The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-07
BOOK NOTES

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BOOK NOTES
Various items About Books Which
Are Attracting Attention.
The Literary News in selecting twenty
five novels OF merit from the 1902 list Of
Girl Of Virginia" which. it saws is "a
picture OF modern girlhood at its best that
goes straight to the heart ana stays there.
Peter Finley Dunno. to whom the world
owes debt for the gift Of Mr.. Dooley,n
viii be the next in the Americans of To-
Weekly. Mr.. Dunno portrait, taken es-
pecially for this purpose, viii be the
frontispieee OF the February % number.
Mcclure. Phillips < Co. have been an
nouncing the fact that their new book
by Joseph Conrad. y outh, went into
second edition some time before the date
Of publication. They add to that sim
liar one concerning their new book The
Chameleon" by james Weber Linn, Of
which the second edition was in press on
the day the first edition was published.
1.-THE Better Sort" just published by the
Scribners, is the nrst volume of shorter
fiction from Mr.; James pen for some
years The collection offers very ur-
usual opportunity of studying Mr.. James
remarkable talent at short range, so to
speak, and with the advantage of large
variety of subject and character. Several
Of the longer and more important stories
are entirely new, having had no previous
serial publication
The Canadian edition Of Mrs. Humphrey
Wards Lady Roses Daughter is the
largest edition of any single novel ever
sold TO the Canadian market in advance
Of publication The American advance
orders, also, are so heavy that the pub
fishers have been engaged for some days
past in the actual packing Of the books
for shipment, in order to reach all book
sellers by the day of publication. The
book is published by Harpers.
A fifth edition of THE Shadow of the
Gar" John R. Carvings dashing romance,
has been printed by Aessrs. Little, Brown
for this popular novel. THE Pharaoh and
the Priest Alexander Glovatslds vivid
portrayal Of ancient Egypt, has also gone
into fifth edition, while Frances Charles
I'm the Country God Forgot is now in its
fourth edition. Miss Charles new book
THE Siege Of Youth Will be published
this spring.
General De Vets book has an Interest
and an Importance such as attach to no
other volume as yet published on the
South African war. A strenuous man. and
composed the record Of his doings and of
his feelings while still moved by the pas
fore, has the sincerity of strong emotion
General De Wet sets his comrades
a good example. He evidently tries to
suppress as far as he can his bitter feei-
ings and he is now clear as to the path
of honor-The London Morning Post.
In summing up the popular books of the
past year the leading magazines have
given place among the rev best books
published by the Macmiilans. The inter-
esting point about this is not 50 much that
one of the successes OF the publishing sea
son. as that a work of q biographical ma
ture like this should have taken its posi-
ton in popularity alongside works of nc
tion. One does not as rule look for a
poular sale amonS biographies, ana the
reception accorded TO her book IS certainty
in which Mrs. Atherton has handed her
subject 'sFhe Conqueror'' makes no APP
neal to readers Of light fiction it is dis
tinctly one Of those books which gets IT'S
circulation among The more intelligent ana
better read class OF book buyers
After careful study Of What Manner
Of Man published by the Bobbs-Merrill
company. well known critic comes 70
the conclusion that Edna Kenton is q
name that has been adopted 70 moe me
personality of a man VINO mas talent.
power and insight into human character
Edna EentOn is. however. the name OF 4
Young woman living in Chicago who offers
Manner Of Man She is known to maga-
zine readers by her own name and by
Deared from time TO time IN the Century.
MoClure's. The Smart Set, the Ladies
Home journal. and other magazines. She
has, besides. been a newspaper WoIsal I
and wrote her novel while on the star OF
one Of the Chicago evening newspapers.
Mcclure. Phillips & Co. are announcing
I among their books that VIII be brought
out this month The Blue Goose by
Frank T. Mason. author of To the END
Of The Trail 1t is a story of mines and
miners in the gold regions of the Rockies.
Since Brete Harte wrote of the forty
Miners in California and along the trans
continental trail the mining world has
completely changed New characters ana
rev conditions have arisen but no writer's
( strong enough to present them adequately.
This novel of MI Nason's is the first
worthy presentation of the life IN the
mining camps as it is today. 1t is a
thrilling story of d mine superintendent
( fight against his rebellious enlpioyes.
~ a strike ana riot. where the infuriated
miners attempt to blow UP the mine a
graceful love story interweaVes itself Win
( Mr. Mason was Tor years q mine superln-
tendent and knows every inch OF the
i ground Of which ne writes.