The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-02

| one of my stories once and didn't
suppost they'd survived that
NO" replied the l. e., that's an old
number. They took one of my things,
too, and I think they suspended soon
AFTER
nobody can say that we've live in
vain"
Flora Annie Steele, whose brilliant
novel of life in India, "On the Face of
the Waters" deserves a place among
the classics and might have won it had
it been its authors lot to belong to
any other than this age of the literary
deluge when the best piece of fiction
must necessarily be lost in the flood
of books. good. bad and Indifferent,
which pours increasingly from the
publishing houses, has a new book
prepared for publication. The title is
India" and the Macmillan company
are the publishers. The book will ap3
pear some time before Christmas and
will be illustrated in colors by Morti-
mer Menpes.
The most important contribution yet
made in English to our knowledge of
the way in which all classes of Roman
society, including the aristocracy, the
plebeians, the freedmen and the slaves,
ordinarily lived in the relatively happy
age of the Antonines is presented in
the large octave volume of $50 pages,
ientitled Roman Society From Nero to
Marcus Aurelius," (Macmillans) by
Samuel Dill, honorary fellow and late
" tutor of Christ Church college, OK
ford, and now professor of Greek in
Queens college, Belfast. This book is
what it purports to be, a social, not a
political history. Attention is concen-
trated on the manners, morals and
spiritual tone Of the time depicted, and
apparently little space is allotted to the
Roman empires external history and
the machinery of government.
Nearly all novel readers will remem-
Der in James Lane Aliens book of three
or four years ago, THE Reign of Law"
David, the young divinity student who
found it impossible to keep his faith in
the cid dogmatic creeds after he had
come in touch with the modern philos-s
ophers. For this character the sugges-
ton was offered Ito Mr.. Allen by
friend and college mate, William B.
Smith, whose name has now become
prominent in connection with his re-
markable volume expressing the South
erner's and the scientists view of the
race problem, 1.-The Color Line" CMc-
Clure-Phillips.) Prof Smith now holds
the chair of mathematics at Tulane
University, though his first love, as
with David, was Divinity. An innate
interest in all science and philosophy in
degree Weaned him from this first
love to the study of such truly modern
branches as anthropology, biology, so.
GEOLOGY and ethnology. pure science rep
resented in mathematics, and the mod
ern German PHILOSOPHERS. 1t is to this
wide sweep of scientific interest that
he owes the breadth of his treatment
of the race. problem.
: 1t is easy for the public to think that
Conan Doyle has been writing of real
people in his Sherlock Holmes stories.
The publication of 1.-THE Return of
I@V--
ers a letter extremely interesting, as
showing how completely Doctor Doyle
has made his characters live. The
writer dates his letter from a little
Pennsylvania town. and says: zone
story gave a description Of Horace
Harker, in whose house man had been
murdered, in, London l. am much in
terested in the Harker family, and
would be awful glad if I could get in
correspondence with some of the Harker
er was a Harker, who came to this
country with her parents when she was
quite young. Do you think if I would
write to Doctor Watson. in London, who
seems to have been Mr.. Holmes con-
fident companion, that he would an
swer my letter, and try to place me
in communication with some one? Can
you. give me Doctor Watson's address
in London? Yours very truly
experiments in the breeding of new
fruits have made him one of the lead
Ing scientists of the day, recently read
q. P. Powell's new handbook on the
raising and cultivation of fruits and
berries, The Orchard and Fruit Gar
den." He writes that it is "a highly
interesting and valuable book. 1t tells
briefly and plainly just what all fruit
growers, especially beginners, most need
to know" r.
Its praise of motoring and its benef1t
to mankind spiritually, physically and
mentally, we have had that remark
able letter by Kipling contributed to A.
B. Fison Yeung's 1.-THE Complete Mo-
torist'' (McClure-Phillips). There seem,
however, to be two sides to the shield.
6. Loves Dickinson, author of "Relig-
iona Criticism and A Forecast" (N1c-
Clure-Phillips). presents the reverse in
an article which appeared in a recent
number of the Independent Review. Mr..
Dickinson regards motoring as pernici-
ous.-as a manifestation in sport of the
modern vice of endless rush and hurry,
so detrimental in concentration and to
steady, calm mental progress.
The Century company will issue Sep
TENDER 9th a new volume of verse by
Mr.. Richard Watson Glider, I'm the
Heights L. Frank lockers Under
new novel by Helen r. Martin, author
of "Tillie: A Mennonite Maid, ""Sabina,''
a study of Amish life; and three books
for young people: Queen Zixi Of 1x,''
by L. Frank Baum; Captain Myles
Standish,'' by Tudor jerks; and ''Pinkey
Perkins; Just a Boy by Captain Ham
mond, U. S. A
Bills Meanness.
HI wouldn't have thought il of him. SIR