The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-04

Mr.. Ed Howe, the well known Atch-
ison Globe editor and author of The
Story of a Country Town" and other
well known books, was in Topeka this
week to make arrangements for the
publication of his forthcoming book.
Mr.. Howe's new book will not be a
novel. 1t will carry the simple title
Daily Notes of a Trip Around the
| chronicle of Mr.. Howe's experiences
which were published in the State
Journal The Atchison editor always
writes interestingly. He possesses
the faculty of seeing things of I'M
usual human interest and being able
| to write of them in a plain, fascinat-
ing and delightful style. During Mr..
Howe's trip around the world he
wrote Impressions every day and
the result was series of letters of
travel that were as instructive as a
text book and as enhancing a
novel. Eastern publishers who ap-
preciated these facts have made an eff
fort to secure the right to publish the
book. However, they insisted upon
an abridgement as the letters will
make volume of upwards of 700
pages, but Mr.. Howe felt that this
would destroy the continuity Of the
story and so he has decided to pub
lish the book himself The work will
probably be done by the firm of Crane
& Co.. of Topeka. The book will be
bound in cloth and will be illustrated
by numerous half tone plates from
photographs taken by Mr.. Howe's,
daughter. Miss Mattel Howe.
Mr.. Louis Joseph vance's new
book is called The Brass Bowl, but
previous to it's publication by the
Bobbs-Merrill Company Mr.. William
De Morgan had written Joseph Vance
The hero of The Brass Bowl is Daniel
Maitland. and it only remains for
Maitland to write Mr.. De Morgan,
and then the matter will be fairly set
tied. Stin, it was careless of Mr. !
Vance to have been christened
Joseph. 1t seems almost an infringe
ment Of copyright, possibly action
able.
William Sage the author of 1.-THE |
District Attorney" published last |
year, has written a new romance of |
love ana politics entitled by Right |
Divine which Little, Brown & Co |
will bring out in May. The story deals |
with the struggle between a United |
states senator and a young governor |
for political supremacy in their native |
state, and is complicated by the love
of the senator's daughter for both of |
the contestants.
Owing to large advance orders,
Little Brown & Co. postponed the
Castle of Doubt bv
John H. Whitson, and "Jenifer," by
Lucy M Thurston. until today. THE
castle OF Doubt will contain
fronuspiece in four colors by I. II.
Caliga, the celebrated portrait painter
of Salem, Mass.
A second edition of Ida NJ TarbelPsE
new conception of a grand Character. /
He knew Lincoln" was made neces,
sary in advance of publication. The
publishers, Mcclure. Phillips & Co.
anticipate large sale for 1t.
Messrs. Mcclure, Phillips & Co., an
nounce that two editions before publf-
cation were needed of A. Conan Doyle's
great tale of the prize ring. "The Cr,ox /
ley Master" The same publishers an |.
nounce the second substantial edition of
Eden Phtllpotts' novel of the Dart
moor country, "The Whirlwind" |
Madison Cawein. the Kentucky poet,
saws Aunt Jane of Kentucky by
Eliza Calvert Hall. sis full of scenes
that are very familiar to me- and takes