The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-13


Charles Tenny Jackson, whose story.
The Day of Souls, has received so
much favorable comment is of the
younger writer's. The Day of Souls is
but his second book. His first, Losers
several editions. Back of it lay a lit
erary apprenticeship of ten or twelve
years, during which he was a con-
trtbutor to the magazines and did
much for the juvenile readers. His
earlier stories in the Youths Com
panion and his newspaper experiences
in the middle west and on the Pacific
coast Jackson calls it "unrequited
grind') formed the basis for higher
attachments. Passion for the outdoor
| life led him to Florida at the out
break of the Spanish-American war.
Later he accompanied the governor
! of Wisconsin and party to the Pacific
coast as representative of one of the
| Milwaukee dailies on the occasion OF
| the launching of the battleship Wis
consin. San Francisco afforded new
impressions and contrasts that imme
diately impelled him to study the life
he has described in The Day of Souls.
He became part of it, shared its reck-
les, irresponsible existence, and has
written what seems a true delineaticn
of the pleasure-loving, diversion-seek-
| ing city that was before the earth
quake. A new novel from Mr.. Jack
sons pen is promised for publication
| in the fall.
A new work by DIR. Lyman Abbott is
announced by Thomas Y. CroweH &
Company. 1t is entitled Seeking Aft
er God" and Is in part reply to a
statement credited to C. Lowe Dick
inson. that Americans use all their
energies in the pursuit of wealth and
power to the exclusion of things re-
| ligious. DR.. Abbott takes issue on the
point and answers the English critic
with convincing arguments in his usual
lucid style.
When Marian Harland was a little
| girl, child study was unknown, and the
enfant terrible did not have a chance
to be. Perhaps the good old way of
never allowing a child to know that he
could create a sensation by an limo
Gently frank remark was as good as
some modern methods. At all events,
1t is hard to imagine the following in
| cident occurring nowadays. "At ten
years of age" writes Marion Harland
in her autobiography, II asked my
mother point-blank, what salary the
church paid Uncle Carus. She an
dollars a year But he has property of
his own WhereuDon, without the
slightest idea of being pert. l remark
ed, If we were to get really good
preacher, I suppose he would have to
be paid more And my mother re-
your uncle Carus is a very faithful
pastor The quaint sound that this
bit of dialogue has for our ears shows
how far we have strayed from the seri-
GUS walk and conversation of our faith
ers.
The latest example of the literary
man in politics Cor of the politician in
literature, as you please) is Henry Rus
sell Miller who knows the reformer
and the practical politician as we'll
He has been the one and fought the
other. In the last notable reform cam
paign in Allegheny. he was the fire
works of the performance. And the
way he put out his information. his
protests and his appeals, his walloping
of the nice people of the old town,
and his conclusion that they were get
ting just what they deserved-it was
all well starched and finished. Rem
iniscences of this campaign appear in
MI Miller's novel, THE Man Higher
Up which seems, just now, to be the
broadmindedness. he has made his
hero a practical politician.
Another author to receive the Order
Of Merit with Thomas Hardy is Sir
William Crookes, who had been
Hardy declined. Sir Williams latest
book was brought out in this country
last spring by the Harpers. Its title Is
Diamonds" and it is the latest ad-
dition to "Harper's Library of Living
Thought
In THE Fruit of Desires new
novel said to be written by a we'll
known author over the pen-name vir-
ginia Demarest-there is a portrait of