The Topeka state journal., 1913-02-15
BOOK NOTES.

| Addison Woodward StubbS, of Kan
sas City, Kan, has had a place of
! prominence these many years among
| the poets of Kansas. He earned it
! through his occasional contributions to
! the newspapers and magazines. But
| it was only recently that he assembled
! his old poems, added news ones to
I them, and brought them out in book
form with Richard G. Badger, The
| GOrham Press Boston, as his publisher.
| He calls the book Me-Nung- Gah The
Indian Princess. Typographically, the
; book is d work of art, and as much of
! the poetry in it concerns the Indians
who frolicked and fought on the plains
and in the valleys of Kansas, it is most
appropriately illustrated with some
wonderfully interesting Photographic
reproductions, of real Indians, and
| blood descendants. by the way. of the
| heroes and heroines about whom he
sings.
As the title of the book would indi-
| cate, the chief poem is an Indian tale.
| 1t is written in the delightful strains
that LongfeIlow made famous and pop
ular with his Hiawatha. 1t traces the
history of the original and majestic
tribe of Indians that once made Kansas
their home and of how this tribe be-
came disintegrated. and its various di-
visions fell away to decay. Mr.. StubbS
attributes the downfall of the tribe to
the influence of white men, or some of
them, who opened up this wonderful
land to civilization, or rather to the
whisky that they brought with them
There is one stanza in the conclusion
of the poem that will be particularly
interesting to Topekans, and KansanS
I t follows:
-'One alone of all the Kon-zas,
Has arisen to distinction.
Curtis in the halls of Congress.
Though removed four generations
From his ancestors, the Kon-zas,
Ever TO them has been iOyal:
Striving always for their welfare;
Seeking in the halls IF justice
Retribution for the evils
That the pale-face heaped upon them
In his dealings with the Indian
Mr. Stubbs. like his cousin, eX-
Governor Stubbs, is a Bull Mooser.
But he claims the distinction of be-
ing a fighter for the principles that
have been adopted by the Progressive
party, long before his distinguished
Lawrence relative entered the politi-
cal arena. And there is a pretty good
evidence in his book to substantlate
this claim. In addition to The In
dian Princess, the book contains some
seVenty-five miscellaneous poems, one
of which is entitled Patriotism 1t
was first printed in the State Journal
in 1898, and it certainly sounds a
call for political reforms along the
very lines now being advocated by
the Bull Moosers.
Some twenty-six years ago Mr..
Stubbs was editor and publisher OF
the Emporia Republican. But that
was his only venture as newspaper
proprietor, although he has been a
frequent contributor since then to
newspaper columns. He is now en-
gagged in the real estate business in
Kansas City, Kan. The dedication in |
his book reads as follows:
ITO the memory of Hon. Eugene F. :
Ware, the beloved Kansas poet, who
few days before his death, wrote
suggesting: Some of these days you
must publish a book and to. the
many other friends who have sug-
gested the same thought, this volume
is respectfully dedicated with the
love of the author"
Goes Founders of Our Country, by
Fanny E. Coe, teacher in the Boston /
Normal school. This is a supplement- |
airy reader for the fourth year and is |
copiously illustrated with suitable pic |
lures, and is written in vivid and !
interesting style, well calculated to }
appeal to the imagination. The i'm
portant events of our early history
lives of great discoverers, explorers, |
and founders of colonies. In the Sc |
lection of incident and detail, and in
the manner of presentation, the
author has also kept in mind the
moral value of history, the reverence
due to the memory of noble leaders,
and the education of the will which
comes from early acquaintance with
the lives of strong, forceful men. The
book is published by the American
Book company.