The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-14
BOOK NOTES.

iished by the J. B. Lippincott com
pany. OF Boston
BOOK NOTES.
When four years ago L. Frank Baum
wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz's
he builded. perhaps, better than he
knew This modern fairy story at once
became immensely popular, and the
sale keeps increasing from year to wear
SO that il seems safe to predict that the
book will become a classic for children
as indispensable as Robinson Crusoes
and The Arabian Nights This year
the publishers, Bobbs- Merrill company,
have made a new edition of the book
under the title, The New Wizard of
/ Or" The new edition IS larger than the
old. It contains all of Mr. Denslow's
very original and attractive fllustra-
tons. and some new ones besides
In the November number of The At
lantic Monthly. Burton ]. Hendrick of
the New York Evening Post discusses
A Great Municipal Reform The reform
t of which Mr.. HendrIck writes is that
movement for the betterment of the
condition of tenement houses which has
been carried On under the operation Of
the DeForest law Mr.. Hendricks
position as the real estate editor of the
Post gives him an extent and accuracy
/ of Information concerning this subject
which qualities to treat it adequately
His vivid and searching account of the
actual conditions which have existed,
and of the progress for their ameliora-
ton in the last two years, viii be read
with profound attention by all readers
concerned with this most urgent of
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. by those who are
Interested in discovering whether the
new municipal administration in New
York city viii be able to equal the
practical efficiency OF the preceding
one
Anyone who wants TO know why emf
grants from the old world pour into
London's THE People Of the Abyss,
published by the Macmillan company.
and compare It with Mr. Jacob Fiis'
books OF life in the New York Sums
IN London the outlook seems utterly
hopeless. while in New York a man has
a good fighting chance
There is always an under-current of
comment on American social conditions
running in DAVID Graham Phillips
books Last year. with his Golden
Fleece he satirized. good naturedly,
but none the less bftingly and earnestly,
| the matrimonial tradings Of our million
afre -Four Hundred with the English no
| Filffv His new book. The Master
Rogue bears the subtitle, Being the
| Confessions of q Cro=sus- IN II MI
| Phillips has rap at the great American
| fortune in the abstract. shows what II
| comfort, happiness. etc-.-shovs how
much good 1t is when it IS finally ac-
CURED. By unscrupulous methods he gets
| his millions, and they bring him son
| who is forger. a wife VINO mates nlIn.
daughter who faunts and despises him,
the distrust of his business associates,
[ the snubbings from his social acqua1nt-
| ances. MI Phillips book shows wildly
/ the rlfres through which the chase OF
/ the almighty dollar may lead
+ THE Worth of Words" by DR.. Ralcy
Hustled Bell, has rapidly passed through
/ two editions and is now in the tnlrd
I which has been carefully enlarged and
] revised by the author. Dr Bell aa7
: treated the subject in a new and sim
pie manner and after his own peculiar
style. which is never dry or wearfsoTIle-
! For il IS touched, here and there. Win
glowing hun1or, deft strokes Of sarcasm
ana lighted with flashes of wit; all or
+ which sustains interest," in a subject US
ually too heavy for enjoyable readIhg
+ The book will be found useful to all
who would speak and write good Eng
I Iish: the editor, lawyer doctor, man or
affairs student in art or science or d.
votee of fashiona bic society The ar
rangerent of subject matter IN pftny
+ paragraphs of alpha beticaI sequence
and with marginal notes, makes II very
handy as a ready reference book Dr.
+ Bell is well known as poet in literary
! circles. and stands high in the profes-
T sion of medicine as a writer ana ealtoE'
/ while as a Fellow Of the American Geo
era phica1 society and member OF other
scientific associa tons he IS equally well
known. The book is published by HInds
& Noble, Of New York
/ Probably No cover was ever put on q
work Of fiction that received 50 mucu IA
vora bic comment as has the cover OF Il ne
/ Fortunes Of Fiji" Molly Elliot SeaWeli
/ new novel The artists that devote tneIr
+ time 10 this branch Of bookmaking are lit
/ tie known to the public. though tner
work PLAYS an Important part in Hodern
publishing Margaret Arustrongs VINO de-
signed THE Fortunes of Fiji cover
stands at the head of her profession N
( tF7is country Her work is in such de-
I rsrd that in order TO secure her services
i commissions must be placed with her
/ many months in advance IN rsvlewlng
/ TIE Fortunes Of Fin praclleaiiy evers
as artistic. decorative and appropriate.
I Vet Il is safe to say that but few of these
reviewers ever heard Of Margaret Arm
] strong as a cover designer.
/ Mcclure, Philips & Co. announce the
Issue of the eighth volume Of their Com
plete Works Of William Hazlitt' on Sep
/ fersber i. This is a library edition the
first that IS absolutely complete. printed
BY Dent of London, from type. limited to
+ $50 sets in America It VIII be IN twelve
volumes
Marion Harlands new cook book has
I just been published by the Bobbs Merrill
+ compauy. Il IS difficult to review cook
book but the difference between Marion
Harland's recipes and those Of other Gull
mary writer's is that most Of them are