The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-02

you and yours a blessed souvenir
few moments afterward, when she APP
peared upon the scene, a tremendous
demonstration of cheers and vivas re-
sounded from all parts of the house:
the name of the queen alternating with
that of Ristcri. Il bowed to the Royal
Box" she said, "for I would not ac-
cept for myself the gratitude of the
public. but heard the queen distinct
ly say in a loud voice, pointing to me,
Mono, it is she-it is She
The Authors and Newspa per asso-
citation of New York has evolved plan
for the sale of new books by we'll
known authors which bids fair to revo>
lutionize the book business. The COM
pany has closed contracts with dozen
authors, all familiar to the reading
public, including Gertrude Atherton
Amelia Barr. Eden Philipotts Anna
Katherine Green, Mary E. Wilkins
Freeman, and Max Pemberton. They
furnish at least one novel to the as
ISOLATION and they are published in up
to-date style, bound in cloth and Illus
trated in colors. Then a contract for
the sales is made with one firm in each
city by which the books are to be sold
for SO cents each. Crosby Brothers
have secured the Topeka agency and
six titles have already been placed on
sale. They inc1ue doc Gordon" by
Mrs. FreemanS 1.-The Chief Legatee.''
by Anna Katherine Green; Daniel
a new novel by Max Pemberton.
The plan is one that will be watched
with considerable interest, as it places
the latest popular novels before the
public at less than half the usual price.
Anthony Fiala, the arctic explorer.
whose book, Fighting the Polar Ice,"
has been published by Doubleday, Page
& Co., is perhaps the only real pho
tographer to make the dash for the
rnn n hi C
ice pictures are perhaps the most re-
markable in existence. He conquered
all obstacles of light and cold. On his
first expedition he used plates and
many were broken. On the second
(whose story is told in the book he
used films exclusively. In changing
films his fingers often stuck to the
metal holders and the skin came off.
Mr.. Fiala secured the only moving
Arctic pictures ever taken. He got
them in the face of great difficulty. He
first used celluloid films, but they
cracked at temperature of forty de-
grees below zero. and the fragments
clogged up his camera. He persevered,
used ordinary films and succeeded.
One of the most graphic of the series
shows Fiala's ship, the America buck
ing the ice and moving tremblingly,
but slowly forward. Fiala narrowly
escaped drowning while taking these
pictures. The ice cake on which he
stood cracked. His first thought was
his camera. He got an icy ducking
The series of pictures ends abruptly
with his tumble.
"Brewster's Millions by George
Barr McCutcheon, has been drama
tized. and is enjoying a successful run
at the New Amsterdam theater in New
York 49, se
In an address before the Municipal
Art society of Baltimore, a few weeks
ago, Mr.. Hopkinson Smith, new book
of whose stories. under the title of
THE Yelled Lady and Other Men and
Women the Scribners- are about to
publish. said: THE tendencies of our
times-the time of the telegram. of
ten words and no more-tend to con-
densation in literature, and where well
done, to suggestion. Exquisite as are
the the results. notably in
the school of modern French writer's
and our own master. Bret Harte, and
in the earlier stories of that literary
comet. Rudyard Kipling. the danger
is that the writer of the future. ad-
vancing along these lines, may give us
only a paragraph out of which to con-
struct chapter, as some naturalists do
a bone or a tooth from which to re-
construct mastodon.'