The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-16

respect, has not escaped. It's signifi-
canoe seems to lie in the human need
of fresh start, the actual moral ben
eft of beginning all over again" The
hero of "The Wild Olive" humbled
himself and was raised up. Again
and again communities hound men
and women to despair, when the vic
Tins, if they had had initiative and
courage to masquerade elsewhere,
might have been both happy and use
full. It is this adventurous hazard of
new fortunes which appeals to men
and women of imagination and en-
ergy. To sit down and be flayed alive
and say, THANK you, my prosecutors,
1 deserve it ALL" is not the philosophy
1.-THE Wild Olive"
Frederick Palmer, war correspon-
dent and novelist, whose most striking
book, "Danbury Rodd Aviator" was
published this spring by Charles Serb
ner's Sons, is writing play from one
of the episodes in that book. 1t re-
lates the kidnapping of modern mil
lionaire by Danbury Rodd, the master
aeroplane driver, to prevent him from
working himself to death. The idea
is further. developed in the play and
the aeroplane does not figure; but, as
in the book, the captain of industry
is kidnapped and set down on de-
serted island. When brought back at
length, much improved in health. he
finds to his great disappointment and
surprise that the vast Industrial sys-
tenn at whose head he stands has run
on smoothly without him. He learns
that he is not Indispensable.
Edwin L. abin, who wrote the sue
cessful juvenile last year called Bar
B Boys" has completed a second book
entitled Range and Trail This will
| be brought out very shortly by Thomas
Y. CroweH & Company. The same
characters appear as figured in the
previous work, but a different side of
the cowboys life is depicted. In this
, book the crew drive a herd up from
Texas, and lively happenings along
trail make up the story. Mr.. Sabin
has led the life of a cowboy himself
and has been all through the scenes
described with so true a flavor in his
works.
e. Phillips Oppenheim is coming to
America. The popular author of the
"Illustrious Prince which some of
the critics assert is 'by far the best
and most important novel Mr. OPP
penheim has ever written" has re-
recently resigned his dictatorship in
the manufacturing business which his
/ father established in Leicester. Eng
| land, and he will now devote more
time to travel. Mr.. Oppenheim is nc
| stranger in America, for his wife, who
was Elsie Hopkins before her mar
| riage, is an American and her par
! ents reside in Chelsea, Mass. The
| Oppenheims' home on the Norfolk
| caost of England is named win
nisimmet," the original Indian name OF
| Chelsea. Mr.. Oppenheim frequently
| introduces American scenes and char
acters in his novels, although he some
times kills off his Americans in the
| early chapters. His latest book, 1.-THE
lllustrious Prince, now numbered
| among the six best sellers, has strong
American interest, inasmuch as Mr..
| Oppenheim attempts to explain the
| recent around the world cruise of the
American fleet. Mr.. Oppenheirn S
| biographers have noted that this pop
! ular novelist commenced writing at
| the age of 16, and it is said that in
| his first book he killed off all his char
acters in the first half and was COM
| PEELED to create an entirely new set
| to com plete the novel. 1t may be 1911
when Mr.. Oppenheim reaches Amer
lea, for he is very much interested in
| English politics and would not leave
home if a general election was i'm