The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-26
BOOK NOTES.

1.-THE Aztec God,'' and other dramas
by Geo. Lansing Raymond, comprises
the three dramas. 1.-THE Aztec God"
Columbus and Cecil the Seer" The
scene Of the Aztec Cod is laid Ia
Mexico near the opening of the Fiji
teenth century, just when the Aztecs
were beginning to overrun the country,
and their peculiar forms of religion are
especially well portrayed during the
course of the drama The drama Col
umbus,' is intended to be a study, psy-
chologic rather than historic, though
not unhistoric Of the character of Col
umbus, as manifested and developed in
connection with his experiences before.
during. and after his discovery of Amer
lea The drama OF Cecil the Seer"
however, endeavors to solve one of the
most important of human problems, the
relations that exist between form. ami
spirit. Published by G. p. Putnam s
Sons.
tuberculosis is a social as well as a
medical problem, and offers many as
poets for careful study These have
been considered under different headings
and in many different volumes, but this
late work Of Alfred HELLER, 3. A. n
D., G. NJ, tuberculosis, its nature,
prevention and treatment, is devoted to
the subject as a whole. For this reason
this concise manual, dealing with all the
ume, will form a work of reference of
some interest and value to practitioners
of medicine and medical students. PUB
lished by Cassen & Co. Kellam Book &
Stationery Co.
The object of .'AToore's Meteorological
Almanac and Weather Guide" pub
lished by Rand AGcNally g. Co, win be
to present in concise form such weather
data and facts relative to meteorological
phenomena as will be at once interest
ing and profitable to the farmer, mer-
chant, teacher. student. etc, and an eff
fort will be made to correct many pop
uIar but erroneous Impressions. relative
to climate and weather.
A new edition of the Manual Of
Chemistry for students of medicine has
lately been issued by CasseIl & Co. This
work "A Manual of Chemistry" inor-
ganic and organic, with an Introduction
to the study of chemistry, by Arthur
P. Luff, NJ D., and Frederic JAS NJ
Page, B. Sc, 10 very complete and illus
trated with 40 engravings. This revised
edition comprises such new facts and
methods as the ever increasing progress
of the science has rendered necessary.
Kellam Book and Stationery Co.
Miss Anna Mack, who has already
shown herself possessed of a most dis
eliminating literary taste, as well as a
profound acquaintance with the master
pieces of the poetry Of our language.
by her remarkably popular collection of
love poems; the widely known Because
Love YOU" has now shown her talent
in an even more noble and sympathetic
way by compiling an almost faultlessly
complete and well chosen collection Of
poems of comfort and hope, happily
named from a quotation, Heavens Dis
tant Lamps" The contents are arranged
in thirteen sections, each prefaced by a
short quotation, and it would be very
difficult to find a nobler set of authors,
or a worthier selection of extracts from
their verse, and such an anthology OF
comfort. hope and trust. isseldom found.
Published by Lee & Shepard. Through
Kellam Book and Stationery Co.
on the editorial page of the New York
sun there are to be found regularly
peculiar perpendicuIarly elongated
verses. the text of which Is some do
nestle news item or cable dispatch
They are the work of william J. Lamp
ton. who calls them "Yawps," and by
him they are regarded as the