The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-11
BOOK NOTES.
Various Items About Books That Are
Attracting Attention.


Various Items About Books That Are
Attracting Attention.
Topeka people and other Kansans
who knew Cyrus Townsend Brady
when he was archdeacon of the
Episcopal diocese OF Kansas will be
pleased to know that he has written a
new sea. story, The Two Captains.
which has just been published by the
Macmillan company
One of the new volumes in the Mac
milan Pocket Classics Series will con-
sist of selections from Mathew Ar
nold's Poems" edited by J. @. Castle
man, assistant principal and teacher
of English in the Bloomingdale, Ind.
high school. In the same convenient
series have recently appeared an edl-
ton of 'Hawthorne's Wonder BOOK
and one of 'Alice in Wonderland.
Mr.. Robert Underwood johnson, the
Becretary in this country of the Eng
ish-American committee which is
establishing the Keats-Shelley memo
rial house in Rome, has secured from
Arthur Stringer the manuscript copy
of his poem on Keats which appeared
in a recent number of the Reader
Magazine. The poem is to be framed
and hung in the historic house in the
Piazza di Spagna-
"Jack London: A Sketch of His
Life and Work, with Portrait" is the
title of a pamphlet recently issued by
Mr.. London's publishers. the Macnail-
Ian company Just now Mr. London
is writing a play for Miss Ethel Barry
more. Next fall he begins series of
lectures and readings which will prob
ably occupy him most of the winter
and take him all over the United
States.
The March number of the Interna-
tional Socialist Review opens with an
f.-T, irf1
a distinct contribution to socialist
thought on a side that has been neg
lected, while at the same time it is
written in easy, popular style. His
Theory of Evolution" The article dis
cusses in a mastery fashion the foun-
dation principles of the materialistic
monism of which the materialistic
conception of history is a related part
A. c. McClurg & Co.'S spring an
nouncements include Letters from an
Oregon Ranch" by Katharine;
Abigail Scott Duniway-a journey
across the plains in the early ffties;
Iowa, the First Free State of the
Louisiana Purchase" by William Sal
verse, compiled by Wallace Rice; "a
Selection from the Great English
Poets,'' by Sherwin Cody, and the
Scammon Lectures before the Art in
SuIuIe OF chicago Dy russell SluTSlS-
McClure-PhiIlips, the authorized
publishers in America of Charles Wag-
ner's books, are bringing out as fast
as possible the books by Mr.. Wagner
that have not yet been translated.
They are adding to their list this
spring ''Wayside Sermons" IL Tongue
du CheminO 1.-The Spirit of Nature, >"
(L'Ame deS ChOses) Justice" Gus
tice). This will place within the reach
Of American admirers of Mr.. Wagner
practically all his more important
books.
An important treatise on the sci
ence and art of organ building will
soon be published by Dodd, Mead &
Co. The work is by George Ashdown
Audsley, the result of thirty years
study of the subject of organ construc-
ton in England, France, Belgium,
Holland, Germany and the United
States, and in addition the author has
been directly assisted by all the lead
ing organ builders in the world. 1t
will be fully illustrated and issued in a
limited edition. The illustrations are
drawn by the author and are in all
cases true to scale. They will be re-
produced by photo-engravin and in
serted in the text for easy reference.
It would be difficult to say when
there has been as much interest dis
played in the life story of a famous
man as is being manifested in the
forthcoming autobiography of Theo-
dOre tn omas. The development of
music in America is so closely con-
nected withe the career of the great
conductor that in some ways the story
of one is the story of the other. The
work is likely to be regarded in this
light and will undoubtedly find its
way into every library of Importance,