The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09

the United States 1t is diverting 10
trace the history back of the romance
The life story Of John Nepomuk Sill
water, archiduke of Austria is possibly
one inspirational conCeit- 1t will be re-
called that this strange romantic prince
renowned everything and disappeared
in 1888. Under the name of Johann
/ Orth he was reported from time &c
time in the four corners of the globe.
Some Austrian sailors claimed to have
caught sight Of him in Boston He IS
thought to have been drowned off Val
paraiso, after leaving Buenos Ayres.
That grand duke of Tuscany who was
exiled in Bohemia, and was succeeded
by his son, Leopold II. also encounter
ed some adventures parallel with the
supposed Austrian events of Mr.. Mich
OlsCn'S romance.
The Spinners Book of Fiction" Is to
be a representative collection of the
work of California writer's in the short
story field. Gertrude Atherton. Mary
Austin, Jack London. Charles Warren
StOdGard, J. a. Morrow and a number
Of other western writer's Of general rep
utation have contributed. The book
has been complied by the Spinners'
club. a group of literary people of san
Francisco. and is TO be published by
the Ina COOlbrith Fund The volume
Will be illustrated with several color
plates. among Others a frOntispiece by
Miss Withrow and a miniature for tie
il Will be recalled did the Janice Mere
dith miniature. Several years ago the
Spinners' club compiled '-Prcsit.' one
Of the most successful books of tOastS
on the market II has just been re-
published by Paul Elder & Co. after
being out OF print as a result of the
San Francisco disaster
bird Notes AfeId" by Charles Neeler
will soon he published by Paul Elder <
Co. as a companion volume to The
Garden Book of California It was
announced for last fall. but the pre-
paration of a careful index and a Held
check list delayed its manufacture I,
is to be illustrated with a collection
of the remarkable Finley snapshots Of
birds in their wild haunts.
Colonel Henry Watterson Is spend
ing the winter in Egypt. whence he
has been sending home some charac-
teristic letters to the Courier Journal in
Louisville. a new and enlarged edition
Of Colonel Watterson's book. 1.-The
Compromises of Life" has lately been
issued by Dufield & Co.
General Oliver Otis Howard has
written his autobiography. which the
Baker & Taylor Co. will publish this
fall. The generals experiences While
in command of a brigade at Bull Run
and Gettysburg, his services as head
Of the Freedman's bureau during the
as peace commissioner to the hostile
Indians. and his work and influence as
an educator. all combine to make this
a book of the first importance.
In Under the Harrow. Ellis
Meredith a talented Colorado author.
has written a story dealing with the
subject of a girls chance of success in
making a living by her brains, the
scene being Land in the city of New
York. Ellis Meredith is the author
of The Master Knot of Human Fate"
aud Heart OF My Heart" Under
the Harrow" will be published by
Little. Brown & Co, Boston.
The recent death of Josiah F1ynt
Willard, the author who tramped with
tramps. recalls the fact that it was he
who originally inspired Hutchins
Hapgood's book The Autobiography
OF a Thief" The ex-convict hero of
this volume, upon his release from
prison. was sent to Josiah FIynt'' by
some member of the National Prison
association who had befr.ended him.
and by Flynt was turned over to Mr..
Hapgood- The latter, becoming in