The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-28
BOOK NOTES.

Il
Vulgarians," published by the Smart Set
Publishing company, his first book in
some years, is attracting much atten-
ton, has lived abroad for considerable
time, chiefly in London, where he is well
known to all the literary circle This
preference for English life is not re-
markable, in view of the fact that his
father was an Englishman. But in his
books Mr.. Fawcett is thoroughly Ameri-
can in the choice of scenes, characters
and themes. 1t was story of Aaron
Burr with which he won $1,000 in the
New York Herald's prize competition in
1895, and THE Vulgarians' is a careful
study of men, women and manners in
the United States.
Children everywhere will be glad to
know that the author of THE Wizard
of o. has two new books ready for
the alluring titles of The Enchanted
Island of Yew'' and THE Magical Mon
arch of Mo- They are to be ilIustra-
ted in. color by famous artists, and are
published by the Bohbs-Merrill COM
pany.
Messrs: A. C. McClurg & Co. have just
ready their adnira BILE edition of Father
Hennepin's "A New Discovery" This
is an exact reprint of the edition of
1898. with introduction. notes and an
analytical index by Reuben Gold
Thwaites. The work is issued in two
volumes, with facsimiles of original til
tie pages, maps, and ilfustra tions: and
besides the standard library edition
there will also be a limited large paper
edition that will appeal especially to
collectors. This beautiful and well APP
pointed reprint is uniform with Messrs.
McClurg's edition of Lewis and Clark"
and is one of the notable contributions
to Americana during recent years.
Several of the books which the Out
look company has recently published
have achieved immediate popularity.
The first edition of 1.-The Forest by
Stewart Edward White was exhausted
before publication and third edition
is already on the press. Hamilton w.
Mabie's .Backgrounds of Literature.
Igraine'' have each gone into a second
edition.
1.-The Merrylinks'' is the title of new
juvenile published by Mcclure, Phillips
& Co The text is by Alice Brown and
the illustrations by Louise Clark. The
pictures are certainly essential because
they illustrate the clever animal COM
binations used by the author such as
the mastodonkey, the rhinoscerostrich,
Interesting details of Tolstoy's life in
Moscow are told by Prof. Edward A.
Steiner in his work 'Tolstoy. the Man"
company. ''Tolstoy's favorite walk in
Moscow" says the writer, was down
the river bank to the Krelm, that mix
ture of church and state, of barbarism
and civilization. that last citadel of an
absolute monarchy among civilized peo-
pie Rugged, quaint, and queer as is
the Krelm was this frequent visitor on
whose footsteps fastened numbers of
beggars from whom he never turned
away One day, he says, he was going
to give some money to a beggar when
the watch came and with the butt of his
gun began to drive away the importunate
fellow. Tolstoy demonstrated, and ask
ed him whether he did not know the
gospels. in which Christ commanded US
to love our neighbor and do good even
to those who hate US, and the puzzled
gendarme replied shrewdly, You may
know the gospels, but you don't know
the military regulations
Our little American public school
heroine, Emmy Lou. written of by
George Madden Martin, has found a
warm welcome among the English peo-
pie. The London Star, in reviewing the
book, says, Since sHelen's Babies came
ceived from Cousin Jonathan a book
about children 50 amusing and so de-
nghtfu1 as Emmy Lou "
Charles wagner's simple Life" of
which President Roosevelt spoke so
highly last year. and his book of this
year THE Better Way" will be issued
by Mcclure. Phillips & Co in a special
holiday dress of soft leather.
The publication of Mr.. winston
Churchill's novel, 1.-THE Crossing" Is
again postponed. The Macmillan COM
pany now announce that the book viii
not be published until after the first of
January.
A chapter of unusual interest in 1.-THE
Story of Labor Agitator." by Joseph
Buchanan, which the Outlook company
is to publish soon. is one entitled The
Last Appeal It tells the drama tic
story of the attempt TO rescue from the
gaIlows the Chicago anarchists who