The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-14

| The autobiography OF Napoleon pre-
pared by Mr.: r. M. Johnston under
| the title of The Corsican," and pull
lished in this country by Houghton
! Miff1in company, has been enjoying
! a success in France quite equal to its
popularity in England and America
Published on May Is under the title
| Napoleon, Par Meme" il has
run through two editions in three
months and a third has just been an
nounced.
Charles Johnston in his recently
published book, why the World
Laughs tells a story of two Scotch
Highlanders, one of whom observed
the other to be wrapped in impene-
trable gloom. He asked the cause.
and the interlocutor at last reluctantly
replied; IT'S that man MacTavish,
He ca ed me a leeri' His friend tried
to console him. explaining that many
man had been called a liar and had
been none the worse for it. But the
gloomy one with some heat replied
Dammit, mon! But he pruved ",
Which showed where the shoe really
pinched.
Eden Philpott's new book. THE
Lovers published by Rand, McNaliy
& Co, is a vivid portrayal of the perils
and privations of Americans captured
by the English on the high seas dur
ing the Revolutionary war, and their
frequent wild attempts to gain free
dom from the rigor OF British guard
houses. 1t is equally a demonstration
that all men have not their price. for
no amount of coin of the realm is large
enough to tempt even hangman
from his duty; so the daredevil pris-
oners turn their thoughts to love.
which can always be trusted TO hnu
out way of release from the very
moose of the scaffold and the collins
of the dead. The strong affecticn
which causes a man to lay down MS
life for a friend-and even for an
enemy at loves behest-hnds mere
powerful illustration, and the very out
laws have in them such elements or
noble manhood as to command al
n1iration if not unqualified approval.
In answer to letter from Kansas
reader asking If the town of Colby
Vile referred to in The Wind BEFORE
the Dawn" by Dell II. Munger which
has just been brought out by Double
day, Page & Co, was not Colby, kan-'
Mrs. Munger wrote ir reply:
1T is not-in fact. l overlooked
Colby, Kan. or I should have used
another name / have never really
lived in Kansas for any length OF
time
Mrs. Munger went on to say that
she was not born in Kansas, as has
been reported. but in Illinois, but she
has lived in every part of the middle
west and knows pioneer conditions in
Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado equal
ly well. She goes on to say.
Let me say this: Kansas. as il ap-
pears in The Wind Before the Dawn
is purely incidental to the worries
and problems of Eiizabeth's life, and
serves as a background only. The
situation in the Hunter home is not
confined to Kansas, nor to the middle
west, nor to America, but is typical OF
race and an age. We are on the
brink of a change: let us hope that
greater freedom for both sexes be
born out of the weary lives of those
who have paved the way. and the
promise of sweeter. saner existence be
offered to ALL"
On the Century company's fall list
is Russian Wonder Tales" a collec-
ton of Russian folk-tales edited. and
with foreword, by Post Wheeler, for
merly secretary of the American en-
have twelve full page Illustrations in
color by the famous French artist
Bilibin.
Frances Titles new book. 1.-THE
Lady and Sada San is a sequel to her
first great success, THE Lady of the
Decoration" and is written, as the
first book was in the form Of letters
to Mate"
Alice Hogan Rice. whose new novel.
"A Romance of Billy Goat HILL" viii
be published by the Century company
September Is, is travelling in Japan.
In the party is Frances Little, who is
a niece of Mrs. Rice and who also has
a new book in print. Frances Titles
sequel to The Lady of the Decora-
ton" The Lady and Sada San" Will
be among the Century compauy's
October issues.
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