The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-04
BOOK NOTES.
Various Items About Books That Are
Attracting Attention.


Attracting Attention.
] McClure-Phillips announce second
edition of A Conan Doyle's new book,
1.-The Return of Sherlock Holmes" be-
fore the date of publication.
Professor G. H. Howison's book. THE
Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays
Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of
Personal Idealism," has just been pub
lished by The Macmillan company in
second edition, revised and enlarged
Houghton, Ndif1in & Co. announce the
printing of an 18th edition of Our Ma
tional Parks by John Muir. This book
has become a classic of the west, and
should not be overlooked by those who
are making winter trips to California.
DR.. Edward ". Emerson is spending
the winter in southern France. where
he went last autumn soon after he fin
ished editing the new Centenary Ed
ton of his fathers works. He is plan
ming trip through Greece before his
return home.
Legends of the Kaw' is the title of
a little book just published by the
Franklin Hudson Publishing Co. of
Kansas City. 1t is a co1lectiin of IN
dian Folk Lore that will prove of spec
ial interest to any one who loves the
west
The publication Of Mrs. Alfred Ely's
poned from February % to March 1.
Part of the paper for the book was so
greatly delayed in traffic during the
recent storms that the books issue
had to be put off.
Arthur D. S. Macarthur. perhaps the
best known book agent in the west
and who visits Topeka regularly and
is known by every book buyer in the
city, will soon desert the limited ex-
pensive edition field for the more
popular priced works.
A strong American novel dealing
with the beginnings of orange growing
in California by irrigation, entitled
Lewis Mason, will be published by
Little Brown & Co. in March. Mr.. |
Mason is the author of 1.-The Blue
Goose" and ITO the End of the Trail
two mining novels
Mcclure Phillips have added to
their spring list book of dramatic
sketches dealing with the personal and |
war. It bears the title, 1.-The Yellow
War" and the author occupies a
prominent enough position to be
forced to conceal his identity under
the anonymous signature 90"
Anna Chaplin Ray has been assisted
in writing her new South African TO
nance, ION the Firing Line" by
Hamilton Brock Fuller, a Canadian
who served in the Boer war. The
hero of ION the Firing Line" is |
Canadian trooper who fought bravely
in Lord Roberts army, while the
heroine is an English girl. Messrs.
Little. Brown & CO. will publish ION
the Firing Line" in March.
John Burroughs has left the ice and |
snow which surrounds his home on the |
Hudson, for a few weeks of summer in |
Bermuda. One Of the chapters in his |
latest book, Far and Near" tells of a
similar visit which he made several +
winters ago to Jamaica. Another we'll
known author who has gone south for
the winter is Miss Mary Johnston, auth
or of Audrey and ITO Have and To
Hold She is now at Nassau.
The head of one of the largest bank
ing houses in Wall street, who is now
on the Upper Nile, arranged before he i
left New York to have McClure's Maya
zine follow him. His particular interest
is in the Golden Flood" Edwin
Lefevre's Wall street nystery-story,
which began in the February number.
Mr.. Lefevre is the financial editor of a
New York daily and has intimate know
ledge of the men and methods of the |.
street Therefore, Wall street watches
the unfolding of the plot with more
than passing interest
can American Girl in Munich" is
the title of a book of impressions of a
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which Little, Brown & Co. will pub
lish this spring. The author, Miss
Daniels, is a Radcliffe college gradu-
ate. and a musical composer of con-
siderable note. She comments with
originality upon the operas and SYM
phonies which she heard in Munich, !
and a number of actual figures in the
musical world are interestingly refer
red to.
Mr.. Upton Sinclair's novel, ''AIanas- /
5as," which The Macmillan company .
have put to press for the second time
Is gradually being accepted as one of
the most picturesque and also one of |
the meatiest of all the Civil War novels. q
1t is one of those rugged. powerful .
books Of broad canvas which at first re- !
pei people accustomed to commonplace
tales; but the serious critics find it also :
a great panorama OF American life be- :
fore the war and during the intense =
and varied undercurrents of feeling. The i
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