The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-09

coin may easily be detected. But there
is that same humorous setting forth of
the frailties of his race and tender
liberation of them Unlike Dunbar,
he discusses the race question lightly
as when, in his Races Benefactor,"
he says: 81
'Kaze I notus in lynchin's dat takes
place frum time to time.
Dat de darby in de middle would be
high priced at dime
"Allen has recently conceived the
scheme of following a New York
theatrical troupe with a view of get
ting broader outlook on life. If ne
escapes from this and other distract
ing experiences with the purity OF
sentiment he has shown in the past 1t
is not too much to expect that this
negro will eventually take the place
left vacant by Dunbar as the foremost
living singer Of the songs of his race.
Indeed, Aliens work may be said
to posses one quality seldom manifest
in Dunhar's verses-that OF true
poetic quality when stripped Of its
picturesque dialect. ~
~ Mord Allen Is 80 years OF age.
His first book, which contains nearly
all he has written Cor, rather all he
has preserved, for he has carefully
sifted his work., he published recent
ly under the somewhat clumsy title o.
Rhymes, Tales, and Rhymed Tales.
Aliens work has never appeared else
where. for he says he could not risk
tho ANNOUNCEMENTS of the publish
er's declined with thanks.
The ability to name characters well
is rare Perhaps of all modern auth
ors, Henry James is happlest IN nis
to have discovered a good rule In the
naming line, viz, always to INK
common name with an uncommon,
never two common or two uncomm mon
ones. In this way, he claims, feel
ing both of reality and personality is
achieved; witness his Paul Ringa and
Gertrude Spoil of The Heart Line:
"By much care is the artist known:
is Mr. Burgess's attitude to his work,
for attention to such small details. IT
any excuse were needed. One would
recognize Gelett Burgess proper
names almost anywhere. Mr.. Burgess
new book, The Heart Line was re-
Gently published by the Robbs-Merrill
company.
Will Cartoons I'm OLD School
Days. which Moffatt, Yard & Com |
pany will publish at once, Is fine ex-
ample of that rare quality which |
made the poet celebrated. Like all /
his best work, 1t is intensely Ameri-
can. The pretty girl who is his hero |
inc in the sense that she typ1nes MS
larger subject is typically American
and her affairs, sentimental and scho-
lastic, are delightfully."- reminiscent;
We are again back on the benches
making eyes at her from behind our
speIIer. James Montgomery Flagg's |
twelve color drawings interpret Mr.:
Carleton with great sympathy and
skill.
Gret: The story of Pagan by !
Beatrice Mantle. is a book refreshing |
ly out of the ordinary, with an unus-
ual setting, an unusual heroine, and
an unusual plot. 1t is the story of the
daughter of an Oregon lumber camp.
whose father spends his wealth in the
big cities, returning home only to nag
and criticize, and whose mother tries
% forget in books the disappotntments
and meagerness of her life. The book
IS published by the Century COM
pany.
md writers''-of whom Herbert
Quick, the author of the Broken L
,ance, made one-that camped and
.ramped on Lake Temogami last sum-
ner. Besides Mr.. Quick there were
?. M. Shorey, OF the Chicago Inter
ocean: Wright G. Patterson, of the
kellogg Syndicate; Hollis NJ. Field
md Arthur Henning, of the Chicago
Tribune; Douglas Malloch. the verse I
writer and editor of the American !
Edwin Palmer, of {
wireless fame; Garnet Eubanks, of |
he Business Mans Magazine; w. +. {
carter, Elliott Flower and Richard
little. well known magazine writer's, ,
nd John J. Finn, president of the !
Press club.
The mainstay and basis Of modern
BUSINESS has come to be the travelling !
alesman, and e calling which in the !
asst has been more or less a subject :
or Joke and ridicule Is now beginning +
D be recognized as one of the pro- :
assions. Special interest therefore at
aches to an announcement from 9
fessrs A. C. McCIurg e. Co. that =
arly in December they will publish :
book entitled Men who Sell Things, I