The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-06

'I rule mankind with my Hour Glass
But Death; he looked up then,
And spoke as he worked his glittering
! Scythe
BIghting the lives of men,
What reviewer does not know that
strain; but what reviewer has found it
ever in the work of a child? One can
wish nothing better of little Enid Wells
ford than that she may grow younger.
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BOOK NOTES.
Various Items About Books That Are
Attracting Attention.
DR.. Booker T. Washington is resting up
Mass. His new book. entitled .'WorKi in;
With the Hands," is in a second edi-
ton.
Mrs Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
who is spending the summer at GIouces-
ter, Mass. has just completed a new love
story with dog as an independent
character.
Mary Austin. author of The Land of
Little Rain" has just finished a romance
is to appear in the Atlantic Monthly ser
tally: beginning with September, under
the title of ''Isidro."
The official life of Sir Edward Burnc-
the Macmillan imprint. A literary note
that recently went the rounds stated that
the life of Philip Burne-Jones was to be
published, but this was, it seems, mis-
take.
special graduation ceremonial was
held July by the Edinburgh university
Senatus when the honorary LII D. degree
minister plenipofentiary of the United
States to Spain and author of THE ORR
gin and Growth of the English Consti-
tuition"
1t is said thatssSfr. Marion crawford's
will publish in the fall derives its theme
from one of the best known passages in
offend one of these little ones, it were
better for him that millstone be hung
in the depths of the sea-
LEGATION in the early fall a volume of SER
mons by Rev. George Thomas Bowling,
D. D. rector 6 Of f ffa ehqrf En- hs Ang
Night Sermons" and they are what is
known 6ni2 as pewspaper sermons mo Their
page of the Los Angeles Express.
THE Pride of Jennico.'' the first and
also the best liked of many books by
Agnes and Egerton Castle, appears in a
in the purest vein Of romance, and is.
in fact one of the best examples in re-
pure romance and nothing else. 1t forms
the fifth of the Macmillan Paper Novels
series.
Mr. Mr.; Winston Churchilrs new novel, The
dramatizaton By Sa'q his 70 friend G Mp louis
Evan Evan .shipman: WIG dramatized The
has announced that he will appear in the
play next season, first. it seems in Wash
ington, then in New York
Kate Douglas wiggin and the Misses
Auiay ' at ArdvorIie eh co fts Iochearn
head, Scotland: during the first of July
GRAFTON a love story entitled The Affair
at the Inn" to be published in September
is remaining abroad longer than usual
this summer and has gone from Scotland
to Paris.
Miss Margaret Sherwood. the author of
The Story of King Sylvan and Queen |
literature at wellesley. where she had |
previously been for several years an in
gree of Phi. d. at Yale, having graduated |
some years before from Vassar. In addi- |
Sherwood is the author Or Of fan Expert
ment in Altruism." "A Puritan Bohemia
and Henry worthington, Idealist.''
This. week the. Macmillan company
published Mr.. Menpes biography of
Among the Ruins the new novel by |
Mr.; Warwick Deeping, the author Of
ham by Robert Morss Lovett: 1.-The
American Colonies in the Seventeenth |
Century by Prof, Herbert L Osgood
by Agnes and Egerton Castle, in the Mac
milan PAPER Novels SERIES
Among the books on Doubleday, Page &
Co.'S list for late summer and early fall
are Confessions of a Club Woman by
Agnes SurbridGe, an autobiography"
The Interloper, by Mrs. Violet Jacob, an
nounced by British reviewers a re-
novel; The Seeker" by the
author of The Spenders,' Harry Leon
Wilson; "A Belle of the Fifties,'' being
the memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama;
Letters of Robert z. Lee" edited by his
son; Rudyard Kipling's new volume of
George H. Lorimer's "Old Gorgon Ora
ham,
Whether Queen Elizabeth was a vain
coquette, or worse, is debated by Martin
Hume in two chapters that he has added
to the new edition of The Courtships of
Queen Elizabeth" which McC1ure-Phil-
lips will bring out in the fall. The first
issue of this book treated the Court
ships" merely from a political viewpoint |
These added chapters, containing original
documents unearthed by Major Hume. are
in response to the demands of curious
readers who realized that the author.
in charge of the E,liZabethan state papers