The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-03

Works" who helped to bust" the big
strike. was the hero of that admirable
short story, The Conscience Of a Bush
ness Man. These old faces lend an air
of agreeable familiarity to the exciting
pages of The Man OF the Hour.
Elliott Flower has happy way Of
making his stories turn on some live
problem of the day, and the title of his
contribution to the February Century.
THE Bribe That Went Astray' prolni-
ses that again his plot is based upon d
timely issue. The denouement of THE
Bride That Went Astray,' it is said
comes as a surprise to the characters as
well as to the reader. There viii be six
other short stories in the number, be-
side the beginning of DR.. S. Weir Mitch
Mrs Humphry Wards 'Fenwick's Ca
reer.
John T. NIcCutcheon's last book, ar he
Mysterious Stranger" has made its ap-
peal not only to literary folk like George
AIDE. Booth Harrington and William
Allen White. 4 am enjoying il and ex-
pect to enjoy it just rs often IS I have
time to look it thr Ousl," writes a 1miral
George Dewey. The pictures never tire
one and each examination OF them re-
veals some little detail Of interest whi. Il
escapes first scurt;ny," s1ys Cover or
La Toilette, VINO has Just left The gcv-
ernOrship of Wise 0nsin for The United
States senate. They are u high example
which others might well follow" saws
Charles W. Fairbanks, Iics PRESIDENT Of
the United States. Aa3 with President
Roosevelt action speaks louder than
words: the original Of the title car tocn,
THE Mysterious Stranger" stands N
his study in the White House"
Some time in February the Harpers
will publish the first volume Of a series
which win prove a veritab Bile encNAlo-
paedia of hunOr. 1t viii be called the
Mark Twain Library of HumOr," and
it is the aim Of the great editor 10 III
clude not only representative selections
from the works of those whom The .1orld
has long recognized as ful-ma kers, but
to give full and rightful place to all
writer's who while working ia q wider
field, have yet given expression to the
purest humOr. That Mark Twain knows
best what is real humor. and how &C Sc
lect it, cannot be questioned. The first
volume will be called Men and Things.
Mofat. Yard &. Company announce
the immediate publication of The IN
visible Bond by Eleanor Talbot
Kinkead, a new writer in fiction of much
power. 1t is a forecfuI story Of life and
character in the Kentucky o. today.
Two women of strongly opposing type
and character striki1gly drawn and
powerfully cOntrasted, dominate the
story, which is developed about their
alternating Influences upon the chaTac-
ter and career of the hero. Roger
Boiling. at first like wax in tire skiiful
hands of Marian Day, develops TaFidiy5
under strenuous circumstances, the in
tense purpose and compelling viii which
even the tenderness and delieacy of his
nature as first discovered coIlc not con-
ceal as his biTthright. After all lnnelit-
ed character again prevails, and Roger
follows A natural, if unexpected couise,
to an end which will fully satisfy the
thoughtful reader as we'll as thc lover
of romance. The book abOunds IN strong
and dramatic situations and viz id char
acterizations. It is illustrated in cOlors
by c. Allan Gilbert.