The Topeka state journal., 1903-05-30

Nessrs. Rand, AfcNally & Co. who have
way for fall publication. announce for
publication early in June The Mills of
Man. political novel, by Philip Payne
J. 3. Lippincett & Co. have Just publish
ed another volume in their True Biog
raphy'' series. 1t bears the attractive title
The True Abraham Lincoln and the au-
thor is ,s William p Curtis. who wrote The
printed and beautifully bound It is writ
ten in Mr.. Curtis most fascinating style
Z and is one Of the best constructed stories OF
Iincolns life yet published It deals with
/ the most important features of his life and
wor1-
Miss Hermine TempIeton the author of
the rollicking Irish fairy stories. Darby
I Clure. Phillips & Co have Just published
/ is the daughter of an English army Off
Ger, and rumor has it that she was born
in India. The stories that she tells in her
book are real folklore tales of old Ire
land; and are as near in form as possible
tagers at their peat fires in the Emerald
isle The source of Miss Templeton's in
spiration is said to be an interesting old
cradle and told them to Miss TempletCn,
who now retails them to us
Away back in 1887 a meeting was held
in the Boston museum to further the
! Longfellew memorial fund Noted auth
ors of the day sat on the platform and
i in turn gave readings from their own
writings. The whole affair was comically
/ described by a young man who CHANGED
/ to be present, in a private letter to his
! 6ancee. and on the margins of his letter
he drew some very amusing caricatures
/ of Holmes. Lowell, and Hale of Mark
Twain. Higginson. HoWells, and Aldrlcli.
as thev ap1eared to him on the stage.
The letter. with its pictures. is now pub
lished for the first time-the authors name
being withheId-in the Booklovers Masa-
zine for June
There was always something fascinating
in Bill Nye's personality as well as in his
humor Now, seven years after his death;
the BookloVers' Magazine has the good
sense. in the June number. to renew pub
lie interest in him by full page portrait
and series of Illustrated articles. in
which some of the famous cartoons OF
Walt McDougaH and E. Opper, with which
one of Nve's best stories is printed SIDE
by side with a critical estimate by Prof.
Hancock of HaverfOrd college, and glow
ing tributes follow from Nye's intimate
McDougaI, and from Nyes publisher. J.
3. Lippincott-
The approval of so excellent a patron
of the turf as August Belmont on any
thing connected with horse racing ought
to go a great way in establishing its
quality. ". A. Frazer's novel of the race
track 'sThoroughbreds - recently came
under Mr. Belrnont's eye and he imme-
saying, 1T is very interesting, and an ex-
celIent contribution to the general litera-
IUTe on morse racing
The author who has been a reporter
knows how to go about the business OF
getting facts Specific knowledge. tech
nical names of things and intimate details
he absorbs by instinct Sewell Ford, whose
recently published book, Horses Nine
seems to show that he knows the horse
thoroughly. has been through the jour
nalistic mill. When he begins a story
about a truck horse. for instance, he visits
the Bulls Head district. where heavy
draughts are put up at auction; he haunts
the big city stables, where hundreds oi
truck horses are housed. and he fraternizes
with the men who drive the trucks. Final
~. when he IS sure of his ground, he
writes the story
In "The Art Of Living Long Is pre-
sented a new and carefully prepared trans
lation of '.9he Temperate Life" the his.
toric treatise of Louis Cornaro, the world
famous Venetian centenarian. Of whose
writings life work family history. etc.
the volume mainly consists The foul
-5iscOurses'' that complete Cornaro's
treatise. prefaeed by an Introduction
penned by the immortal Addison. are fol
lowed by essays-fron Lord Bacon's Hi.
tory of Life ard Death and Sir William
Temples Health and Long Life '-upol