The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-06
Books and Authors

Arthur Stringer. who brings to his
new novel. Phantom Wires the same
acute knowledge OF his subJect-the
wonderful manner in which the nys-
tersous force known as electricity en-
tiers into the daily life OF the wor !el,. %
today, and the strange adventures
which are possible TO those VINO are
brought in contact with ft-which SO
greatly distin guished his popular story,
THE Wire Tappers- puOnsned a 49,
ago. was born in Canada and educated
At the University Of toronto ana a.
Oxford university Besides -PnahtoIh
Wires and The Wire Tappers. pub
lished by Little. Brown & Co. Boston
he has also written THE Silver Pop
py,'' The Loom Of Destiny ana
Lonely O'Malley, and two volumes
of verse He IS q constant cohtrloutoI
to the magazines
Mr. Strinzer gives much of his time
and attention TO his Canadian fruit
farm. He has also made two trips INTO
the remoter portions OF the cana N ia ~
northwest roughing IL in the midst OF
trappers and Indians Mr. Strlnger
makes one long trip every year
Phantom Wires" was first written
aboard a little coasung Vessei On
41-day cruise, knocking about tne
Mediterranean During the trip MI
Stringer's typewriter ribbon wore away
and the story was finished by making
an impression with oddly 1mproEIseu
carbon paper. secured by holdlng
sheets of oiled paper over smoking
cabin lamp
It is always pleasure to notice that
with books il IS rot or with the old
loves when il is on with the ne=- For
example. the Harpers are just ISSUING
new editions Of Vanity falr anu
among the great successes OF JUS :
few years ago. Of Mrs. humphrey
verbs Eleanor.
Justus Miles Forman. 4uthOr Of Blu
chauan's Wife, will sail WITH week
or so for Europe He will go through
several months in cruising Iels rely
along the southern coast Of the Back
sea. making excursions into the lnte-
ri0r as often as fancy calls
airs. Gertrude Atherton author Of |
Rulers IL kings. The Travelling Thirds |
and other weil-kuOwn books has been |
living fer some time pas IN Munich |
where il IS understood she has been /
hard at v-crk on new novel she ex-
poets shorty 70 go 10 England ana
- make her home there tor a while /
hut haIts in her desire between an \
APARTMENT in Lor don and a house in
some charn1ing village like St Adams
American though she is and much
though she loves her ova country. she
finds the atmosphere OF Europe con-
genial for her work
The Yelled Lady is the title Of
p Hopkiuson Smiths new book which
vas published on March 30th- Ihts
hook contains the Jest stories that Mr..
Smith has written for a long time The
scene changes from Stamboul and Ven
ice to Stoning CHAM and New York and
the people in them-the Venetian gOn-
doIiers. the dragoman. the artist the
saflors-are all as picturesque. human,
hkeab bic and well worth meeting as
any characters he has ever given Ks
one reason why Mr. Smiths stories <
wear so well and have such q ring OF
reality about them IS that they are
generally founded on fact In this new
book more than one OF the stories be-
gan in some incident that Mr. Smith
saw or took part in For instance. the
tale called A Coat OF Red Lead"
wherein the lighthouse made for
in the public square of the capitol for
a cafe was founded on an actual &C
curreEce.
For a young man Gelett Burgess
has lived in many places and done
many things He was born IN Boston,
was educated in the Boston public |
Institute OF Technology
with the degree OF B. s. in the depart
ment of civil engineering. After coll
lege he went into the engineering de-
partment of the South Pacific com
pany in the field and in the main office
at San Francisco After three years
of that sort of thing he took a year off
for walking trip through France and
Spain. and on his return became in
structor in topogra phicaI drawing at
the University OF California Then ,
he went into furniture designing in !
San Francisco. and on the side edited ,
that magazine of rare delight. The