The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-30
BOOK NOTES.

of poems by Paul Lawrence Dunbar
from the press of Dodd Mead & Co,
New York. 1t is called Candle Lightin'
Time,'' and is made up of nine of the
characteristic tuneful poems by the
well known negro poet. He has no
peers in the realm of negro dialect
verse and his talents never Shone so
brightly in the book just issued.
Dat Ole Mare o. Nine is brim full of
the sentiment which is sometimes found
in the attachment of a negro for his
horse. while "Fishin' - will strike a
responsive chord in the heart of every
one who has ever tried his hand at
angling. when LAS Went to War
is brim full of pathos. 1t tells a quaint
homely story that will bring tears to
the eyes of the reader. "a Spring Time
Wooing," is probably the best poem in
the book. 1t is delicately cast and is
pretty little story beautifully told.
Candle Lightin' Time which is the
last poem in the book will prove never
ending source of pleasure to children
One of the best things about the book
half tones from photographs and they
bring out accurately the features in the
verses Added to this each stanza is
entwined in a wreath of evergreen and
the whole makes one of the most per-
feet books published this season by this
popular firm. Through Moore Book &
Stationery company
Marah Ellis Ryan writes of the Koo-
tenai country in her latest book. '"That
Girl ea Montana a published si by . Band
around whom the story centers, is a
girl of sixteen, who has been forced
by her father, Lee Holly, the most des-
perate man of the northwest, to dis
guise herself as a boy to aid him in his
schemes. After his supposed death, she
esca pes to the tent of friendly Indian
chief, and is impulsively adopted as his
ward by Dan Overton, known as the
squarest man in the country who SCOTS
at the idea of a sentimental culmina-
ton of his guardianship, as he knows
that his wife whom he had married
years before, but who had left him was
still living. With the temperance of
Lee Holly in the camp where Tana dis
covers the lost gold mine and his mys-
FERROUS DEATH of which his daughter is
suspected, the plot begins to unfold
There are a couple of other love cpl
sodes in the book and an element of
comedy, but these are incidental to the
story The opportune death of Mrs. Ov-
erton just after her confession to Tana,
allows a satisfactory conclusion of
readable volume.
Folly in Fairy1and," by Carolyn
Wells, has been published by the Henry
Altemus company, Philadelphia If a
little girl or boy who loves fairies wants
to go to Fairyland, and find out how
they live there, what their houses are
like, and what they do to amuse them
selves just read this book and be trans
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itself. Folly, whose full name was Flor
india, went there. and her adventures
are graphically told. Unlike alice In
Wonderland she didn't meet queer,
unusual creatures. but she visited dear
old Aladdin, Cinderella, and the Queen
of Hearts in their palaces, and piloted
by Puss in Boots, Travelled over the
whole realm and became we'll acqualnt-
ed with the heroes and beroines of
Fairyland in their own homes. Then,
of course, she called on the Three Bears
in their woodland home, and also in
terviewed the Old Woman who Lived in
a. Shoe And you'd never guess, if you
weren't told, that a beautiful princess
who was called s'Scary' for short. was
really Scheherazade. and she told some
of her own marvellous stories for Fol
1y's benefit Folly also went to sea IN
the bowl of the Three Wise Men of
Gotham, and, in short, every we'll
erly helped to make her trip success
And this delightful matter told in Miss
Wells own crisp and original manner,
with frequent interspersions of her
rhythmical, jingly rhymes, goes to
make up the gayest, jolliest child's book
of the season
A pretty juvenile book just published
is Happy Days for Little Folk" by
the Frederick A Stokes company, of
New York. The stories and verses are
by Mabel Humphrey and the color
plates are after watercolors by Fred
erfck NJ. Spiegle. There are also taste
full marginal illustrations. The little
volume cannot fail to be of interest to
all children
Mr.. F. Marion Crawford's new novel,
Marietta A Maid of Venice" pub
Hshed by Macmillan, has run through
four large editions since October %, the
day of it's publication.
A special holiday edition of 1.-THE
Crisis" is being prepared by the Mac
milan company. The frontispiece will
consist of a new portrait of the author
never before published and reproduced
in photogravure-
"a Christmas Carol" by Charles
Dickens. has been published in the
beautiful Remarque edition by the H.
NJ Caldwell company, Boston. This IA
n1iliar story possesses perennial inter
est for young and old, and it never has
been presented in more attractive form.
Whether regarded as a ghost story,
character study, or a parable, the
christmas CAROL is one of the most
brilliant and absorbing tales in English
literature.
ssEIegy and Other Poems" by
Thomas Gray is one of the recent pro-
auctions of the H M. Caldwell COM
pany of Boston, in small handsome,
flexible binding The "E1egy in a
Country Churchyard' occupies as secure
a place among English classics as
Hamlet or Paradise Lost" but some
readers do not realize that several other
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