The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-16


Wr1tten another western novel entitled
, 1ne Rainbow Chasers," which Little,
, Brown d Co. will publish in the spring.
ms new book, it is said, will give a
wv sIeid account of a Kansas land boom.
MI. Wh1tson knows the west, and he
mas endeavored in his Rainbow Chas-
ers' to present the real scenery and
atmosphere of the plains.
Senator George F. Hoar, in writing
OF the biography Of Laura Bridgman.
Dr. Samuel c. Howes famous deaf
4umD and blind pupil, says of DR..
Howe; He was one of the great heroic
characters of his time and of all time
The story of Laura Bridgman, which
was the work of two of DIR. Howe's
daughters, Maud Howe and Florence
Howe Hall, was said to be zone of the
notable biographies of 1907
1t is not often that a book is accord
ed the honorable mention which was
bestowed a few Sundays ago upon
where American Independence Be-
gan." The Rev. E. @. Butler an
nounced from the pulpit of the ancient
First Church in Quincy that the second
edition OF this book had just been is
sued and praised its form and matter.
The First Church is the church of the
Adamses, the Quincys, and John Han
COCK, patriots with whom Mr. Wilson's
book largely deals. Thus the announces
ment though unusual, was most appro-
pirate.
Houghton, Miff1in & Co. report the
following new printings: The thirteenth
edition of 1.-The End of an Era" by
John S. Wise; the sixth edition of
John Percyfield," by c. Hanford Hen
derson; fifth editions of 1.-The Gentle
Hosmer's Short History of the Mis-
sissippi Valley" the fourth edition of
"Hill Towns Of Italy," by E. r. Will
Jams, Jr.: third editions of ''Ponkapog
Papers" by 7. B-Adrich. and Daphne
by Margaret Sherwood; and second
editions of MY Own Story by j. T.
Trowbridge, Mr.. Salt by VIII Payne,
THE Great Poets of Italy, by Oscar
kuhns, and "zut, and Other Parisians,"
by G. w. Carryl. Mrs. Virgins Re
becca" has proved one of the most pop
ular holiday books throughout the
whole country. In England it is already
in it's third edition.
Mr.. Skinner, the author of "Ameri-
can Myths and Legends" which J. B.
Lippincott company have just issued in
two uniform volumes, will be remem-
bered agreeably by his former
Beyond Our Borders The pres
ent work contains the result of careful
study of a large number of legends.
some familiar and some scarcely
ted States. The books have red-letter
title page and photogravure illustra-
tons.
The Reader a monthly magazine,
which two years ago entered success
fully the field of strictly literary pub
locations, has became the property of
the Bobbs-Merrill company of Indian
apolis. Though carrying some fiction in
its pages, the magazine has devoted
most of its space to books, their au-
thors and their makers. From it's New
York home it made it's way success
eatf ors fff,er 10 Oft Of
airy people by its originality and fear
lessness. It fell under the notice of the
Indianapolis publishers. Mr.. Mitchell
Kennerly. founder of the Reader and
its editor since it's beginning, has drawn
around him during the short life of the
ma gazine, many brilliant and interest
ing contributors. John Cecil Clay has
been making a series Of portrait
sketches that have been used on the
cover design. The well known features
of James Whitcomb Riley, w. D. How
ellis, Mark Twain, Weir Mitchell and
General Lew Wallace, have appeared in
striking lines on the cover. Portraits
of other literary celebrities are to ap-
pear, it is said, from month to month.
DR.. Edward Everett Hale who has
been elected chaplain of the United
States senate, is perhaps best known as
the author of THE Man Without a
Country On the occasion of DR.. Hale's
80th birthday anniversary in May. 1902,
1reS1QeQL Roosevelt SdlU. 10 nave
written The Man Without a Country
by itself would be enough to make all
the nation his debtor" DR.. Hale's latest
book, published by Little, Brown & Co,
is New England History in Ballads
which contains the intermittent work of
DR.. Hale and his children during the
past 20 years, with a few additions by
others This unique collection of ball
lads, which is illustrated by the, young
er generation of Hales, is made in a
handsome manner. According to one
critic, This stirring composite produce
ton is a powerful presentation in verse
of the notable events in our history,
worthy of its gifted authors"
The first of two volumes of "a Lab
oratory Manual of Electro-M Magnetic
Machinery and Apparatus" by Bernard
V. Swenson and Budd Frankenfeld,
both of the electrical engineering de-
partment of the University of Wiscon-
sin, will be published next week by the
Macmillan company. While intended
primarily as a college textbook, this
elaborate manual has been written with
the intention of making it a work of
reference for engineers.
Within few days The Macmillan
company will publish a number of books,
of which the following are those of chief
dn of the putch Pq IN Kav ana bz Br ae
Day: Points at ISSUE" by Prof. Henry
A. Beers Of Yale; Vol; II of Cambridge
'sThe Reformation;" ''The Hour Glass
and Other Poems.'' by Mr.. w. B. Yeats:
Mr. Edmund Gosse's Life of Jeremy Tay-
lor in The English Men of Letters Ser
les; The Divine Vision and Other
Poems" by the Irish poet ana mystic
who prefers to be known as "A e.;
transitional Eras in Thought by Prof.
A C. Armstrong of Wesleyan universe
ty; and "a Laboratory Manual of Electro
Magnetic Machinery and Apparatus Vol
l.. by Bernard Victor Swenson and Budd
Frankenfield.
The present crisis in the far east calls
attention to two volumes which The Mac
milan company published last year-AIr.
Writ Gerrare,s Greater Russia and Mr..
f. H. Skrine's THE Expansion of Rus
IL, Il