The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-18

Illustrated Will De puDuSue0 Dy A4AlLlSs
Brown & Co.
Booth Harrington, the author OF 1.-THE
Conquest of Canaan" and other popular
novels. is known among his friends as
somewhat OF a practical joker A good
story of his Princeton days is related in
this months Bookman. The managing
editor Of the Nassau Literary Magazine
at that time was q person who took
himself and his literary responsibilities
with portentOus seriousness. He was
wont TO deplore the lack Of suitable
material at his disposal, and to speak
in accents Of emphatic scOrn OF the quail
ity OF the submitted contributions from
which he was supposed to make peri
odical worthy Of the senior class one
day he found IN his letter-box a poem
which moved him to more than usual
disgust.
see here he snorted contemptuous-
ly to a group Of which Harrington was
one; this is what some fool freshman
sends in and calls poetry. How am I
going to make magazine out of stuff
like this2 How am I, ask?"
"Oh, thatr' spoke up Harrington
Yes, sent that in myself
80 you wrote It, did your growled
I the managing editor.
No. said Harrington, sweetly, i
didn't write 1t, only copied IT. It was
written by Tennyson-"
A new edition Of General Horace
Porter's Campaigning With Grant IS
in press, by the Century company to
be sold through the trade to meet the
demand for a cheaper edition of this
popular work, which, until now, has
been sold only by subscription.
Philip verrill Mighels. the author, is
spending some time in the west, in or
der to engage in a romantic quest for
a lost mine, and to visit his old home
in Carson City, Nevada. Mr.. Mighels
is putting the finishing touches to
new novel, a western tale of lumber
lines as his great success, Bruvver
Jinls Baby. which will be published
by the Harpers in the fall. The chief
figure in the story is q little boy MI
Mighels' portrayal OF childhood is
marked by a charming realism which
very few authors have attained.
President Eliot of Harvard does not
view the anassing of wealth by the
favored few with alarm He sees
counterbalancing forces at work.
which will operate as successfully in
| the future. as they have done in the
past. In this day of shrjeking and de-
nunciation. his calm appraisal of the
situation is of value. His book on
| Great Riches soon to be published
| by Thomas Y CroweH & Co, will at
tract attention.
Howard Pyle, the artist, has been
commissioned by Harper's Magazine to
paint a series of pictures Illustrating
1 scenes from Thackeray's best-known
works. These paintings will appear
reproduced in full color in the pages
of the magazine. The first one of the
series forms the frontispiece of the Au-
gust issue. It represents Beatrix and
Esmond from the great historical
novel Henry Esmond." The artists
| conception of Beatrix is a rarely beau
/ tiful one.
The death of Ibsen has served to
direct renewed attention to one OF the
most remarkable critical works ever
/ produced: Georg Brandes' study Of
/ the Norwegian poet and dramatist
/ The plan and scope of this work are
unique It is in three parts written at
/ intervals Of sixteen to eighteen years
and covering practically the whole Of
| Ibsen's career. The earlier sections,
| like the last. have been allowed to
! stand as they were written, and thus
/ represent the critics judgment of. his
subject from phase to phase" as
1 William Archer puts it. Undoubtedly
/ this utterance of one of the fore
i most contemporary critics, the recog-
nized champion and spokesman of the
dramatist, is the most important of all
| books about Ibsen- The English
/ translation, published by the Mac
Il milan company, is united in a single
]
| another great Norwegian author.
/ Bjornson.
i William Sage, the author of .'The
| District Attorney" is summering in
the mountains Of his native state, New
Hampshire. Mr.. Sage's novel has been
said to be strongly suggestive of Mr..
Kleln's THE Lion and the Mouse" but
1t was written long before that play
Yves produced.
Julia A. Schwartz. author of evil
derness Babies" and a popular writer
of college girls stories, has tempo
rarily forsaken Omaha, for the New
England coast. Miss Schwartz has
written "Elinor's College Career for
fall publication by Little. Brown & Co.
Mary P. Wells Smith, the we'll
known writer of Colonial stories for
the young. including THE Young Pur-
itans Series" 1.-THE Old Deerfeld
Series" etc, is Summering in George
vile, Province Of Quebec. Mrs. Smith
Is at work on the third volume In her
Old Deerf1eld series, but it will not be
ready for publication until 1907.
Helen Leah Reed the author of the
favorite Brenda" books for girls has
gone to Dublin n. H, for the remain
der of the summer. Miss Reed has
written a. sixth Brenda story entitled
Brenda Ward Tor IaI puDHcat1on
by Little, Brown & Co.
Lillian whiting has returned to Bos-
ton from Arizona and Colorado where
she has been gathering material fol-
. her forthcoming book. THE Land OF
Enchantment." In the meantime hel
Florence OF Landor," published q
: year ago. is still being warmly praised
in England volumes on Florence
have multiplied of late" says the
. Westminster Gazette, but few show
more ultimate knowledge of all tina
makes the romance of the fair city or
5 the Arno."