The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-16

thoroughfare. might easily have been
mistaken for "a street in Drunk
Owl, Arizona. The citizens Of Douglas
were touched-quite cross, in fact.
They wanted satisfaction, and they
couldn't think of any way to get IT
save through libel suit against the
Curtis Publishing company. A sub
scription fund was started for paying
lawyers fees and court costs, an in
0ignatiOn meeting was held, and tine
story got circulated around through
the Associated Press The author OF
the offending tale of course felt il
duty bound to contribute to the fund
He mailed a check, which was duly
cashed- Cancelled and returned; but
then, for some reason the libel suit
petered out Lighton has only one re-
gret-that he wasn't present, with his
foot at ease on the brass rail and his
elbow comfortably crooked, when his
check was cashed- However, Billy
Fortune" may yet prove Mr.. Lighton's
good fortune, for his entire chain o.
adventures have been put into a novei
which the Appletons have just pub
Hshed.
PERHAPS the most notable of the Hough-
ton M1nin Company publications ar
noUnced for this fall is a new edition of
by n C Wyeth- Other volumes to be
published at the same time are two col
John Burroughs and The American |
Mind by Bliss Perry; Prudent Priscilla |
oy Mary c. E Wemyss, author Of ''Tds
Professional Aunt and People OF Pop
ham; The Children Of Light by Flor |
ence Converse; Frederic CTowninshfeId's /
new book Of Poems villa Miraftore"; |
Around the Clock in Europe a unique |
series Of travel sketches by Charles +. \
Howell; The Young Minute-Man of 1872
a story for children illustrated in colo- /
oy the author, Milo Winter; and the sixth
Riverside Reader.
Don Seitz, with frontispiece and decora-
ions by the late Howard Pyle, is pub
i ;sI by Harper e Brothers E4a The a EeIZ
Porto BeIio.'' .3Tortuga'' Panama -
The Isle of Pines ''Roncador Rect"
etc, call up pictures of the colCrfuI days
when the Truck and riff OF every lad
rom Hull to the Barbary Coast thrilled
before been seriously treated The artist
cruelty
John Hay is best known by his diplo-
matte triumphs. but the generation winch
s passing away was deeply lnpFesSSed,
when pike County Ballads were FIRST
published and Jim Bludso created, by his
,oWer as poet -.
st of living American illustrators his
igorous drawing in his recent Work Sug-
le was therefore selected to Illustrate
hese famous poems, winch nave nessC
,efore been seriously Cated- The arust
eeIs that these six Ballads are cut from
ne whole cloth. and stand for sCronSs
-iriIe fragments of the life OF Pike Couh-
W With this in mind he started IN, ana
he cover is an intense presentation OF the
ind of men who lived along the MlsSl%
iDpi-a Iurid glimpse of an interesting z
rio In his end-papers. la his ~ e.
reSses in strong colors his idea OF TIE
Faracter and drama of the poems IN al
aere are between twenty and thirty col
- iTJ1TS+-s+fous many of them in TuG 6
DIOR The book is published by Housh- Z
on SIifin & Co. II
The Boston Globe of November TO- :
avs of a." Wall Of Men," by Mrs 4
Margaret Hill McCarter: Tt IS an +
teal book for any American boy A I
vail of Men is the title given BY MIS- I
Iargaret Hill McCarter 10 her SUITES 6
omance of Bleeding Kansas. one o. !
ne best works of American history
nat recent years have seen published
saToId in a simple, rather old-fash- Il
med way, the story IS so alive with Y
pirit that no American. certainly no
mericau of the northern states can
cad its pages without thrill H n
, the story Of those who in the '5o's t
anne to rear a wall of men on Free L
orn's southern line those emigrantS o
rom New England and other states g
: the north who settled the Kansas e
rairies determined to found then a I
rec government and to exclude slavery
-om their borders whatever the COST r
hight be-
ssJohu Brown. 'Osawatomie'' Brown.
ppears on its pages. and the reader '
ees the Wakarusa war, the QuantriH
aid and the Lawrence massacre Them l
1ough more briefly told, comes the
Ivu war and the struggles Of the
-ansans with confederate and bush
anger, until at last comes peace and
aDpinsss-
1T is an American epic. this book.
I'd though not a Juvenile, would seem
, be an ideal book for ank American
ov.'