The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-15

Anatole lie Braz, who writes the
charming sketches of Breton life and
folklore, was a passenger aboard La
( Provence on the evening of the III
Z tanic" tragedy. 1t happened that on
I that very evening, seated in the salon
he had written a letter to a friend.
5 giving a vivid description of the At
lantic icefield. The following is an
excerpt "A delicious corner, truly
: French, with it's Louis XIV furniture OF
faded shades, and its old-rose carpet
Outside, the siren sounds at Intervals
i it's lugubrious chant, which, in mytho
logical times, fascinated the heart oil
mariners; it is changed since. We are
( crossing a bank of fog which doubt
+ less repeats in the sky the bank OF
Newfoundland under water, whose
tail the captain just announced we
were traversing. give you this naut1-
! cal metaphor for what it is worth
Up north there, two rowing icebergs
showed this afternoon their profiies of
floating cathedrals. One of them ever
had three spires; thus raising one the
Cathedral of Charities. 1t was very
mysterious to see them against the
distant polar sky
Charles Johnston in his recently pub
lished book, why the World Laughs,
quotes scandinavian story of "Brei
Rabbit" which might we'll have been
related by Uncle Remus- Brother Fox
was congratulating the Rabbit on his
marriage, but the latter replied that his
wife was far too ready with her fists.
Yet. he added, he was not so unlucky
as the Fox believed. since she was all
heiress. Why then you are lucky af-
ter ALL said the Fox. well, no, not
so very lucky the Rabbit objected,
for the house caught fire and was
burned up, together with everything
we possessed why, then you are
unlucky'' "Oh, not so unlucky," cried
a wife was burned up tool
1.-The very book that has been wait
ing to be written" was the comment
of one Westerner after reading part
OF the manuscript of THE Wind Be
fore the Dawn" by Dell H. Munger,
which will be published by Doubleday,
Page & Company early in August. The
publishers call the book the epic of
Kansas-the epic of the parched prair-
les and of the parched lives of the
prairie women. The story deals with
the struggle of one farmers wife to
realize life partnership rather than
life of drudgery. The tense dramatic
situations with their background Of
sod houses and prairie go to make up
a book of which much is expected.
Religion and Thought in Ancient
Egypt" work of profound scholarship
which embodies the results of modern
research in a way to present valuable
information to people well acquainted
with the general subject it deals with,
will appear in the early part of the
summer. It's author is James H
Breasted. Phi. D., Associate Professor
of Egyptology and Semitic Languages
At Chicago University.
Two new novels are soon to appear
t-"Davidee Birot,'' the latest by the
distinguished French novelist, Rene
Bazin, and Mary Pechell,'' a story of
English country life, by Mrs. Belloc
Lowndes, the author of Jane Og1and-
err" THE Chink in the Armour etc
'Freckles.' the first best seller"
written by Gene. Stratton-Portor
whose subsequent books "A Girl of the
i1imberlost'' and THE Harvester
have likewise enjoyed tremendous sue
cess, has been dramatized and for the
last two weeks has been making