The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-13

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Illustrated and bound in manila boards.
| st have read Aunt Jane of Ken
/ lucky like old man. Harper used to
run his horses, from eend to eend,
and declare it to be a delightful book
Yes, delightful" says Congressman
Champ Clark, of Missouri. ut carried
me back to my childhood and boy
hood in the hill country of Kentucky:
| Aunt Jane is a wholesome book, full
| Of bubbling and, clean humor." The
publishers now announce a third edi-
| tion of Eliza Calvert Halls book. APP
| p1icatfons for an English edition were
received in the same mall from two
| leading. London publishers.
/ The new Thunlb-nails' this fall will be
Henry w. Longfellow's Tales of a
Wayside Inn," Charles Dickens's
Seven Poor travellers and ..The Hol-
ly Tree" and Robert Louis Stevenson's
Travels with a Donkey" The designs
for the stamped leather covers will be.
as befores the work of that talented
artist, Mrs. Blanche McManus Mans
field Is 3at ~
James K. Hackett has signed a con-
tract with The Bobbs- Merrill company
for George Middleton's dramatization
of Meredith Nicholson's novel. The
House of a Thousand Candles. Pro
duction will be made in September
Ernest Shipman is arranging for a
dramatic version and presentation of
Mr.. Nicholson's latest success, The
Port oof Missing Men. Edward E.
Rose is making, the play. which will
also be produced in the fall.
Three of the six best-selling books
in the country, as recorded in the July
Bool<man. bear the imprint of The
Bobbs-Merrill company. The Brass
Bowl by Louis Joseph Vance, is first.
The Port of Missing Men, by Meredith
NinhnlEnn g
Wife, by Anna Katharine Greene, is
third. This is the first time. since the
Bookman began to publish the reports
of booksellers, that any publishing
house has had three books on the list
with one of the three at the top.
E. Phillips Oppenheim, the popular
and prolific English author, who has
just sailed for home after brief visit
to this country, was asked how he was
able to devise such good plots.
"I have made it a hobby for many
years to frequent the cafes in all the
cities which 1 visit on my travels" he
replied. "I make the acquaintance of
the maitre d'hotel whenever possible.
and In my conversation with him, ard
by studying the types represented
among the patrons, good idea for a
story inevitably suggests itself The
rest is comparatively easy. I write
scarcely line. but dictate the whole
$4,000 or 10000 words to my secre-
taryrs in. rather long instaliments.
Then, of course, comes the revision,
and later the reading and correcting
of, proofs. BY refraining from writ
ing short stories, and by combining
n1ysek to the writing of complete
novels. I have no difficulty in pro-
ducing two books each year" Il
Mr.4Oppenheim, like his father and
grandfather, is a native of England.
having been born In London forty
years ago. He is a typical English
man in, appearance. speech and ac-
ton.
Ellis Parker Butler looks like a
man who saw all the quantity humor- |
of daily life; and he certainly has a |
pen that makes readers of his books
see the fun in everyday happenings
too. How well he can strike. spopu- |
lar, note is proved by his pigs Is
Pigs" while the humor and pathos
of his 1.-THE Confessions of a, Daddy
appeal to every parents heart. The |
Confessions of a Daddy" is not sup |
posed to be founded on personal ex-
periences: but Mr.. Parker has a small |
smaller he spanked her. Perhaps
that is WHY the story of "the first |
spank embodied in the book seems |
so delightfully."- and convincingly real.
The. many thousands who read and /
pronounced John Reed Scott's 1.-THE |
Colonel OF the Red Huzzars, 1S06's
most dasfiing novel, VIII be delighted