF Modern Gloom,
and at last one colony OF ARTISTS was
thrown into a good deal Of excitement
which resulted In many denunc1ations Of
DIR. sturgts attitude toward modern art
As a matter Of fact Mr.. Sturgis is a great
aQmireT q modern art. as his book re
vesls, and the words Modern Gloom. re-
fer only to the tonal efEects the -substi-
tuition Of the more sombre tints for the
gay red ana gold Of the Venetians The
very fact that Mr.. Sturgis took up Velas=
quez first Ia this period did not prevent
the mfsinterpretation OF his words. Per
haps the artists DID not read the text.
The new story. Lady Betty Across the
Water by g n and A. NJ villiaInson:
Is making many friends for itself during
it's serial publication A citizen of jack
sonville, Fla, liked II so much that he has
tion to his fleet in southern waters, after
the heroine IafT Betty. The boat 1oes
Iy vivacity OF her namesake, for she is
quite g huge affair, 60 feet 4 inches over
ali, 10 feet inches beam in fact among
the largest as well as the most complete
OF her kind.
over five years residence in South At
rica-as correspondent during the war, as
explorer, as prOspectOr and as miner IN
the border states-prepared Perceval Glib
bon for writing the striking and original
tales OF the Neidt in which appear in the
book 'tVrOuw Grobelaar and Her Leading
Cases" Mr.. Gibbons weird and myster-
ions stories. filled with the blgotry Of the
BCer and the superstition OF the kaulrs
combine to give q vivid picture OF 5aIla
life among the Kopjes Fat garrulous,
old VrouW Grobelaar driving home her
advice TO her brood with pat Lti4ess ter
riIylng OF humorous ls contlhuat ue-
light. Mr.. Gibbon is q WelsanlanY the son
of q Nonconformist clergyman, whose life
of continual adventure began Win ms
running away to sea when a mere youth.
He has recently been correspondent for
the London Daily Mail at St Petersburg
Someone has been addressing the author
OF Back Home" as Mr.. Eugene Woods.
= do love 70 have people call me Woods,
laundry collector the mfIlzman and all
others Of their station in life won't call
me anything else but WOODS On, ana /
must tell you a funny thing that happen
cd to me the other day. The 0ptician
clerk was taking my address, so that ne
could send me my glasses, which had got
broken He put down Mr.. u. Woods.
sTfevF / said what is the u for2' He
looked at me-'For Eugene, Of course 1
told him it began with an b He went
back to the end of the store and present
IS spelled with an E. He had looked it
up, and found I was correct in my guess
as 10 how to spell my own name.
A new group Of delightful children has
been introduced to TINS country by Kate
Douglas WiEsin, who has written a short
preface to Mrs. L. Allen Harkerss book.
Concerning Paul and Fiametta,
published On March 10th Mrs. Harker
writes about the most wholesome, reason
able. natural and at the same time anus
ing children that have appeared in book
the anarchist. the Canon and the Sargent
their games and puuishments their par
GuEB and their dogs are described In the
same quietly humorous and altogether
natural way. Mrs. Harker has knack
for making things ordinarily common
place seem delightfully."- interesting. Kate
Douglas Wigsdu says in her Introduction.
ANY one who has cared for the simple
histories of Timothy. Carol, Polly Oil
yer and 'Rebecce' VIII delight in Mrs.
f5arker's winsome portrayals OF Paul and
Flametta.' "
The Century's series Of papers by Ca
mile GronkOWslI on Historic Palaces of
Paris" Will treat in the April issue of
the Interesting and beautiful Hotel de la
efOucauld-DOu AS ia for
Ener articles in this series, there will be
Illustrations from photographs made by
special permission for The Century and
now published for the first time.
John D. Rockefeller has so grown into
the habit Of thinking that everything
Miss Ida n Tarbell writes is about him
self, that he u probably accept in his de-
voted heart all of the impersona1 shafts
Of her powerful essay in the March Nc
Cures Commercial Observation-Disclosures. %
HcClure-PhiIlips are publishing a sew
enth edition Of Mrs. H. A. Mitchell Keay's
novel cf divorce, HE that Eateth Bread
With Ne
1t is some time since the House on tbs
Hudson" aroused SO much curiosity and
interest In the book world and made Miss
Frances Powell well known as one OF the
most capable and dramatic of story tel
lers. Her new book. The Prisoner Of Or
NTH Farm" published by the Scribners, Is
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