The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-05
BOOK NOTES.


| cago.
Mr. Marsh has written here a fasci-
| mating novel. His descriptive power is
| good and his characters put into the
| readers mind a well furnished gallery
of pictures of interesting people, drawn
| and cOlOred, SO true to life that they be-
come fixed in memory as real people.
/ Each character is marShaled the
| scene in natural and vigorous way,
| making the changes through all the
moods of the sentimental the humorous
and the tragic. The plot is wrought
| from start to finish in a way that
makes one reluctant to close the book
until ne has seen the finale.
Houghton. Mifiin & Co..of Cambridge
! Mass, have just announced a historical
romance by the already popular writer,
| Miss Mary Johnston Ssntitled ITO Have
! and To Hold" Price $1.50, and it is
claimed that this will surpass her pop
ular novel, Prisoners of Hope" which
has had phenomenal success. ITO Have
| and to Hold has a dramatic plot and
historic figures give it life and truth.
Harold Frrederic's last and greatest
| novel, The Market Place." shows no
sign of a stacking in sales and is now
| in its thirty-third thousand edition. Its
description and incidents of the stock
market are vivid. and to those who
! know nothing of the market the vol
ume will be book of information.
Published by Frederick A. Stokes Co.,
New York city. Price $3.50.
The Bowen Merren Co, New York
/ and Indianapolis, have this week print
ed a souvenir edition of 10000 copies,
making total of 100000 copies of the
wonderfully popular novel when
! Knighthood was in Flower" by Edwin
! Caskoden. This is a powerful novel and
one that all lovers of good books of cur
i rent literature have upon their shelves.
This limited souvenir edition is much
sought after
'"The Wheat Problem" by Sir William
Crookes. Price $1.50 Published by C.
j P. Putnams Sons Co., New York city
! This book is based upon the remarks
I made in the presidential address to the
/ British association at Bristol 1898 by the
1 author, and devotes two chapters to the
/ future wheat supply of the United
States, by Mr.. c. Wood of Kansas, and
/ Hon. John Hyde, department of agricul-
ture, Washington. Mr.. Croolxes in his
! address pointed out the serious peril
awaiting wheat-eaters, who contentedly
/ pursue the present wasteful system of
! cultivation. Under the present condi-
tiOnS of wheat culture, scarcity of wheat
is within an appreciate distance. The
j wheat growing lands all over the world,
says the writer, are becoming exhausted.
| 1t seems to the author that at some fu-
| ture time no available wheat land will
| be left. This is an interesting subject
and this book contains some useful sta
| tistics to support his views. Through
DSS-A
Literary Hearthstones By Marion
| Harland. Price $3.50 each. Published
! These are studies of the home life
i of certain writer's, being two initial vol
umes entitled Charlotte Bronte at
4 Home" and william Cowper." They
i are not dry biographies, but as indica-
ted in the titles, studies of home life of
! these eminent people.
The authors belief is that if the ev-
i eryday life of every. human being We're
written down truthfully, history would
be more interesting than the most
stirring fiction. We are brought face
to face with the men and women whom
we have hitherto admired afar off as
celebrities. The biographies are prepar-
ed in the neighborhoods in which the
+ subjects lived, wrought and died.
In this way the local color is preserv-
ed and valuable, fresh material secur-
ed.
Bearers of the Burden" by Major w.
P. Drury, Royal Marines Price $780,
Published by G. P. Putnams Sons Co,
New York City. These fourteen stories
which make up the book are excellent
reading and are the work of an artist
Major Drury has been called The
Naval Kipling," and certainly his
stories remind the reader strongly of
the work of the friend of
done for the sea-soldiers, what KipIing
has for the land soldiers. Major Drury
is at present in active service on the
British ships Camperdown, and was in
command of the marine detachment
landed at Canada during the late Gre
tan trouble.
The writer has the art of weaving ro-
nance with actuality.
/ From the press of the Kansas Farmer
has been issued 1.-THE Farmers Fedora
ton Principles and Plans" by Walter
n. Allen. The combination of the grain
and live stock growers of the Missis-
sippi valley into an organization for
the purpose of securing uniform and
better prices for their products has
long been a cherished plan of the au-
thors. The manner in which he hopes
and believes this can be brought about
is fully set forth in the book, which is
for sale in cloth at 81, paper so cents.
Mr.. Allen is a practical farmer and
stock raiser himself, and has no lack of
information on the subject of the
needs of his class. His theories and
plans are based on actual experience
in marketing farm products.
The second volume of 1.-THE Story of
France" from the earliest times to the
consulate of Napoleon Bonaparte, by
Thomas E. Watson. complete in two
volumes, the second volume comprising
the period from the end Of the reign
of Louis XIV. to the consulate of Napo-
leon Bona arte, covering the existing
and dramatic times of the French rev.
olution, published by the Macmillan
company, sc Fifth avenue, New York, is
completed and being supplied to pur-
chaSerS at 81. so. There is no diminu-
ton of interest in the story or of pains
taking effort in historical research Wis
ible in this second volume. 1t is not
such a history of France as Guizot
wrote or NJ. Theirs, nor does it handle
the French revolution like Carlyle, but
it is careful, complete, spicy, entranc-
ing story for the ordinary reader. 1t is