The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-02
BOOK NOTES.

When Opfe Read comes here as he
farenf Book 81 II to result than his Texan
study. In the Alamo It has very
pretty little, story, this latest book Of his,
who gave up his ambition to possess a
milk -and-wateT heroine that chung to
Like most Of Reads longer stories, the
gTend ps ess nq the outset e e SEEKS
up the long debated question as to
Hail the victim of only one having him
carry lump OF asnes IN ms breast m
back to him out of the past, free. and
makes him happy i-ucian Howardson
could make him give up his ambition. He
boosted of his strength, because he had
the next morning was in his office as
usual. drawing Indictments Then Zaleme
drifted athwart his path, the citadel of
his heart suffered siege for the second
time in his life and he was beaten for
senator by a dark horse because he left
the battle-ground the night before the vote
was taken to keep tryst with his sweet
porter out on the love trail, he makes
him irresistible and the Quailes Of In the
his great Oddities but pleasing ones at
that Quailes escapes the fate of the
leme IS faithful to an oath that has the
weirdness of the red FIRE order about it.
featured sort is the fault that suggests a
failure in an evidently ambitious attempt.
One of the most surprising successes Of
the year, in a literary way, has been MI
fh onf Pe Within seven weeks from the
date of publication there have been print
over thirty thousand copies. The, pub
fishers seem TO believe in the book, for
the daily papers throughout the coun-
''Our Bird Friends: a Book for All Boys
and Girls, by r. Kearton. T. 4. s, au>
thor of wild Life at Home, = With Ma
ture and Camera etc, with 100 illustra-
tons from photographs by Cherry Kear-
ton, crown svo-, has been published by
'Our Bird Friends is an entertaining
count of the most curious characteristics
birds at home amidst their natural sur
roundings- It deals with the wonders OF
different styles of architecture; eggs, and
the value of their shape. size, color and
young; feeding habits, and remarkable
songs and call notes It contains first
hand observations. and is bright, chatty
and accurate.
Stephen Crane was discovered" by
English readers, and it looks as if a new
American writer in Cranes own field is
to win noteworthy recognition from the
same source The publishers say that a
large edition of Who Goes There, has
been taken up by English readers. This
on the spy's loss of memory-amnesia-
while in the enemy's. camp. The first
American edition was exhausted the day
after its publication by the Macmillan
company.
r. H. Russell has issued an important
work by Captain A T. Mahan, u s. A,
retired. the famous author of THE In
fiuence of Sea Power in History" The
title of this book is 1.-THE War in South
Africa" and It has an introduction by Sir
John Bourinot, K-C.M.G-, LID, Lit D.
clerk of the Canadian house of commons
and ex-president of the Royal society of
Canada This work covers the Boer war
In the mastery fashion to be expected of
Captain Mahan, and treats the subject
from strategical point of view and in
the calm, unprejudiced light which digni-
fies all of Captain Mahan's military writ
ings- It is deliberately illustrated in black
and white and color. with a frontispiece
in color by Frederic Remington. In all
there are Alb illustrations. including Is full
pages of color and "a full pages In black
and white: Remington, de Thulstrup
heuterdahi, Herring. Wenzell and Keeper
do the color work, and all of them to-
gether with Stevens and Methfessel work
In black in white.