The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29


Howe's Famous Pupil. and What he
mutes have been beaefted by the sys-
tenn OF education which he devised for
Laura (the most widely known being
Helen KeIlar). the book is OF great i'm
portance- Dr. Howe's records, which
have been largely drawn upon in the
preparation of this work, are very COM
plete, and possess great scientific and
educational value His methods were
wonderfully ingenious and his patience
was inexhaustible. 1t was DIR. Howe's
intention in 1886 to write a detailed ac-
count of his experiments with Laura,
and in 1877, a little more than a year
before his death, he again expressed his
determination to undertake the work.
But his long-cherished purpose was
never fulfilled, owing to his busy life.
Two Of Dr. Howe's daughters, Maude
however, utilized DR.. Howe's records,
Laura's own journals. and extracts
from journals of different teachers,
with great skill, in preparing the pres
ent volume which Little, Brown & Co,
Boston, will publish in the autumn.
E Phillips Oppenheim' "A Prince of
sinners, is the most popular novel
with the patrons of the library of con-
gress, according to the latest report OF
the librarian. This is not strange, con-
sidering the fact that "A Prince of Sin
neFs' is a novel of unusual interest, for
the author really got ahead of Mr.. Jo-
seph Chamberlain in attempting to
show. through the vehicle of fiction,
that the salvation of the English work
ingman is dependent upon the restora-
ton of a protective tariff in his coun-
try.
During one of his recent wanderings
abroad. Clifton Johnson visited the
county Of Wiltshire. where he secured
% of the finest pictures of nature and
rural life These DhnfnpTanhE will %
used to illustrate the new edition of
Richard Jeffries' well known work,
Wild Life in Southern Village"
which Little, Brown & Co. will publish
in the autumn under the title IAN
English Village" An introduction to
the volume will be supplied by Hamii-
ton W. Mabie.
With much reading of accounts. more
or less brilliant, of any great tragedy
one is likely TO lose the true perspective
and the real permanent significance of
the event. So IL is with the Servian
tragedy. which suddenly swept out of
existence king, queen. royal family and
cabinet In the combined horror and
fascination of this dramatic return to
the barbarism of the Middle Ages, the
years of provocation and the final effect
the change of dynasty will have on the
condition of the people were scarcely
alluded TO. To the Cosmopolitan for
September. Elbert Hubbard contributes
causes and effects, beautifully illus
trated from a large collection of snap
shots and portraits.
Il have before me two portraits of
Tolstoy. one taken last year and the
other in 1855, when he served as lieuten-
ant in the Russian army" says Emily
Crawford, in Everybody's Magazine.
The former is as the gnarled oak, and
bears the impress of intellectual emo
tons that rose to stormy height and vio-
lence. The earlier one reveals the ge-
MUS of a thinker but, as yet, nothing
of the apostle Its most striking fea-
ture is its resemblance to the present
emperor of Russia. and for this reason
now mention it. This fact may be due
to some blood relationship that will
forever remain mystery or to the
spirit OF the time in which Tolstoy has
been writing Nicholas is a feIninized
and an abridged edition of the neuten-
ant whom the helIish conditions of the
seer and apostle of humanity. This re-
semblance is a sign. I take it, of an
affinity of some sort between the car
man of but middling intelIect-and
the great author of Peace and War
This book may have sunk into the mind
of Nicholas-it has probably done So
and aroused in him the ambition of
winning, without usurpation. the name
of the Pacific Car. His manifesto
which led to the peace conference of the
Hague was at first taken by Euro
pean diplomacy to be huge mystifica-
ton. 1t rather strikes me as the sug-
gestion Of the Tolstoyism that is abroad
in Russia. and. indeed in the rest of
Europe, and fermenting like the leaven
that the woman hid in the measure of
meal
An edition of Mr.. George Horace Lor-
liners Letters from a Self-AIade Mer-
chant to His Som is soon to be publish
ed printed in raised letters for the use
of the blind. Owing TO the expense of
manufacture and the comparatively
small circulation of books of this class,
the list of titles thus published is neces-
sarily very small and is limited to the
most important books Consequently
this edition will be a genuine tribute
TO the high rank which this book has
taken as a masterpiece of American
humor and sound sense Messrs- Small
Maynard and Company have also re-
Gently consented TO a novel use of the
book in allowing certain chapters to
be reprinted in shorthand for use as
stenographic reading book
Schedules filed by F Tennyson Nelly,
the New York publisher. show liabil-
ties OF sl2,096, assets sS.527, also give
names Of over two hundred persons who
were having their first books printed