The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-16
BOOK NOTES.
Various Items About Books Which
Are Attracting Attention.

Just before his death the late Sir
Walter Besant completed a novel he
had been working on for some time,
entitled No Other Way" The an
the last by this popular author, will be
published in the fall by Dodd, Mead &
Co.
Kate Douglas Virgins latest book,
THE Diary of a Goose Girl" is being
hungrily read and the only regret heard
in connection with it is that it could not
have been longer. But, as the London
Times says, though a small book, it
is simply brimful of humor and of good
humor.
Miss Carrie A. Harper. who co1lab-
GRATED with Beulah Marie Dix in that
charming love story of a young beau of
the eighteenth century. THE Beau's
Comedy" is a Boston girl. She has
been a writer of special articles for
of a short study on Arthurian material
which has won recognition from foreign
scholars.
Hanfit w. Mabie's book. Under
the Trees" is being issued in a hand
some holiday edition by Dodd. Mead &
Co. The volume will be beautifully
printed and bound. and will contain
number of striking photogravure Illus
trations from drawings by Charles
Louis Hinton. 1t should prove a most
desirable gift book for the intelligent
reader.
1.-THE Boys and Girls Bookshelf is
the title of a new series of illustrated
limo. volumes by popular Juvenile au-
thors just issued by Little. Brown &
Co. in uniform cloth bindings at 81
each There are thirty volumes in the
series including stories by Louisa NJ.
Alcott, Susan Coolidge. Mrs Ewing,
Laura Richards, Mary P. Wells Smith,
Louise Chandler Moulton, Robert Louis
Stevenson, Lily F. Wesselhoeft, A. G.
Jean Ingelow and other writer's.
One of the most popular poets living
today is Will Carleton. who wrote Over
the Hill to the Poorhouse" and those
other ballads full of homely sentiment
and cheering optimism collected under
the title of Farm Ballads. The Harpers
consider Mr.. Cartoons eight volumes of
verse to be among their best literary
properties. They sell steadily from year
to year. and uphold the commercial pos
sibilities of poetry in the face of the
business mans universal doubt And.
Furthermore, the more expensive edition
of Farm Ballads sells the best Mr..
Carleton lives in Brooklyn, and is en-
gagged in editorial work.
A sociological study of the working
people in New York. entitled The
Leaven in a Great City," by Lillian w.
Belts, is announced for publication by
Messrs- Dodd, Mead & Co. The writer,
leaving out of the problem the organf-
cations created for the purpose of deal
ing with the incapable, with the victims
of chronic or acute poverty, tries to
show the influence of the altruists and
the churches on the lives of those who
ask for nothing but the opportunity to
earn their living.
Mr.. Walter E. Perkins. who will play
the quaint star part this coming season
| in the dramatizatioa of Mary E. VIII
kins jerome. a Poor Man." played the
leading part in the well known farce
My Friend from India" and is most
widely known In that connection Mr..
Perkins specially, however, is quaint
character work, and the stage version
| of Jerome has been prepared with q
view to this aptitude. The dramatiza-
| ton is by Carroll Fleming. 1t is the
| first work of Miss wilkins to be dra-
matized for professional use.
| Florence Brooks Whitehouse author OF
Her on Squirrel Island Maine. where she
| is reported to be at work another novel
THE God of Things is in its second edf-
ton
| Sheppard Stevens romance Of the Louis
1 lana Purchase entitled In the Eagles Tai
on had in reality two heroines, and, as
committing bigany- one critic has suggest
| ed that Mr. Stevens write sequel in
1 which the girl who refused the first con-