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

some of his time to the final revision of
the proofs of his Forthcoming volume of
Essays on Great Writer'S" At the din
ner given to the faculty. visiting super
visors. and principals of training schools
by the P1ttSburg kindergarten asSocia-
ton at the International kindergarten
union meeting, each plate was marked
with a hand-painted card showing q
scene from one of the books Of Kate
Douglas Wiggin-
An interesting brochure on The
Doones of Exmoor has just been pub
lished in England, which has for its
for the stories in Lorna Doone- The au-
thor concludes that the Doone tradition
is of greater antiquity than has been
generally supposed, even by Mr.. Black
more. and dates it as far back as the
incursions of the Danes during the
reign of Alfred the Great. He also cor
roborates the statement that Mr.. Black
more got his clew for the weaving of
his great romance from a story entitled
The Do0nes Of ExmOor, published at one
time in that old-established family mag
aztne- The Leisure Hour. The unfaihng
delight which this wonderful story
yields to readers. new and old, year
after year, is attested by the fact that
the Harpers report it as in constant
demand. Especially is this true OF their
| illustrated edition. the best one-volume
| illustrated on the market.
George AIDE gives slang the ''go by
/ in his new book, I'm Babel which
Mcclure Phillips & Co announce for
/ publication about the middle of this
month Mr.. AIDES '-BabeF' is Chfca go.
about which rushing town it may be
conceded that he knows as much as
anybody. The book contains a sheaf
of brief little stories mirroring the life
of the great western metropolis in all
its phases There are stories of the
"tenements' and stories of the lake
/ 'front.', stories of the respectable middle
/ class. of the unreasonable Ioafers of
the police, of the newspaper men, of the
/ cabby, and of a host of other types that
{ Mr.. AIDE knows well and has hit off
with remarkable facility and aptness.
/ The stories are in all moods. and there
are as many laughs as tears in the vol
ume- In doffing the fools bauble of
slang, Mr.. AIDE appears in this book as
a splendid literary artist.
London in the Time of the Stuarts'' is
the title Of the new book by the late Sir
| Walter Besant, which the Macmillan
company viii publish in the autumn Sir
Walter undertook an important work in
several volumes. which were to be call
ed collectively The Survey of London"
The first volume in the series, London
in the Eighteenth Century" appeared
last winter, and it is expected that the
third volume will be published next
year. The forthcoming volume, Lon
/ don in the Time OF the Stuarts.' enters
| especially into that part of the life of
the great city which appealed to Sir
| Walter-the manners and customs Of
| the people of those days, the lives and
habits and amusemeuts of the mer-
/ chants and their wives, customers and
servants, what they ate and drank and
wore, and what they talked about. The
| two chapters on Manners and Gus
| toms and Society and Aumsements"
occupy a third of the entire volume on
I n E.ir1fcnnth
A book written out of the heart usu-
ally reaches the heart Charles Wag-
ner's latest book THE Better Way"
seems invariably to have found it's own,
and to have delivered its message.
Both Mr. Wagner and the publishers
OF the book are constantly receiving
letters from grief-Stricken parents who
have lost children, declaring their graf
itude for the comfort they have re-
ceived from The Better Way" and
asking if Mr.. Wagner wrote the charm
ing gospel of fatherhood that prefaces
it from personal experience. It was in
deed out of sad personal experience that
Mr.. Wagner wrote. His hrst-born was
a boy-Pierre-who brought untold joy
to the youthful father. Great was the
young parents pride in his firstling,
and as the years slipped by the two
grew wonderfully together. The father
Z looked forward to having his son as
companion in his work, and the boy
was just growing to an age. when this
was beginning to be planned when sick
ness came. As the illness progressed
the fathers anguish increased-when
death seemed probable the father was
distracted. In his efforts to calm him
self during his hours of watching by
the boys bedside, the father wrote
down the comforting thoughts that
now form the first chapters of THE
Better Way" When the boy died, the
father continued the book, intending it
to be a tribute. a monument. to the
/ IF hi G ha1
Dodd. Mead & Company have issued
the following: We are authorized to
state in the most emphatic manner to
the American press that there is no
truth whatever in the statement which
is being circulated by Mr.. Sidney Lee in
his pamphlet The Alleged Vandalism
at Stratford-on-Avon.' to the effect that
Miss Marie CorelIi wanted the disputed
site in Henley street for a free library
of her own, and that this was the rea-
son Of her objection to the erection of
Mr.. Carnegie's library. She never had
any such idea or intention, and the false
and malicious report is being dealt with
Il by her solicitors in two actions for libe-
which will be tried in due course. Mr..
Lee was perfectly aware Of the nature
of the charge trumped up against Miss
Corelli, before the publication Of his
pamphlet. having been fully informed of
it by her solicitors. and also having re-
ceived a courteous and friendly personal
letter from Miss CorelH herself on the
subject; therefore. his repetition of a
statement which is sub JUDGE is scarcely
excusable. Another pamphlet entitled,
The Plain Truth of the Stratford-on-
Avon Controversy by Miss CoreI1i, is
Just published in London and will reach
America in a few days. All the facts
Of the discussion are given, and some
very remarkable illustra tons of the old
cottages which Miss Corellis protest has
saved, are also included"
In Fee.
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