The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-19

probation of a production by giving him
an accurate idea of how 1t Is written.
The Swami Pararnananda, of whose |
path of Devotion The Baker & Tay-
Ior company announce second eoltaon' |
is a naive of Bengal. disciple OF the
lannon's swami ViVeka nanda. He be-
longs to the same religious oroer as
Swami Vivekananda. and came 10 TINS
| country over three years ago. Slnce
that time he has published three books
and has taught in New York, Boston,
ard Washington.
| The Baker & Taylor company an
nounce a portrait catalogue of their
| books, which will be illustrated by por-
I. traits of about 90 of their authors and
| will be in many respects one OF the most
/ attractive catalogues issued.
/ Juliet Wilbor Tompkins. whose The
/ Top of the Morning is one of the most
/ 81 ccessfuI books of the season. Is
spending the season in New York. where
| she continues her literary work.
Jane Brewster Reid makes her first
| venture as an author of fiction In ',Tne
| Owls of ST. UrSula's''-a girls school
| story, published bv The Baker & Tay-
Ior company. Miss Reid is an artist
vorably known and her book shows
| some of the characteristics OF careful
| artistic painting
DR.. w. II. HOrnaQ6yy TIE Q1IOClOL VI
the New York Geological park, has con-
| tributed an Introduction to EDGAR
Beeche- Bronson's In Closed Terri
tory" which is published this month
by A c. ldcClurg & Co, in which ne
discusses most suggestively the future
of big game. Five hundred years from
low" he says. when North America
| is worn out, and wasted to skeleton
of what it now is. the great plateau
| re gion of East Africa. between cape
Town and Lake Rudolph, will be
| mighty empire. reeming with white pop
| ulation Girafees and rhinoceroses are
| row tranpling over the sites of future
| cities and universities. Then the game
| herds, outside of the preserves, VIII ex-
of such books as In Closed Territory
nv Bronson. and in other books by
hunters who shoot for themselves, ana
write for the pleasure of thelr trlends-
Meredith Nicholson was one of the
friends of General Lew Wallace who
paid tribute at the unvei1ng IN
Washington of the latters stasu a9 :;
there by the state of Indiana. Mr..
| Nicholson said that the idea or Ben
Hur'' came to the author aIter
chance conversation in railway car
riage with Colonel Ingersoll, and that
afterward he went home and at once
began the preliminary STUDIES TO the
: writing of novel, Wn1cn, nrst pun -
: Iished by Harpers twenty years ago, is
generally acknowledged to have mao
:, The greatest success that any. copy
:, righted novel ever had. General war
. lace according to Mr.. Nicholson, mac
a Gift of concentration which was very
Unusual "He could write on his knee
= in a railway train or i'll an once Dese
by callers and never be olsiurOe 60,
had many opportunities Ioi
observing him in various circum-
Q stances, and I never saw any lapse
: from that grave, beautiful courtesy
q which marked him..
/ Since the days of Charlotte Bronte's
y "Rochester," the masterful man has
IS been popular in fiction; La tsS ca nUm
e of the stage to the frail man OF IN
C. domitable nerve; the dashing, reck
less soldier of fortune; the impertur
II able man of fashion VINO nee , e w.
l. contingency with ready tact; the mys
If ferrous diplomat with his suave daring
}, and a host of others. 1t is pleasure
II to see him coming to the front again a.
L this time with his masterfulnesS QUE
r to charm of manner and knowledge O
> human nature, rather than to audaclt.
r jim Mrs. Grace sartwen >. mason PM
novel, 1.-THE Godparents, Wn1ci
l. Houghton, Mif1in Co., will publish thi
- month.
q Whatever the present fate o
s Shakespearian acting in this country
of at no time does Shakespearian com
s. mentary and criticism appear to aDate
v within a comparatively short space Q
IN months several widely differing work
er have appeared to emphasize this fact
p. There was Swinburne's last volum
tn s"Three plays of Shakespeare whic
the Harpers published almost on tn
eve of his death. There has been tn
ly entire new edition of Shakespeare; rs
Us sued by the same publishers, the $40
Id new Lee edition, which contains critica
h. introductions by the most famous Q
he modern critics There was the boo
lie seThe Man Shakespeare" purportins I
O. discover the poets biography in hi
n works, and in their current appearance
e. in Harper's Magazine, the new Shake
In spearian discoveries of Prof Charlie
o. | William Wallace promise renarKaDl
in DEVELOPMENT. Even the frequent re
h prints of such books as Rolfe's "Shake
ce speare the Boy just reissued, serve
lily keep in mind this steady popular II
IT. terest, all the more noteworthy in a