The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-16
SUMMER READING.
Books That Are In Demand
During Hot Days.
Even Works on Cookery Are
Eagerly Sought.
CITY LIBRARY PLAN.
A Five Cent Department Has
Been Organized.
CITY LIBRARY PLAN.
Necessary to Meet the Demand
for Popular Novels.

IOr FOpulhE NOtOAS'
i. with the advent of hot weather in
terest in heavy reading falls off anC
most of the calls for books at the 10
weka public library are for fiction
New fiction is generally preferred ano
In these days of the literary deiuge
or as clever Topeka girl said recently
Of the writing public, there Is no.
much difficulty in providing new sto-
Ties for those that want thsm- Bu
every now and then there IS one PEI
ftcular new story and every one Wilt
a library card seems to want II 10
meet this demand a new feature mas
been introduced at the Topeka nprarS
an the popular five cent DoDh
r copies of those works of fiction Tor
which there are the most calls ana
when the regular library copy OF the
book is out the holder of caro- can
obtain an extra. copy for one week by
paying I'VE cents.
The popularity of public library DOCKS
IL as unstable as the popularity OF pup
dc heroes but Just now Anna Michel
sons I'm the Bishops Carriage, an
other contribution to the fiction or
crime and criminals, is probably asked
for oftcner than any other book me
story of the life of Byron, is another
People are still reading Jack Lon
don's call of the Wild, and the
Letters of Self Made Merchant to
His Som and of the son to his father,
show no dfminution in popularity. Two
books still older (for now book
published six months ago is so an
Gent as to be forgotten usually which
retain their hold on the people judging
by the calls for them at the library,
are Mrs. Wigs" and "Lovey Mary.
John Fox's Little Shepherd of the
rCn
new novel THE Crossing" Hamlin
Garland's Captain of the Gray Horse
Troop and ''Hesper," Ellen Glasgow S
ssThe DeIiverance," Mary Johnstons
ductor," Williamson's clever automo-
bile story, Edith Wharton's 'Sanctu-
ary' Stewart Edwards Whites THE
Silent Places" p. V. MighelS ''Bruvver
ment." Wilder Goodwin's -Four Roads
to Paradise, Myrtle Reeds Lavender
and Old Lace" Booth Tarkington's
CHERRY are other new books for
which there are many calls daily.
You would not think, perhaps, that
people would go to the public library
for a book on cookery, any more than
they would depend upon it for infor-
Doctor Comes" but the fact remains
that Mrs. Rorer'S New Cook Book is
one of the most popular books in the
Topeka library. Other books on do
are called for so frequently as to leave
no doubt of the general interest in
domestic science. The arts and crafts,
too, come in for much attention from
the holders of cards and the library
has recently added a number of books
devoted to this subject. Booker Wash
tngton's working With the Hands"
is one of the most popular of these
and there are others, THE Teachers
Handbook of Manual Training" by J.
s. Woodward, Manual Training in
Education" by c. NJ Woodward, books
about basket making, about Practical
Carpentry" home mechanics, Com
mon Sense in Stair-Building" and so
forth There are new books about
farming and gardening for which
many calls are made, and indeed,
aside from fiction the taste of the peo-
pie who read seems to be directed
along practical lines just at present.
There is new book telling How to
Look at Pictures" and another which
tells How to Know Oriental Rugs"
although most people still know them
by the price. Books about sculpture,
architecture, painting and pottery are
very popular A new book on music
which has not created much enthusi-
asm here, although 1T was written by
a foremost American musical critic, is
James Huneker's Overtones. The Ii |
brary has recently added Groves Die
tionary of Music and Musicians to its |
reference department
4 Poetry is not especially popular in |
4OpCkds especially Ine new poetry. /
You may be surprised to know that |
there is any new poetry except James |
Whitcomb Rfley's annual batch of /
verse and Kipling's Five Nations" |
both of which have many readers, but |
the recent additions to this class in |
the library include some twenty vol |
umes of verse Among these are the |
suppressed Poems of Tennyson-early |
efforts of the poet which he withdrew
from publication but which some un-
scrupulous collector has gotten out
now that the copyright has expired
and Lord Tennyson gone where the |
Rudyards cease from Kipling and the
Haggards Ride no more Other
poets in the list are z. r. Sill who
writes for the magazines a good bit |
IT. B. Edgar, F. S. Saltus, G. A Baker.
Josephine Dodge Daskam, who seems |
to do a little bit of everything in a |
literary way, Henry Abbey, Bliss Car
man and G. E Woodbury.. Ella |
Wheeler Wilcox's Poems of Passion |
are a new addition to the library |
Whether this volume is a renewal re- |
placing a former edition or whether |