The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-08
BOOK NOTES.

bUUh NUlESs
w. t.. stead's book. ..rhe Americaniza-
lished by Horace Marley Of New
interest IN this hsfe work 1 in Fe Aeri eai as o
there should be, for it touches a subject
years of every thinking man. The fact
that the book is by an. Englishman adds
S: Keyser of Philadelphias in writing to
Mr. Stead. said: Your book marks an
reading of Carlyle's French Revolution
ea1ggs of e. GTass accept as Il
as the most valuable piece of work for our
are now living. poiiticaiiy and Socially. It
seems, impossible that such a work could
1t could not have been written by an
American; We have still no one here with
the knowledge and the prophetic foresight
to have written this work.
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The March Country Life in America"
added pages, offers profusion. OF superb
pictures relating a to all sorts Of wild and
month, Is, the New England Garden
Italian and Japanese architecturee Other
leading articles are: The Sugar Brush"
ing; THE Animals Of the Farms a bit of
fsrm sRd ana SarRss ae By s
eral really notable features are by experts
pugmors eontrbufes i The Life ao Of the
Trap e9 with PhS ,t OF , one e;
dogs aRd N6od
es3rra-shots Of big game by 4. G.. Wailihan;
the and series Of beanGf Of
photographs of flying fish-hawks are the
Wag within eyw feet of tSer n
most inaccessible nesting sites.
=
to the world SO freely of her rich person
atty through her p4enS and Lectures ana
oyents for fbe mctn Of heg
sex, is the subject of an admirable illus
trated article in the New England Maya
zine for March.
Messrs Houghton, Mifflin & Co. an
ed edon 6f 90 Copies Of
James Russell Lowens essay "Democra-
thor as an inaugural address on assum-
ing the presidency of the Birmingham and
toward the close of his term as Americas
amba ssador to the court of ST. James. 1t
printed for the first time in adequate
single volume edition. The style is similar
ship which met with such marked APP
prevail last spring. The essay is prefaced
with an Introductory note by the late Hor-
ace E. Scudder.
Messrs. A. C. MeClurg & Co. announce
that a fourth volume is. to be added to
their successful Southern Sketches SER
les this spring. Previous volumes were de-
voted to Georgia. Tennessee and South
Carolina, and in the new work DR.. Sam
uel Minturn Peck has described the peo-
pie of Alabama through the medium of
collection of short stories. DIR. Peck is a
native of the state and should be able to
handle the local color with considerable
deftneSS
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''Fogg's Ferry" a novel by c. E. Gala
han, from his drama by the same name
has been brought out by Laird & Lee
of Chicago 1t is like being gladdened by
the unexpected visit of old friend. to
characters and scenes which we enjoyed
so much the stage in the recent past
There is dear old Fogg with his golden
heart and his weaknesses. Mrs. FOgg, his
stronger half, ill-tempered and vulgar:
there is Chip, the sweet wild flower, in all
her sylvan freshness and vigor. There are
her lovers, three. the black villain, the
white Gerald-excuse the pun-and Will
liam the Silent, not of the house of Orange
but-Still. Yes. that old ferryboat and its
somehow, and all who saw the play will
be glad to be able to review the sweet
story once more at their leisure; while
those who were not fortunate will be
charmed by it's original traits and true
ness to life-331 pages, illustrated.
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The most incisive and most keenly ana
lytical sketches of public men which have
been prepared during the past two years
have been those of William Allen White.
White and Mr.. Thomas c. Platt is still
fresh in the public. memory. Mr.. Whites
sketch for March appears in The CoSmo-
politan and is on the late President Har-
by both the opponents and friends of that
statesman.