The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-26

I have yet been announced. Mr.. Nc
| Carthy's source for this romantic play,
HarperS having published the latter
| several weeks before-is ascribed as
| an old French comedy lie Bossu'
| c'The Hunchback"D. Mr.. Mccarthy
is one of the most proficient of French
| scholars, and composes some of his
most charming fancies in this tongue.
Will y. Hardin, one of the very few
southern writer's who have made New
York their permanent home. has re-
turned to the city for summers alb
Sence in time to review the page
proofs of a new novel. The story is
said to reflect some interesting phases
OF the very prevalent ailment. inter-
married love. In other words. it draws
the fatal triangle. and draws it with
a dash of nude realism Mr.. Harben's
book will appear under the Harper
imprint in the latter part of Septem-
Der.
The last of Robert Hichen's papers
on The Spell of Egypt" with the
color pictures by Jules Guerin will
treat in the October Century of Philae
with plea that the modern spirit of
commercialism spare the painted
chambers of Philae and the silence
that comes down from Isis" The
series is to be made into a beautiful
book Egypt and Its Monuments"
with twenty of Jules Guerin's pictures
in color and reproductions of forty
photographs. A supplementary paper
by Mr.. Hichens on "OId Cairo will
| appear in the November Century.
Eugene Debs is the voice of the So
cialist party, rs is its nominee for
| president. He is man with definite
| idea what is the matter in America,
aud what to do about II. Lincoln Stef-
| fenS has interviewed Debs. and put the
| same questions u I'm that he put to
Taft and Bryan and Roosevelt and
| Johnson TIE answers. which appear
| in the October verybody's, are can
did. straightfc; arG. enlightening.
1t is a remarkable array of fiction
which the Mcclure company offers
| for this seasons conSum ption. Begin
| ming with Stewart Edward Whites
| THE Riverman." which has already
| made rapid strides towards the covet-
| ed goal of 'best-Selier." there follow
| Booth Tarkingtons neW romance,
RAIDS THE Point of Honor" a tale of
| Napoleonic times; 1.-THE Great Miss
Driver" by Anthony Hope, in which
| the author presents a new heroine;
which is the more interesting because
/ of Mr.. Weyman's decision that it is
/ to be his last work; Barry Gordon"
an adventure story by William Far
/ quhar PaySon; a new DOCK or stories
| by o. Henry. entitled THE Gentle
CRATER" 1.-The Distributors" by An
| thony Partridge, a story of unique ad-
venture; -'9OO9." by James Hopper
and Fred r. Bechdolt, the prison
| story which excited much comment
upon its serial publication in the Sat
urday Evening Post; THE Crimson
| Azaleas." by H. de We're Stacpoole.
| a charming story of Japan by this
successful new English writer; THAT
| Pup" by Ellis Parker Butler, a de-
/ lightfully humorous dog story by the
author of pigs is Pigs" Round the
| Firesfde," by A Conan Doyle. a book
| Of short stories, none of which has
| appeared before the American public;
| and "Lynch's Daughter" by Leonard
| Merrick an original story of love and
| tainted millions" OF Mr.. Merrick
| William Dean Howells has said: Il
/ can think of no recent fictionist of my
own nation who can match with Mr..
| Merrick."
| The Mcclure company announces
! that it has recently issued the second
| edition of Aunt Maud" by Ernest
| OIdmeadow, the third edition of The
! Chaperon." by c. y. & A. NJ. William
son. the fourth edition of THE Way
farers." by Mary Stewart Cutting, and
I the fifteenth edition of Emmy Lou
/ by George Madden Martin.