The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-01
BOOK NOTES.

"sweepers of the Sea-" by Claude h.
Wetmore Published by Bowen, Merrill
Co. Indianapolis, Ind.
notable increase in the number of works
of fiction attempting. to fore-shadow
picture. as existing, possibilities in the
world of mechanical invention, particular
" as applied to munitions of war. Many
OF the books are silly: others. while sug-
very. Wen worth while Of the latter is
as well acknowledge that nothing Mr..
story can nossihIv he az strange or Won
derful to US as would have been the record
Wer rr9 eI 70 neimSen Neisnn This a
knows the sea and the navy and has the
technical knowledge necessary properly to
present his story to the reader.
Mr.. Wetmore has a good deal of the
genius of Jules Verne and can make the
never trenches into the country of the inn
possible-as so many fiction writers who
our own planet, are apt to do. His char
acterizations are clean-cut,- well diferen-
are especially lovable. His descriptions of
the hght with the British fleet and of the
cyclone on the Braziis show powers of
"sweepers of the Sea" comes into the
glass OF importans nGu6n' ana as sucn WIN
public. The illustrations which depend
upon the imaginative appreciation Of ar
preston made by the story instead of de-
tracing therefrom, as is too often the
case.
From the press of Laird & Lee, Of Chi
or The Horn of Oberon," by Katherine
Elise Chapman, with ten ~full-page half
taii-pieces and a frontispiece, in colors, by
Gwynne Price; the cover is a delicate gem
in well chosen tints. This volume. of large
royal quarto size. will constitute a choice
present for the young ones. While not ex-
actly a book for the babies and entirely
fit for the library I able of the older NAM
bers of the family, this delightful cpl
sode from the court records of Queen III
tania, will prove admirably adapted for
storytelling to the little ones. Mother
or elder sister win find in these pages the
inspiration that is so often sadly lacking
in so-called children's literature. To de-
velop the budding imagination is a task
help in that direction ought to be made
Welcome. We nave No hesitation to state
fancy of Shakespeare, IN its .purest vein.
has been continued by Miss Chapman into
~bound,ess pleasure to its readers. Qaird
& Lee, boards. $l.oo)
The New York Herald says of May Isa-
bel risks little volume of stories publish
ed by Zimmerman, New York;
May Isabel Fisk is a young woman of
many accomplishments, who has just is
sued a volume. The Repentant Magdalen
TT scenes of these tales shift from
deals with the lives of artists and models
in the French capital, is a bit of realism
that is refreshing for it's frankness in
these days when realism shrinks from real
life.
Reconstructed Paradise is a study of fem
mime jealousy, which is not only true to
life, but is wrought out with literary skill
All the stories are worth readlng.
Mcclure, Phillips & Co.. have acquired
book which claims Abraham Lincoln as
its author. 1t is a small scrap-book com;
campaign of 1858. and it contains, SO Line
DIN writes in it, 1.-THE substance of all I
M RiHs e sHeE sa1a a1 notes ana anddls a long letter
in Lincoln's handwriting. The book was
test then being carried on the opponents
of Lincoln were continually mis-
a3adf;gn hi Tbe vis Contest on wa the ver slaV 6ifz
ter. Most of Lincoln's friends and
neighbors.sindeed the maJority Of the fer cltir
Kentuckians. and while they did not pc
lieve in slavery as an institution they qua
One of Lincoln's supporters, Captain
Brown, was also a candidate for political
gave this little book. Captain Brown used
the book in SO and so and on his death
emf publication has been arranged.
seumas MacManus has just finished a
series of Donegal fairy tales which. win be
published shortly by Mcclure, Phillips &
airy work in his horne in Mt. Charles, right
in the midst of tn scenes which he de-
scribes in his stories, and where he can
easily gather his material. Most of the
fairy tales in the forthcoming volume
were related to by an old
tailor, John Burns, who lived in a small
cottage under the shadow of the Mount
which gives eplace its name. Burns claim
ed personal acquaintance with the fairies
and said that he often saw them dancing
among the bushes on the hillside. Mac
Manus. then a little boy, listened to these
and wandered over the hills looking for
the fairies himself. If he did not find
what he sought he found something else
ineniration. Those who have read the stor-
les believe that he also found the fairies.
tales are Illustrated ~ forty draw |