The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-16

vehement Flame Is readable DOCK.
the old-fashioned kind that may be
people without making father fidget.
-. Because of it's treatment, this
novel is old fashioned and dear. It
harks back to the time when right
and wrong and God and everything
had a place in our fictional literature.
Now there is no God east of Wines
burg. Ohio and no right and wrong
in any human action
September Is was a red-letter day
for Houghton Mifflin company's fall
publications. First of all comes the
long heralded anonymous critical
fable which has been arousing SO
much curiosity. and which the pub
fishers say is having a large advance
sale. Then William Macleod Raine's
new novel THE Fighting Edge"-a
cracking good story; another valuable
contribution to our knowledge of Bur
roughs, called John Burroughs
Talks" by the naturanst's old friend
Clifton johnson; two juveniles. one by
Bill Harris famous pinto pony" called
Told Under a White Oak Tree" and
interpreted by Bill himself. and the
other, "Half-Past Bedtime" charming
stories of group of London children
by H. H. Bashford. Then comes a
new edition of Fitzgerald's translation
of the "Rubaiyat," with fifty-six illus
trations by Elihu Vedder: the limited
edition of Lincoln's recently discovered
address on 1.-The Life and Public Serv-
ice of Zachary Taylor" and Ere
quented Ways" by DR.. Marion l. New
begin, editor of the Scotch Geograph-
ica1 Magazine.
Advance orders for the new large
volume, color-illustrated edition of
John Benefits Master Skylark'
which the Century company is bring
n nI1f h S rt1IY1 h tot II
a second printing before even the pub
LEGATION date has been reached. they
announce. The holiday edition was
ready September Is. and will be a
square quarto with fuIl-page color IL
Illustrations and black -and-white decor
atoms.
1t is not generally known that Gil
bert Frankau, the author of 1.-The
Love Story of Aliette Brunton," new
this year. peter Jameson" a success
of yesteryear, ETC., was at 81 president
of large corporation and a thorogo-
ing business man. He sold out at
great loss early in the days of the
World war, enlisting in the British
army as a private. He was a field
gunner on the western front. Later,
he was sent 10 Italy on a special mis-
sion. He suffered shell-shock while
on the peninsula expedition, and was
invaded out of the service with per-
manent rank as captain. But Mr..
Frankau never uses his military title.
Zane Grey was one of the specta-
tors of an impressive snake dance at
the Hopi Indian Reservation, accord
ing to a news dispatch from Winslow,
Arizona. The ceremony took place
eighty miles out in the desert, and is
each year the gathering place of
archaeologists and ethnologists who
study this antique supplication to the
Gods of the Clouds for sufficient mois-
ture to insure bountiful crops. 1t
might be that Mr.. Grey was gathering
material for another western novel to
follow his recent novel, THE Day of
the Beast" (Iarpers) which is a de-
parture from his usual field of fiction.
Marie Conway Oemler. author of
"Slippy MCGEE" her best-seller of yes
teryear (and still selling, say the pub
lishers), and of Il group of other only
less successful volumes of ficticn, will
have Two Shall Be Born" brought
out on September 20 by the Century
company.
the most ambitious literary achieve
ment of it's author, and to be a ro-
mantle novel of serious import and
considerable scope. 90
Who of the many. readers of Sir
romances of French Canada have not
been thrilled by his vivid and real
istic pictures of that country? He
makes his readers feel that strange
and fascinating Old World Atmos-
phere which pervades this section of
America alone. In his new novel, his
pen has lost none of it's power of de-
scription which so characterized his
previous stories. He presents the out
standing elements of romance and
drama in such way as to bring forth
their utmost power.
In Carnac's Folly he unfolds the in
tenseIy dramatic story of Carnac
Grier, son of John Grier, a Canadian
lumber king. Between these two
men there exists a strange barrier,
which, unknown to either is deeper
even than the two mems wide diver
gence Of taste By strange piece OF
folly, Carnac's career is almost
wrecked and his love for beautiful
Junia Shale brought to naught- While
Junia wonders and waits, Carnac
struggles desperately against the con-
sequences of his act and also I'M
known to himself against a family
heritage of late. He thus presents
a tragic figure of misfortune, yet thru
his innate strength and fineness re-
mains undismayed by adversely. In
the climax strange truths are re-
vea1ed, Carnac's mother is avenged.
anu Ills lily pdttI dHllpdIIy
is explained. French Quebec with its
vivid humanity and the swirling river
with its fighting, striving, heroic
lumber men, form the vigorous back
ground of this story of singular in
terest.
In Certain People of Importance"
Mrs. Norris has written a novel that
breaks away from all the rules that
are set down in correspondence schools
of fiction writing. She has created a
novel without a hero, without a he
roine, without villain and without a
plot. In fact she has Transcribed a
bit of life itself with all its confused
motives; its shifting interests and in
consistencies. The book is the largest
novel that Mrs. Norris has done-more
than two hundred thousand words
yet while writing it she says:
ST did have-at lasti-the sense of
leisure and delight for which I have
always been wishing, in my work; a
sense that fheSa ha1ovad Ch2rac n