The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-03

Tor his health, remarked IN a recent
interview that he found it impossible
to memOrize his speeches. His re
markable verbal memory deserted hlm
when he began to exercise his creative
faculties. y ct he is still able to recite
the whole of Macbeth. Hamlet, ana
several other Shakespearian plays
which he learned by heart during the
receptive period OF youth. TINS may
be said to have terminated only shorty
before he went to AuSJraha, When ne
spent four years in the south Seas
1t viii be remembered that cum
ner's SON." Sir Gilberts latest book, IS
a collection of South Sea stories.
Anne Douglas Sedgwick, w.-5se new
novel "Tante,' is just issued by the
Century Co, lives in the CotsWold
English country, in a delightful stone
cottage with a garden and a view OH
over the hills While Miss Sedgwick
tAIrs- de SelincOurt-) has lived abroad
most of her life. she is strongly Amerl-
can in her sympathies, and keenly IN
tereSted in all american affairs. MISS
Jane Adams books have always in
terested me immensely she writes IN
q recent letter. "and I always envy you
for having her
Hamlin Garland well known not
only as a novelist, but Tor his interest
in psychical subjects. disclaimed in a
recent interview the title Of spiritual
ist Il have dealt with thar subject in
my novel Victor OIlnee's Discipline, 3"
he said. My attitude is that of the
scientist The phenomenon we call
spirits is not due to the actions of re
turned spirits. It is physical ena-
nation of the physical Putting it in
another way. I believe in the mystery
of matter. not in the mystery of splr-
it." Victor Ollnees Discipline, Mr.
Garland's latest novel, tells the story
of a young college boy forced into a
study of spiritualism when he learns
that his mother is medium
His majesty, the king of Spain. has
acknowledged the receipt of a cOmpli-
lnentary copy Of Harry A Franck's
-Four Months Afoot in Spain sent
him by the publishers. The Century
Co. authorizing his secretary to say
that the king has received the volume
with genuine pleasure
1.-The difference between writing
plays and writing stories is a funda-
Hummer, author of the successful
novel, 1.-The Green God as we'll as
Of the play, THE Other Woman" in
which Miss Blanche Walsh starred
throughout last season. When I
have spent weeks or months in writing
terse condensed dialogue, bare OF all
descriptive matter, developing charac-
tiers by means of the spoken word
only, it becomes extremely difficult to
turn readily to the narrative form.
Stories are written about people and
events Plays are the people ana
events themselves. The more d man
writes in dramatic form. the harder
it becomes to write in the narrative.
For this reason successful playwrights
are seldom successful authors"
James Oppenhei1n, author of the
novel 1.-THE Nine-Tenths," received a
Letter this week which indicates there
is a real live Myra Craig living in Jer-
sey City Myra Craig is the heroine
of 1.-THE Nine-Tenths,' and in the book
she lives just over the river from the
real Myra Craig. The latter asked for
an autographed copy of THE Nine
Tenths'' and Mr.. Oppenheim sent it.
Charles Neville Buck, the author Of
THE Lighted Match The Key to
Yesterday and a number of other
stories. was an art student a law
student, a newspaper cartconist and a
reporter before he became a magazine
and book writer. and although he is
now just past 80 he has had a varied
experience. One of the most amusing
was one which he relates of a time
when he was a special deputy sheriff
In Louisville. Following a political
cataclysm and c. reorganization of city
and county administration Mr. Buck
was II the confidence OF a prominent