The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-19
BOOK NOTES.

The interest manifested in Buell.
Hampton" indicates that It VIII be
popular novel. The publishers, Forbes
e Co. Boston, report that the advance
orders have exhausted the first large
edition, so that the publication of the
book, announced for April TO, was post
poned until this week. when the sec
ond edition is ready. The author, VIII
lis George Emerson, IS well known
throughout the west for his versatile
ability as orator, lawyer and mine OPP
orator Notwithstanding a busy life he
has found time to write a charming and
mastery story of the west he knows 50
well.
Castle Craneyerow." the new novel
upon which Mr.. George Barr Nc
Cutcheon has been working since
'.Graustark was published, has naa
the advantage of many hazards during
it's composition. and if onens count for
anything, it should be a success One
interesting fact in connection with the
book is that the Stenograp her who Is
doing Mr.. McCutcheon's typewriting
copied the manuscripts of Alice of Old
Vincennes," by the late Maurice
Thompson, and The Prince of India,
BY General Lew Wallace The book
will be published by Herbert s. Stone
& Co, Chicago.
1t is interesting to note an increasing
tendency to stem the overwhelming
flood of popular novels and sensational
editions. Some OF the leading publish
ers' devote only the smaller proportion
of their spring announcements to fic-
ton. On the list of A. c. McClurg &
Co., for example, are promised a new
edition of Prof. Baldwin's invaluable
Book Lover a book on Right Read
ing a collection of essays by William
Morton Payne, volume of The
Worlds Greatest Short Stories, and a
selection of Helpful Thoughts" from
Marcus Aurelius. The first two and the
last of these are to be printed at the
Merrymount press, in d unique style,
appropriate in their character, and at
tractive to the lover of beautiful books.
They are to be small in size, daintily
bound. and are printed from new
font of type used only at the Merry
mount press.
DR. W S. Rafnsford. the famous rec
tor of st. Georges. in New York, is the
author of a volume entitled 1.-THE Rea-
onableness OF Faith.' to be published
this spring by Doubleday. Page & CO..
DR.. Teainsford has done about as much
as any man of our time to spread a
practical and courageous Christianity
for these days of the strenuous ideal.
Every visitor to his great church in
Stuyvesant Square is impressed by the
number of men to be seen there and by
the wide social range of the congTega-
ton. You may find yourself sitting
next to a. washerwonan with a shawl
over her head or next to q famous fin
ancier,'' remarked one lady. The re-
1narkabIe organization which he has
built up and the far-reaching effects of
his work among the poor are often
pointed out as the best answer to the
pesslmists who think the church is los
ing ground The present volume is said
to be a fresh-air. tonic volume of talks
upon religious subjects.
The publishers of sTarry Thou TIL
Come" are receiving a number of in
guiries as to the present postoff7ee ad-
dress of the author, DR. George Croly.
They have adopted this stereotpyed an
swer. we have no doubt as to the
present abode of DR.. Croly, as he was a
good man: but the United States postal
authorities have no facilities for send
ing letters thither."
Funk & Wagnalls company have in
prepare ton a novel of western life. by
Frances McEIrath, founded on the rust
Ter war" in Wyoming a few years ago.
The title is THE Rustler'' and the plot
is said to contain many dramatic situa-
tions, and a character study of rare
psychological insight.
In the orders which Nessrs. Herbert s.
Stone < Co. have received for Mr. Chat
-Tayior's novel. The Crimson
Wing" the book has been baptized with
many titles. A few Of the names it has
acquired are: The Red Wing, The Scar
let Feather The Crimson Feather. The
Red Feather. Two Crimson Wings, I'm
der the Crimson Wing, and The Red
Plume.
In his latest book. on Commonwealth
or Empire published last week by the