The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-13
BOOK NOTES.

The commanding note which compels
attention to George Meredith's voice is
the high and serious purpose which
rings through his lines. This quality is
with Other Poems which the Serib-
ners are about to publish.
T. Y. Crowell & Co. have in prepara-
ton a new series. entitled Pioneer
Towns of America" The purpose of the
publishers in presenting a series of
Towns" of our country is to give the
local history of the early settlen ents in
the United States.
Kate Douglas Wiggin will have a
short serial in the May, June and July
numbers of Scribner's entitled The
Diary Of a Goose Girl This is one of
Mrs Virgins most humorous conceits,
and narrates the adventures of a
charming American girl while in hiding
from persistent lover.
1.-THE Indian Territory-Its Status.
Development, and Future is the sub
April Review of Reviews. contributed
by Col. Richard J. Hinton. The work of
the Dawes commission. for the allot
ment of lands to the Indians in sew
crafty, is fully described and the results
analysed and tabulated.
The 200 librarians of the state of New
York have been voting on the books of
the year 1900 best adapted to library
use. Ernest Seton Thompson "Biog-
raphy of a Grizzly stands second on
voted on, and seven other books pub
lished last year by the Century COM
pany are among the approved half
hundred.
Dodd. Meade & Co. announce for
early publication a novel by Prof. ".
H Venable, of Cincinnati, Ohio. 1t
deals with Aaron Burr's audaciOus
scheme of founding an empire in the
southwest for the furtherance of which
the famous Blennerhassett expended
his whole fortune and sacrificed his
beautiful island home in the Ohio river.
Prof Venable is an acknowledged his
torical authority, and IN addition is
acquainted with all that
portion of the country in which the
scene of the story is laid.
Referring to the vote of the New
York state librarians for the best and
most popular so books of 1900, it is in
teresting to note that r. H Russell. the
art publisher, is credited with two
by the inimitable F. Peter
Dunno who by the way, was at last
accounts recuperatfng in Italy from his
attack of typhoid; and the English
translation of Edmond Rostand's
Providing substitutes for the saloon
seems now a method of fighting the
alcoholic evil approved by intelligent
refcrmers along that line. This is the
keynote struck in Raymond Calkins'
Substitutes for the Saloon soon to be
published by AIessrs. Houghton, Mifflin &
Co. The book analyses the elements of
power in the saloon its numbers. at
fractions, and practical social service;
and sets over against these the work Of
by means of settlements,
lunch rooms. coffee houses, reading
rooms and other social factors in the
life of the thickly populated districts Of
large cities A number of prominent
abor leaders have contributed to the
work their opinions on the saloon, and
diagrams. charts and special chapters
Indicate the number and attraction of
the saloons and the settlements, clubs
and other measures opposed to them, in
fifteen large cities of this country. Dis
-illers, brewers and the liquor interest
generally will find in the book much to
inform them, while temperance reform
ers win find it a mine of valuable sug-
yestion-