The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-13
SUNDAY

1ege tales AT Good old Siwash' went
into fourth printing just before
Christmas and is probably entitled to
the distinction Of the most popular vol
ume of humorous fiction of 1911. In
response to imperative demands Mr.
Fitch is now at work revising MS
mirth- provoking motor boat stories for
book. publication sometime in the
spring.
John Galsworthy, the author of The
Patrician'' during a lecture in Sheffield
the other night remarked, that we nave
just begun to have glimmering OF
the artists creed; that nothing may
We deSpiSe CT neglect; and that every
thing is worth doing WE'LL Beauty
he continued. was a dangerous word TO
use in connection with art; the Only
essential quality was vitality. Inc
faults of our art of today were the
faults OF zeal ard adventure, The crudl-
ties of pioneers, the errors and mis-
haps of explorers. Bat the historian OIL
the future, he thought, would surely
record this age as the Third Renals-
sance.
1t is announced that the royalties On
the frst $4,000 copies sold Of My Rdg-
picker" written by Mary E Waller
author of The Voc d-carVer of Lynn
pus,'' are to be given for the benefit of
the Nantucket tMass) Cottage hCspl-
tai.
"A Prcsy Romance by T. F. Sproul
of Topeka has been issued by Crane
& Co. 1t deals with the cOurtShlp OF
a wealthy bachelor and a woman teach
en- in which They endeaVor to harmon
ize their views on love, logic, religion
and sociology The book is rich IN
local color, introducing many persons
and scenes familiar to residents Of the
Kansas capital Hardly any one could
fail to find interest in its perusal. 1t
sells for a dollar.
Tho fret MN, ba7. of q new maya
zine, published by HOughton Mifflin
company. in connection with Home
Progress their new series of courses
of reading, has just been issued. One
of the leading articles in it, entitled
THE Children's sunday is by George
Hodges. dean of the Episcopal Theo-
logical school. Cambridge, Mass, and
author of 1.-The Training of Children
in Religion "A Child's Guide to the
Bible The Garden OF Eden, etc.
Subsequent numbers of the magazine
will contain other articles by other
religious leaders. All these articles
will contain suggestions as to the best
ways of making the church, the Sun
Cay school, and the religious inStruc-
ton given a the mothers knee vivid
enough to satisfy childS natural
craving for spiritual nurture. The sub
ject of the Home Progress reading
course this year is the Health, the
Mental Training. and the Moral Guild
ance of Children. Dean Hodges ar
ticle and other similar articles plan
ned. have to do with the third of these
three main topics. All ministers Will
be interested in these various articles
in the Home Progress magazine a I'd
in that part of the first course with
which they deal.
Clayton Sedgwick Cooper, the first
of whose series of articles The
American Undergraduate" appeared in
the January Century, has made
study of college conditions in the Unit
ID Canada and E5nTnna
many years. and has lately visited
nearly all of the important education
al institutions in India. CeyIon, China,
Korea and Japan. While Mr.. Coop
er has consulted largely with promin-
snt educators and public men through
out the country. his facts and opinions
are based almost entirely upon actual
contact with students in lecture rooms.
fraternity houses, on the athletic
field and campus. in large public
gatherings and in thousands of per
sonal interviews. 1t is perhaps through
this intimate personal contact with
the individual undergraduate, says Mr..
Cooper that one comes nearer to the
real gist and trend of the college mans
deeper sentiment
w. H. Fichett's military life of the
Duke of Wellington. The Great
Duke" has just been published in this
country by Charles Scribner's Sons.
It is in two volumes, each containing
numerous maps and trOntspiece.
Mr.. Fichett feels that Wellington 'S~ca-
reer as a soldier which was only p
years long. fails naturally into three
parts of eight years each. Says he:
1.-THE first runs from 1877. when he
was gazetted as an ensign in the 73rd,
to his return from Holland in 1875.
He had risen fast in regimental rank
bv family influence; but until he join
ed the Duke of YOrks army at Ant
4werp. in July 1894. he had never
heard shot fired in anger- Then
follows the second period of eight
years under Indian skies, from 1872
to 1905; and these were real APP
premiership in the art of war on q
treat scale The third period
Of eight years takes in the Peninsula