The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-01
BOOK NOTES.

The Doubleday & Mcclure Co. an
nounce another edition of THE Life of
Drummond,' by George Adam Smith.
published just before Christmas. The
second edition has also just been is
sued in England, the two printings
there aggregating $4,000 copies
The Hon. Carroll D. Wright, the Uni
ted States commissioner of labor, has
prepared special American edition of
The Statesman's Year Book just is
sued by The Macmillan company. The
statistical and historical material which
has hitherto made this annual so in
dispensable has been completely re-
vised and enlarged so as to include all
official information the public man,
writer, or speaker may require.
1.-THE Boys with Old Hickory by
Everett T. Tomlinson illustrated. This
volume, which concludes the war of
1872 series covers the closing of that
struggle. The book is published by Lee
& Shepard, Boston. The author, in his
writing for young people, does not aim
studied boys carefully during his as
ISOLATION with them as teacher, he
knows well how to arouse and main
tain their interest while he depicts his
torical events on sea and land, and
gives them correct views of the same
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when Knighthood was in Flower is
one of the best selling books in the var
ious cities of the country. The first
edition was published by the Bowen
Merrill Co, Indianapolis, September z,
1898. The seventeenth edition was
issued March list and now the forty
seventh thousand is announced.
A notable biography has been recent
ly published by The Bowen-Merrill Co.,
in THE Life and Work of Susan B. An
thony," which includes a history of the.
various woman's movements for fifty
years. The book is written by Ida
Hustled Harper, and is bound in two
large octave volumes.
Doubleday &, Mcclure Co.'S spring an
nouncements include the Temple Edi-
ton of Dickens Works in forty volumes
Gin connection with Dent 6, Coz; with
Sampson Through the War; by w. A.
NJ. Goode; Life Masks of Great Ameri-
cans by Charles H. Hart; The United
States of Europe: On the Eve of the
Parliament of Peace by w. ]. Stead;
THE Real Hawaii by Lucian Young.
u S. N; How to Plan the Home
Grounds by S. Parsons; within the
Hedge" verse, by Martha Gilbert Dick
inson; Natures Garden an aid to our
knowledge of wild flowers, by Nellie
Blanchan, and "A Voyage to the Moon,"
by Cyrano de Bergerac.
The current announcement of Messrs.
DOdd, Mead & Co. includes long list
of interesting publications. The firm
will issue THE Enchanted StOne,' by
Lewis Hind; The Silver Cross" a new
novel by S. r. Keightley; 1.-The Fowler
Beatrice Harraden's new novel; a new
edition of rabbi Saunderson," by Ian
George Macdonald; THE European
Tour" by Grant Allen; 1.-The New Eng
land Primer" by Paul Leicester Ford;
THE Restored Innocence" by r. ].
Campbell, new issue in the series of
Little Books on Religion"
The great book success of the season
is David Harum,'' now in its sixtieth
thousand, published by D. Appleton &
Co. The author, Edward Westcott,
died before he knew of the wide popu-
larity of his book. He who reads the
first chapter will laugh and laugh again
and put down the volume only to take
it up again at the first opportunity.
David Harum' was the Uncle Chef
Thomas of a New York village.
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Judge J. T. Clark of Potwin is the
author of little volume of poems which
he has presented as a souvenir to his
friends. The leading poem of the book
was written about sixty years ago,
when the author, under appointment or
the government, was spending some
time among the Ojibue Indians of the
north There is unusual merit in Judge
Clark's poems as we'll as in his prose
sketches. The st. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat has given the volume handsome
notice.
We do not need a long step backward
to reach a period when our people knew
AlItlC anu CdIeQ less dUOul IIC IA
Cuba and Porto Rico and were as ignor-
ant of the Philippines as of the noun
tains of the moon. But there came three
short, sharp months of war which
changed all that, and today there are
FEW among us without a living interest
in those islands, and many are eager
for every scrap of information concern
ing them. OF the books written to sup
ply this wide demand "Our Island EN-
pire," just issued by the ]. B. Iippin-
colt company, may be commended as
one of the best and most useful. This
work is practically four books in one,
since it deals separately with Cuba,
| Porto Rico, Hawaii. and the Philippines
and constitutes a ready and convenient
handbook of information about each of
these widely separated islands
One of the keenest of American news
paper critics rerna rlxs 1,Dor the DeclII-