The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29
BOOK NOTES.

like New York at all on her first sight
of it in July, 1876. In letters home to
Poland she called the city ga mon
strous untidy bazaar" and stas ugly as
can be-" These first impressions, tax
en- from intimate letters, are a de-
lightful and interesting part of her
fury will deal with such important
matters as the ups and downs of a
communal colony in California and of
Nine. Modjeska's first struggles and
Something of Men Have Known"
Vice President Stevenson's new book
of "reminiscences, just published by A.
high rank among the best selling
books of its class throughout the
country. The first edition was ex-
hauSted very soon after publication
and a second printing has ben nearly
sold out. The book is in demand in
| every part Of the country and has been
| reviewed in the most flattering man
ner east and west. 1t is a veritable
mine of good stories and amusing and
instructive anecdotes. and the Spring
field Republican says of it: 1--WE
| know of no other single volume in re-
| lation to American politics or history
SO rich in this respect as Mr.. Stew
| enSon'S."
In good season for Lincoln's birth
| day, A. C. McClurg s. Co. will pub
lish small volume from the pen of
Hon. Isaac N. Phillips, reporter for the
supreme court of Illinois, which en-
bodies an analysis of Lincoln's char
acter in a distinctly original manner.
| The book will be issued in uniform
style with Colonel Carr's Lincoln at
Gettysburg"
Harold McGrath is on his way
around the world, having the very
finest kind of a time, hob-nobbing
with ambassadors, lunching in the
shade Of the Pyramids and in the
ruins of Karnak, storing his mind with
| q thousand romantic hints at Athens,
at Bagdad, at Benares and Mandalay.
A new serial from his fluent pen be-
gins in the February Ainslee's: called
meantime ".rhe Goose Girl continues
among the best selling books.
Every now and then some would be
ously that the day of the book play
is over 1t is indeed true that the
success of 4 book does not now nee
essarily insure the success of a play
| made from IT. Perhaps this was never
true, though once upon a time GER
tain circumstances lent color to the
| notion-such AS John Drew'S playing
Richard Carvel' for an entire season.
But if any one fancies that the public
will not stand for a play worked out
book, why there are facts a-plenty
to prove him absurdly wrong. The
publishing house that has had more
of its novels dramatized and produced
than all the other houses in America,
The Bobb- Merrill Company, reports
that there never was a time when
good book plays received such steady
acceptance from manager and public.
For example, the biggest comedy
hit of the season, "Seven Days." was
made from the book When a Man
Marries.' The author had no pre-
vious reputation as playwright.
Shrewd managers saw the opportunity
! for the stage in the fictional compli-
party and jumped at it..
If the greatest laughing success
since "Charley's Aunt was made from
story. so also was the most distin-
atrical year. jerome K. jerome wrote
a novelette, entitled "The Passing of
4 the Third Floor Back long before
he wrote the modern morality in
which Mr.. Forbes Robertson has at
tracted such great attention.
i Another example: George Middle
ton made a dramatization of Mere
dith Nicholson's ''The House of a
Thousand Candles That delightful
actor, Mr.. F. NJ Holland, appeared
screamed. It was temporarily with
drawn from the boards. Farewell,
book play!" said the wiseacres. To
day four companies are playing "The
House of Thousand Candles" to
crowded houses, from Augusta to San
Diego-from Vancouver to Tampa. So
great has been the success Of Hugo
Koch, who took the place of Mr..
Holland as Bates, that his managers,
Messrs. Rowland and Gaskel, will star
him this spring in a play by E. E.
Rose from another Nicholson novel,
1.-The Port of Missing Men, And
George Middleton has been engaged
on third Nicholson hook nRnSalind