The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25
BOOK NOTES.

BOOK NOTES.
Although only in it's fourth year. the
first edition of Mr. Seton's first animal
book, wild Animals I have Known,
is already in requisition by collectors.
Advertisements for copies in good con-
dition have been appearing at frequent
intervals in the Publishers Weekly
and other similar journals for months
past, and the price has advanced from
81 last autumn TO $40 now. The first
edition of this book consisted of only
5000 copies. 1t has had fourteen print
ings since. and is now in it's one hun
bred and fifth thousand.
The Scribners announce for February
publication an altogether novel and
fascinating book of stories with the
suggestive title of "Melomaniacs." 1t is
by James Huneker, author of Chopin,
and 'Mezzotints in Modern Music" and
it deals with certain phases of music
and literature in wholly original and
rather startling way. The book is, In
fact, collection of fantastic and ironic
tales in which sentimental and conven-
tional notions of music and musicians
are upset. The heroes of modern Gull
ture, Wagner, Ibsen, Chopin, Schopen-
hauer, NietZSche and Richard Strauss,
book is a satire upon the symbolist
movement and artistic and literary
Bohemia, the seamy side of which is
mercilessly set forth
While Rear Admiral Walker, at the
head of the Nicaraguan commission, is
advocating the Nicaragua route in
preference to the Panama project, his
son, Lieut.. Jam es G. Walker, is pre-
pairing strong contribution to the
literature of the subject. Lieut.. Walker
had charge of the Nicaragua survey in
1898, and is now preparing an account
of his trip that is likely to be most
authoritative information now avail
able. It is written with all the exact
ness of the civil engineers point of
view, but in the delightful narrative
style of the accomplished traveller. New
maps and number of photographs
complete the attractiveness and i'm
portance of a volume that will doubt
less be most favorably received at the
present time 1t is announced for early
publication by A. G. McClurg & Co.,
under the title of Ocean to Ocean"
In the early spring, Mcclure, Phillips
& Co. will publish in book William AL
len Whites Political Portraits" The
book will contain the studies of Roose-
welt, Croker, Cleveland, Platt, and all
the rest of those masterfully trenchant
sketches which have made the authors
name known throughout the country
wide.
The spring announcements of A. G: Mo
Clurg g. Co. give every indication of being
The complete list includes five books of
fiction, three of travel, volume of ma
Iure SIuQ1SS ana SIX WOGkS OF literary III
terest-ffteen titles in all. Six of these will
be illustrated. The most notable on the
9 bra fr OF 5fv tb etT a Of
Viking days. Left the Lucky" being that
listed WIZ he N b6os IS BY youn
writer of northern descent, Miss Ottilie
r. Who Ply inherlfanede ana ND l4h h
task she has set herself. Her story is an
rative Itself and the atmosphere she has
given it The unusual strength of this book
ilustrations in color. from paintings by
Troy and Margaret Kinney and other dec
Keeping. with the time and manner Of the
Of HoRo 3S BY A. Hinkson which dch
each others pistols at u PAGES as regu-
lar morning diversion. The cover design
cord with the spirit of the book and win
attract much attention.
The death of Mrs. Ed. Gillespie. great
granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin, has
brance, published by J. ?. Ippincott Go.
Gillespie has brought together the recol-
lections of a long and useful life-recollec-
of her famous ancestor, to entertainment
at the hands of royal personages abroad.
been known on both sides of the Atlantic
for many years, and the story Of her life
is one of the most vivacious and informing
of contemporaneous photographs. The
sale of the volume. which has been steady
from the day of publication, has largely
Increased since the beginning of autumn.
Fresh attention is called to the novels
of Samuel Richardson by a unique edition
issued in this country by j. B. Lippincott
Co, in conjunction with Chapman & Hall
of London. There are 20 small crown octa-
vo volumes in the edition. which includes
the three novels, Pamela" "Clarissa H lar
edition Will be enriched with rs illustra-
tions, these REPRODUCED from engravings
Iax mr. nov
and a portrait of Richardson. The 'front.'
ispieces are reproduced in photogravure.
Ethel M. M. McKenna contributes an in
works to the first volume Of the series.