The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-18

I Sedgwick of New York, for many
years connected with important inter-
ests in New York both in the magazine
and book publishing fields. Vice
president. Waldo Emerson Forbes, of
Milton. Massachusetts,. Treasurer,
MacGregor Jenkins of Boston, for
nearly twenty years connected with
Houghton Miff1in Company, and for
fifteen years the business manager of
the Atlantic Monthly.
A recent visit of Mrs Humphry
Ward to this country has stimulated
interest in Mrs. Ward everywhere.
Therefore. a Mrs. Humphry Ward
number of the Book News Monthly
comes just in the nick of time. What
with its interesting articles and pic
lures. there should be a vast amount
of enjoyable reading matter for all
people who care anything about books
and authors.
Midsummer Holiday Number. with
ten short stories. besides new chap
tiers, of increasingly intense interest, of
DR.. S. Weir Mitchelrs 1.-The Red CITY,"
Among the contributors to this short
story issue will be David Gray, the
"Gallops'' man, Irving Bachelor,
Charles d. Stewart, and Jack London.
A novelette, of unusual interest
opens the August number Of the
Smart Set. 1t is called 1.-THE Diary
of an Unconscious Eve" and is writ
ten by G. We're Tyler, a writer who
probably has as keen an insight into
the feminine temperament as any liv
ing author. The situation on which
the novel is founded is at once unique
and daring. and the ending is so alb
solutely unlocked for that it will sur
nriSa the most claV1r readers. A
more original piece of work has not
appeared in this magazine.
It is rumored on good authority that
o. Henry. the famous short story
writer, has at last managed to drag
himself away. for time at least, from
little old New York. which has SO
long been the scene or his literary
activities. Somewhere on the shore
Of Long Island, far from the hustle
and stir of Broadway and the many
sights and sounds of the city which he
knows so well, o. Henry has made his
home for the summer. What will come
of this visit is matter for speculation:
Perhaps o. Henry will discover"
Long Island in the same way that he
did New York and produce a volume
of short stories dealing with Long
Island local types or perhaps, inspired
by the restful atmosphere of the coun-
try, he may devote his efforts to that
long novel which every short story
writer is popularity supposed to pro-
duce at some time in his literary ca
reer Gust to show that he can, don't
you know.
"a novel of married lives as lived in
America"-these words exactly define
Mr.. Robert Herrick's new novel, To
I gether"-the biggest and most i'm
portant story he has ever written,
| just published by the Macmillan, Com
pany. More and more, readers real
ize that the romance and the tragedy
of life begin where the old-fashioned
stories left off-at the altar. The feel
| ings and the doings of two young peo-
pie in the vagaries of love and court
| ship have small relation with real life
and real passion as most of us see 1t
and feel it. The romance of their ex-
istences for the ten, twenty, or thirty
years after marriage is what has real
| significance. Together opens with
| the marriage ceremony. What mar
| riage means to the American man,
with his absorption in business; what
| it means, above all, to the American
| woman, with her dominating influence
| in social life, her ambitions and as
| pirations. her influence upon the man
! for good or bad, her struggle for self
| assertion, and her often defeated
| longings for sentiment after the years
| of courtship-these are the themes of
| MI. HerrlckS new novel.
Sir Gilbert Parker was a visitor in
New York recently. Few persons even
knew that the distinguished novelist
| was In this country, SO quiet was his
arrival. He spent only three days in
| the city, spending much of the time
in consultation with his publishers,
the Harpers, and keeping himself
withdrawn from social affairs. Sir
| Gilbert arrived from Canada, his old
| home, and the land first associated
with his success. He sailed from New
York for England on July 1.