The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-22
BOOK NOTES.

Myths and Fables Of Today" by Sam
nsl Adap Bs Peaks sss separd $50 BostoD
Through Kellam Book and Stationery
In This this very interesting book Colonel
Drake shows how our daily. lives are filed
with savings and doings that have their
not realize it. These origins he traces in
a most scholarly and entertaining man
ner. giving many Illustrations y ,, ct the
drawing largely from history The book
Se9bXiedhn ng5a as K a4ss signs OF AT
Sorts I" Charms to GOOD Luck; ..r rGnaTms
Against DaSease yll 0mens iE5l3stpv
ETC., can hardly help but attract each Of
us along the line of some pet hobby: Even
Colonel Drake. has most ample reason for
making a book this subject, and has
made most readable one Also
An exquisitely printed and bound little
preoa Of n & ee Of f chcago
1t is entitled Viola Olerich, the Famous
Baby Scholar and relates: without un-
corning this extraordinary Iowa infant
whose life of forty-two months has
press and the medical world From the
minute biography of that healthy child It
tai growth hindered in any way her nor
NAL physical development And yet, pc
among her accomplishments reading.
writing. drawing, a vocabulary Of zoJe
English words, a fair SInatter1ng OF
French and German. surprising knoWi-
edge of geometrfcal figures. of astrononi-
cal terms and of botanical ANALYSIS. A
are to be ADDED to this long list Of talents
The publishers have done the subject full
IN of this dainty volume. Laird & Lee:
Cloth. gilt top. go cents
Another of Katharine Tynan's fascinat-
ing Irish stories, 1.-The Handsome Brand
ons,', is ANNOUNCED for early issue ss,s BY 4.
some Brandons are the members OF
family whose decayed fortunes have no
Of character The affection which unites
these brothers and sisters communicate
feel as If privileged in being introduced
to beings so pure and good and kind,
ence in witnessing the happy outcome of
the sisters love affairs is akin to per
her happiest mood; the humor, the ten
derness, the pathos. with which she Is SO
m raes,sy Miss lyman is the author of
1.-The Dear Irish Girl She Walks in
Beauty "Oh, What Plague is Love"
etc.
Immediately upon her return from Eu-
rope, last year, Mrs. Schuyler Crownin-
shield began work upon a society novel IN
which she designed to exploit some phases
of life never before touched in fiction; The
book will shortly be issued by Mcclure.
Phillips & Co., and those that have read
the story say that it shows consum-
etrating insight into human nature such
as only a writer of very wide and excep-
tional social experience could have pos
sessed. The entire background is genu-
inc: the scene being laid in an abbey,
which belongs to Madame Juliet Adam,
late editor of the Nouvelle Review. Mad
anne Adam has not only given Mrs.
Crowninshfeld permission to use the abbey
as the groundwork of her story, but she
has accepted the dedication of the book
in a charming letter to the author
The Home Study Circle series Double
dav Page & Coz, originated by the Chi
cago Record and edited by Prof. Seymour
Eaton of Drexel Institute, has just been
completed in the form of a 15-volume Il
brary after a year devoted to passing the
volumes through the press. The plan of
the books has been to make a work more
advanced than the familiar ChautauQua
system and appealing particularly to
Young men and women who wish to study
in the broader line of literature, finance.
contemporary history and politics, and in
art music and science That the field was
open and that a real need was met is eyie
dent from the fact that orders for 9O,UOO
Volumes were secured before the set was
complete, and more than three-quarters
of these volumes were ordered in leather
one-ouarter in cloth covers