The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-08

is frequently witty and always pic
turescue. The work is sumptuously
brought out; the many Illustrations be-
ing photographers and etchings on I'M
perial Japan paper.
The readers of Mr.. F. Marion Craw-
fords new novel entitled Cecilia .
which is to be published this month by
the Macmillan Co, will find a very
strong and interesting book. 1t tells
the story of an ideal friendship between
two Young men of the better class in
society at Rome and in its Roman scenes
reminds US of the best in 'Saracinesca'
by some people considered the au-
thor's best story. The love story, which
is the dominating interest throughout,
is so strange and novel one that many
readers WILL we think, compare it with
Mr.. 1saacs, the authors first and
most popular book. and the one which
very largely contributed to the making
of his reputation. The complicated feel
ings of the lovers involved in the
strange plot are handled with sympathy
and diseernment and Mr. Crawford will
we think. be held to have scored a new
and distinct success in this story.
William Macleod Raine the author of
"A daughter Of Raasay,' published by the
he las knocked about the west a good
deal and looked through Old Man Hard
Lucks specs at intervals during a good
many years. He knows what it is to search
for the soft spot of a saddle for PILLOW
and go 70 steep with the stars Tor a roof
ed over western hills on a broncho to at
tend a ranch dance.
For a dozen years Dodge City was the
rallying point of the knights of the Dor
der There, at one time or other, were
congregated the notorious gun fighters
who made early western history so pic
turesque and so tragic. OF the careers
they had, Col. E. G. Little of Abilene
makes a spirited story in the November
Everybody's. There is an especially thrill
ing description of fight in Dodge City
in which several of the most notable of
these bad men tried to kill one another.
and it is made the subject of a picture by
Frederic Remington
In his volume of Biographical Sketches
Mr.. James Bryce, the author of 1.-The
collection of some very interesting arri-
peared in the leading English journals
Most of the men of whom he writes are
aae9e W te9 i'm "oIa c Ne and ZEN
Among them Mr.. Gladstone, Lord
Beaconsfield. ]. r. Green. E 4 Freeman,
T. H. Green. W. Robertson Smith, Lord
Iddesleigh, Robert Lowe, G. S. Parnell,
Lord Cairns. Sir George Jessel, Cardinal
Manning, Archbishop TAFT. Bishop Fraser,
wick Anthony Trollope. The Macmillan
company Will publish the book this month.
The Anniversary Edition of victor HUI
go's masterpiece, "Notre Dame de Paris,
IN two volumes. Translated by A lang
don Alger; and with over $50 Illustrations
by Beiler, Rossi. and De Myrbach, repro
duced by Guillaume ct Gle. of Paris. to-
gether with fourteen full page illustrations
in color, is among the choice books an
nounced for the holiday season. The pub
1 fishers. H. NJ. Caldwell Co. Boston, by
| exclusive arrangements with Mr.. Daniel
| Frohman, will present every purchaser OF
this edition with reproductions in duo
graph of all of Byron's original photo
| graphs of the play (hrst produced at Da-
| ly's theater, New York, February rs. 1902
/ together with facsimile programme OF
/ the opening night, the one hundredth an
niversary of Victor Hugo's birth. These
| illustrations, suitable for framing, are en-
/ closed IN an envelope.
The new Dooley book will be issued tS
r. II. Russ2lIsaNew York, the latter Fart
Of this month. A glance at the advance
sheets iustifies the opinion that 1t will bC
hailed as the richest installment of Mr.
/ Dooley's wisdom and wit with which the
pubic has yet been RECALLED.