The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-08

General FRANCIS NlnIOn OIIeeHe, IRE
author of 1.-THE Revolutionary War and
Military Policy of the United States,
which the Scribner's publish in May,
was well fitted to write such a book
since his military training has been
long and his military experience wide.
The son of General George Sears
Greene. he was born at Providence, r.
l., in 1850. Twenty years later he was
graduated from the United States Mill
tary Academy at West Point at the
head of his class and entered the en-
cheering corps where he rapidly be-
come distinguished. Throughout his
life he has been a constant student of
military and of civil history; and to his
experience of military affairs in this
country he has added the experience
of a military attache of the United
States Legation. As such he accom-
panied the Russian Army in the Rus
so-Turkish war of 1878 and was pres
ent at the battles of Schipka and Plev-
ma Then before devoting some years to
employments in lines which grew log
ically from his training as al engineer.
he put in a term as Professor of Mill
tary Engineering at West Point. With
the Spanish American War he re-en-
tered the army, as Colonel of the list
New York Infantry; was made Briga-
der General of Volunteers in May,
1898, and ajor-General in August of
the same year. He has already writ
ten such notable contributions to mill
tary history as his "Russien Army and
It's Campaigns in Turkey Army
Life in Russia, - The Mississippi Cam
paigns of the Civil War 1.-The Life of
General Nathaniel Greene" Lincoln
as COMMUNICATIVE Chief" etc.
Thomas A. Janvier. the author of
Legends of the City of Mexico is
himself in the West Indies while the
country of whose folk lore he is an
acknowledged master is in turmoil.
'These legends are of my finding, not
of my making" said Mr.. Janvier be-
fore sailing. "They are genuine folk
stories. Each one has grown from
some obscure, curious, or tragica1 an
cient matter that taking hold of the
popular imagination has had built up
from it among the people a story sat
isfying to the popular heart" The
tales reflect the thought and customs
of their times and are still cherished
among the older inhabitants, rich and
poor of Mexico City. Mr.. Janvier be-
gan collecting Legends of the City of
Mexico" in Monterey, twenty-five years
ago, although the book was only re-
Gently published.
Do you know Otto? If you don't
you should. He is a German baron
and the hero of "The Caravaners,"
by the author of Elizabeth and Her
German Garden" now in it's fifth large
printing at the hands of Doubleday.
Page & Co. Because OF his colossal
selfishness, his amusing pompousness,
and his exasperating absurdity he stirs
up an alternating current of plying
disgust and quiet delight. This story
of a wagon trip through rural England
is altogether as delectable morsel of
gentle satire as one is likely to happen
upon.
The truth of the old adage where
there's a will there's a way once more
is shown in Mrs. Roger A. Pryor's lit
erary activities. Someone asked her
the other day how it was that with her
write. She replied that she wrote at
odd times. "T get interested in the
story" she said, land then sketch out
my plan and work on ii as 1 may.
When the work takes hold of me 1
often write far into the night, and
sometimes 1 wake up at five O'Clock in
the morning and write" Mrs. Pryor
says that her latest book a novel,
which she has called The ColonePs
story published last month March
22d) was in way inspired by letter
from Thomas Nelson Page who wrote
her that he and other Southern writer's
could only. build UP at second hand
pictures of the old South. and that it
was her duty to civilization to write of
the Virginia she had known. And
neighborhood 1 had known and de-
scribe the gardens and the country
side and the people. When 1 thought
of the people they were real people
and the story went right on of itself
1t is an old-fashioned love story" she
added gravely, land the love part is
quite intense" Mrs. Pryor is eighty
one years old.
Kate Douglas Wiggin Mrs George
G. Riggs) has two grievances in an
otherwise singularly happy experience
Her literary name is seldom spelled
correctly and she is persistently quoted
as the author of Mrs. Wigs of the
Cabbage Patch.' Why Mrs Wjggin a
writer. should be confused with Mrs.
Wigs. a character in a book. is not
very clear. Why readers never look at
a title page is another mystery. If
they ever did they would discover that
Alice Hogan Rice wrote Mrs. Wigs
of the Cabbage Patch" "LoVey
Mary" and "Mr. Opp" while Kate
Douglas Wiggin is responsible for 'The
Birds Christmas Carroll '.Timothv's
Quest" "A Cathedral Courtship -
Rose o. the River" the Penelope and
Rebecca books, and others, on which
her name is plainly printed and cor
rectly spelled. Not that this is of the
slightest use. Programme makers look
calmly at Douglas and copy it as Doug