The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-13
BOOK NOTICES.

memories of a Manager" by Mr..
Daniel Frohman is the only exist
ing which covers the early career OF E.
H. Sothern, Margaret Anglin, Mary
Mannering, James K. Hackett, Mauoe
Adams, William Faversham, Harry
Woodruff, Julie Opp, John Mason, and
many others who were under the man
agement of Daniel Frohman at the old
Lyceum Theater. At this time Mr.
F-roham had professional relations
with several playwrights of great apl!-
tty and wide reputation. such as Slr
Arthur Pinero, Henry Arthur Jones,
Anthony Hope and Bernard Shaw.
One of the most interesting parts Of
Mr.. Frohmans book is his account or
the rehabilitation of plays which had
been webbing on the edge of failure;
the methods of the stage manager and
his experience with stars like Mr.. and
Mrs. Kendall, and Madame Modjeska
in the dramatic and musical field; and
Mr.. Frohman's experience in all the
phases of the dramatic profession. The
book contains over forty illustrations,
many of them from rare and valuable
photographs. It is just off the press
of Doubleday, Page & Co.
Ellsworth Huntington, whose new
book Palestine and Its Transforma-
ton" is published by Houghton Mifflin
Co this week, is now making studies in
the south central CART of New Mexico,
as research associate of the Carnegie
Institution, Washington, d. c.. He is
comparing the Otero Basin, with its
peculiar hills of white gypsum sand,
its ruins, it's soda lake, its high noun
tains and it's Apache Indians, with the
natural features and people of Pales-
tine, Persia, and Chinese Turkestan,
which he described in his book just
published and in his previous volume,
"The Pulse of Asia" Mr.. Huntington
is assistant professor of geography in
Yale University
After ALL what's in a name! Two
books recently published by The Mac
milan Company bear exactly the same
title with the exception that one OF
them carries the indefinite article An
while the other does not. And yet two
more diSsimilar works could not be
found than Jack London's Adventure
and An Adventure by Elizabeth MORT
son and Frances Lamont. The setting
of Mr.. London's novel is an island in
the South Seas and the story is one in
which love, cannibalS and finance fig
ure, and excitement runs high. The
book by Miss Morrison and Miss La
mont (the names by the way being
fictitious, and the only fictitious part
of the volume) records the extraordi-
nary adventures of two ladies who Wis
tied Versailles in 1901 and 1902, and
there met with such strange expert
tested that they have furnished ma
terial for wide discussion by leading
psychologists.
Chauncey c. Hotchkiss whose latest
novel, Maud Baxter" is reported as
being among the ten best sellers in
New England, has consistently adhered
to the theme of which he is an I'M
doubted master-Colonial history. 1t
was Mr.. Hotchkiss who opened the
flood of Revolutionary fiction, some
fifteen years ago, his "In Defiance of
the King being the first novel of the
kind published for twenty years pre-
vious to its appearance. and with one
exception his nine works are devoted
to the Colonial period. Like the late
David Graham Philips, Mr. Hotchkiss
works backwards, constructing his plot
from a climax, and, like the murdered
author, he states that fiction writing
is such a nervous strain he is glad of
an excuse to do anything else. Mr.