The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-29
BOOK NOTES.


"The House Boat on the St Lawrence.
Published by Lee & Shepard. Boston.
Through Kellam Book and Stationery
DR.. Tomlinson began a series of almost
ideal excellence in the way of standard
on the st. Lawrence last year. He has
now, placed the four friends and royal
Bert in a house boat on the same beau
tiful river and given them Frontenac in
affords them inspiration. His purpose
has been to record such experiences as a
nad N q summer spent upon the beautiful
and historic river St. Lawrence. DR..
naturally interested in the historical rec
ords of their ewn land. Acting upon such
Deh e. ne has endsayored to interest his us
one one, Of the .s Leaders Of men I'm, in the new
brgR IN the ie 6anT Gays o e story
equalled. and the historical portions of It
5h a s 6s an nesntiye to its rsadrs to
book could be given TO a boy.
'Harvey's Elementary Lessons in Lam
guage and Grammar" by Thos. w. Har-
vey. Price 50 cents Published by the
lThrough Keiiam Book and Stationery
This book is a remodeled and revised
edition of the old Harvey Elementary
Grammar, now being brought to date, and
many teachers will be delighted with this
revised edition, which combines the adj
yantages Of the old method of teaching
English with those of the new. The book
the same time sufficiently complete to
give o Pupils who have to Leave school early
practical purposes of life.
True to Himself, or Roger strong's
Struggle for Place. Published by Lee &
Shepard. Being the third volume of the
temeyer, a author of oid Giory series cries
cl 9th. illustrated by A. p, shute.
the ship and shore ' Series fa al s91 Of adj d.
boys and girls. In this story We are in
troduced to Roger Strong, a TYPICAL Amer
by an unhappy combination of events, are
thrown upon their own resources and
world. Roger tells his own story in a
modest. manly way that boys and girls
parents. will admire equally. With his
father thrown into prison serious
have anything to do with either D himself or
his sister, and the jeers flung at him are
But he is true to himsei If in e the Best
meaning sa Of that tina; saying, rising above those
combination of circumstances he is
thrown IN contact with those who
wronged his father, and after a Perilous
is complete. The skilfully arranged plot
leaves the outcome uncertain to the Very
and Stationery Company)
lshed under the title Of sThe wv Worlds pHP
Best Proverbs and Short Quotations. a
by George H. Opdyke, M A. The public
speaker the author, the journalist, all
preparation of their tasks. Nothing
brightens up a speech an article, or
apt crisp quotation that wakens up the |
attention of the listener or reader and |
ness and life. Proverbs have been often |
called the wisdom of nations" and they |
certainly are like the concentrated essence /
of the good things said and written in /
the past Mr.. Opdyke'S choice in this al |
most inexhaustible treasure has been in |
telligent and clever; his method of clas- |
sihcation by subjects alphabetically ar /
and we must admit that. taken altogether |
no other such compilation has ever united |
so many points of perfection in the selec- |
ton and grouping of these gems Of |
ton the choice minds of the past and The /
present, of Americans as well as foreign /
origin. Laird & Lee. Cloth, 81: full |
leather. full gilt, special binding, $3.50
Murat Halstead, Americas veteran |
19urnanSht, mas returned from the Philip.
historian to the war department to |
the government. This informa ton be has ias
put into book which he has happily l
named The Story of the Philippines" the /
publishing of which has been entrusted to T
The Dominion Company of Chicago. This
promises to be the one great book of the /
in the peace negotiations makes the sub
ject one of intense interest. The book is
written in Mr.. Halstead's best vein, and
is illustrated with hundreds of engrav-
ings made from official photographs. The
book is being sold exclusively by SUBJ
scription through regular canvassing
agents. Mr.. Halstead is known as one
of the hardest and most rapid workers in
the newspaper profession For nearly
half a century he has reported the ma
tional conventions, writing his reports in
longhand When pressed he is ca pable of
turning out upwards of 80 600 words every
"a hours. His work of writing THE Story
of the Philippines has been a large task
NO other book was perhaps ever written
throughout a journey of $4,000 miles-a
journey around the world. It was written
in the avenues of peace: on overland
trains; in army camps at San Francisco;
on the Pacific in Honolulu hospitals: in |
the insurgents camps with Aguinaldo: in
the trenches before Manila with Merritt;
on the fields al hattie '