The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-14
BOOK NOTES

BOOK NOTES.
Various Items AboEt Books That Are
Attracting Attention.
The most popular college songs. Sc
lected from Lays of All the Colleges.
Kinds. Noble & Eldredge, 81, SO and So
Fnteenth street, New York. has Just
been published. These well edited
songs are selected from representative
collections of eastern and western col
leges, and the book is a deIfghtf11Ilvy
varied and entertaining production.
In the Name of Liberty repre-
sents three years of hard work on the
part Of the author, Owen Johnson,
! two years of the time being spent in
Paris. The scene of the novel is the
French revolution during the Terror,
and the characters are types of the
common people, out of whom the
revolution was made, rather than the
historic leaders The love motive it
is said, is of a novel sort, and fur
nishes much adventure, heroism. and
sacrifice. I'm the Name of Liberty
viii be given to the public January IS.
Alan Dale, the dramatic critic Of the
Hearst papers, who has so often roast
ed their plays that he is not allowed by
the theatrical syndicate to enter one Of
its theaters, has broken OUT in fiction
with a deliciously funny novel on the
servant question. Mr. Dale was born
in Birmingham, England, and got his
literary training writing Paris letters
for provincial English papers. But the
humOr of Wanted: A Cook is of the
real American variety, full measure,
pressed down and running over.
0. Henry the name on the title page
of the amusing novel of Central Amer
lean politics, "Cabbages and Kings" is
nom de plume and the incognitO of
the author is preserved by him as far
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years Of wandering through the west,
has settled in New York with his eyes
wide open." as he says, and IL is to be
expected that the oddities Of New York
life will have as amusing treatment
from his hand in the near future as
the oddities of western life have in the
past.
The De1ineator for February. with a
beautiful art cover and varied table
OF contents, Is a most attractive num-
Der. AS a special feature, Lionel s.
Mapleson gives an account of Grand
Opera on its travels, a paper that is
full of humor as well as Of genuine in
terest and is strikingly illustrated. The
romance of Chopin and the beautiful
Countess Delphine Potocka is charm
ingly related by Gustav Kobbe in the
Composers Series" and in an interest
ing paper Allan Sutherland tells some
thing Of the origin and romance of
that matehless hymn of Henry Fran
els Lyte, abide With Me-
Very few of the present generation
Will fail to remember the amusing and
preposterous story, ''Davy and the Cob
lin but hardly any one is aware that
the little Davy of the tale was no one
else than Guy Wetmore CaTryl, the
author of Far From the Maddening
Girls" and that the story was written
to amuse him by his father, Charles z.
Carryl. It is evident that CarryI came
n fr,17o 70
and there is in lis last book Far From
the Maddening Girls somewhat the
same whimsical humor that delighted
US all as children in 'Davy and the
Goblin" CarryPs boyhood was rather
an unusual one. He had the friendship
of Edwin Booth, and used frequently
to be taken by him behind the scenes.
A frontispiece of the Illustrated edi-
ton of the mystery tales Of Edgar Al
Ian Poe, published by Phillips
under the title of Monsieur Dupin,"
represents an unusual idea in illuStra-
ton. It shows two figures wakingl
arn-in-arm down a. street. One is the
famous Monsieur Dupin, and the other !
Edgar Allan Poe himself. The street
is the Rue MOrgue. 1t will be remen-
bered that in the murders of the Rue
Morgue, Monsieur Dupin surprises the /
narrator of the story, in this case Poe |
himself, by his wonderful feats of Ta-
tiocinatiOn, and it is this incident which |
has chosen to show in his frontispiece. |
Mr.. Harold MacGrath, whose gay |
comedy novel, The Man on the Box"
mas made an instantaneous hit, is an /
enthusiastic horseman. That, indeed, |
might have been guessed from his |
novels He is never quite at his ease
until he gets his hero and heroine can
Sering together down some shady lane.
MOI many weeks ago he and a friend
took a two-hundred mile ride about
the state of New York. They rode at
night in the day, at sunset and dawn,
round lakes. over mountains, through
Nalieys, sw1ped apples, hung I'D their
in quaint old villages and
Joliied" the milkmaids out of goblets
q Whlle nectar And they came home,
says Mr. MacGrath, tired, travel
stained, happy and busted"
Readers Of The Smart Set have learn
ca 10 look upon the complete novel that
appears IN each issue of that magazine
~ lne biggest event of the month in
nclon; but even the most enthusiastic
reader viii be happily surprised by the
story IN the February number. Beyond
I uouot The Eavesdroppers," by Ar
eAul otIlnger, VIII prove one of the sen
satlonS OF the year. The story deals
WITH the careers OF two daring criminals
man and Woman-WhoSe aston
sums adventures the reader follows
WIN preathleSS interest From the
very opening sentence the tale becomes
one OF rapid and exciting incident and.
it is written with that liter
aIy distinction which always character
IS Mr. Str1ngerS work. Different as
Inc EavesdrOppers'' is from such fic-
lon as In the Bishops Carriage" and
hafdes, 1t combines all the interest |
= nose STORES With a movement and
intensity entirely it's own. 1t is a no
able achievement for the author, and
VIII prove a notable novelette, in The
smart Sets long list Of successful