The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10

fered in a new edition at a popular price.
The edition announced by the Scribners
pictures of the three dollar edition., con-
sisting of six full page and eleven smaller
drawings. It should make a very success
full Christmas book.
BY virtue of having seized the place,
David Graham Phillips has acquired po-
scribed by the title social censor What
he writes is sure to bear somewhat per-
tinently upon topics of the day, and
phases savory and otherwise of American
society. This is especially true of his new
book, The Master Rogue" which Nc
Clure. Phillips & Co. have brought out this
month, the subject of which is the great
American fortune. and the chase of the
almighty dollar that it entails The hero
mercial cormorant, proving everywhere,
conscienceless. and desiring only one
carries his hero through life and shows
how the harvest of his endeavor is care.
dishonor and unhappiness.
No novel Of the present year, perhaps,
has been so heartily abused and highly
pany. 1t has been spoken of by one crit
zeal authority as the most powerful and
and special attention called to it's literary
workmanship. This last is the more
strange in view OF the fact that, previous
to the appearance of the present volume,
the author was practically unknown in
this country. Mrs. Frankau, who uses the
name of Frank Danby,' a pseudo
nyme, is the author of two or three other
novels, none of which attracted large at
tention. 1t is the opinion of many critics,
however, that her last story was written
directly out of her own experience and
from positive convictions upon certain
is now in her London home, and her book
is enjoying a popularity in England
scarcely less than it obtained in this coun-
| try.
Edward A. Steiner, whose book "Tolstoy
the Nam is announced for early nublica-
ton by The Outlook company, has had
unusual opportunities for gathering tho
material for his biography, He. has just
returned from Russia, where ne has spent
several months in preparation for this
work He has mad access to all availa-
BILE material largely through the kindness
of the Tolstoy circle in Moscow. He has
| heard Tolstoy read his latest book and
has received much information from the
great Russian himself. whom he has
known for II years. The book will be il
/ lustrated with reproductions tone of them
/ in COLOR of paintings by PasternalS, who
al friend of Tolstoy.
Kate Douglas Virgins new book. .'Half-
| a-Dozen Eousezeepers: a Story for Girls
/ in Half-a-Dozen Chapters will be
Altemus Co. Six school girls descend
! upon Maine village at the invitation of
/ one of their number, who has borrowed
/ the family home for two weeks from an
! indulgent father then touring the south
/ with the remainder of his family, and
what those captivating damsels found to
! do in that memorable fortnight is told
with a fascination that is remorseless.
Children of Men, by Bruno Leasing
published this month by Mcclure, Phillips
& Co, is series of strong and human
little stories out of the life of New York
Ghetto The author writes from an init
| mate knowledge of the people, for he has
lived among them. The strange remote
! atmosphere of the swarming world of for
| eigners that lies almost within a stone
throw of Broadway. has been reproduced
in these stories with unusual reality.
THE Under World in Books" by Jo-
! siah F1ynt. is striking and valuable ar
ticIe in The Reader for October Mr.
Flynt covers the whole field of Under
World literature. and in a thoroughly en-
/ tertaning manner gives the attitude OF
members of the Under World towards
] the books written about them, both by
/ the 1selves and by outsiders. by Way
I of Dissent" by Sewen Ford and "In the
/ Brete Harte Country by Winifred
! Black are other noteworthy contribu-
itions to this number, which includes sto-