The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-04
BOOK NOTES.

tumn by the Macmillan company is en-
titled, Tales of the Enchanted Isles of
the Atlantic. 1t will deal with the cy-
Gle of romance which lies within the
early Irish, English, Spanish and other
traditions of the Happy Islands Of the
west.
Current History" Sd Quarter, 1898,
edited by A. S. Johnson, Phi. D., album
dainty illustrated with maps, portraits,
and views, will shortly be issued. To
the watcher of the worlds progress dur
ing these stirring times who desires
comprehensive record of passing events
in form convenient for permanent ref
erence, nothing of greater value is
published. Not only the war with Spain,
the Hawaiian and Oriental questions,
but also every other phase of current
history in all parts of the world is here
presented in a nutshell. The present
number is one of exceptional interest;
and the successive volumes of this
unique work, which as time goes by is
increasing in utility, form an invaluable
addition to every library shelf. Boston,
Mass: New England Publishing Co.,
numbers 40 cents. Sample copy Is
cents. Specimen pages free.
Songs of War and Peace" by Sam
Walter FOss, author Of Back Country
Poems, - ''Whiffs From Wild Meadows,
Dreams in HOmespun," is just from
the press of Lee & Shepard, Boston.
The authors verse has beauty and
y
work will appeal to those who love
beauty in the clothing of books, for its
cover is a specially dainty piece Of ar
tistic skill Price, $1.25.
1.-THE New England Poets" by Will
liam Cranston Lawton is the title of a
book to be published shortly by the
Macmillan company. Prof. Lawton is
and Humanity in Homer" and Sue
cessors of Homer" His last book is a
study of Emerson, Hawthorne, Long
fellow, Whittier, Lowell and Holmes.
The story of these six happy lives is told
briefly, the authors attempt being to
show their artistic environment and
sources of inspiration not to emphasize
purely personal relations and traits.
While this work makes its appeal to the
general student and lover of literature,
it is fitted to be useful as a text book
or a basis for special study to reading
clubs and kindred associate Such
students will find especially helpful the
authors table of Parallel Lives"
Mr.. Will Payne's new novel 1.-THE
Money Captain is a story of Chicago.
It is almost the first attempt ever made
in fiction to give dispaSsiOnate picture
Of the man who as the head of great
corporate interests thinks he finds It
necessary. to corrupt municipal politics.
It is likely that attempts will be made
to prove that Mr.. Payne's Dexter and
his gas monopoly are meant as por-
traits, but the author disavOws any
such intention. Dexter is meant mere
ly as a type. The book is published by
Herbert S. Stone & Co.
1.-THE Philippine Islands and their Peo-
ple'' is the title of a book by Professor
Dean C Worcester, which the Macmil-
Ian company will publish next month.
The book is a record of personal obser-
walton and experience. with a general
account of the archipelago, and a short
summary of the more important facts
in it's history. The author who is Pro-
lessor of Zoology at the University Of
Michigan. and his companion, DR.. F. S.
Bourns, have twice visited the Philip
pine archipelago to study its zoology,
and have travelled more widely there
than any other English-spe men,
working on every important island in
the group, and pushing into the widest
and least explored portions of the coun-
try Their first trip was unofficial in its
character, their second was made I'M
der Royal Order from the Spanish gov
eminent, backed by special order from
General Weyler, so that they had op-
pOrtunity to study the country and it's
people from two very different view
points. While strictly accurate it is free
from technicalities. The authors plain
straightforward account of the obser-
vations and the adventures of his party
is made vivid by sixty-one fine illustra-
lions, fifty of which are from original
photographs by DR.. Bourns, and there
is a large and accurate map of the Phil
ippines, compiled from British admir-
atty charts. with corrections by the
author.
Miss Agnes Repplier's History of
Philadelphia will be published in a few
days by the Macmillan company. This
work is the same series and in some
sort uniform with the charming volume
on New Orleans which Miss Grace King
brought out a year or two ago. Miss
Repplier, in her history of Philadelphia,
has traced the fortunes of the Quaker
City from the day that Charles II.
granted the province of "Sylvania" to
William Penn, and gave his royal bles-
sing in the harbor of London to PENIS
first colOnists, down to these years Of
grace when the quiet town, "Old as we
count age IN this new world" sees the
proud fulfillment of her early hopes,
the realization of her youthful ambi-
ton. The work is profusely illustrated.
Those drawings which are not phOtOg-
raphic reproductions are by E. Q. Peix-
otto.
The Macmillan company have bought
the old established publishing business
of Messrs. Richard Bentley & Son of
London. All Messrs. Bentley's present
publications, and those heretofore IS
sued. will hereafter be published by the
Macmillan company in London and
New York. BY this purchase a long
list of notable books is added to the
already multitudinous publications of
the Macmillan company.
"Cyrano de Bergerac.' which has
De6n d IelSIlIlS SGLlSdllOAA III arts anu
London, has been translated under the
supervision Of the author, Edmond Ros-
tand, by Gladys Thomas. Sir Henry
Irving has purchased the English rights
Of the play, and 1t viii be reproduced
in this country by Richard Mansfield.
The publisher is r. H. Russell, 8 West
Twenty-ninth street, New York.
''Fortuna-a Story of Wall Street." by
James Blanchard Clews is published by
The J. s. Ogilvie company, 81 Rose
street, New York. Mr.. Clews is one of