The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-21
BOOK NOTES.
Various Items About Books Which
Are Attracting Attention.

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Ainslee's for april catches the eye at
the start with brilliantly artistic
cover BY Henry HUT Of the Opera
Girl. The opening novel, by Alice Duer
Miller. is entitled Cyril Vane's Wife.
and is intensely moeern and dramatic
from the first to the final chapter
Maarten Martens presents a powerful
short story Of married life. called 'Di-
Yorce2 BY far the most charming and
delicate story in the number comes
from the pen Of Gouverneur Morris, and
is entitled The Old Wrecker."
eOn the night I arrived in Butte,
says Ray Stannard Baker. whose
Butte City: Greatest of Copper
Camps" the April Instalment Of his
The Great Northwest" series in The
Century. is likely to make Butte proud
70 the third and fourth generation, and
TO Waken fasteners to a new realiza-
ton Of Butte City's fabulous resources
l was awakened at two o'clock in the
morning by an enterprising reporter
who wanted an interview. He shouted
his questions over the transom
shouted my replies from my pillow. In
parting he gave me the name of q man
connected with his paper who he said
was the real thing He concluded:
He can give you more dope about
Butte than any other guy in Mon
tana.' "
The following books not previously
included in the Spring Announcements
Of Houghton, Miflin & Co. viii be
published by them this season.
+Trents Trust" by Bret Harte; Alice
Freeman Palmer" a Report of a Me-
mortal Service; "Ruskin's Comments
on Dante" with an Introduction by
Charles Eliot Norton; The Correspond
ence between Ralph Waldo Emerson
and Hermann Grimm edited by Fred
erielS ". Hollis; The Confscation Of
John Chambers Estate" by Andrew
NJ. Davis: and "Of Education" by r.
r. Bowker.
For the last twenty years hardly
spring has gone by that has not well
coined a new volume of short stories
last May brought many expressions OF
regret that this annual contribution to
good fiction could no longer 60 on. Mr.,
Harte's literary executors have found.
however. that he left material ready
fer one more book. which will be pub
lished in April under the title Of
'-Trent's Trust 1t contains seven
stories. in which some of Bret Harte's
favorite characters have one more
word to say.
Arthur Sherburne Hardys latest
novel His Daughter First" which IS
publication in the Atlantic, win be
ready in book form in May.
Another forthcoming addition to
Houghton. Afiffiin & Cos list Of
Dante books. already beyond question
the most notable from any one publish
er ia this country, is "Ruskins Com
ments on Dante" to which Charles
Eliot Norton will contribute an intro
duction. These selected passages on
one subject contain some Of Ruskin's
most eloquent prose
The present occupant Of the White
House seems to be Iaboring to deserve
the title of Our Literary President
He has entertained Richard Harding
Davis, written an Introduction to THE
Woman Who Tolls and allowed Owen
Wister to dedicate TO him The Vir-
ginian." Now it is Miss Halle Err
mimic Rives. Last week, dispatches
state he invited the latter to the White
House and the two spent an hour ami
day. The president is a strenuous au-
thor himself. Possibly the tense action
Of Miss Riyes' last story particularly
recommended it to his liking. We au-
thors." he said at the close of the chat,
should exchange books, and sending
Private Secretary Loeb for a copy OF
THE Strenuous Life he autographed
and presented it to the authoress Miss
Rives gave him a copy of Heart Cour-
ageous" in return.
Mr.. Howells contributes 4 remark
= Die story to Harper's for april. under
the title Though One Rose From the
Dead which deals with the supernat-
ural relations between a peculiar man