The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-07

tempt at New York life was even more
disastrous, and her little story, I'm the
Closed Room could not be written at
all in New York, although New York
ished until Mrs. Burnett again took
refuge in Long Island Almost any
author who has tried New York life
could tell the same story.
The Macmillan company announce
for issue early in the spring the first
volume Of Professor Edward Chan
ning's History Of the United States.
This volume. devoted to"The Planting Of
q Nation IN the New World brings
the work down to the period OF the
Restoration, which marks an epoch In
the administrative relations between
the English government and the colon
lists. The work will be completed IN
eight volumes.
Mcclure Phillips have purchased
from D. Appleton & Co. the plates and
publishing rights of Stewart Edward
Whites early book, THE Claim Jump
ers." McClure-Phillips are now the
publishers Of the following books by
Mr.. White; 1.-THE Claim Jumpers .
1.-THE Westerners,e 1.-THE Blazed Trail, -
l"Conjuror's House." 1.-The Silent
Places" The Forest" "The Noun
tains'' and "Blazed Trail Stories" They
promise next season his new book now
running serially in McClure's Magazine
1.-THE Rawhide-"
From the varied table Of contents of
the Worlds Work may be selected for
mention the following titles: "a Warn
ing Against Speculation" John w.
Alexander" by Charles II. Caff1n; THE
Railroads Death Roll" by Leroy Scott;
New Ways About the World" by
Atherton Brownen; "A Great Farmer
atW ork," by Harry Hodgson: What
at Work" by Harry Hodgson; what
Carver: and IAN Instructive Factory
Village" by Edward Kirk Titus.
Casper Whitney, as well as Walter
Camp, has picked an All-Amertcan
eleven for 1904, and it is interesting to
compare the choice made by the two
experts. Mr. Whitney says in Outing
that his eleven lis chosen, after sea-
sons observation, with a view to col
Letting the strongest all-rOund team.
No man whose amateur status is a
matter Of question or whose play mas
been unsportsmanlike is eligible to this
national team, which. in keeping with
its honorary nature, endeavor to con-
fine to sportsmen." 1t is composed of
cago, fullback; Torney, West Point, and
Smith, PENNSYLVANIA, halfbacks; Rock
we'll, Yale, quarter; Shevlin, Yale, and
Speik, Chicago, ends; Hogan (captain),
Yale, and Cooney, Princeton, tackles;
Piekarslxi, Pennsylvania, and Gilman,
Dartmouth, guards; Upton. West Point,
center.
Apart from the fiction, the principal
articles of the Reader Magazine are the
third OF Hector Fuller's papers on Get
ting into Port Arthur" q study OF
Shifting Party Lines, A Look Toward
the Future by Way of the Past" by
David Graham Phillips; and Sex and
University" by Annette Austin.
The New York public library has just
been increased by consolidation which
will add II, 900 volumes to its resources,
and will greatly strengthen 1t in the
interest and sympathy Of the Catholic
readers of the city. On December %, at
a meeting of the trustees of the cathe-
dral free circulating library of New
York, it was unanimously agreed ito
consolidate with the New York public
library, such consolidation to take eff
feet on January I, 1906 This library
had q total circulation last year of 37S,-
IT'S volumes, and was administered at
a total cost of s22. 053.22. of which it
received from local taxation $17,274.96.
Thus does the city take one more step
towards the realization Of its hope Tor
a library which shall be commensurate
with it's own greatness.