The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25

| pleteness, convincing and authoritative
| reality His later, more carefully con-
| sidered narrative, entitled. The LOSS
| of the S. S. Titanic: Its Story and IT'S
Lessons will be published only in
| book form by Houghton Mifflin Co., On
June 29th 1t will tell of the voyage Of
/ the Titanic" the wreck, the expert.
ences of the survivors, the aftermath
| of inquiry and the lessons to be drawn
! from the disaster. His complete, vivid
time, perhaps, give the public an ade-
Quate notion of what actually occurred,
While at the anne time it is hoped it
may lead to constructive action of vi
tai importance for the future.
Anyone who ever read Sudermann's
grimly ironclad play 'Fritzchen,'' in
the collection called 'Morituri.'
(Scribners) must nave remembered it
on reading the newspaper accounts IF
the agitation against dueiling in Ger
many. The military code of honor is
relentlessly exposed in "Fritzchen. .
The title character is young Officer
naturally nomeioving, studious and
kind But he yields to the current opir-
ion forced on him even by his father
a retired colonel, that young soldier
must "see life The result: He en-
cages in low intrigue. entirely against
his real nature, and is caught. The
play presents him anxiously awaiting
the decision of a court of honor MS
to whether the disgrace not of the in g.
trigue. but of the manner in which his
part in it exposed, entities him 10
fight a duel in which he is certain 70
be killed. "Morituri'' contains two 9TH
er plays-''The Eternal Masculine" AMI
"Teja."
There is more than the usual amount
of fiction in the June Century
new and rather dramatic chapters III
H'inrl ]. Locke's serial. Stella Ma
rias;" a story of racy humor. 'Finertv
Holds the Meeting for the Candidate"
by Charles D, Stewart. author of "The
Fugitive Blacksmith" a quantity hui
morous story of the simple people of
the Pennsylvania Dutch, Revenge n
Lehigh Valley Country" by Elsie Dun
can Yale; and good stories t. read m
idle hours by Chester lSai1ey Fernaid
and katherine Fullerton Gerould.
Announcement is made of the publi-
cation for private circulation only, OF
John Muir's memorial to Edward II.
Hartman. under title of ''E. H. Harri-
man" The books cannot be bought but
a copy will be sen free to any hbrar-
ian who will make application to the
publishers, Doubleday, Page & Co. The
little volume will have value for ITS
rarity as well as it's value as tribute
of one great man to another.
The Century Co.. reports a new edi-
>ion-the folrth-of 10000 of the school
edition of Dallas Lore Sharps "A
Watcher in the Woods" This edition
is made up of selected chapters from
wild Life near Home with many
of the original illustrations by Bruce
Horsfal.
A new novel, called THE Turnstile,"
by A. E. Mason, author of THE BrulS-
en- Road" AT the Villa Rose" etc.
will appear this month. Mr.. Mason's
high powers in the technical side OF
novel writing go without mention; nor
is there need to say I in this the
characters are vigorous and real, the
scenes vivid the plot rapid. 1t is a
novel of modern life in South America
and England and some of its m pSt
striking situations rise out of politics
The romance begins when a young girl
on an Argentine es ---4cia sends to IN
explorer she has never seen, on his