The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-21

100 900 mark in circulation.
The admirers of ''4eCutcheon," and
who is not. will be delighted to learn
/ that they can now obtain twelve of
his most famous boy cartoons in the
form of a all calendar. The pictures
are reproduced in a large size. and
Clurg & Co.. who made such a marked
success of 'McCutcheon's Cartoons
published last spring and now in a
fourth edition.
H. NJ Caldwell company. Boston.
have added this year three new titles
to their famous RemarQue series.
Poems of Sentiment" by Lord Byron,
are this masters best shorter poerns
with a few selections from the longer
ones on the tender passion-alI edited
with the greatest care for this edition:
Some Fruits of Solitude" by William
Penn. a hook little known to the read
/ ers of today, but which deserves to be
remembered for its pithy and bright
reflections and maxirns; Letters to
Young Man About Town" by w NJ
Thackeray. is another book which has
rather been lost sight of simply be-
cause 1t was wedged in among longer
essays in one of his books of travels
In his humorous and satirical manner
Thackeray shows up the follies and life
OF young man about town in the mid
die of the nineteenth century but it is
| just as applicable now in the twentieth
! The publishers have also added a new
J binding to the series this year. padded
SILK, so now every taste can be salts
fed, the books being bound in cloth
flexible red leather. ooze. and silk.
The labor of preparing and putting
through the press of Mrs. WheeIock' 8
The Birds of California" has Compelled
the publishers, A. c. McClurg & Co. to
january, 1908. The work treats of some 800
birds found in California and adjacent is
lands, and with its profuSe illustrat lions
J by Bruce Horsfall will be an Indispensable
hand nook foT PRO lovers generally and
p 94lis{ IN are aparn SpecGay The
pense in their part of the undertaking.
1.-THE Reflections of the Morning After
| IS the catchy title of a bright collection
OF epigrams on life in general and love
and women in particular. brim full of Wis
trated by H. Lee Meader, it is uniquely
bound in Persian cloth of a dressing gown
pattern. Not since the publication of the
well known Billy Baxter letters has any
thing appeared to equal it. H M. Caldwell
Co., Boston, are the publishers.
Colonel George B. Mcclellan. the newly
elected may mayor OF New York York city. has writ.
Venice which is to be published next
spring by Houghton. AIifflin & Co.
Mcclure. Phillips & Co. will bring out
the last of the month a new book of pop
ton" Mr.. Bakers book is thoroughly up
| to date The opening chapter is on Ra-
dunn and there are about eleven others
dealing with wireless telegraphy, the fly
ing machine the solar motor. the electric
furnace etc, in short all those startling
| inventions discoveries of the last de-
cade which might most justly be consid-
cred epoch-making.
The interesting announcement comes
from London that Mr.. Israel Zangwill
the author of 1.-THE Grey Wig" 1.-THE
Mantle of Elijah" and Children of the
Ghetto" is engaged to be married. Miss
Edith Ayrtoun, the daughter of Professor
| W. e. Ayrtoun, one of the best known
| electrical engineers and inventors in Eng
land, is the young lady who is to bebcome
Mrs: Zangwill. She has contributed short
stories to some British and American
magazines, but she is by no means we'll
known in literature like her distinguished
4 huSband-to-be.