The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-19

in the st. Louis Mercantile library u
is said that steel engrayings of General
Ringham's "Order No H. to the num-
Der Of many hundred, are scattered
through Missouri
A new edition of timely value is being
issued of Twenty Famous Naval Bat
tIes,' by Edward Kirk Rawson. super
intendent of naval records at Washing
ton. This book, a Greasy on Water,
gives vivid pictures. introducing every
type of naval warfare. from the pattle
of Salanis, 480 B. c.. TO the engage
ments of Manila and Santiago 1t IL
thus being read with increased interest,
by reason of the outbreak or nostiltles
in the east The new edition is the
first to appear in a single volume, tne
others having been in two. It Is pub
hshed by Thomas Z. Crowell & Co.
John Strange Winters new book.
"Cherry's Child" has just been pub
lished by the ]. B. Lippincott company
Gelett Burgess and Win Irwin have
written another book somewhat IN tns
vein of their last, THE Reign of Queen
Isyl.' It's title is THE Picaroons, and
will be brought out March &c. by NC
Clure-Phillips. 1t is series of tales OF
original adventures told by a group OF
waits and outcasts of all professions
gathered in a San Francisco coffee
house. Their language is up-to-date
and incisive, their sense of hunor keen.
and they are all word caricaturists OF
the first order.
"The Cowboys Courtship, and other
courtships," by Fannie Williams ianfs,e Gre fhe
''Norman's Courtship,a THE Irish
Courtship," "Who Won; or, The Double
ship" The book Is published by the
Neal Publishing company.
Miss Carolyn Wells. who is one Of the
morous work. elaborated with H p
Taber in writing THE Gordon Elope-
ment,'' announced by the publishers,
Doubleday, Page & Company. as ro-
Wells insists that the word gordon" is
an adjective, meaning running away
with ones wife. "A gordon elopement
! is an eIopement in gordon fashion, and
the fact that the hero of the story IS
named Gordon is merely a coincidence.
Among the other characters are Miss
Ethel Martin of Columbus, o., who came
from Columbus because she couldn't
and Joseph Rodman Payne" a bewil-
deringIy intelligent dog of the Umbagog
| House, Maine. who have to do with
some surprising developments of affairs
at this mysterious hostelry
The worlds Work publishes some re-
mari arhable photographs Of cities taken en-
the best map makers.
The best selling move, of 1904 is The
Deliverance,'' by Miss Ellen Glasgow. of
which Doubleday, Page & Co. say they
have sold 25.o0o in two weeks
Walter J. Travis. the famous golf
PLAYER is a wsng Of for c snr5 fs m
of this beautiful magazine will contain his
articles.
1.-THE Fugitive" the memoirs of a Jew
ish wanderer in search of home, though
promises to be one of the very YER successful
books on Doubleday. Page & Co.'s list
this spring.
Doubleday: Page & co. announce that
Frank Norris novel, 1.-THE Pit, which is
| before, is in its 94th thousand. The very
successful dramatization of the book will
certainly attract a great many readers
to the novelist's last and greatest novel;
The tragedy of Russian persecution of
the Jew is the main theme Of Ezra s.
Brudno's new book, The Fugitive" pub
month, though it gives an intimate pic
ture Of the life of these peculiar people
as immigrants living in American sluns.
and the '.emancipated' Jew as success
full American as we'll.
Little Nature Library experimenting
their larger and very successful Mature
Library with cOlOred Plates Inc new
library is comprised of volumes dealing
in particular way with such subjects as
How to Attract the Birds, - Mature and
the Camera - Among the Water Fowl "
Mature Biographies - 1.-THE Nature-Study
Idea-' and SO on.
Country Life in America announces that
Ernest Thompson Seton is preparing a
series of articles on the unwritten lore
of the woods. He will start by. telling
how to make fire by rubbing sticks to-
gether; then he will take up all the other
practical things which one has to know
in the woods-what certain woods are
good for; the uses of herbs and plants;
and SO on
Booker T. Washington has been asked
to allow his Atlanta exposition speech to
is being prepared by Prof. George P.
Baker of Harvard for the students in
forensics. Prof. Baker wrote: Il want
to use it with Lincoln's Gettysburg speech
es'" In April Doubleday, Page & Co.
will publish Booker T. Washingtoa's new
and much delayed book, working With
the Hands,.
Mrs Mollie Allen of South Fork, KY,
SAYS she has prevented attacks of chol-
era morbus by taking Chamberlain s
Stomach and Liver Tablets when she felt
usually caused by indigestion and these
tablets are just what is needed to cleanse
the stomach and ward off the approach
ing attack Attacks of bilious collie may
be prevented in the same way. For sale
by all druggists.
Ask your grocer for Simon Pure Bak-
ing Powder. It is the best. Try it.