The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-10
BOOK NOTES.
JACK.

''Who Ought to Win? Dom Paul. or
Queen Victoria by Spencer Randolph,
published by Laird and Lee, Chicago.
Price 10 cents. This timely book is a
graphic account of the South African
struggle from its inception to the pres
ent day. It's aims are impartial in the
treatment of the questions, and the
author presents the facts in their
chronological order, with a clearness
and precision that lack neither in elo-
quence nor in interest.
The history of the Boer settlers first
under the rule of the Dutch East India .
company, later as British subjects,
finally during their checkered career as
Independent republics, has never been
well understood by the public at large,
and both the conflicting parties have
tried to confuse rather than to enlighten
the minds of the outsiders, as to their
respective rights in the premises. This
is a book in which the reader Will find
perhaps for the first time-all needed
information concerning this subject
The book contains a number of excellent
illustrations, among them being Queen
Victoria, President Kruger and all of
the leading generals now in the field,
also a number of good maps.
Dodd, Mead & Co, New York city
announce the novel for this month on
which Count Tolstoi has been working
ton 1t is said to be as powerful as
anything which he has written. This
is a translation and Dodd Mead & Co.
Will be the only authorized publishers.
1.-THE Regeneration of the United
States" by William Morton Grinnell,
price $1OO. Published by 6. T. Put
nam's Sons, New York City Through
Kellam Book and Stationery co.
This is a forecast of its Industrial
evolution"
The opening chapters of Mr..
GrinnelPs volume are devoted to a con-
sheraton of the early history of the
United States, with its lofty political
ideas reduced to practice, as contrasted-
with the political and business degen-
Grafton, which characterize the last half
of the nineteenth century. The state OF
affairs during the twentieth century is
still more gloomy. Trusts assimllate
all industries, production becomes
cheap and men live well. but there is
no Internationally except the leaders
are slaves. The nation has grown so
great in numbers, in power and in
wealth as to be the envy of all nations
Ending in war between Russia and Ger
many combined, and the United States.
After this supposed war peace was de-
clared, but the country was in bad con-
dition. The people We're poor and dis
organized but taking heed to the fall
ures in the past started to build the
country upon sure and lasting foun-
dation.
The volume closes with a picture of
the regenerated nation happy in its
universal prosperity Mr. Grinnelrs
forecast may and may not be true, out
one may read between the lines many
practical hints by which the legislators
might profit themselves by reading and
thus bringing about a regeneration
without going through this period
which the author pictures.
sHenry Knox" By Noah Brooks,
,fs A l0,-n h inc nd
ers. Price $3.50. Published by G.
Putnams Sons, New York. Through
Kellam Book Stationery Coz
General Knox was born in Boston in
1850 and received only moderate ed
ucation. He at first served as volun-
teer in the Continental army besieg-
ing Boston but his great skill as an
artillery officer led Gen. Washington to
give him command of the artillery, and
it was through his successful handling
of the artillery that the siege of Bos-.
ton was a success. and after this sue
cess, Washington made him a brigadier
general and later he was made secre-
tary of war Up to this time there has
been little known of this man and as
Mr. Brooks says: TT is not easy to un-
derstand why a figure SO commanding
and a character so exalted as the fig
ure and character of Gen. Henry Knox
should have been so inconspicuous in
the written history of the Republic
This is an excellent biography, and well
written and illustrates the character of
one who could have been no common
man.
I'm Friendships Guise'' By VIM.
Murray Graydon. Price $100. Street
& Smith publishers, New York. This is
a powerful novel. Mr.. Graydon is well
known by his Juvenile stories, but in
+ this work he has taken a different line.
1t is a compilation of artists studies,
stolen pictures. love and scheming vii
nv xxrhi n mako Mot of the
most intense interest, not being one of
| those disappointing books in which you
can see the end before you have fin
ished the first two or three chapters.
for new surprises appear at every turn,
and the love plot is strong enough to
! please the men as well as the women.
| This work shows him to be in the class
with Robert w Chambers, who deals
| with art and the Bohemian life of the
artist. The book is well written and
| deeply interesting story.
North American Forests and For
estry" By Ernest Bruneken, secretary.
| of the late Wisconsin State Forestry
| commission. Price $3.50. Published by
! G. P Putnams Sons. New York city.
Mr.. Brunckep's volume is not address
| ed to the professional forester but to
1 the layman. Forestry, says the author
! lis a subject worthy of the attention
! of the philosopher, the statesman, the
/ economist, the man of science, the bus
I mess man and the lover OF mankind
| and nature
In one of the first chapters Mr..
| Bruncken explains the life of the for
ests and the struggle for existence that
is constantly carried on, he also de-
4 ScribeS the relation between the forest
and the man. His duty in years past
was to make room for human life where
| nature reigned supreme, but times have
| changed, and the duties of this gener-
| alton are different from those of the
! past Now man is looking to the forest
/ Industries and to their Importance to
/ every branch of manufacture. The sub
4 ject of forestry has of late been one
| much talked of, and this is book sug-
i costing reforms in forestry methods
/ and is we'll calculated to accomplish
/ much good. (Through Kellam Book
! and Stationery company