The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-17

Tor thought TO many.
The November Century will contain
the first published account of the diff
culties and dangers being successfully
overcome in the construction of the
Hudson river tunnel One of the most
puzzling problems confronting modern
engineering skill has been the necessity
of tunneling not under but through
water. How the problem was solved
and at what risks and cost will be the
subject of H. Arlington Bruce's Fight
ing the Hudson" Work is going on also
on twin tunnel. Immediately to the
south of the first. This second tunnel
runs parallel to it's mate both entering
the river at the foot of Fifteenth street
in Jersey City and emerging at the foot
of Morton street in New York, between
the piers of two steamship companies
1t is thought that within a year both
may be available for the purpose for
which they are being built-trolley car
transit between Jersey City and New
York.
Mr.. J. L. LIE B. Hammond's Charles
James Fox" published by James Pot
& Co, New York, is a political study of
Fox and of the situation and problems
of his day. It examines his part in the
great transformation in English parties,
and much attention is devoted to his
attitude on the social and international
questions which came no for settlement
during his career, to his long struggle
WITH the klQS, 10 MS VIEWS Oh
mentary reform, religious liberation,
and Pitts regime of coercion. to the
Irish problem of that time. and partic-
ularly to the influence of Fox on the
modern development of nationalism and
democracy.
A novelty in the making of books is
a kind of cinematograph edition of
How to Play Golf by H. ]. Wing
ham. which Messrs. Herbert S. Stone &
Co. have just issued. By the printing
of small photographs in the margin a
kind of moving picture is obtained
which shows more accurately than
anything else can do the correct posi-
lions in driving. It is an ingenious de-
vice which viii appeal to beginners and
to the expert, for Mr.. Whigham's opin
ion is authority.
Anna Robson Brown, the author of
Truth and a Woman" published by
Herbert S. Stone & Co.. is. daughter
of Henry Armitt Brown, a brilliant
Philadelphia orator, who is still we'll re-
membered, though he died at the age of
SO. He was surrounded by the most
distinguished men of his time and his
little daughter was made the pet of the
circle. Though she was only six at the
from Booth and Longfellow, Lowell and
Taylor, the elder Sothern and many
others of the real stage and the imita-
tion-
Sherwin Cody's 1.-THE Art of Short
Story Writing published in England
under the title How to Write Fiction"
for some time out of print. has now
been incorporated in his new work,
! The Art of Writing and Speaking the
English Language" forming the great
er part of the fourth volume, published
by A. c. McClurg & Co. His first work
was series of letters to a lady pupil.
who under his instruction became a
successful contributor to the Century
and other magazines. When the book
on Short Story Writing first appeared
eight or nine years ago it was widely
discussed. especially in England, and
warmly commended by Zangwill and
others Mr.. Cody then planned a series
of home-study lessons for grown-up
people, beginning with the very ele-
mentS of the language. Slowly he has
worked out his ideas in the actual in
struction Of pupils, chiefly business
men. The new work is divided into
four volumes, the first Word Study"
the second Grammar and Punctua-
tiOn.' the third Composition" and the
fourth comprising the three subjects
BUSINESS Letter Writing" Short
Story Writing and Creative Compo-
sition." Mr.. Cody's Greatest Short
Stories" is now the recognized univer-
/ sity textbook on this subject, and he
/ has just issued companion volume of
! The Best English Essays" which in
| cludes study of English prose style
| The American reading public has a
strong prediction for good short fiction
/ and 1t has become noticeable of recent
years that the magazines have paid spe-
ctal attention to this class of literature.
Publications devoted entirely to fiction are
/ cropping up, ana they seem to establish
| a clientele at the very start. The latest
venture in this class IS The Popular Mag
/ azine, published by Street and Smith the
/ first number of which is now on sale. This
issue is conspicuous by reason of its cover,
4 which is in four colors and attractive, and
/ for the general excellence of its contents.
1t is understood that covers of original
and novel design are to be a feature of
| the new publication Among the contents
| of the November number are stories by
1 Morgan Robertson, the American expo
| Patten, Charles Agnew Mclean. W. Bert
| Foster and Henry Harrison Lewis. The
I zine. will be greatly enlarged in the De-
cember and January issues and that
strong stories have been obtained from
SUCH prominent authors as General Chas.
King, Charles Battell Loomis. Edward
Stratemeyer and St George Rathborne.
The Gibson Book for 1903 viii be pub
lished October q. The Scribners. who win
bring it out this year and hereafter, an
will be uniform with previous volumes. II
Will bear the title Eighty Drawings in
guiding the Weaker Sex, the story of a
Susceptible Bachelor
When young writer places his first
novel With a publisher before it is even
typewriter, and on terms that include
liberal advance royalty ne may be con
sldered in luck But when a promi-
nent London publisher after reading the
galley proofs accepts his novel for stimuli
taneous publication in England, the I'm
said 10 have struck it rich Yet this IS
exactly what Mr. Philip Payne has done.
with his dramatic story of Chicago life
and American politics, entitled The Mills
OF Man It is rapidly becoming one OF
1 the most talked about and consequently
one Of the most widely read books Of the
day. Messrs. Rand, McNally & Co. are
Mr.; Paynes publishers in this country
and Messrs. Hutchinson & Co. in London