The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19

Ave Roma Immortalis." and Sir Gill
per. Parksr's odd Quebec: The Fortress
or New France" Mr.. Howe has been
FOR twelve or fifteen years associated
with the editorial management of the
Atlantic Monthly and the Youths Com
panion. and has also been literary adj
wiser for various publishing houses. He
knows the life and the atmosphere, the
history, the characteristics, and the
beauties Of Boston life as do few other
men, Furthermore. he is a young man
with young mans spirit and interest
IN life and in everything that is going
on, and in the future. His book will
contain between eighty and one hundred
Illustrations.
THE Two Little Savages," Ernest
thompson Setons new book will be
brought out this month by Doubleday,
rage q Co. Though Mr.. Seton has done
SO much to make animals seem like per-
sonal friends, strange to say he is not
fond of animals. He never makes pets
of them himself and does not care about
consolidating or training them, his in
tereSt being scientific The Two Little
Savages,' the first long book Mr.. Seton
has written, tells us everything that
boys of any age want to know about
woodcraft, our native animals, and the
| joy of country living.
Doubleday, Page & Co., who are the
American publishers of Rudyard Kip
| lings new books, say that at no time
| A2t15 tie prospect LOT safes D6cn SO large,
and the publishers believe the import
ance of The Five Nations will, this
fall, stimulate the sale of all his books.
This seems not unreasonable. THE Five
Nations will be the first volume con-
tanning many entirely new poems by
Mr.. Kipling since the publication and
the remarkable success of 1.-The Seven
Seas" in 1896, and seven years of the
poetical work of Rudyard Kipling may
be considered a period in the history of
English literature.
Mcclure, Phillips & Co., announce the
issue of the eighth volume of their
| Complete Works of William Hazlitt'
edition, the first that is absolutely COM
plete, printed by Dent of London, from
| type, limited to $50 sets in America. 1t
will be in IL volumes.
! Mcclure, Phillips & Co. will publish
about the middle of September volume
/ of stories of Newfoundland fisher-folk,
| by Norman Duncan. under the title of
/ THE Way of the Sea-" Mr.. Duncan has
lived long among the north coast people
and knows well the grimness of their
struggle for life against the mighty and
misery sea, as we'll as the quaintness of
| their character and dry humor of their
philosophy All of this he has put into
his book with sympathetic and anus
ing pen.
| publication in September a volume of
Letters from a Chinese Official" 1t APP
recently recalled Chinese ambassador TO
| the United States. is said to be the only
Celestial who really. understands ,,, our
1t Is open to serious doubt if any occl-
dental has bridged the great chasm that
| two hemispheres. This little volume of
letters ought to go a good way toward
promoting an understanding between the
two portions of mankind. The author is
undoubtedly some one who has occupied
| important positions both here and in Eng
| land, for his book shows a remarkable
knowledge of affairs, customs and condi
| tions on both continents. He is by no
have the better civilization Our weak
nesses have not escaped him, and backed
es at US many startling bolts of just crit
| icism that will be apt to surprise many
OF US cut OF Of our snug SATISFACTION dad d with r
! feeling of condescending superiority to-
ward all things Chinese.
Mcclure. Phillips G. Co. have just pub
lished new book book by Joseph .Gonard, the
Consists co1nS Oh Of three long short Stories
Youth dealt with adventures on the
worlds waterways; "Falk' deals with
adventures on the pathway of love. Crit
what Mr.. Conrad would do with the love
he answers the question in his own orig
inal and striking way. They are certain
| ly very much unlike any other love stories
ever written. In the first the action turns
upon the confession to his sweetheart by
/ a negro pilot and tyrant in a far away
oriental harbor, that he was once driven
4 by circumstances to cannibalism. The
other tales are similar in motive and
theme
| Whatever the connection between small
handwriting and large bulk and intellect
| is the rule is we'll observed in the case
of Charles Wagner. the author of THE
Simple Life and THE Better Way Mr.
Wagner is of generous proportions indeed.
\ towering far above the average French
/ man in height, with shoulders and back
broad enough for two ordinary men OF
his race. His arms are almost club-like
and his legs thick and sturdy like the
\ trunks of oak trees. His splendid
physique is the heritage of his youthful
days spent in climbing the mountains in
the Voeges. OF the breadth and stature
of the intellectual man, the doctrines
preached in his two recent books are
ample evidence. But his handwriting! II
seems almost impossible that he could
| have achived such microscopic minute
ness without the aid of glass, and it pre-
sents enormous difficulties to the reader.
Mr.. Wagner's thought is quick and hts
flying pen frequently has to skip and alb
breviate letters to keep up with it. The
combination produces a chrography, baf-
almost impossible to the foreigner who is
| lucky enough to receive one of the au-
thors charming letters.
What Makes for Happi n ess.