The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-30

T~IAML1N GARLAND has not
lin E forgotten the old West of MS
I'M - E frst love in "Cavanaugh-
Hl Forest Ranger" his ne"
novel The West of Rem
inguon and Bret Harte ap-
pears in Mr.. Garlands pages in the
person of Lie Wetherford, keeper OF
a hy-blown eating house at Roaring
Fork. She IS an old warrior OF IroHL
tier mettle. IN one scene, armed VIII Will
a revolver which she uses vigorously
to bang her customers over the heao.
she clears a mob of angry men out OF
her dining room. Against this is con-
trasted another picture-a dinner III
the shack Of the forest supervisor
which is orderly, cheerful; where the
men are defarential, dressed in sucn
evening cloth, : as they can lay their
hands on at she moment. Mr.. Garland
conceives Cavanaugh as typical OF the
new laW-abiGinG prosperous west
Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin, the popu-
lar author of Susanna and Sue ana
the "Rebecca'' books, sailed on April
20 for her regular spring visit to En-
gland. Anthony Hope has asked Mrs
Wiggin to respond to one of the toasts
at the annual Inner of the Royal Lit
erarv Fund m London on May D. The
other speakers will be Maurice Hew-
lett, Gilbert K Chesterton, Maarten
Martens, Lord Tennyson and Andrew
Lang. On May Mrs. W1ggln VIII so
TO Stratford TO witness the hrst per
mortal theater. the author, Josephine
Preston Peabody, having invited her
to be present.
Ian Hav. who comes before the
American public for the first time with
his new novel, 1.-The Right Stuff" pup
lished by Heughton Miffiin Co., TINS
week, is a young Scotch writer whose
keen sense &C humor and genial in
sight into human nature will make an
instant appeal to large audience OF
novel readers. His two previous DOCKS
have already established ms repuIa-
ton among the British public. The
Right Stuff mas been compared with
Barrie's when Mans Single" and has
to do with London life of today.
Moffat. Yard & Company announce
the near publication of a new novel
of American life of today, entitled
1.-The Storm Birds" by Schroeder DaV-
IS Here is the inside story of the
events that preceded the war with
Spain. It is Il attention gripping tale
of diplomatic intrigue in Washington,
interviewer with a long love story and
spiced with thrilling and humorous
incidents. Written by one who has
breathed for years the intimate atmoS-
phere of the circle he depicts the story
carries an irresistible sense of reve-
lation of hidden and secret and things.
1t gives rare insight into diplomatic
life. with a series of strikingly realistic
pictures of great diplomatists in ac-
ton, and a powerful suggestion of the
influence of personal passions upon
international affairs. Many of its
characters will be recognized at once
in Washington as having been impor-
tant factors IL events of its period
Julia Ward Howe, in the recently
published book, I'm After Days. puts
her belief in Immortality squarely on
Biblical grounds. She holds that "the
promise of a future life is held to
have such prominence in Christ's
teachings as TO bid Paul to say that
the Master brought life and immor-
tally to light How did he do this ?
BY filling the life of today with the
Consciousness of eternal things, of
truth and principles which would not
change if the whole visible universe
were to pass away"
It sometimes seems that no writer
unless it be II. G. Wells-can go in
fancy so far ahead of facts as to fore
stall the possibility of being overtaken ,
by them during his lifetime. Surely
when Mark Twain set Tom Sawyer and
Huck Finn and the indispensable |
Jim adrift in an airship over the
Great Desert, and made them look
down on Arab wedding professions and !
hirt with the great pyramid. he meant |
to be just as wildly fantastic as he |
possibly coul3; and all his readers re- |
5oiced in the result. But now that the
Imperial AerO club of Berlin is plan