The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-25
BOOK NOTES.


BOOK NOTES.
| Various Items Abont Books That Are
Attracting Attention
In view of the success of H. Rider Hag-
| CARDS latest book, THE Brethren. and
| others that have gone before, such as
| She ALLEN Quartermain,' etc, it is
| amusing to hear that the first three books
written by this gifted romancist DroughL
4 him in the enormous sum of ten pound
! sterling As can readily be understood,
| the young author was a little discouraged
/ by this showing, but resolved on one more
/ Shot ana nToduced liking Solomon s
Mines" which made him famous at once
| G. W. Dillingham; Co. announces a 25
/ cent edition of the Albert Ross Novels, OF
| which nearly million copies have been
| February and March. a detective story by
/ Fergus Hume-''The Mandarin's Fan
story by E. Spence de Pue. You Can
Search Me" by the author Of John Hen
farlane- THE Black Motor Car. by. Har.
ris Burland. When Love is King" by
Margaret Doyle Jackson. and Reuben
Larkmead,' by Edward w Townsend.
Mr. Jack London has sent to the Mac
milan Co the manuscript of his new
book, 1.-The War of Classes"
A tale of Russian prison cruelty is told
IN Harper's Magazine for March by Dr.
Emile Joseph Dillon. who writes at first
hand OF Monastery Prisons in Russia In
I
| confined as long as s. years Some have
gone mad; others, released after years of
emerged as physical wrecks unfit for 1iv-
ing at all. In former years these dungeons
iron cages enclosed in stone towers, into
which 'hereticS'' were dropped like rats,
nor lie down. There they sat in an up
right position until they miserably perish
cd The Solovetsk prison was abolished
by kuropatkin ten or twelve years ago,
but the Suzdal Monastery prison still ex-
lists. Confined there now is Nastassia
Euzminichna Shoovina, or Sister Mary, as
she was called in her own convent, and
her tragical story is told by DR.. Dillon.
E;verybody's Magazine for March comes
out with a blow at the Beef Trust-timed
SELL one of the best known and most
torceful of writer's, shows, in his second
World the source OF the Trust in the
refrigerator car: The Bandit of Com
zeal, virile style the system of mileage and
icing charges by which the Beef Trust
commercial field. Mr.. Russells story is
clear as crystal. The reader sees as
through plate glass the marvellous work
ings OF the greedy monopoly. Mr. Lawson
jumps directly into the beginning of
Amalgamate ted. He tells Of the develop
lnent or his interest in copper, he de-
scribes the situation when Boston ruled
those now famous stocks, and narrates
graphically the bitter fight over Butte &
Boston. The installment ends with vivid
description of a significant interview in
which Rogers agrees to take up the
scheme of Amalga mated and finance it for
Lawson. In Lawson and His Critics,
Mr.. Lawson cuts loose and disproves cate
gorically many of the statements which
him
A wide range of topics of immediate in
terest, both national and International
marks the issue of The World To-Day for
March. The illustrations in this great 10
cent magazine are again fascinating. OF
on The Problem of the Panama Canal, "
by John F. Wallace, chief engineer of the
canal commission.
Mrs. H. NJ. Lothrop (dargaret Sidney
IS engaged in completing the tenth of the
the Isothrop Lee 4 Shenard 20 have in
press for publication uPOn their LOthrop
list during the present season. The pop
ular demand for these remarkable books
is continually increasing; the sales during
the past season surprising all previous
records.
Laird & Lee Of Chicago have just added
reference. It is called The Little Giant
Question Settler" and, as the name i'm
pIies. Il Is a whole library in itself. Hard
~ an important fact that is not mention
ed, and its real value is greatly enhanced
by being alpha betically arranged and
cross indexed-3000O questions and argu-
ments quickly settled.
E P. Powell. author Of .sTbe Country
Home" before he took up literature and
the study of problems of rural life, was a
minister He held a number of pastorates
in the west. at Adrian, Mich, st Louis
Chicago. etc. He is closely associated with
Journalism and is now on the staff of the
Independent and the Arena, besides doing
a great deal of literary criticism and 9TH
er literary work for the leading dailies
and literary journals
A book of curious interests which The
Macmillan company have just published
1or The Sociological Society contains a
collection Of Sociological Papers, by
Francis Cation, E. Westermarck p
GeddeS, E Durkheirn Harold H Mann
and V V. Branford. These papers were
read before The Sociological Society last
year and the volume includes the dis
cussions which followed some of them
Hon James Bryce. president of the
Society, contributes an Introductory ad-
dress.
BIT and Spur is the title of a new
horse show magazine in which Albert r
Reid. the we'll known Topeka artist is in
terested- 1t Will be published In kansas
Every one at all in touch with the his
tory OF the day will want to read the ar
tlcle announced to appear in the March
/ century, on The Outlook for Reform, II,
Russia, by David Bell Macgowan. whose
name IS associated with recently publish
ed accounts of "A Russian I.ourdes'' ana
The Conflict I'm Finland