The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-06

rator relates what he himself saw with
his own eyes on such and such a mem
orable occasion. The stories in F.
Marion Crawford's Wandering Ghosts,
however, give one just this thrill They
make the reader almost feel that the
great novelist has come back to earth
and is telling again some of the things
which have happened to him, as only
he could tell them.
The Woman on the Pine Springs
Road is new novel by Kate Duffan,
just published by the Neale company.
Miss Duffan is a Texan. She is prom
inent in patriotic, educational, and lit
erary circles throughout the south.
Formerly president of The Texas
Woman'S Press Association and of the
Texas division of The United Daugh-
tiers Of the Confederacy. a student,
| club woman. teacher, ard a lecturer,
her experience has been exceptionally
broad. She is well fitted to write on
| the problems that face budding worn-
anhood. Insight, sympathy. observa-
ton, wisdom, philosophy, humor,-a11
are mingled in this fearless book of
absorbing interest.
| Messrs. A. c. McClurg & Company
announce that they have just received
| by Edith Ogden Harrison Mrs Harri-
son is the wife of Carter H. Harrison,
who has just taken his chair for the
fifth time as mayor of Chicago, and it
| is interesting to note that in the polit-
zeal whirl of her husbands campaign,
| Mrs. Harrison has found time to con-
! tinue her literary work The new story
strongly suggests prince Silverwings,"
which was Mrs. Harrison's first sue
cess, and will be issued uniform with
five books of fairy tales to her credit,
besides the romance which Messrs.
McClurg published last fall, Princess
Sayrane." and her place as a writer is
a pretty substantial one.
A London journal of more than
common literary pretensions included
Will N. Harben's latest novel, Dixie
Hart" in a list of American fiction,
and added: "Mr Harden is a veteran
novelist and he writes of New Eng
land farm life as one who knows it
we'll" Removing Georgia to New
England is amusing to the American
reader, who is usually quite successful
in distinguishing between Wessex
County of Thomas Hardy's novels and
the Devon and Somerset of Lorna
lDoone.
W. D. Howells returned this week
when asked if the voyage had been a
smooth one, answering, "Well-for
Bermuda" Just a year ago Mark
Twain was returning from his beloved
Bermuda-he may be said to have dis
covered Bermuda for Americans
never to see it again. Mr.. Howells. il
I will be remembered, revealed some
thing of this in his little book, my
Mark Twain" published last fall by
the Harpers.
A Nations Crime is new book by
Mrs. I. Lowenberg recently published
by the Neale Company. It is a dis
cussion of the marriage and divorce
laws. Divorce laws presuppose mar
rage laws and all law is coercion;
benign and far-seeing the laws may
be, but they fix 1mits.-always they
bind and fetter, and the human heart
at it's noblest, Graves freedom, and, al
its noblest, is free. To legislate about
ships and bridges and gold coinage is
one thing: to legislate for the coercion
of the heart is another. The primary
social institution is marriage; the ne
CATION of marriage is divorce. Today
the negation threatens to destroy the
institution itself. Why Partly be-
cause of the laws that govern divorce
says Mrs. Lowenberg. In her new
story "a Nations Crime" she shows
why and how.
Dr. wilfred T. Grenfel, the Labra
dor fishermen's doctor, arrived las
week on the Mauretania from England
where he has been lecturing. After
speaking tour in the United States h
will return to Labrador in May, a
which season the opening of the ic'
permits the fishermen to start thei
work. DR.. Grenfell gives. in his re
Gently published book, Labrador: TIL
Country and the People," a detailed
account of the outfit which it Is neces
sary for one to take when setting gu
for this northern country, pointing gu
as we'll the most travelled routes. Tn
work also contains chapters on tn
people and their customs. the ami
& | mails. the fish, the birds and the flora
Mr. E. F. Benson has received mucl
| good natured chaff over the CONNER
ciaI note of his latest title, "Accoun
Rendered" a book which Doubleday