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

the purchase OF Du Chalilu'S viking
Age which fascinated her instantly
and led her to hunt up an old copy OF
"Frithiof's Saga" and Professor An
dersOns Introduction to his Morse
Myth ologyf aroused her to the wonder
ful possibilities of a field at once in
estimably rich and comparatively un-
titled In 'Randvar the SonEsmith,
Morse superstition and romance have
been intertwined TO make an exceed
1ngly dramatic story, which is also
picturesque on account Of It's forest
setting
A dog story which interprets both hui
man nature and canine nature is THE
son IN the March number of Appleton's
Booklovers Magazine. It is a half comic,
half-pathetic tale of a Dutch dog which
a young American travelling in Holland
finds being maltreated by its master.
Ihe young American buys the dog,
birch, and takes him back to the Uni
ted States. Dirch is happy in his-new
found ease for a while, but gradually
he begins to feel a lack. He follows his
new master with Wistful eyes, but can
not seem to make him understand. Fin
ally Dirch finds Dutch market garden
er in the neighborhoOd, and every day
he runs away for the pleasure of being
harnessed to the market gardeners
cart.
Is not this out of Joel Chandler Har-
ris' latest volume, Told by Uncle Re
mus" the very best quality of humor
that the genial Georgian has ever Of
fered US?
How come you ter be so bad dat
20 ma halter shet you up in dat dun
geon? What you been doin' %
Mother said I was very naughty
and made me come in here the little
lad replied.
II bet you eff dey had "a put yo' pa
in der, dey wouldn't "a been no pen.
IL f-1f
looked Ike 1t been thOO a harrycane.
Dey shet i'm up in room once, an dey
WIZ a clock in 1t, an he tuck n tuck
dat clock ter pieces fer to see what
make It run. NTwan't no pig CLOCK.
needer, but yO' pa got nuff wheels out
er dat clock fer ter I'LL a peck medJur,
an when dey sent it ter town fer ter
have it mended, de clock man say he
know mighty Wen dat all dem wheels
amt come outer dot clock. He mended
it all right. but he had huff wheels an
whirligigs left over fer ter make a n'er
clock
The name Baltimore" to the mind
of the average man or woman, calls
UP a picture of a city, half southern,
half northern, where the hurry and
hustle of modern, progressive business
is unknown and where last century
ed To these the article on the new
Baltimore. in the Reader for March,
will be an interesting and illuminatiye
bit Of writing. The article is by Mer-
rtll A. league; it is prOfusely illus
trated. and tells in terse, almost cpl
gTammatic English the story of the
birth of d modern. well built. thorough
~ equipped city from the hot ashes and
ruins of the old.
Irving Bachelor has been engaged for
some time with the proof-sheets of
new novel which is soon to be publish
ed by the Harpers. It is a story of the
AdirOndacks, replete with the spirit of
the great forest. The chief character
is Silas Strong, an oId-time backwoOds-
man, a guide and contriver" as he
styles himself. His "cOntrivances" are
exceedingly humorous. and the scenes
in which two small children figure are
also rich in humor. Mr.. Bachelor re-
Gently purchased a large Adirondack
estate where he passed last summer,
and he has taken his characters and
scenes direct from life. he Is pro-
found nature-lover, and thoroughly in
sympathy with the WOodspeople OF
whom he writes. The novel viii bear
the tile of "Silas Strong: Emperor Of
the Woods"
Meth Boyce, author of The Eternal
Spring just published by Fox Duffield
& Company. is the wife of Hutchins
Hapgood, author of THE Autobiog-
raphy of g Thief and some other un-
conventional literary work in be and
magazines She is also a sister -I-law
Of Norman Hapgood editor of Col
ner's Weekly. who has teen of late
very much in the lime light owing to
the great Town Topics libel suit. In
publishing her hooks, however Mrs.
HapgOOd insists upon using her own
maiden name as a sort of nom de
plume, not wishing to shine with any