The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-07

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iToid 81 Two Is described on the tie
author, Mrs. St. Felix, has a popular style
The romance is told by two persons, the
| wife, who leaves her husband in a fiji
| of petulance because he reproaches her
Tor extrayagance; anc the man OF the
| Meeting at Bermuda the result IS an in
sipid filtration, quite harmless and only
rapid manner. Books of this class are
! demoralizing because Of their influence IN
| leSSening refinement of thought and ex-
| preston, and can not fail to lower rather
t tsa1, elevate the taste OF the reaae,r.
written and for that very reason it seems
| a pity that the author does not have q
| higher standard and produce something
/ that would last and that is worth while.
! 1t has been said that a book should be one
/ of two things, either instructive or anus
| ing. and Mrs St Felix in her latest book
1 is evidently aimed at There are more or
\ less data worked in, which che seeking
| amusement slips in reading the story,
and one desiring knowledge would never
read what leads up to these extracts. The
| tone of the book leaves one with a dis
| gusted feeling towards ones self, though
1 II the reader expects anything sensa tional
he will be equally disappointed
Laird & Lee of Chicago announce for
! early in September the first English
translation ever attempted in this coun-
try or abroad of Balzac's dramatic works
These plays, five in number, were written
during the best period of the famed au-
upon prominent Partisan stages The
translator is a F'ranco-American gentle
man Of experience and skill in this sort
Of work. and he has written q preface
giving the full history of each play and
the leading criticisms published at the
time. The full list of titles. which in
cludes every work Balzac ever wrote for
the stage, comprises the following: "Vau-
Giraud," 1.-THE Step Mother and 'Mer-
cadet" These plays are to be issued in
two volumes on fine deckeI edged paper
with Illustrations from the first French
edition. No set of Balzacs works is com
variably included in al the French col
lections OF the great author s master
pieces
Laird & Lee of Chicago have just is
sued in a most dainty form one of the
masterpieces Of the worlds literature, Eel
Spanish poet Of the early fifteenth cen
turv The original test of this exquisite
been reproduced in Spanish with only
such changes as would make it easy read
ing for even a very inexperienced student
of the Castiliian language. Notes and a
vocabulary complete all that concerns this
poem of one hundred stanzas, which has
probably no equal outside OF the Rubai-
vat and here we have the original, not
ssCentflooliio. like FeneIon's Adventures
of TeIenacnus," was especially written
as a book of lofty Drecepts for the edu-
ness of it's examples, the beauty of its
moral exhOrtations. the grace OF its com
PARSONS it excelis the effort of the
teacher Of King Louis XIV's grandson.
real vacuum in liberal education and this
edition, the only one ever attempted with
English notes and lexicon, viii be hailed
with delight by university professors and
as the Spanish-speaking countries Of the
world A clever1y compiled collection Of
Spanish proverbs with English transla-
lions complete this most valuable volume,
printed in two colors and with a unique
printed on special paper, large size, were
presented to the queen regent of Spain.
Ca special edition Of three copies only),
ACCOMPANIED by appropria3ttss letters from. from
editors
top. red borders, Sl9og
Charles Ferguson. whose recent book,
1.-THE Religion Of Democracy, has been
discussed with so much enthusiasm by
critics, and reviewed more extensively
probably than any book during the last
decade has just finished his new book,
COMPANY The book undertakes to show
that Christianity in its broadcast aspect
is simply the attempt to supersede the old
world social order, governed by. economic
necessity and external authority, by a
new world order, governed by the human
ideal-the faith of the affirmative intel
product of historic catholicism It is itself
not local national, but catholic and
world-embrac cling principle 1t is the af-
frnative and creative as distinguished
from the passive and creat5urely attiIqde
Americanisn is to be propaga ted through
all lands by the university, which is the
eliminating form of the spirit. The uni
Versity must cease to be a segregation of
learned and learning men It must go to
confident and competent spirit in every
The book will be bound in cloth and viii
sell for 81 90 net
When Henrik Ibsen celebrated his six
tieth birthday in 1888. his friend. Henrik
Jaeger. wrote the critical biography which
lin Mr. William Morton Payne's English
acknowledgements published eleven years
ago by Messrs- A @. McClurg y Co The
work has for some time been out OF print.
# is The standard F,ngiish work upon its
been
needed. and this the publishers are now
about to supply Mr. Payne has written
for the new edition supplementary
sis 5niavs that Ibsen has produced since
Jaeeger's book was written. This makes
existine IN, Fsnglish-of the life and writ
ings Of the great Norwegian whose career
is now unhappily draw g to a close
1.-THE Girl Montana the latest novel
Marah Ellis Ryan, viii be issued by Rand,
McNally & Co. about September Is. Mrs
than this one, which is full of that subtle
charm that compels 2 sympathetic inter-
that once aroused. is not relinquished un-
til the last page has been read. In That
acters to the western Wilds of Idaho in
the land of the Kooteniah. and there,
beauties Of. nature. one is made acquaint-
ed with people who win admiration for
ern generosity of their natures Montana,
or lana, as she is known TO her friends
tured among the confines Of her beloved
hills. Mrs Ryan is past master in the
art of constructing plots and in bringing
her stories to a logical and satisfying
conclusion. While there are several
threads running through ~Fhat Girl
Montana they are carefully woven to-
gether and form a strong whole in
clever and fascinating story Mrs. Ryan's
charact live. they breathe the air of
life and one lives with them and among
them. sharing their hopes and sorrows
king A1idas''-rhis is the title Of a
novel BY Upton Sinclair which Funk &
Wagna1ls company will publish irs OctO-
Der It is American story, the scene
being laid first in a suburban town near
New York and later in the Adironda cfZs.
Love plays the prominent part through
out the story. and there are many stirring
situations and passages of fervor and po-