The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-08
BOOK NOTES.

Agnes Carr Sage, author of "a Little
Colonial Dame,' was inclined to be in
d1gnant when she called on her pub
fishers. just before Christmas, to secure
several copies of her own book that she
had planned to give to youthful friends.
She was told that she could not have
them. as the public had taken the last
available copies a few hours before.
When she grasped the meaning of the
situation she was pacified-the more
easily when she was informed that
new edition was on the press and is now
ready by the publishers, Frederick A.
Stokes company, 81 and % West Twen-
ty-third street, New York.
r. H. Russell, West Nineteenth
street, New York, is the publisher of
many OF the great book successes.
a new edition known as the Maude
Adams edition. 1t is sumptuously il
Illustrated with 80 full-page pictures of
Miss Adams and her company illustrat-
ing the principal scenes in the story.
Every one who has ever read the story
or seen the play will want this beautiful
book In luxurious binding of white
vellum, deliberately stamped in gold,
size 644x91a, 400 pages, each copy sealed
and enclosed in a box.
The title of Charles Egbert Grad
docks new book is 1.-The Story of Old
Fort Loudon." 1t was published by
The Macmillan company. The author
of THE Prophet of the Great Smoky
nessee landscape for the setting of her
new story. 1t is narrative of the life
of the pioneers of Tennessee and of
their fortunes a the hands of the Cher
okees in the uprising of 1850. 1t forms
a new volume in the series of Stories
from American History" of which
Frank Stockton's buccaneers and
Pirates" and Grace Kings DE Soto in
the Land of Florida" are two of the
more recent books.
Pierson, D. D., editor of The Mission
airy Review Of the World" 12mo, 6S .pp,
Cloth. Price, so cents. Funk & Wag-
nails company, New York. This little
book is a brief sketch of one of the
most remarkable women of history. 1t
is especially fitted to inspire and slim
ulate consecrated womanhood. The ele-
mentS of true testimony are independ-
ent of sex; and there is an especial
fitness in bringing to the front such
woman preacher in the day when godly
women are fast coming into real prom
inence as workers in the mission field
at home and abroad.
-
or "G9d's Prisoner" a story BY John Gh
theme of man winning his redemp-
ton by courage and seIf-sacrifice is
inspiring, and has generally been pop
ular. In Gods Prisoner it appears
again in new scenes and with new cpl
sOdes. To escape the consequences of
an unprecedented crime, the hero
throws himself in the way of an as
founding series of adventures. OF
course they are astounding or they
wouldn't be worth telling in the days
of Stevenson and Kipling. These adj
ventures. however, contain the ele-
ments of much moral development and
even of great usefulness to some of the
people whom he has wronged. More
over, they are told with good art and
without too much moraliZing. The book
is the rare combination of a sensational
novel that entertainS without Vitiating
the taste, and at the same time has a
better reason for being than the mere
power of entertaining.
"Cyrano de Bergerac" continues to
be one of the best selling books of the
day. The Doubleday & Mcclure Co.
has printed $4,000 copies of Miss Ger
trude Halls prose translation.
Lovers of light lyrical verse will be
glad to learn that new edition of
when Hearts Are Trumps" by Tom
Hall is out. This popular little volume
has been out of print for some time,
owing to the financial troubles of for
mer publishers. Frederick A. Stokes
company has purchased the plates and
copyright and offers the book at a lower
price than formerly.
Fords Howard & Hubert, New York,
have published a volume of stories by
Miss Jeanne G. Pennington. whose little
book of Don't Worry" Nuggets has
been so widely circulated. 1t is enti-
tied Some Marked Passages" The
prelude gives a scene in a hospital Of
flee, on the arrival of a package of
books for the entertainment of patients,
which not only have been read but
show underlined passages here and
there. The effect of these marked
passages on certain dramatically pic
opportunity for some keen study of
human nature.