The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-23

Keller. puD1lSuS0 ny hGSSIS- l.
Crowen & Co.. is to be translated into
Japanese. The translator says that the
essay will prove a great power among
the people of that progressive nation,
if it is once introduced to them The
work has had a steadily increasing sale
since it's first appearance here, little
over month ago. and is attracting
general attention.
Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Co. an
nounce that arrangements have been
completed for the publication in Eng
land of Mr.. Clements Handbook of
Modern JAPAN which has proved so
timely book in view of events in the
Orient. This work is planned to give
in the most convenient form the in
formation most likely to be sought for
by those who wish to know and under
stand the status and development of
modern Japan.
A book of travel which is decidedly
out of the common will be published
early in February by ]. B. Lippincott
company, with the title forward" 1t
is from the pen of a young Swiss wo-
man, Miss Boegli, who is already well
known in this country by her work as
a teacher. Miss Boegli who had neither
means nor special influence, started out
to make a trip around the world, work.
ing her way but not in the fashion en-
ployed by several newspaper women
and men who have undertaken the
making an interesting journey Is testi-
fed to by the record of her travels, and
her experiences included meetings with
g good many people who were well
worth meeting.
Is 1t possible for writer to re-enfiesh
such men as Clay, Webster and Cal
houn and set them around the same
table and make them talk realistically
of the burning issue of their time?
This is understood to be one of the no
table achievements in THE Issue"
which Is to appear within few weeks
from the Lippincott press.
Jacob A. Riis. who has been called by
President Roosevelt New York's most
useful citizen" is very busy just now
in getting together material for his
book, Theodore Roosevelt the Citizen,
which is to be brought out by The Out
look company. To friend who recent
ly asked for information concerning the
work, Mr.. Riis wrote: What can I say
about the Roosevelt material. except
that It will deal with Mr.. Roosevelt as
a citizen, and as a friend from the
standpoint of a friend? I am busy
gathering the material now, but 1t is
not easy, because Of the people I want
to reach being scattered here and there.
However, I shall get what I want. 1t
will be my summer work. I shall do
nothing else except keep up the war to
reform the house Of refuge"
"Han's Homeric Stories,'' for young
readers, by Frederick Aldin Hall,
Lift D, professor of Greek in Wash
ington university. St. Louis. has just
been published by the American Book
company, New York, Cincinnati, and
Chicago. The pure and highly imagi-
native tales of Homer are in this book
adapted for elementary reading and
presented as a connected narrative.
They will prove both entertaining and
profitable reading for the children and
q fruitful source Of material for teach
ers. They will explain the numerous
references and illusions to the char
acters and incidents of the Had and
the Odyssey so often found both in
classical and in current literature. The
style of the narrative is clear and
simple, and will both arouse the pupils
interest and hold his attention. The
book is profusely Illustrated, largely
from the works Of celebrated painters
and sculptors. It is the most recent
addition to the well known series of
Eclectic School Readings, and is espe-
cially intended for use in the sixth and
seventh grades.
A royal elephant drive in Siam, in
which trained elephants are used to
capture wild ones, is the subject of Il
graphic Illustrated article in Harper'S
Burgoyne. T. r. G. S. Mr.. BurgOyne
was invited to the drive" by the
Crown Prince of Siam, whom he knew
at Oxford, and therefore had every ad
vantage in seeing the amazing and
even horrifying spectacle. The drive
lasted three days in the course of
which several men were killed by the
fury of the wild elephants. In addi-
ton to the tragic incidents there were
many amusing ones as well. The finest
elephant corps in the world is possess
ed by the Sfamese army, and these