The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-30
BOOK NOTES.
Various Items About Books That Are
Attracting Attention.

Various Items About Books That Are
Attracting Attention.
The American book company is pub
fishing a new series of books under the
general caption of the "Gateways Ser
les of English Texts" The general
editor is Henry Van Dyke. Three vol
umes of the series already issued are:
Macaulay's essay on Milton; Carlysle's
essay on Burns, and ShakeSpeare'S
Merchant of Venice.
Mr. Riis' Theodore Roosevelt the
Citizen in addition to being a biog-
raphy of the most unconventional type,
will contain a series of human dOcu-
ments in the way of an admirable col
lection of portraits of Mr. Roosevelt
during the various stages of his career.
He will be pictured as a Harvard stu
dent, an assemblyman, police COM
missioner, as lieutenant colonel of the
Rough Riders, and as vice president.
The Sargent picture win be included,
and the latest portrait drawn especially
for the Riis book by Mr.. George t.
Tobin. here will be also a number of
family groups. The book is to be pub
Iished this spring by the Outlook COM
pany.
A second edition of Henry Harland's
romance of Italy MY Friend Pros
pero," has been put to press by the
publishers, McClure-Phillips, the first
| large edition having been exhausted.
Interest among Germans in New
Yolzr in Bruno Lessings stories of New
Yorks Ghetto, Children of Men,
Faroused by the reviews in German pa
pers, has been SO great that there is q
probability of a German edition being
printed.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's new
book. The Home; It's Work and Its
Influences has been put into a second
/ TC(N1
Henry Wallace Phillips amusing
story, Red Saunders" (McClure-Phil-
lHps) continues it's popularity and is
now in press for the fourth edition.
Norman Duncan's book of stories
of the sea, 1.-The Way of the Sea, is to
be published in England.
Mrs. George Madden Martin. author
of Emmy Lou" has finished the novel
upon which she has been working. 1t
! is a novel of the North and South,
showing the contrast in characters be-
| tween the two peoples that make up
the United States. The action takes
place on the border line some years
after the war
The Macmillan company has just is
sued the January number OF the Bur
| Iington Magazine, which has become
famous during its two and a half years
of life for its beautiful reproductions of
1 all sorts of rare objects of art, the real
| appreciation of which is confined chief
" to the connoisseur. The most at
/ tractive features of this issue are re-
productions of paintings by Greuze,
Rubens and others. in the Normanton
/ collection. by ]. S. Cotman, and by the
early Milanese painters
Miss Margaret Morley. whose delicate
and original nature books, The Song
of Life Life and Love- THE Bee
/ People etc. have brought her so Sc
i cure a reputation has written a most
entertaining volume about squirrel life,
which she has named LITTLE Mitchell.
the Story Of a Mountain Squirrel" and
| which Miss Morley's publishers, Messrs.
/ A G McClurg & Co, will bring out this
i spring 1t is needless to say that her
book will prove delightful reading for
children and their elders as well, and
it will be further enhanced by twantv-
four illustrations by Bruce Horsfall,
whose graceful fancy and imagination
should produce most sympathetic illus
trations for Miss Morley's book.
1t is said that the book by George
Venice" will contain surprise for
those who have regarded the new
mayor of New York as politician pure
and simple This book. announced for
early publication by Houghton. Mif1in
& Co, will show Mr.. Mcclellan also in
the character of scholar and man OF
letters.
Among the books promised in the near
future is that entitled ''Tolstoy the
Man. which Prof Steiner of Grinnell
college has in preparation, and which
will bear the imprint of the Outlook
company Prof Steiner is an acknowl-
edged authority on all Slav and Russian
topics and has known Tolstoy for sew
enteen years. Last year he spent sew
eral months at Yasnaya Polyana, where
the great Russian lives. and other places