The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23
BOOK NOTES.
Various Items About Books That Are
Attracting Attention.

various 1JCI1lS <ADOuL IoOOhS 4IdI <AAO
Attracting Attention.
More than 1900 copies, of Mrs. F1orence
Morse Kingsley's novel, The singular
last week. and the publishers have put
the book to press for the fourth time
"Present-Day Japan" by A. NJ. Camp
bell DAVIDSON. which J. B. Lippincott co:
dr draw wings ass and reproductions Of native pic:
THE Kara-Mon, or Chinese Gate of the
Temple of Ieyasu."
The new volume OF short stories Just
| finished by Rudyard Kipling will be pub
aSt9mn by UNDER the te GO and p
coveries.' This is the first volume of the
a nS KM 6Prg ha eonans one f Ons
The Army Of a Dream" hitherto un-
printed.
The August number Of Harper's Maya
t tine Is insta nHraG Of Mrs Wards story.
THE Marriage of William Ashe," there
Phelps, Robert w. Chambers Margaret
Deland Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Alice
Dunning. A. Russell Weeks, Mrs. Charles
Terry Collins and Edwina Stanton Bab-
cock.
The manufacturing task of printing and
binding the forthcoming exposition num-
be so much greater than the publishers
expected that it has been If found z 1eees-
August 5, by which time it is expected
that all the orders Will be completed ana
tains considerably over 200 pictures and
between $50 and 400 pages.
Charles Wagner will write his Impress
sions of America after the visit which no
is to pay as sightseer and lecturer to the
United States during October and Noyem-
Der next; What the author Of The Sun
tial election hysteria will be vastly inter-
esting. President Roosevelts expressed
:, civ n i'm
opportunities for central view of the
excitement.
The latest volumes of the Newnes thin
paper series imported. by Messrs; Charles
of Walter Savage Landor;' .,WoTd9-
WoEths selected ot By WIIisR
in two volumes: s'The Ingoldsby Lee
gends:' Defoe's IA Journal Of the Plague
Of Pocket sze se s eaeS 2 limp
leather.
There has been no more incisive discus
sion of the present political status of the
tied Why Disfranchisement is Bad" by
Archibald H. Grimke, in the July number
himself three questions: Can disfranchlse-
ment of the negro settle the negro ques-
the nation? He concludes that it can
not, and that it is equally bad for all
far-seeing paper IS distinct contrihu.
ton to the discussion of this most vital
question.
The World Today for August IS worthy
of the success which has resulted from
year In point Of illustrations, articles
and editorials it is the leading 10 cent
ooier Of women Presldents Of Women
Colleges" introduce an article by the ed
1 East ana ttgaefive pictures that
really illustrate accompany the article.
General Charles KIM. King writes in his ts, usual
Academy" and George p. Vincent on
Student lent Clubs and the University Spir-
cy'' is treated by Arthur Gilman.
Magazine for August, The Promise of
Civic Beauty" Andrew Wright Crawford
of iiadelphia~disc1sses with expert
knowledge and sympathetic enthusiasm
the outer3Park systems item OF , america an9
numerous superb illustrations. Another
popular P paper by an expert Is ,1 the 1n ns
the Mosquito by Prof. John Bernhardt
Smith of Rutgers. who outlines the meth
cessful results in the warfare carried on
under his directions as state entomologist
of New Jersey.
THE moral of Mr. Riis book, taken as
reviewing Children of the Tenements,
lis that the wholesomeness. and there
and economic reform with the other. His
life is. in spite Of ali its miseries to those
who are hobbling along with the help or
all sorts of economically unsatisfactory
and neutrality-suspicious. crutches of their
own contriving, though 1t is possibly a
more excellent thing when built up ac-
cording to principles of law and order, on
a sound industrial basis of self-support-
ing effort.
Messrs Dodd, Mead & Co are to publish
at the end of the summer Thackeray
Wilson. The work will be in two volumes
and will contain facsimile letters with
rhackeray Some of these will appear
Tor the first time and show ThackerayS
viii be nearly 100 illustrations in all, in
GLIDING about Is full page Thackeray por-
rats raj by Dorgay, D9yf eg ronp n oe pie
lures is by Thackeray including the IL
members of the British royal family. in
which the head of each member is taken
rom an English stamp.
Mr.. Howells is particularly engaging in
wherein he discourses on the acquisition
Il useless information. He recites the
interesting story Of young girl who de,
lerself to reject her suitors in a way the
east hurtfui to their feelings. To this
,osals upon which she could lay her
land, and spent hours in acquiring the
that pron ss ae her She's %
nipple reason1she loved him. There
or she was left with all the unneces-
airy information she had obtained with
'Uncle Bob and Aunt Becky's Strange
ion BY Herschel williams. has been
by Laird & Lee, Chicago The