The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-29
BOOK NOTES.

Mcclure, Phillips & Co.. of New York,
novel by Stewart Edward White. This is
essentially .s;s an American novel dealing
lumber-jack of the northern forests.
Thorpe, a green 'landlooker.' establishes
his claim to a. valuable tract of timber
for his rights against a powerful and en-
croasehing lumber corporation. The life
perience, for Mr.. White has been brought
which he writes Interviewer with the vi
rile story of the woodland campaign is a
first meeting with the dream girl'' in the
forest is an exquisite bit of description.
which compare 1pM l FOR yividness ana nd vigor
with, the account of the log jam and its
hat in the face of DEATH and went down
with most of his. gang in the cataract of
by Thomas Fogarty. The price is $3.50
1.-THE Madness q Philip" is a pretty lit
& Go. The author, is Josephine Dodge
magazines. These stories Of childhood
have appeared in McClure's Magazine,
popularity. Philip. the demon-ridden: Ed
gar. the choir boy, uncelestial; Ardelia.
Already: the Three Pirates; Dicky. and
the others are as genuinee, ,. as they are
ana Of Little hf God ans
Dicky," and the naive humor of "A Study
widely diverse but equally characteristic
types Of her work. The book is illustrated
Paul Lawrence banhp51r, the negro poet
There is a new Richmond in the field in
the perge 9s ST James a p Corrothers His
published by Funk & Wagnalls, New York.
1t is made up of a series of delightful ne
mark the author as a young man of gen
Jus and versatility. Chicago has been
meeting ground of every type of American
negro and .everp base of his social life.
rather as he is viewed from the stand
point of an observer who is essentially
humorist. The SHORTCOMINGS of the negro
Many ", Of the stories are new and original
although half white himself, and having
his negro blood tinged with Indian, writes
Which has appeared appear ii in IN The Century and
other high class publications, and the best
Club he expresses in perfection the emo
lions of his people.
"dow to Get Acquainted With Cod" the
meaning of the Christian Science move
the ii press of Funk & Wagnais co. This
new book is by the author of Spiritual
which Excited much interest among the
advocates of advanced spiritual thought.
work treats of the laws of the Divine
Immanence. or God with U.s." His answer
quainted with God p is ''By becoming ac-
quainted with love- Only through the
manifestation of love toward our fellow
men we understand the ways of Gods
love toward us.
Mr.. Hamilton W. Mabie, writing on Ste
phen Phillips work in the Outlook last
week, says that Ulysses inevitably re-
calls one of the greatest poets of the world
and poetic manner at once noble, sim
pie, and touched with the breadth and dig
nifty of the classical epic
The following is from the London Spec
tator:
Mr. Kidd in his principles of Western
Civilization is nothing if not the founder
of something like a new school He claims
that the true meaning of evolution has
not really been apprehended before, least
of all by many who embraced it most eag-
erly. 1t was the misfortune. he points out
of Darwin to have for his foremost proph-
cts Huxley and Herbert Spencer, who be-
longed essentially to the pre-Darwinian
period of knowledge. and never thoroughly
shook off their preconceptions. Darwin
himself, Wallace. WeisSman, Romanes.
We're far in advance of them. What. then,
winiSm which is so fruitful and important?
What is the dividing line between the old
and the new thinkers? Mr.. Kidd states
thus: when we look at the statement of
it. it may be perceived on reflection that
there is a consequence involved in it which
is not at first sight apparent. 1t is evil
dent that the very essence of the principle
it produces the most effective results. The
qualities in favor of which ii must in the
long consistently discriminate are
those which most effectua1y subSerVe the
ma jority in the processes of life can never
be in the present. 1t is always of necessity
the majority which constitutes the long
roll of the yet unborn generations