The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-08
BOOK NOTES.
Various Items About Books Which
Are Attracting Attention.

Are Attracting Attention.
THE Upper Currents by Rev. ]. r.
Miller, d. D, has Just been published
by Thomas Y. Crowen & Co., New
York. This new book by DR.. Miller is
full of cheerful philosophy and words
of inspiration. The chapters contain
straightforward lessons intended to in
cite TO Drawer, stronger, truer living.
We live well only when down here on
earthly levels we catch the breath of
heaven and are impelled toward things
that are worth while. To be moved
only by the lower earthlyscurrents is to
miss all that is best in life.
Ernest Hamlin Abbott, son of DR..
Lyman Abbott, and one of the editorial
staff of the outlook, recently made
tour of several months investigating
the conditions of the religious life of the
people in many states. The results of
his observation gained by conversations
and interviews with men and ministers
OF all denominations. and men of no
religious faith are to be published in
book form by the Outlook company
early in November, with the title 'Reli-
gious Life in America" The personal
experiences of the author and the varied
circumstances of the different commune
readable quality. apart from the deep
interest of the subject matter.
Magazine publishers estimate the
taking quality" of a story or series of
stories largely by the number of letters
from subscribers which it's publication
brings. In this point of view, the
Emmy Lou" stories, recently brought
out in book form, had a remaIk able
magazine career in McClure's, for al
most every one of them was followed
by a flood of letters both to the maya
zine and to the author Naturally, the
Iatter'S pen name George Madden Mar
tin. led her readers to suppose that she
was a man, and many of her CORE
spondents asked where she got her
knowledge of schoolgirl life, not a few
guessing that she was a public school
teacher A curious feature of the cor
respondence was that the great ma
jOTity Of the letters were from men, In
the collection are several so badly writ
ten and misspelled as to arouse surprise
that the writer's should read the maya
zines. A number of them were from
mines and ranches in remote parts OF
the west One came from physician
in Alaska, and one from an army Off
Ger in the Philippines The author OF
Emmy Lou is Mrs. Atwood r. Mar
tin of Louisville, KY, but her pen name
is not a pseudonyfn, as people generally
believe since it has became known that
she is a woman, but her actual name.
Nothing in American history has had
a more profound effect upon the future
of the country than the expedition
headed by Aeriwether Lewis and Will
liam Clark, which left St. Louis in 1904,
passed up to the Missouri and over the
mountains to the headwaters of the
Columbia and thence to the Pacific
coast, returning overland in 1906. This
magnificent conception of President JEFF
ferson has been seized upon by Mrs.
Eva Emery Dye of Oregon, as the back
bone of book of fiction to be publish
ed November L by a c. McClurg &
Co., under the title of THE Conquest"
A recent issue of the Philadelphia
/ North American contained the following
news story which wifi be Of interest to
novel readers: Hearts Courag eous,'' is
to be dramatized. With that end Halle
Erminie Rives came to this city yes
terday and met Han Game at the Hotel
Walton, where the two discussed the
dramatic merit of the work. While
nothing definite was arrived at, the plot
of Hearts Courag eous" was talked
over and Miss Rives pointed out por-
tons which might be judiciOusly altered
/ by the dramatiSt. The matter will be
finally settled at future meeting in
New York.
Abbie Farwell Browns new book, "A
Pocketful of Posies', Houghton, Milf
! fin & Coz, is a collection of rhymes
which makes a welcome addition to the
/ playful books about children and should
give much of the same pleasure that is
/ found in SteVenson's "Child's Garden of
Verses" Miss Brown has a rare faculty
!
a joyous spirit. The verses, which are
usually short. have the very air of chill
dren's play; they are full of sDrightli-
ness, humOr. and grace, and present
/ in a variety of simple verSe-forms Il
little panorama of ciliid-life through the
changing hours of the day and the
varying seasons of the year The book
/ is attra ctively illustrated by Fanny I.
Cory and printed with marginal COM
ments in red, and title page in two col
orS.
Charles Darwin did not originate the
theory of evolution. He made immense
contributions to it and he pOpulariZed it.
The late Professor John E'isl<e makes
/ this statement as he says. for the
thousandth time. in a remarkable post
humous article published in Harper
/ Magazine for November. under the title
Evolution and the Present Age" In
this paper Professor Fiske Eliminates
! for the readers mind a wonderful pan
oramic view of past ages in their rela
ton to evolution, and emphasizes the
noble position of man in the cosmic de-
velopment. In his capacity for convey
/ ing the deepest scientific truths to the
lay mind Professor Fiske had no super
ior in literature.
In view of the great interest in Polar
exploration at this time The White
World recently issued by Lewis, Serb
ner & Co. of New York has special
timely interest. The book is different
from any other that has been issued on
the subject It contains the personal
narratives of % living Polar explorers
each of whom tells his most thrilling or
Interesting experience in the far north
] Among the contributors to the book are
! Admiral Schley. Walter Wellman. DR.
Frederick A. Cook, Major David T.
Brainard, Amos Bonsal. the only sur
| vivor of the Kane expedition, and Ii
others who have done battle win The
Arctic cold. The book is profusely IL
Illustrated from original photographs and
paintings. The stories abound in ad-
/ venture-clean thrilling and truthful
book an adrnirabl gift for bows