The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-26
BOOK NOTES.

voices of Freedom" BY HOratiO w.
Dresser. Price 81. 25, published by G. P.
Putnams Sons Co., New York. CThrough
kellam' s Book and Stationery Coz This
is one Of the eight good books by this
popular author, all published by Put
nam Sons, and this is probably the auth
or's strongest and most philosophical
book. 1t is more fundamental than the
previous volumes, and replies to critic
iSms and contains advanced views and
doctrines which are in some sense a de-
parture from the teaching of the earlier
volumes. The author says: The prob
lem of problems in the world of philos-
optical thought has ever been the rela-
ton of the one and the many, the ad-
justment of the individual to society:
the assignment of finite and infinite to
their true spheres" and it is his pur-
pose to bring these living issues to
focus, and no one can read it without
feeling the better and wiser for so do
ing.
Dodd, Mead & Co., New York city,
announce for one of their many spring
publications a new book by the popular
writer, Jerome K. Jerome, entitled
Three Men on a Bicycle. 1t is said by
those who have read his original manu-
script that it is equally so, if not more
witty than his Three Men In a Boat"
and as everyone knows, or should know,
this means a very humorous and enter
tanning book.
THE Fate of Madame La Tour" By
Mrs A. G. Paddock. Price $1.0O. Pub
lished by Fords, Howard & Hubert,
New York city.
This is a timely book and a most re-
markable novel, being a tale of Great
Salt Lake and picturing some fresh and
vivid delineations of the pioneers life in
the early fOrtieS, and portrays the ideas,
principles and modes of life among the
Mormons and the late protest against
Congressman-elect Roberts, shows there
still remains an interest in the Mormon
question. The Critic, New York; says:
Thrilling enough to interest the most
exacting lover of fiction. while solemn
enough in its facts and in its warn
ings, to engage the attention of the most
serious statesman" The publishers an
nounce the book as being now in its
tenth thousand.
Fables in Slang" BY George AIDE.
author of ''Artie," Pink Marsh." AMI
others. Pictures by Clyde J. Newman.
Stone & Co, New York and Chicago.
(Through Kellam Book and Stationery
Coz Mr. George AIDE is already well
known by his popular books of the
Streets and Towns" and this is one of
the clevereSt books that he has writ
ten, in fact one of the cleverest that has
appeared for some time, for it is a book
that appeals to all America being COM
posed Of the slang of the whole conti-
nent Fables in Slang" show US the
other people (not ourselves) as they are,
not as they ought to be, and anyone
who is looking for a good laugh can
take one, by reading the Fables. The
book contains tWenty-six fables. The
publishers announce it now as running
in it's 25th thousand.
who's Who in America" edited by
John w. Leonard, published by A. N.
Marquis & Co. Chicago. Price $2.75 net.
Who's Who" in America, is something
like the English book Who's Who"
(now in it's f1fty-second year,. Being
a biographical dictionary of living men
and women of the United States. The
need of some such volume has long
been apparent. Biographical compila
lions are plentiful but this book is
something new, giving the Who's
Who" in America at the present time
And upon examination we find that
Kansas has her share of representative
people. The exact number of persons
Geographically sketched is S.602. The
as an address book of the leading Amer
leans of the United States.
Birds of Kansas by Benjamin F.
Eyer Price 1Oc. Published by Crane
& Co., Topeka, Kansas This is the
latest classic in the Twentieth Century
Classics" series, and issued monthly
under the editorial supervision of w NJ.
Davidson. The object of this series is
to furnish special reading of a high or
der for the use of high school teachers.
The first years work is divided into
three groups, viz, History, Literature
and Nature Study. Birds of Kansas
bring the first issued of the nature
study group
Birds of Kansas by Prof. Benjamin
F. Eyer is beneficial supplementary read
ing for both teacher and pupil, for there
are few of US who know the birds of
our own state. This book treats of
their plumage, beaks and claws. where
they build, wings and tails, warbling
and wooing, in the nest, etc, naming
each bird and all about him. The pub
fishers and the editor are to be con-
graduated upon this useful and instruc-
tive series of classics.