The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-19

Many of the pictures are in richly
varied colors, others are in delicate
tint, and there is a fine engraving on
wood. 1t is, all in all, a challenge to
future periodical literature, and epre-
sents the high water mark of maya
zine making.
Public interest is stimulated afresh
in Andre Castaigne, ranked as one of
the most brilliant of living illustrators,
through the publication of his first
book, "Fata Morgana," a tale of life in
the student quarter of Paris and in a
tiny Adriatic duchy. Andre Castaigne
was born in Angouleme in 1861. He
studied in Paris at the Suisse academy
of Gerom and Cabanel. In 1890 he
came to this country as director and
instructor of the Charcoal club, Balti-
more, returning to France in 1894 to
academy, Paris. His summer home is
in the country near his place of birth;
in winter, his studio is in Paris.
The minds of the young people of
Council Bluffs, Iowa, shall not be af-
fected by the biography of President
Roosevelt written by Mr.. Jacob A. Riis.
This is the dictum of the library trus-
tees, which constitutes, it seems, a
Democratic board. At their recent
meeting it was voted not to permit the
purchase of Roosevelt's life.
1.-THE Queens QUAR-" Mr.. Maurice
Hewlett's novel founded on the life of
Mary Queen Of Scots, has just gone into
it's fourth large edition. In quality,
character, and power, many critics of
the highest scholarship rank it as the
book of the year..
Philip verrill Mighels. who's "Bruv-
yer Jim's Baby is QUE of the most
popular Of recent stories ~f western life,
contributes to the current Harper's
Weekly a dramatic story of life in a
Rocky Mountain mining camp. Mr..
Mighels knows intimately the exciting
phases of life in the west, and he has
written an absorbing story based on a
test of manhood to which a young
miner was put in his love for the he
roine of the camp.
A second edition of Rider Haggard's
1.-THE Brethren" has already been
published in England.
The ]. B. Lippfncott company has
received a gold medal at the St. Louis
exposition for the artistic design,
quality of material, skill of workman
ship and literary excellence of it's
books n publications. This firm is
one of a very few that conducts every
process Of -bookmaking under n
roof.
zangwilrs story The serio-Comic
G~overness," in the play from which
Miss Lotus seems to have made a hit,
Illustrations. The Macmillan com
pany will issue it on November 16,
uniform with their edition of
Merely Mary Ann" published last
a
The recent death of Isabella Bird
Bishop has removed one of the most
remarkable woman-globe trotters and
authors of the past half century. The
daughter of an English clergyman,
she began her travels at the age of
22, and kept them W with few breaks
till just before her death. In that
time she covered all of the United
States including The Rocky mountain
reads there. She spent a long time in
Japan, then just emerging from bar
barism, went far into the interior of
China, and also penetrated into Tibet.
She crossed Mongolia, and spent a
long time in Korea Her last venture
was a 1000 mile trip in Morocco, in
Guiding the Atlas mountains-pretty
large undertaking for a woman ap-
Mrs. Bishops many books earned her
the honor of being the first woman to
be elected a member of the Royal
Geography society.
Messrs. Little, Brown & Co. will
publish shortly a new edition of Sarah
Tytler's "Old Masters and Their Pic
illustrated with twenty full
plates OF famous paintings. The
is intended for lovers of art
is one of a little group written by
the author, who from 1S4S to 1870
was joint proprietor of a girls board
ing school at Casper Fife. After some
years devoted to literary work in
London, she went to Oxford, and, as
of one of the boarding houses
students, keeps in ouch both
r-sAI - l. Ill -
pairing for her former profession.
She is Miss Henrietta Keddie to them,
and, in spite of her seventy-seven
years, they find her a sympathetic
Stewart Edward Whites new book,
"The Mountains" has gone into a sec
ond edition.
Not a Sick Day Since.
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