The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23

Baum designs in its publication. tt
conforms to the Wizard of o. Won
derful Monarch of Mo, and the rest in
size, type and illustrations, and it has
unique name like the rest, Queen
Tiki of TX" Here is a hint of what is
in the book:
Suppose that fairies, to please a
passing fancy, wove cloak of won
drous beauty, whose magic power
suppose that a little peasant lad, by
the unexpected working of a dead law
suddenly revived, became king of the
great realm of holland, his will abso-
Lutte and supreme. Suppose that his
young sister was the first possessor of
the magic cloak. which, passed lightly
from hand to hand-most persons ig-
norant of its powers-granted child
foOlish--till the fairy garment was
stolen. Suppose that a strange race,
the Roiyrogues, suddenly descended
upon holland, and only in this extrem-
discovered All very improbable, of
course; but can you not imagine the
queer, ridiculous, perplexing develop
ments possible in 'Queen Xxi of IxV?
1t is practically impossible to locate
Edwin L. Sabin's when You Were a
Boy" Curiously enough, no man
born in a small city or town can read
IL W1lHOuI 1S61I1S II Is located III
or very close to his native village.
There is a rare humor In the story,
| truer to boy life than 1.-THE Real Diary
of a Real Boy" and full of the sympa-
thy which carries every reader back to
his boyhood. 1t is boy life as you lived
it. Baker Taylor company are the
publishers.
We find in the Daily News-Tribune.
of Austin, Texas, in their notice of o.
Henry's '*An Unfinished Story" which
| appeared recently in McClure's, a
statement throwing additional light on
Mr.. Porter's career: Austin people
are particularly interested in every
/ thing from 0. Henry's pen, since he is
no other than Will Porter who for
merly lived here a number of years
The real story of the meeting of the
! recent bride and groom, Myra Kelly
and Allan Macnaughton, makes a very
pretty romance. Although it lacks the
| humorous episode that, has been given
| it, as to Mr.. Macuaughton's nistaking
/ Miss Kelly, when first meeting her, for
| her own granddaughter, it adds to 1t
the flavor of love at first sight. MI.
Macnaughton had read and been capti-
waited by Miss Kelly's book of Fast
Side stories, Little Citizens" as they
| appeared in McClure's Magazine. When
/ a friend of his brothers spoke of bring
| ing Miss Myra Kelly to one of the fire.
| quent paper-chases held at Cedar
| Bridge Mr.. Macnaughton lay low and
| said nothing about his especial interest
| in meeting the author of the stories he
| liked. Of the actual meeting, he says:
/ From the first moment, I began the
1 love making that has lasted ever since.
/ but it's only lately that she's receg-
: nized it,, A charming aspect of the
match, is seen in the fact that not only
/ is Mrs. Naughton an ardent partner of
her husbands love for horses, but he,
! balancing the scales, encourages devot-
eddy her interest in writing, the result
being that for some time they have been
both riding and writing together.
! McCIure-Phillips announce the pub
lication on September / 8 a new book
by Charles Wagner, Justice" Mr..
Wagner points out in this little volume
that it is not only necessary to live the
simple life, but also to live the up
right life; and that we must consider
Justice not only in regard to our fell
bowman. but also in regard to our
selves, not only in regard to our acts
but also in regard to our thoughts.
Charles H. Cafin, the noted art
critic, has written, for those who wish
ligently ''How to Study Pictures"
Each chapter-there are twenty-nine
will have double insets full page
reproductions of the pictures noted as
cussed; and there will be q complete
index and glossary How to Study
Pictures" will be published by the
Century Co. in the fall.
j McClure-Phillips are publishing a
q fifth edition of Stewart Edward
Whites 1.-THE Claim Jumpers" a third
edition of Guy Westmore Carryl's
"Far from the Maddening Girls a
third edition of Hugo Munsterberg s
THE Americans a second edition of
Peter Kropotkin's Russian Litera-
ture," new edition of Ida N. Tar
l. 4 To--T-,
edition of Miss Tarbell's Napoleon
land Josephine
Helen Leah Reed, the writer of
girls stories, is rusticating at Dublin,
N. H., after having completed the first
IvoIunne of the second series of the
popular Brenda books entitled,
fanny in Acadia to be issued this
fall by her publishers, Little, Brown
& Co.
The empress of Japan has accepted
a copy of Mrs. Sarah A. Tooley's Life
of Florence Nightingale" published by
the Macmillan company, and has COM
the author through Sir Claude Mac
donald, the British minister at Toxic.
Little. Brown & Co. announce a sec
ond printing of Roger Pocock's Curly
IA Tale of the Arizona Desert, y
which has been termed the best vest
ern story since 1.-THE Virginian.''
"The Millionaire Baby" by Anna
Katharine Green, was one of the six
best selling in England during Nav -
the only book by an American to be SO
successful.
One bookseller in Chicago has or
tdered from the publishers an average
of ten copies of "The Man on the
Box" every day this year.
Fishing a new edition of the Rollo
books.