The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-05


Gus Authors by Charles Morris. has
Just been issued in new edition by ].
B. Lippfncott Company The selections
by the well-known editor occupy four
volumes, appropriately bound in cloth.
From the same editorial hands has just
issued new edition of Half Hours
With the Best American Authors in
four volumes.
Mr.. Jack London's new novel. 1.-The
Call of the Wild" has gone promptly
into its third large edition in this coun-
try. Its readers seem specially interest
ed in the colored illustra tons, which are
reproduced by a new process never be-
fore used for Illustrating a book. and
which are decorative and imaginative,
and yet somehow appropriate for sin
I gularly realistic story. 1t ranks second
on the lists Of best selling books for re-
cent weeks, being surpassed only by
THE Mettle of the Pasture"
1 Henry Z. Krehbiel, the we'll known
musical critic of The New York Trib-
une, contributes an illustrated article to
the September Booklovers Magazine on
the evolution Of the pianoforte and its
music. An analysis of many programs
adopted by the pianists of toCay has
convinced him that too little attention
/ is given to the music of the century or
two before Bach-the period of virginia.
and clavecin, Of clavfchord and harpS1-
chord-and he urges a consideration OF
those early compositions upon all mu-
steal students and pianists
! Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hail. and
John Errnine of the Yellowstone are
among the recent novels which have
been dramatized, and which will APP
pear on the stage this fall. Miss Bertha
Galland Is to star as Dorothy in the
play made from Mr. Charles Majors
book. while Mr.. James K Hackett is TO
play the title role in Mr.. Frederic REM
| ington's story. A more picturesque
hero than Mr.. Remington's could hard
/ " be thought of. But will the play end
the same way as the novel? This seems
very doubtful; and, indeed, the tragic
ending of the novel does not seem nee
essary.
! Bruno Lessing's volume of stories,
Children of Men" will be published
by Mcclure, Phillips & Co. early in Sep
/ TENDER. Mr. Leasing writes OF New
York's Ghetto. He knows the life be-
cause he has lived it: he knows the peo-
pie because he has been one of them.
and these are the facts that give his
book more than ordinary value. He
shows how the people live. what they
suffer. what they enjoy, the passions
that rule them, by vivid transcripts in
story form from real life The tales are
strong-many are grim, but not a few
the humorous. The author writes with
great directneSs and sincerity. which
gives his stories an unusual atmosphere
of reality. and leaves the reader con-
WINGED that the picture is a true one.
Birds in Their Relations to Man"
the illustrated volume by Clarence NJ.
Weed and Ned Dearborn, which J. Is.
Lippincott Company have just publish
ed, will appeal with special interest to
the great army of bird-lovers who de-
sire to see birds encouraged and pro-
tected. 1t should also appeal to the
sportsman because of its discussion of
the principles of game protection, and
to the horticulturist and agriculturist
because of its scientific review of those
birds which are helpful, and those
which are injurious to growing crops
and fruit. 1t is an economic textbook
in its usefulness and yet written in a
style to encourage popular attention
The American Book company has just
published Horne and Scobey's Stories
of Great Artists" BY Olive Browne
Horne and Kathrine Lois Scobey. The
hook is intended for third reader grade
1t offers stories of the lives of great ar
lists, which will make a delightful and
valuable addition to the ordinary course
Of study. The authors, finding no ma
teria1 of such a character available for
school use. prepared these sketches.
The novelty of the subject-matter will
appeal to teachers as we'll as to pupils.
and will lead to further study of the
lives and works of these great-minded
and supplemented men, A specially
noteworthy feature Of the book is its
numerous attractive and artistic repro
auctions of the best paintings of all
times
At a time when the name Of Carlyle
is being dragged in the mud by his de-
tractors. It is refreshing to come across
Ruskin's testimony in one of the de-
lightful letters which he wrote to Mary
Gladstone. THE death Of Carlyle" he
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lieve, not an end. but beginning OF his
life. Nay, perhaps. also Of mine. Ny
remorse, every day he lived, for not
having enough loved him in the days
gone by is not greater now. but less. in
the hope that he knows what I am feel
ing about him at this-and all other
moments" II seems that in England.
where the Letters Of John Ruskin to NJ
published. only few copies are now
available, and the book is likely to be-
come scarce.
Rev Lyman Abbott. whose biography
Of Henry Ward Beecher" will appear
in the early autumn. received the degree
OF D d. at Yale last month. He was
also honored with an invitation to
luncheon at President RooSevelt's sum-
mer home Mr.. Bliss Perry editor Of
the Atlantic and author of "A Study of
Prose Fiction" delivered the commence
ment grafton at Smith college. Mrs.
harriet EFeScOtt SpOnOrd. the We'll
known poet and novelist. is spending the
season in London. it being her first visit
there Miss Florence Converse, author
Of The Burden OF Christopher receiv-
ed the degree of A NJ. this year from
Wellesley college. of which she is a
graduate She has Just finished a new
novel Of the days of Chaucer, entitled
Long WILL which will be published in
October Mr.. Will Payne of Chicago.
whose new novel Mr.. Salt is now IN
preparation for early publication. has
spent the summer on the Maine coast.
Mr.. Henry d. Sedgwick. Jr., has Just
returned from Capri. italy. where he