The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-20

been most helpful in promoting out
| door life, camping, fishing, hunting,
animal photography and the preserva-
ton OF forests. wild life and landsca Pc
The good example of Mr. Horuaday' 5
book has already been shown in the
( formation of more than one party of
grown men or boys to go over the
same route next summer that he de-
scribes in his book.
Jerry Junior" scheduled by the
Century company for publication April
"a. is by the young author of when
Patty Went to College" The scenes
are laid in a little Italian hill town;
and charming American girl and a
clever American youth play the lead
ing parts The book is to have four
teen full page illustrations by Orson
Lowell
The popularity of the Teddy Bears
of the moment recalls the fact that
the origin of this whole idea was the
Johnny Bear of Mr.. Ernest Thompson
Seton. Mr.. Seton created in story and
in drawing in 1897 that inimitable and
Iifelike small animal whose charm has
started the bear fashion that has made
the bear the leading nursery animal of
the day. None OF the new bears real
" compare in truth or likeness with
the original Johnny Bear in Lives of
the Hunted and Wild Animals Have
known"
Next Monday is an important day
from a literary standpoint, for it marks
the bfcentenary of the birth of the
novelist, Henry Fielding. Every one
knows of Tom Jones'" but few know
much of the man who wrote that i'm
mortal book. This is the stranger, too,
from the fact that Fielding's high rank
has from the first been acknowledged
Sir Walter Scott did not hesitate to
term him the Father of the English
Novel; and Thackeray wrote of him
FT,e~S - lot D
wrote poetry and plays and sketches of
travel but his greatest work was with
his Tom Jones', Joseph Andrews,
| Jonathan Wild" and similar work
Few English writer's enjoy a distinction
such as his-that of unbroken popular
ity for more than a century and half
| and this makes the putting forth, by
the Harpers, of a complete and dedni-
tive edition of his writings a matter of
tfmeliness and Importance It is also
interesting that, like other famous Eng
| lish authors, including both Thomas
Hardy and H G. Wells of the present
! day. Fielding was justice OF the peace,
and served in that capacity with digni-
| ty and honor.
Norman Duncan. who has been spend
ing the winter at Lawrence with his
brother. a professor in K u, has writ
| ten a novel Here is the publishers
notice of the book: Somewhat like
Dickens, somewhat like Stevenson. some
what ike Barrie is Norman Duncan's
remarkab BILE new novel, THE Cruise Of
the Shining Light which the Har-
pers have just published And yet Mr..
| Duncan's story is absolutely unlike any
| Of the stories of these great writer's. 1t
| is so original as TO be absolutely unique
I "a story of mystery of love, of quaint
humor and vigorous action 1t is not
story of the sea- 1t is a story full of
real characters that will live-the boy
Dannie, about whom a veil Of mystery
/ hangs and in whose love story the hook
ends-an old man, Nicholas Top, VIII
brings the boy up to wear Jewels and
| fine clothes, to be a gentleman after the
rules of Lord Chesterfield, and to look
/ down on his strange guardian-a girl,
Judith of Whisper Cove, whom Daunia
! loves from childhood. and the story of
1 whose first kiss is as tenderly and
| quantity humorous as anything in mod
ern literature. A powerful story, low
able story-a story that is full of fine,
| manly. religious feeling-a story that