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

docks new book is THE Story of Old
Four Loudon." 1t is published by the
THE Prophet of the Great Smoky
Mountain has taken the brilliant
Tennessee landscape for the setting OF
her new story. It is narrative of the
life of the pioneers of Tennessee and OF
their fortunes at the hands of the
-Cherokees in the uprising of 176O. 1t
forms a new volume in the series of
Stories from American History, or
which Frank Stockton's buccaneers
and Pirates" and Grace Kings De
! Soto in the Land of Florida" are two
of the more recent books.
The Macmillan company, New York.
| ANTICIPATED that the spring season
| would bring a good demand for books
| The announcements of books which
! the house has issued thus far this year,
| fill a pamphlet of twenty-four octave
| or library size pages, of which no
! part at all is given to pictures. 1t IS
| all clean, well printed descriptive text
Biography, general history, American
| history, travel, fiction. literary eXpoSl-
| ton and criticism, English classics,
| American classics, poetry, the drama,
! philosophy, the sciences, art, politics.
| economies, all these and others are rep
resented by from two or three to two
| or three dozen different works, the list
| of authors including many of the most
| famous names of the day in scholarship
and authorship. The showing is one to
! do credit alike to the publishers and to
| the country whose demand Susta1ns
| their business.
| 1.-THE Conjure Woman is the name Of
| neat volume with an attractive cover
and inviting contents, introducing a
half dozen we'll told stories by Charles
! w. Chestnut. Houghton Miftiin & Co,
| Boston, are the publishers. Price $l.25-
| s'Short Rations'' is the significant I'll
| tie of a handsome we'll printed pro
| fusely illustrated new book published
by Harper & Bros, and written by
| Taylor. The story naturally is one OF
life at West Point, in garrison and the
field.
1.-THE Man Who Outlived Himself is
| one of Albion W. TOurgee's interesting
stories. 1t is grouped with two other
| tales by the same author and printed
| by Fords, Howard & Hubert.
"sundown Lefore" is an Indian who
! could wash himself and dress up like
white man. Frederick Remington uses i3es
the name for the book of frontier life
he both writes and pictures. Harper &
Brothers are the publishers.
| 'Brokenburne'' is a southern auntie's
! war tale by Virginia Frazer Boyle,
much of it told in the charming negro
| dialect. E. r. Herrick & Co, New York.
| are the publishers, who also sell
| through Kellam'S Daily Souvenirs
| ''Shakespeare's Beautiful Women"
'ChiIdhood's Songs" and 'Mince Pie
| Dream
prisoners of Hope" is a story of coll
| onial Virginia by Mary Johnston, from
| the Riverside press Of Houghton, Milf
fin & Co.
The Doubleday & Mcclure company,
of 141 East Twenty fifth street, New
York, is issuing some wonderfully beau
tiful and attractive books, which they
are sending postpaid to any address
on approval, to be paid for If satisfac-
hn Tod
after examination. This is a system de-
vised by them for the accommodation
of out of town book buyers. Among
the works is one on South America"
by HeZekiah Butterworth, covering the
struggle for liberty in the Andean re-
publics and Cuba. This volume is two
dollars If wanted after received.
'tFacts and Fakes About Cuba" is
book published by George Munro's Sons.
New York. and written by George
Bronson Rea, field correspondent of the
New York Herald.
f'That Duel at the Chateau Marsa-
nae" is a play at chess written by Wal
ter Pulitzer and published by Funk &
Wagnalls.
''The Ladder of Fortune is something
far more than the ordinary novel. 1t is
just from the press of Houghton, Miffiin
& Co. The author is Frances Courtenay
Baylor. The story is one of New York
and Washington life involving a rich
man with a wife ambitious to entertain
dukes and diplomats and incidentally
to marry her daughters to foreign no
bility. The marriages are forthcoming,
but failures. The worthless titled hus-
band spends the money of the rich
father in-law, but brings only sorrow
and trouble to the wife and her family
Edward Bellamy, who died about a
year ago, while best known as the au-
thor of Looking Backward left a
number of other works which give
pleasure to the reader and add to his |
fame. The Blindman's World. and |
Other Stories" is a compilation of a
dozen sketches which embrace a wide |
range of the humOr, pathos, love and |
tragedy which BelIamy could so enter |
tainingly weave into story. The book |
is bound in gilt lined buckram, sells for |
$3.50, and is published by Houghton |
Mifflin & Co.
A fine specimen of book making is |
Doubleday & N1cCIure's authorized BIZ |
ography of the late Prof. Henry Drum |
mond, written by George Adam Smith. |
The volume includes 500 pages. In Scot |
land alone over 1000 copies were or
dered in advance of publication.
=
Songs of War and Peace" by Sam |
Walter Foss. is one of Lee & Shepard's !
timely publications that appeals to the
current military spirit.
A western house, Hudson Kimberly
Publishing company of Kansas City, |
Mo, prints in a unique volume with
scores of little sketches by Albert Tur-
ner Reid, a book of verses by William
Hamilton Cline, called In Varying |
Moods"
"A Pioneer from Kentucky" publ
Hshed in blue linen by Crane & Com \
pany of Topeka, is Col Henry Inman's
story of the Ration range. The book
was brought out by Will Siler of
Cranes and contains a frontispiece