The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-17

Charles S. Finch of Lawrence has
been conducting an investigation to
ascertain the number Of copies of COM
plete files of the Kansas magazines. now
IA the state. Here is his latest informa-
zion on this question::
Some time ago the Gazette asked
An reference to the old Kansas Maya
zine, and requested those who posses
sea the nles complete to let US know.
AZ Lawrence, there are, so far as report
ca, three complete sets, if they may be
properly so called. They Belong to Mrs
Huston Nesbitts Captain J. @. Haskell
and Paul r. Brooks. Another set that
belongs in Douglas county is owned by
col A. r. Greene, government land
inspector, now stationed in Portland,
Oregon. The Gazette has the follow
ing from him in reference to it:
Yes. there are others who have a
complete set Of the Kansas Magazine.
think Milton r. Moore of Tucson,
Arizona, has a set He was the pub
Usher of the magazine and had a cord
Of them when he broke up. He used to
invite his friends to help themselves.
Years afreFWarQ Web Wilder gave me
a number of copies and remarked that
some day the people of Kansas would
appreciate that publication. L set to
work and for year or two secured the
old book shelves of the country for the
missing numbers, finally completing the
set and paying all the way from %
cents to $3.50 a copy for them. When
the binder handed the two handsome
volumes to me he said something about
$25, but L could take four times that
for them if I was disposed to part with
them, which I am not 3"
There are probably a dozen files own
ed by private individuals in Topeka
George ". Crane has two, z. D. Os-
born has one inherited from his father,
c. S. Gleed has one, Eugene Eagan
got a complete file five years ago in an
old book store for $25 and occasional
= se~
way though they have become very
rare. The complete file includes p num-
bers of the magazine beginning in 1871
and continued to October, 1873. John J.
ingalls, Blue Grass appears in the sec
ond volume The editors were Henry
King and James W. Steele. The pub
hCation never was a paying venture
though it contained the cream Of west
ern literature. Ten years ago a file
was sold by Mr.. Crane for $50, but it
would be difficult to say what would be
the value Of a set today There are
none on the market.
Rand McNauy & Co. of Chicago
have published an interesting addition
to American juvenile literature in THE
Child WHEN by Charlotte j. Ciprianis
In THE Child Vivien, Miss Cipriani
gives US a vivid picture of boyhood in
medieval France, bringing before US
one of the lOng-IOst characters of the
Old French Epic. The story is full of
human interest and appeals in its new
garb to readers of every age, for senti-
ment is not lacking despite the wild
ness of the times to which the tale be-
longs. There is pathos in the relation
of Wivien to his fOster-nother in the
love of the childless mOther-heart for
the mOtherless child, with it's endless
patience through all the boys pranks
and its sudden energy in the boys eX-
tremity; but there is plenty of humor
in the contrast between the nature Of
the merchant and that of the knight,
q study not without social importance.
Indeed the principal value and charm
OF the story is its ufelike represent Ia
ton of a state of society which has
formed an integral part of our civiliza-
ton and has not unWOrthily fulfilled
its approximate mission: the triumph
Of Christianity over Mohamm edanisrn,
OF the western civilization over the
eastern. The book is appropriately
illustrated by Mr.. B. J. OLSON Nord-
feIdt. and is tastefully and attractively
printed and bound.
Lovers of nature and the animal
world are going to find no article in
the June magazines more to their Xix
ing and profit than John Burroughs
essay in the Cosmopolitan, "a Beavers
Reason" Mr. Burroughs explains
most clearly and fully the difference
between animal and human intelli-
gence, which is a matter on which
everybody would like to be informed.
One of the new Houghton Miflin
publications is 1.-THE Children of Good
HanfOrd Henderson. The author is in
harmony with the trend of the most
advanced and authoritative thought in
holding with the Greeks rather than
with the Germans that there can be
a