The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-15
lessor H. B. Newa0n Of the University

Charles wagner's famous book, THE
dlers on the streets of New York are now
offering it as the latest illustrated nov
NcClure-Phillips have postponed until
fall the publication OF Charles Wagner
Justice, '''Wayside Sermons" and "The
Spirit of Nature"
| The movement has prevailed to have
/ Les Charmettes,'' the famous home for
/ q brief period of Rousseau, at Cihambery
/ in Savoy, henceforth preserved as a ma
1 tional monument. The preservation Of this
! estate we owe to the glamour thrown
/ around Les Charmettes'' in Rousseau's
Confessions" Yet, as NJ Francois Mug
nier fatty declares in his Nine. de War
/ ems ct j. Rousseau Rousseau mis-
Edated his stay at Les Charmettes'' and
/ was really an occupant in exile, receiving
I rare visits from his mistress who was
| pleased to have him out of the way while
! She prosecuted her business and 9th
| er enterprises with Wintzinried in Cham
/ berry Q738-1749) When she and her latest
/ lover We're ready to settle themselves at
/ and went to Lyons and Paris. Les Char
| mettes'' deserves its naturalization how
| ever, by. reason OF Rousseaus having en-
ployed his leisure there upon literary
Apropos Of the publication in England
of THE Two Captains" by Cyrus Town
/ send Brady and 1.-The Golden Hone" bv
Mr.. Robert H. Fuller, the London Pub
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/ as If it might be necessary for US to es-
tablish Titles of Novels column, so that
| publishers could announce in it proposed
| titles and thus give other publishers and
| authors an opportunity of showing that
| the title had been used before and was
still in use, and thus obviating much in
| convenience and often expense The two
| titles mentioned are the same as those
/ of two novels by a well known writer of
and twenty years ago.
( ,f7ev- nj
1 just out is profusely illustrated. The orig
/ inaI Aubrey Beardsley drawings are re-
| produced with Oscar Wilde's s'Salome,''
which is continued in this issue, and the
| fiction is illustrated by Earl Shearer and
! other leading artists. The short stories
/ larry "A Dead Rose by Julia Truitt
Bishop: "A Tramp's Last Ditch" by Geo.
| Elmer Mccullough, and ''Pearl-A Story
| serious minded there are a number of able
/ and scholarly articles by foremost thinkers
! and writer's of the day, and Lewis Worth
| ington Smiths beautiful Might and the
| Crowd is a literary gem of the first wa
ter.
AinsIee's for May carries the fourth in
stallment of The Deluge,"r by David era
/ ham Phillips, and the evidence it offers is
/ that its author is surprising his best eff
forts in the Cost" and THE Plum
/ Tree
Next week The Macmillan company will
publish several of their most important
| spring books. including Volume I of Prof
| Edward Channings History of the Uni
ted States: Prof. Percy Gardner's Gram
mar of Greek Art BriSadier General
Henry L Abbott's Problems of the Pan
anna Canal Prof. John A. Fairlie's ma
| tional Administration of the United
States;' Mr.. Jack London's The War of
the Classes and the paper bound edition
of Mr.. W. J. Clients Mass and Glass;
Overton and HiITs nature study for chill
dren has been published by the American
Book company. This book furnishes a
| f0
old The subjects for study are those
most familiar to children, such as the fly
the tadDole, frost, the pine tree golden
rod the birds nest, etc. The lessons are
arranged in the order of the seasons, and
throw hSht on the unfamiliar sides OF
these familiar things.