The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09


the ancient fable he put himself on the
high road to his success.
BOOK NOTES.
Various Items About Books That Are
Attracting Attention.
Ruth McEnery Stewards George
Washington Jones' was one of the
most popular holiday books.
The Christmas number of the Inter
national Printer, published in Phila-
delph1a, deserves place in the front
rank of beautiful holiday magazines.
George Madden Martins Emmy
Lou was indeed a great Christmas
favorite. The holiday edition which
the publishers. Mcclure, Phillips & Co.,
thought would prove sufficient is ex-
hausted and arrangements are being
made to put the book to press again.
! Mr.. Marion Crawford's new novel,
''-The Heart of Rome published by
Macmillans, is already in it's fourth
edition. The beautiful and richly Illus
trated volume in which Sir Gilbert
Parker and Mr. Claude G. Bryan told
the story OF ''Old Quebec: The Fortress
of New France" went into it's third
/ large edition soon after publication.
Messrs. Macmillan &, Co. of London,
announce that this month they will
odical entitled The Artist Engraver, a
quarterly magazine of original work.
The January number will contain an
etching by Professor A. Legros, an en-
craving on copper by William Strang,
a woodcut by Mr.. G. H. Shannon,
Autograph by Mr.. Joseph Pennell, and
an etching by Mr.. D. Y. Cameron.
The renewed interest created in John
Luther Longs work by the phenomenal
success of the play. "The Darling of
| the Gods in the preparation of which
i David Belasco elaborated with him,
his dainty story. Miss Cherry Blose
/ SON. first published some years ago.
Mr.. Long IS at his best in this story
and in THE Fox Woman" and his
delicate imagination and artistic de-
scription Of the sentimental develop
ments in Japanese life nowhere else
have more fascinating characters or a
more picturesque setting. The book has
been reiSSued with delicate covers in
color and is printed on fine paper. It
4 offers itself as appropriate holiday
reading. ]. B. Lippincott is his pub
Usher.
Some keen observer of men and
books will discover a deep significance
in the fact that two successful novel
lists have turned aside from the f1owery
paths of romance to labor in the less
alluring field of history Gilbert Par
ker and Emerson Hough are the cour-
ageous ones: Sir Gilbert in his odd
Quebec" and Mr.. Hough in his way
to the West" Yet these two instances
hardly establish a tendency. Makers of
fiction are not going to desert in a
body, even though both CT these gentle
men have been remarkably successful
in their historic ventures. While ap-
preCiating the full measure of their re-
sponsfbilities to truth, they have new
ertheless infused their facts with ali
the charm of romance. In this con-
nection, one reviewer says of Hough'S
book: ''It is not a romance, but as ro-
mantle as the best of novels THE
Way to the Vest is receiving unusual
praise: cit is book no one who loves
his country should nliss''-"There is
something altogether soul stirring in
every page''-''AIr. Hough has come to
be quoted before all other men as the
interpreter of the west''-'This book
is said to be history, but it is so inter
estfng that that is difficult to believe "
All this must make very delightful
reading for Mr.. Hough, but it should
not encourage others to follow after
him. Every historian, no doubt, can
write a novel, but every noVelist-the
thought is appalling!
; Louisa Parrthe English novelist. whose
death is noted, will be remembered long,
est probably by her story, Dorothy Fox, =
before published in 1870, and brought out
in new form by her American publishers,
Dorothy Fox is a story of English Qua
ker and army life, and for twenty years
: has been in constant demand creating
2 upon its first appearance g. furore not
less sensational in its day than the i'm
mense popular interest aroused by per
hans a half dozen novels in the last four
or five years. Mrs. Parr was a clever wo-
7 man, with a great deal of humor in her
composition. She resided in London, and.
as a recreation, collected engravings IL
Illustrating the costumes of past genera
novels, all of which were readable, but
/. none of which had the popularity OF
time, though a sufferer for some years
from throat trouble.
Mr.. John La Fargo, whose Great Mas
ters'' which has just been brought out
by Mcclure, Phillips Co., is one OF tbs
most painstaking of our critical authors
, over his first book as Mr.. La Fargo die
over his Great Masters. Just before
leaving for NsW2ort la N SPITE g ne vb was
E works in various languages on, Michel,
Italian painter and sculptor had beea
written fully a year before; but now, as
he said. he was going over the whole field
t again SO that not a single adjective
h should fail to express its precise shadt
- of meaning.
: The author of Evelina is of those who
have been remembered as much fol
Mhat 9 1efg D Defs has wisely chosen
l give the first place in his biography o,
a sLittle Burney," not to her wp 5fl !. bu
= addition to the English Men of Letter
: Series presents a pleasant portrait Of thu
= creature that was Fanny Burney.
:: In Merry Measure" the book of so
l. Mason, will shortly be put ont b,
: Life Publishing company in de lux lux,
$ unes Taken from Life and Rhymes
n and Roundelays."