The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-03
LITERARY NOTES.

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\ will be changed in form and dress. It's
| price will be reduced to ten cents per
| copy. one dollar per annum. Mrs. Frank
| Leslie, whose association with Frank
| Leslie's Popular Monthly has been the
! chief factor in it's success and fame,
/ now resumes direct editorial control of
| the magazine, after three years rest
] and SOjOurn abroad
Under Dewey at Manila or the War
| Fortunes of a Castaway,' by Edward
Stratemeyer. Cloth. Illustrated. Lee
| & Shepard, Boston. In material in
| terest the story of Larry Russell and
his fortunes, resulting in heroic service
on the Olympia" equals the famous
Army and Navy series by Oliver Optic
It presents life in the modern navy. The
| sea stories that have so charmed young
and old are obsolete, and Mr.. Strate-
meyer is the first to show what a boy
would find on a battleship of today.
The chapter telling the story ofAdmiral
Dewey's life is of special interest. The
succeeding numbers Will fully sustain
the interest. Price, S1-25.
This is to be followed by "A Young
Volunteer in Cuba, or Fighting for the
Single Star. I'm November
Fighting in Cuban Waters or the
Haps and dishaps of a Young Gunner.
Not all the reasons given for the de-
layed publication of a book are as neat
and conclusive as those advanced IN the
case of a recently announced book,
Ease in Cycling.'' The publisher had
to beg for indulgence because it author
had just been pitched off his wheel,
broken his collarbone, and lain insensi-
BILE for sixty hours. The book is now
issued by the Frederick A. Stokes Co,
% w. Twenty-third street, New York
Heroes of Our War with Spain Told
for a Boy" is to be the title of Clinton
Ross new book published by the Fred
erick Stokes company OF New York.
After Mr.. Ross MS. was nearly COM
pleted an editorial appeared in the New
York Evening Sun calling attention to
the fact,-already grasped by MIR. Ross
and his publishers,-that here is the
greatest boys books ever written. The
true story we'll tO1d-'should surpass the
most thrilling fiction
The Macmillan company will publish
in the early autumn 1.-The Great Salt
Lake TRAIL by Colonel Henry Inman
of Topeka and the Hon. William F.
Cody buffalo Bid. This will be a COM
paniOn volume to the "O1d Santa Fe
Trail and will be illustrated with eight
fulI-page drawings by F. Conan Clarke
and initials and tail pieces by Thomas
Willing Like the Old Santa F'e Trail
Col. Inmans book is a complete arsen-
al of stories relating to the CIR, at SAT-
Lake Trail He carries the reader from
the earliest pioneering expedition down
to the opening of the tranScOnt1nentaI
railroad Colonel Inman sees his ma
terial with the eyes of the frOntiersman,
and herein lies the great charm of his
book. He has accepted things as he
found them, and has not stayed to
philosopher on the deeper meaning of
the scenes he describes, but has con-
tented himself with the role of racOn-
teur. The chapter on the Mormon
hegira is of very considerable interest
and not only has Colonel VIM. F. Cody
elaborated with Colonel Inman
throughout the book, but he has writ
ten some autobiographica1 chapters
which throw much light on his own in
teresting career. The story of the Pony
Express and it's plucky and hardy rid
ers also finds a fitting place in the book.
Like Col. Inman's former book, 1.-The
Old Santa Fe Trail this new book on
''The Great Salt Lake Trail makes
direct appeal to the love of story telling
that is rooted deep in our nature and it
gains much from the fact that many
of the men who move in its pages still
live and that their deeds are part of the
history of our country.
'"The Ranch on the Oxhide" is the IT,
tie of a boys book by Colonel Henry
Inman. author of the "Old Santa Fe
Trail. s'Tbe Great Salt Lake Trail
etc. In this book Colonel Inman has
told the story of the life of a family
of two boys and two girls on a ranch
in Ellsworth county before the railway
stretched into Kansas. In those days
every settler was likely at any time to
receive a sudden visit from an Indian
d
huntsman on the trail of a deer, or to
Chamber into the lair of wolf when
hunting small game. Our boys and
girls had many such adventures. The
spirit of the early days of the far west
pervades the story 1t is full OF the
fresh air of the prairie and the freedom
and whOlesOmeness of bOyhOOd and
girIhOOd spent under the guidance OF a
father and mother of the sturdy
thoughtful type who relied in Provi-
dence to back up their own force OF
character. Colonel W. F. Cody CBuf- 1
faIo Bid and General Custer are char
acters in the story
Octave Thanet has named her latest
volume cleverly. It is called "A Slave !
to Duty and Other Women" instead OF
the usual land other stories.'' The /
book is entirely about women and the /
joys and problems of their lives. The |
publishers of the book are Herbert s. |
Stone & Co., of Chicago. The cover de- |
sign is taken from an old patch work |
quilt.
Alfred Austin, the Poet Laureate of !
England, has just arrived in America |
on a visit.
A new book entitled "The Borderland !
of Society is announced for publication /
by Herbert s Stone & Co, of Chicago. |
1t is by Charles Belmont Davis. son OF |
Rebecca Harding Davis, and brother of /
Richard Harding Davis. Mr. Charles |
Davis makes in this volume his first APP !
pearance in book form, although readers /
of Harper's and the Century will re- |
member the clever stories from his hand !
which have appeared in these magazines |
from time to time.
''De Soto and His Men in the Land of |
Florida" is the title of Miss Grace
Kings new book to be published in Oc-
tOber by the Macmillan company. This !
story is based upon the Spanish and |
Portuguese accounts of CONQUEST" by
the brilliant arma da which sailed west
ward under De Soto in 1888 to subdue