The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-23
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John Cournos, the author of pa
bel' which has just been published in
| this country by Boni and Liveright,
and which will be published in London
| next month by William Heinemann, is
generally regarded here as an English
| author. AS a matter of fact Mr.. Cour-
| nos is an American citizen whose par
ents came from Russia many years
| ago and settled in Philadelphia where
young Cournos began his literary adj
ventures by peddling newspapers out
side of the Pennsylvania station From
peddling papers to the job of printers
| devil on The Philadelphia Record was
a quick step, and from printers devil
to reporter was a matter of only few
| years. During these years when young
| Cournos was the principal support of
a large family, he saved enough money
| to make his grand tour abroad and
| finally settled in London where he has
lived for the last three years during
which time he wrote his trilogy, THE
| WALL" THE Mask" and Babel" MI.
| Cournos is returning to America early
this autumn with high hopes that the
! American critics will be as kind to
| Babel as have such distinguished
critics as Rebecca West, Rose Macau-
lay, Sheila Kaye-Smith, May Sinclair,
| etc.
An innovation in the publication
and sale of 1.-The Modern Library
lis announced by Roni and Liveright
Beginning this autumn, instead of
continuing the former practice of pub
| fishing a number of new titles in THE
Modern Library" in one group, each
| season, one new title will be issued on
| the tenth of each month excluding
the months of June, July and August
| The ninth title each year will be
| chosen by the booksellers themselves
Mr.. Liveright says There seems no
reason why the reading public should
| not look forward with as keen anti
cipation to the new Modern Library
volume on the tenth OF each month
as the music-loving public does to the
new Victor or Columbia records" The
1 September volume will be Ancient
Man by Hendrix Van Loon, with many
new illustrations by the author.
Today Hougkton Mifflin company
announce the publication of the fol-
lowing new books: "Bill the Bachelor"
by Denis Mackail Letters of Horace
| Howard Furness'' in two volumes.
| "Goya as a Portrait Painter" by A.
de Beruete Moret. a sumptuous vol
ume with many plates, "At Sea With
Joseph Conrad by ]. G. Sutherland
with whom the great sea writer served
on the famous British Mystery
Francis w. Hirst, "Just Nerves by
doctor Austen Fox Riggs, the we'll
known specialist, Harold L. Reeds
Development of the Federal Reserve
Policy" new edition of the always
popular "Twas the Night Before
Christmas by C. c. Moore and will
liam Elliot Griffis' "China's Story"
In his Random Memories"
(Houghton Mifflin company Ernest
Longfellow. tells a story of Charles
Sumner, that may appeal to such
readers as are themselves but re-
Gently returned from across the At
1antic. On one voyage Mr.. Sumner
had been ill for three days and at
last dragged himself up in time for
dinner, but was a little late. Those
were the days when the captain sat
at the head of a long table and carved
the roast himself. On this occasion
the captain called loudly for the stew
ard to know where the beef gravy was.
| Please, Sir said the steward, this
gentleman has eaten it, thinking it
was the SOUP Whereupon Mr.. Sum
ner retired more sick than before"
} The Century company announces
the publication on September Is of
the following: The new holiday edi-
ton of John Benefits Master Sky
lark "a square quarto with full-page
) color illustrations and many black and
white decorations) 1.-The Children's
Book of Celebrated Pictures" by
Lorinda NJ. Bryant-fifty fine repro
| auctions of masterpieces with juvenile
text; 1.-THE Flower of Fortune" by E.
B. and A. A. Knipe. romance. for
young people, of Dutch New York;
THE Hill of Adventure" by Adair
A1don, a story for Sin betweens" OF
two eastern girls in the west: THE
I Woods Rider, an adventure story
with a background of Bookkeeping in
Canada and turpentine orchards in
the south, by Frank Lille Pollock;
Dog Heroes of Many Lands" COL
lection of true stories, suitable for
dog-lovers of any age. These are the
books classified as juveniles, kind
in which the Century list is always
especially strong.
OF fiction, they published on the
same date: zone World at a Time"
by Margaret Fuller. described as a
romantic but also very humorous
novel of our far south about twenty
years after the Civil war; Whisper
ing Sage" a western story by Harry
Sinclair Drago and Joseph Noel, in
Producing an unfamiliar element in
! the Basque sheepmen of Nevada;
"Mummers In Mufti," novel of a
, young New Highlander of the Brah-
min class with a musical show on his
hands; Letters to a ,Djinn," in which
4 Grace Earring Stone weaves together
Hove story and colorful reflections of
a. long cruise of her own among South
!; Sea islands and Far Eastern lands.
4 OF general books, when the West
Was Young" is a collection of true
, stories of early western days by Fred
, erick r. Bechdolt: "Sentinels Along
Our Coast" oy Frederick Arnold Col
!, Inns, gives an account of our light
house service in all its branches
, from lighthouse and light-ships to
, harbor buoys.
Francis r. Bellamy, whose new
novel "a Flash Of Gold" Doubleday,
Page & Company appeared on Sep
!, TENDER s, has chosen as background
, for his story just such a small indus
trial city as the one in which he
makes his home. Since he was a
small boy, Mr.. Bellamy has lived in
Rochester He also drew it as MEL