The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-02

John the Unafraid.'' is the title of a
small book. cast in scripturai form and
containing the story of the carpenter
Sonn who founded the Church of the
Brotherhood and who lived a religion
OF deed rather than creed. Messrs. A.
e McClurg & Co., the publishers, are
hot permitted to divulge the name of
the author but they given out the fact
mat he Is Chicagoan of many years
pubic service and of national fame.
Within one day after publication the
chicago papers had made 10 guesseS as
TO the authorship, Judges Lands
Jrstice Fuller. and Secretaries Mac
Veagh. Dickinson and Norton being also
mentioned.
Upon the cover of The Worlds Work
for April appears a picture of the man.
moth Dome which is to form the Civic
Centre Of a revolutionized Chicago.
The plan of this future City Beautiful
Besides the story of "Chicago-Its
Struggle and It's Dream the number
contains a dozen or more articles of
uncommon interest. Among these is
an article by William Bayard Hale,
entitled 1.-THE Speaker or the People?'
which gives deep insight into the
peculiar power possessed by Joseph @.
Cannon, ruler of congress. A remedial
of Our Waterways forms the final in
stalment of James J. HIPS series
Highways of Progress which have
been running in the five preceding
numbers.
Frederick A Stokes company an
nounces the following new editions of
its spring novels: A fifth edition, one
month after publication, of Cab No. |
"A. the detective story by r. F. FoS- |
ter, author of Auction Bridge, Fosters !
Complete FIoyle, etc, and a second |
edition each of Thurston of Orchard
Valley, by Harold Bindloss, and The
Living Mummy, a mystery story OF
modern Egypt by Ambrose Pratt. Edi-
tions of all three books have also been
sold in Canada.
'eThe Politician" a novel of present
day political life by Edith Huntington
to be published shortly by A
G. McClurg & Co., Chicago, is that
rarest kind of novel in which neither
the situations nor the characters are
overdrawn. In fact. the situations are
those of social and political life in
both Chicago and New York and are
both accurate and free from exaggera-
ion or caricature. The characters are
meet day by day and the author has
-efrained from burdening them and
he reader with suDerhuman qualities
Of vice or virtue. The love interest
IF the story is refreshing in that it
avoids naive romance on the one hand
md realism" on the other hand and
therefore, succeeds in being very true
% reality.
A c. Fox-Davies, the English bar
lister whose forthcoming tale of mys-
cry and ina gination will be published
his month by the Macaulay company
Inder the title 1.-The Duplicate Death"
las led an extremely active literary
fife. Although still we'll under forty,
Ir. Fox-Davies has been responsible
IS editor or author for more than
ixty volumes. Though much of his
york has concerned heraldry, he has
written a considerable amount of de- ,
ective fiction, being especially we'll
tied for the production of that form :
f the novel, by reason of his practical !
curt of London. {
Frederick A Stokes company an !
ounces for publication in April two 7
editions to its Masterpieces in Color r
and Lawrence. Two l
lore volumes will be forthcoming !
lter in the seaSOn-pro badly in June (
and will treat Hogarth and J. F. \
Iillet. With the addition of these five Q
ookS the series will contain 3S vol Q
mes. There are still two volumes to Z
ONE. n
Writing in the issue of Harper's a
Weekly for March %, Sydney Brooks \
Ellis of the boy scouts movements in =
and the remarkable rules =
nat govern the organizations which it g
as created. In Through the Black =
- Thaddeus s. Dayton de- -
tribes the elimination of the dishon- =
st 'scalpers," in whose offices used r
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