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

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Truth About TOlna" goes with a jolly
swing, and since the reader does not
know all the truth about Tolna and
about some of the other characters till
the last paragraph of the last page IN
Gerest is kept keen to the closing word.
Denys Alden is a fascinating fellow,
who, forced by the failure OF his sing
ing-voice to give UP his hopes of a
grand opera career. Centers new hopes
and all his interests in Tolnas hand
some and gOlden-vOfced. TOlna is the
idol of the Metropolitan opera house
audiences; and the mystery surround
ing him only heightens his popularity.
Marjorie flaming and Honor Ham
mond are two typical New York So
clety girls, girls whom everyone turns
60 admire. at the opera, at receptions
In The fashionable restaurants. Denys
Is madly in love with pretty Marjorie;
but he is blind to her feeling for him,
and, after one meeting, is certain that
Marjorie is bewitched by TOlna. who
must return her love. Willoughby
Smith, whose chief fault is a pleni-
Lude of millions, wants the beautiful
Honor to adOrn his Fifth avenue pail
ace; and Honor. bred to believe a
money marriage her duty, agrees.
Then she falls under the spell of
Iolna voice and eyes; and together
they go back into the mystery in a way
thaI drives Denys almost frantic. And
tne webs goes on getting more and
more tangled with every chapter. to
the readers great amusement. while
he wonders how the author is ever go
ing to unravel it all.
But the truth about TOlna is very
pleasant. If decidedly surprising; and
the last chapter leaves everyone happy.
reader as well as dramatic personae.
il Is an altogether whimsical and
merry chronicle of a series of episodes
IN the lives of entertaining and inter-
esung people The little drama opens
ana closes in the Burnhams' box al the
Metropolitan opera house. with Tolna
singing away the hearts of his hearers
Frederic Remington. author of 's,The
Way OF an Indian, just published by
FOX Duhield & Company, means to
devote more of his time to sculpture in
the future than he has been able to do
I'm the past, owing to the demands for
MS pictures of western life. He is hav-
ing us studio in New Rochelle alter
ed to make it more suitab bile as a sculp-
tors WorkroOm. One Of these changes
Is the laying of a. cement floor to enable
him TO bring horses into it to make his
Studies from. Mr.. Re.nington's skill in
drawing horses is conspicuous in his
Illustrations for The Way of an In
diam"
In a volume entitled "Oid Washing
ton which Little, Brown & Co. will
publish i'm March. Harriet Prescott
was just after the close of the civil war
IA city quite different from the WASH
1ngtOn of today. The book win contain
five stories
Schuyler staunton's new novel
Daughters of Destiny will be pub
lished about April / by the Reilly &
Brittou company. 1t will contain eight
illustrations in color, three by Thomas
Mitchell Pierce, five by Harold Delay.
Mr.. Staunton will spend the remainder
of the winter i'm Rio de JaneirO the
guest of General Fonseea who figured
in his previous novel THE Fate of
Grown"
OF the twenty-nine books which ap-
peared i'm the BOokman's list of best
selling books during the year 1905 thir-
teen were written by men, eleven by
women. three were cola borations IN
which husband and wife worked to-
gether, one was q collaboration of three
women, and one, The Breath of the
Gods" was written. says the Bookman,
'by an author whose sex and identity
is stiu a matter of conjecture to the
reading public at large. This is an ex-
ceptionally good showing on the feni-
nine side Of the ledger"
Anne Warner French, the author of
the Susan Clegg stories and THE Re
juvenation Of Aunt Mary has just re-
turned to this country from an extend
ed trip abroad. She las q new SUSAN
Clegg book, to iuclude the three part
story THE Wolf at Susan's Door,
ready for spring publication by Little,
Brown & co.
Fox Dunield & Company viii publish
on March 81 THE Ghosts of Their An
cestors," o. story of OLD New York by
WeYner Jay Mills, with pictures IN
Mr. Mills
young writer whose first book Caro-
line of Courtlandt Street shoN I'd him
thoroughly cOnversant with the Knlck-
erbOcker metropolis. His new book IS
declared by che critic WEO has read the
advance sheets to be a delightful satire
ON ancestor worship in America
The publication of Anna Chaplin
Rays romance of Quebec, emitted
Hearts and Creeds" has been post
poned by Little. Brown & Co untu
March 10. This novel viii be illus
trated by Alice Barber Stephens. on
the same date Little, Brown & co. Will
publish Maid of Athens" an entirely
new Byron novel, by Lafayette NC
Laws author of when the Land " as
Young; "The Fight for Canada" by
Major William Wood; THE Book OF
Daniel and Modern Criticism by
Rev Charles H H. Wright, D. d; to-
gether with popular editions Of the
following recent fiction: Painted
Shadows" by Richard lie Caffeine;
"The Vikings Skull" by John r.
CARING; Sarah Tuldon.9 by Orne
Agnus. "The Siege of Youth" by
Frances Charles; tHassan," by Henry
Gilman. and THE wolverine" by
Albert L. Lawrence.
An enthusiastic feminine reader
writes the publishers of E. Phillips
Oppenheim's new novel as follows:
at is not the woman who hesitates
who is lost, but the woman who opens
"A Maker of History! opened 1t for
preliminary glance-and. alas! it
was already late at night and I read
on and on till all hours. and was Of
course quite iucapacitated the next
day for want of sleep. The fault is
Mr.. Oppenheim's. and even you. par
ticeps princeps you will pardon
me-for presenting this most resist
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