The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-12
BOOK NOTES.
Various Items About Books That Are
Attracting Attention.


Maud Howe QMrs. John Elliott), the
author of Roma Beata." a book de-
scriptive of modern Italian life, is the
youngest daughter of the late Samuel
G.. Howe, and of Julia Ward Howe,
who has celebrated her eighty-fifth
birthday anniversary Mrs. Elliott has
been before the public as a writer and
lecturer for score of years. In 1884
she went to New Orleans to take charge
of the library department of the wo-
mems exhibit at the New Orleans ex-
position. The outcome of this visit was
Atlanta in the South" perhaps the
most successful of her early books. This
was followed by "Mammon" and, af-
ter a lapse of several years, by Phil
Ida" A year ago Mrs. Elliott and
her sister, Mrs. Florence Howe Hall,
Howe's remarkable pioneer work in
teaching Laura Bridgman, the deaf
blind mute This book. aside from its
great human interest, was of scientific
widespread attention in this country
and in England.
Philip verrill Mighels, author of
"Bruvver Jims Baby" has just re-
turned to New York from a trip to the
newest gold fields in the west-"Gold-
field" Nevada-where he has gathered
material for a novel upon which he is
other Klondike, and that no fiction
could do complete justice to the ele-
mental crudity of the conditions out
there, nor to the picturesque quality of
the language he heard all around him.
Much of this peculiar phraseology he
was able to note and preserve, and will
reproduce in his story.
The new novel by Mrs. Alice Hogan
Rice, author of Mrs. Wigs of the
Cabbage Patch," which The Century
will print, beginning in December, is |
to be called SANDY"
The Value of Friendship, edited by
Frederic Lawrence Knowles, and The
Value of Cheerfulness, edited by Mary
M Rarrows with an introduction by
Gift Book offerings published by II. M |
Caldwell company, Boston In these
unique compilations are gathered the
most notable sayings on Friendship and
the theme of Happiness and Good
Cheer Many of the quotations are from
sources, and all intensely
practical and pointed In The value OF
Friendship Mr.. Knowles ignores no side |
of the subject in his introduction, |
which traces the influence of Friend
ship, while Mrs. Wilcox, to The value |
which is an 1nexhaustible /
spring of sunshine and inspiration. Both /
volumes are beautifully printed on
cameo buff, in two styles of binding;
Cloth gilt and full limp ooze calf, tied
with satin ribbon matching the bind
ing.
Mcclure Philips have recently brought
out Mrs Garnett's translation of TOlStoy'S |
novel. WAR and Peace This book, which
has been long delayed on the press
through the illness of the translator, is |
the third in the series which now already |
contains Anna Karenin'' and Ivan
Ilyitch." The aim is to put into the hands
OF English readers a translation of the
great Russian masters works which shall
present in an adequate manner not only |
the words, but the spirit of the originals
These three novels, belonging to Tolstoy'S
earlier period, are his strongest ana
which every English-speaking reader
should know.
A. Pryor has written for his wife's de-
lightful volume of "Reminiscences of
Peace and War: It will be obvious to
the reader that this book affects neither
the dignity of history" nor the author
ty of political instruction. The causes
which precipitated the conflict between
the sections, and the momentous events
which attended the struggle, have been
by writers competent to the
task. But, descriptions of battles and
civil conclusions do not exhibit the tulI
condition of the south in the crisis. To
complete the picture, social characteris-
lies and incidents of private life are in
lineaments. It occurs to the
author that a plan and unambitious mar
-atiVe of her recOllectionS of washington
society during the cal mwhich preceded
he storm, and of Virginia under the af-
strife will not be without interest in the
,esrospect of that memorable era: The
present volume recalls that era in the
aspect in which it appeared to a woman
'ather than as it appeared to statesman
)r philosopher.