The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-26

Authors' club, Mr.. w e. Connelley read
from his forthcoming Life OF w: =.
C,uautrxI some portions or the nrst
chapters. The life and history of Guam
trel has never been written and TINS
work by this Kansas author Will De a
sensation Mr.. Connelley is a historic
deliver into what may be termed SUD
terranean facts. He has secured a
score or more of private letters writ
ten by Quantrel which have never peeh
rnade public and an extended genealogy
Of the Quantrel family. The lh1ornla-
tion he has secured shows that the
family record is not gooo, oeT 81 have
the desperado's ancestors prove TO nave
been burglars, thieves. forsers, Dig
amists, and one was a pirate. ne
family was one of dare deV1ls put III IL
all there is one sunny spot. II wa0
that of a woman, an aunt, of the Ran
sas ruffian. During the civil war, slle
almost alone of the family, was rear
less supporter Of the Union, IN Teoel
community, and Haunting tne oIaLS
and Stripes In the face OF a Con1eoer-
cte regiment, she even won respect Dy
her determined daring although deprV
ed of her flag. 1t is even salo tn6s -
was she who was the heroine OIL w H.
tiers noted poem. Mr.. ConneLey ne"
hook will be read with much interest
AS usual with this writer the state
uents made are well grounded IN Idcts'
G. McClurg & Co, of Chicago, Will
,,,11I,sh in JuIy a remarkable life of the
inventor OF the harvester under the u
lie s'Cvrus Hall Mccormick, his LlIe
and Work. written by Herbert n: AS
son. author of THE Romance OF St rel
and '0The Romance of the Reaper Inc
rtorv Is not a biography only, put
cbaDter. as we'll, in the most important
development of American history.
Svinburne's letters to Edmund Car
enca Stedman. which the London Times
has had the privilege of laying open 70
the uublic eye. reveal the whole .souleo
admiration of genius that constituted
part of the poets greatness. In par
ttcular Swinburne makes mighty o1er-
Inc of tribute to Walter Savage Lam
dor whose literary antagonists were
represented by Professor Lounsoury OF
Yale in an article, afterward lncluoeo
in his book THE Standard OF usage IN
English" in which he TefeIre1 to Lam
dor as lone of the minor gods OF the
Georgian era in whose homer cult Z as
been Instituted" Stedman's own ao-
miration of Lander led him TO make
the critical study about whlch SWln-
burne is here speaking: The only
drop of qualifying bitterness In the
pleasure with which read and reread
ii rises from the regret that IT could
NOT have come nine years Delore IN
stead of after he went back to the
OIvrrnnians: for 1 remember we'll how
pleasant and how precious, for all his
high seif-reliance, the sincere tribute OF
genuine and studious admiration was
even at the last to the old dem1god
with the head and the heart of a lion.
I have often ardently wished 1 could
have been born (say) but five years
earlier. that my affection and rever-
ence might have been of some use and
their expression found some echo While
he was vet alive beyond the rooms in
which he was to die. The end was very
lonely and 1 fear the last echo of any
public voice that reached him from
England must have been OF obloquy
and insult"
The Lippincotts have arranged to is
sue shortly in this country very time
lv volume. THE Awakening of Tur-
key" by E. f. Knight, author of
s'Where Three Empires Meet" Mr..
Knight was present in Turkey and in
innate with its leaders. during the
whole period leading up to the recent
drastic changes in its constitution. He
is. therefore, able to present detailed
and personal account of events which,
lost to the observer through the usual
channels, form an interesting and in
structfve picture of the real changes
which have taken place in the Ottoman
Empire. and also of the actual manner
in which these changes were effected
William Dana Orcutt has closed his
Boston home for the season, and with
his family is at Cape Cod. where the
circuit cottage is q familiar landmark
= in the coast colony. The Harpers re-
Gently announced still another printing
of Mr.. CIRCUITS novel, 1.-The Spell"
Dorothy Garfield, the author of many
charming short stories, and daughter
Of Flavia A. c. Garfield, who wrote
THE Kidnapped Campers" a recent
Harper book for children, returned re-
Gently from a sojourn in France, and
is again settled at her home in Airing
ton, Vermont, where much of her liter
airy work is done.
To those who wish to make a more
Heffous study of modern France, the