The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-05

youthful photographer utters her
thoughts through a diary, because as
she says, "a diary is something you
can tell things to and not get in trou-
ble." 1t is announced that Mary
Cary as a story is just the whimsical,
quaint impuisive. expression of a child |
of IL or II whose mind and tongue are
quick as a fash whose will is obsti-
nate, who is capable of much mischief.
Lut incapable of falsehood, and whose /
lonely little heart under kindness is soft
as snow under the sun. AS Mary Cary
says again: when there's love enough
you can stand everything. When there
isn't you can stand nothing" The
Harpers are to publish Mary Cary"
this month.
c. N. & A: NJ. Williamson. have re-
Gently closed a contract with Charles
Frohnan for the production of a dra-
matized version of their book, 1.-The
Chaperon." The play has been written
by Mrs. Flexner. vino drarnatized Mrs.
Wigs of the Cabbage Patch and Will
lam Collier is the hero. The new play.
which is to be called "a Lucky STAR
(starr, it will be remembered, being the
rame of the hero of the book, was
produced at the Hudson theater, on
January IS. After being produced in
New York. the play will go to Eng
land. Doubleday Page & Co. have just
published new story by the William
sons entitled Lord Loveland Discov-
ers America the hero of which is a
| cousin to the charming and popular
| Lady Betty"
HamIin Garland. whose most recent
roveI is 1.-The Moccasin Ranch has
been a visitor in New York for the
greater part of a fortnight, part of
which time he was engaged With his
publishers, the Harpers, on the matter
of a new manuscript which he is said
to have in hand. Mr.. Garlands home
IS in Chicago, where he has just been
reelected president of the distinguish
ed library and arts club of that city
known as the Clif-Dwellers.
Miss Helen A. Clarke, the author of
.Iongfellow's Country "Browning's
Italy, "Brownings England ETC., is
also a musician of considerable attain
ments and the author of an operettd,
1.-THE May Queen which is to be given
in Philadelphia on April Goth. Miss
Clarke, whose home is in Cambridge,
Mass, is now at work upon COM
panion volume to "Longfellow's Coun-
| try" which will be called Hawthorne S
Country"
New York Society on Parade" a
revelation of the agreeable, - Or other
wise habits and foibles of New York
| extreme upper set by one of it's number,
will be ready for publication by the
Harpers in February. At that time
New York will be presented to friends
and fellow citizens at the Dinner, at the
/ Opera, and at the Dance, these three,
| where it's often somewhat bored be-
havior will speak for itself. The au-
| thor is Ralph Pulitzer, son of Joseph
Pulitzer editor and proprietor of the
New York World. His wife is the
daughter of Seward Webb and a grand
daughter of the late William H Van
derbilt.
Alfred Holt Stones book Studies il
the American Race Problem published
by Doubleday Page & Company exam
ines its subject so broadly as well as
deeply that although it deals especially
| with the negro question in the United
States it also forms a valuable work
of reference for the study of race prob.
| lens the world over. On the strength
of his book the author recently received
a call on his plantation in Mississippi
from a gentleman who came all the
way from South Africa to talk over the
knotty problem both there and here
Another call was from the head Of ths