The Topeka state journal., 1901-04-18
BOOK NOTES.


Longmans, Green & Co. of New York
have just published a new book by H
Rider Haggard. It is called Lysbeth and
it is a thrilling story of the sixteenth
century, when men killed and tortured
one another with so little compunction.
The scene is laid in the city Of Leycen
in 1914. The country is in the cruel hands
of the GSpaniards.
Lysbeth, the heroine. Is beautiful
enough and unfortunate enough to at
tract the attention of Montalvo. a Span-
ish grandee in high power at I1syden.
These are the days of the Inquisiti0n
The Inhabitants of the Netherlands are
for the most part hereticS subject to
capture and cruel execution.
MOntalvo has in his employ q sort of
witch. Black Meg by name, and con-
hrmcd hereto hunter by nature Black
Meg runs down a wretched half-Witted'
hereto woman She IS held 4 captive
upon the ice by soldiers, while Mon
talvo is sent for BY a trick the Span
lard manages to get Lysbeth to ac-
A hole has been cut in the ice through
which the Wretched hereto is to be
thrust upon her conviction, the prisons
being full to overlooking and life too
cheap to waste much time upon
Lysbeth loves a young burgher, her
cousin. Montalvo finds proof. or makes
it, that he is a hereto. The heroine
has already seen with her own eyes
the SORT OF IaLG L0aL awaits LDOSG VINO
do not profess the proper faith Again
Monialvo exacts a price from her He
spares the life of the burgher on con
dition that Lysbeth marries him, Mon
talvO.
In accepting him Lysbeth utters a
curse against the Spaniard. The curse
works, and, after many thrilling deeds
have been done and much blood spilled.
matters are adjusted as well as they
can be.
Poor Boys Chances by John Hab-
berton, author of 'Helen's Babies"
edges 280 pages. 1876 illustrations, 80
cents. Henry Altemus Co., Cherry
street, Philadelphia, Pa In this oppor-
tune volume Mr.. HabbertOn tells mod
ern boys that there is neither sense nor
truth in the oft-heard complaint that
nowadays there are not any great
transformed many poor boys into sue
cessful men. He does this by describ-
ing the experiences of twenty American
boys of former generations, all of them
their companions thought unusual.
Yet who, by unaided effort,
rose to eminence and fame
The choice of names is admirable. Ben
Franklin and Lincoln, Washington ard
Grant, Edison and Astor, Girard and
Peabody. Hamilton and Peter Cooper,
Jay Gould and Horace Mann Garfield
and Whitney are here. Commodore Van
and the others, were poor and unfriend-
ed at the start but they made themselves
masters of their fate; and what boys
have done boys may do"
Among Dodd, Mead & Company's New
York, announcements of publications
for the spring we note the following:Tha
first volume of George Saintsburys
History Of Criticism the third and
fourth volumes Of Augustus J. c. Hares
autobiography; a tribute to Queen Vic
toria by Marie CorelH, entitled, 'The
Passing of the Great Queen" an inter
esting volume by Arthur Bartlett Maui
rice editor of The Bookman, devoted to
New York in Fiction" volume of po--
ems by Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler,
Loves Argument new edition, in
cheaper form, of the Love Letters OF
Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Tenn
ple;" Frederick Wedmore's quarto on
Turner and Ruskin;'' the Journal OF
Hugh Gaine," edited by Paul Leicester
Ford; a new volume by NJ. Maeterlinck,
'HTbe Life of the Bee Miss H. A. Guer-
ber's "Empresses of France Masters
of Music by Anna Alice Chapiu,
and Life and Sport on the Pacific
Slope by Horace Annesley Vachell.
In the list of fiction there are ag some
tions Of Henry by jerome K. Jerome:
a revised edition Of ..Etidorhpa.' BY John
Uri Lloyd. the author of .Strlngtown on
the Pike PRO Patriai; by Max n x, Pempe
NJ Douglas: THE Fanatics,'' by Paul
Dunbar: Every Inch a King
by Josephine Caroline Sawyer; John
Charity by Horace Annesley Tachen: |
According to Plato. by Frankfort |
Moore. The Crows Nest" by Mrs Ever
ard Cotes (Sara jeanette Duncan; and |
THE Way of Belinda, by Frances |
Weston Carruth.
Love is a great leveler," remarked !
the Wise Guy. You bet.H agreed the /
Simple Mug, enthusiastically. I've been |
thrown over half a dozen times