The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19
"A WALL OF men"
Latest Novel by Margaret Hill
McCarter Is Out Today.
An Interesting Story Dealing
With Early Kansas History.

1t is a great relief to read a book
nowadays and not find it necessary
to worry through 400 pages of hfgA
strung imaginative high-society socla.
II oblem slush. Doubly welcome IS
a book that carries you through a mar
rative of every day life-the sorrows.
the happiness, the troubles, the love IF
commonplace and natural people. And
thrice welcome is a book like the Latest
from the pen of Margaret Hill McCar-
ter of Topeka "A Wall of Men, just
from the M'Clurg press. The latest
McCarter book deals with the ea"iV
life in Kansas, the territorial period,
tie Wakarusa war. the Lawrence mas
sacre and Quantrell's raid and even
Tits the reader ever into a, part Of the
civil war.
Not only is Mrs. McCarter's "a Wall
of Men, a narrative of historical value
but it is book that will acquaint the
ders with it's characters in the very
1rst chapter. Long before you have
finished "a Wall of Men, you will look
Coke Wren, go into confidence with
Elliot Darrow. enjoy a few minutes
with Beth Lamond, and snap your
fingers in scorn at Colonel Penwin. Il
is q story where you make friends.
hate enemies and allow the goose flesh
to stand out all over you when you
follow the deeds of the early Kansas
T. 'oneers.
Before writing the book Mrs McCar-
ter made a long study of Kansas his
tory at that time. She interviewed
many veterans of the early Kansas
struggles. Many of her characters are
true to history, noticeably, Pelathe
Gnd White Feather. famous Indians Of
the time. John Brown, Quantrell, and
1n;. ny pro-slavery agitators
The main scene was laid in the Vim
land Valley and near Lawrence Sew
Cral well known places today are the
stage setting of Mrs McCarter's new
book.
Acquainted With characteristics.
The story is woven around the lives
OF two young perSonS-the son of a
Quaker and the daughter of a Scotch
man. The families we're neighbors in
the valley near Lawrence. And here
is little secret about the success of
the author in depicting the characters
of the Scotchman and the Quaker.
How did you manage to bring put
so truthfully and so true to nature the
characters of these two men, Mrs.
McCarter was asked the other day.
We'll, that's easy" she explained.
'I was born and raised Quaker and
haven't been married to a Scotchman
more than twenty years 90
All through the book the writer has
introduced the reader to her charac-
ters. thrown them together on COM
mon ground and in a few chapters has
made close friends of them.
1t is predicted by the publishers
that "A Wall of Men will sell even
better than the Price of the Prairie.
The price of the Prairie made a
most unusual sale over the country.
Thousands of copies have been sold
and it is still selling. 1t is one of the
books that kept out of the ffty-cent
series this year. In her works Mar
garet Hill McCarter has given the
reading public of the country a taste
of Kansas as the background of a
novel-and now the demand has been
felt all over the United States for
western-and preferably Kansas
fiction.
The latest novel, "a Wall of Men"
will be placed on sale in Topeka i'm
m ediately. The advance sale is enor-
NOUS especially in the east where the
name Margaret Hill McCarter'' has
occupied a prominent position on the
book shelves and around the evening
lamps.
The book is illustrated by J. E.
11archand, a we'll known and popular
His pictures are remark
ably well painted, tinted and printed.