The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-08
BOOK NOTES.
Various Items About Books That Are
Attracting Attention.

The outlook company's publication for
the sdPf by jacob Rs
Great Companion, by Lyman Abbott
COMPANION i1,,, volume of his >, The :, Other
A Steiner, professor of applied Chris
tianity in Iowa. university: Getting Ac-
Mcfarland and "A Preachers Story of
His Work. by w. S. Rainsford, D D.,
rector of st. Georges church, New York
All of these books are for publication
during March.
Ezra S. Brudno author of 1.-THE Fugi-
tive an intimate story Of the. lew OPP
pressed in Russi and an immigrant !"
from the press of Doubleday, Page & Co,
is the contributor to the Worlds Work of
an article on The Emigrant Jew at
Home Mr.. Brudnos book is said to
have the value of a human document in
picturing the lives of his people not only
sian yoke, but also in the East Side New
York slums and in successful occupations
as well
The splendid stroke recentl1 delivered
by the yapanese, IN flashing into the
the Russian batt1eship, calls attention to
the central incident in Rev. Cyrus Town
tor to the South But the incident de-
scribed by Mr.. Brady was even more dar-
ing 1t too< more courage forty year.;
torpedo boat, hold the torpedo up against
the side of a vessel and pull the string.
knot craft. launch Il torpedo from several
hundred yards distance. and vanish
The March number of The Reader Mag
azine is the first to appear under the
management and from the press of The
February number from New York and
the March number from Indianapolis
means more than appears on the surface.
Under the most favorable conditions the
difficulties to be overcome in the trans
planting of such property must have
| haau tremendous E,NprV department of
the ma gazine was reorsanized, complete
and unusual arrangements for distribu-
ton were effected, additional type setting,
printing and engraving facilities were
added, and hundreds of details adjusted
the February number was off the press in
New York And yet The Reader Maya
zinc appears on time; its cover adorned
| by newly designed title letter, its table
| of contents long and appetizing, its pages
clearly and beautifully printed, ITS ad-
nouncements for the future enterpr1slng
and encourag ing- The whole performance
probably no more than the friends and
admirers of this energetic western firm
| The frequency with which one hears
demands for good books of short stories.
which publishers and booksellers regard
as the height of the unstable. is one of
the anomalies of the publishing business.
| Possibly the reason is that a really good
short story-or s.short-story," as Profess
/ sor Brander Matthews tells one to write
it's of a rare fulfllment An essay in
/
nounced by Fox, Duffield & Co. from the
pen of Meth Boyce, author of The Fore
runner" 1t will be published under the
title Of Daughters OF Women" and con-
sists of nine tales, the titles Of which
| taken together promise a pit lant inter-
probation of feminine mood anG CHARACTER
The illustrations, which are printed IN
color, are by Horace T. Carpenter.
The frontispiece of the March Century
is a fun page portrait of the pope in
color. The story of the picture is in
| teresting. Some One-whO, no one knows
made a snap shot of Plus, x when he
was patriarch of Venice as he passed in
the procession of Corpus Christi. From
this small photograph George T. Tobin
has made a large drawing To insure cor
rectness of every detail of dress and like
ness, the drawing was submitted to Of
I ficials high in the church and to authorI-
ties on Catholic vestmeuts- Only when
they had pronounced the portrait and its
/ treatment excellent, was work begun on
/ the reproduction. The same issue will
! have also a photograph of the pope stand
ing in front of the spapai throne-a genial
and attractive personality; These por-
traits go with a paper of Anecdotes or