The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-01

! especially for this volume by Mat
fully bound in two styles. cloth and
/ ooze leather.
George" is the title Of new novel
I by Dorothea Deakin- Since all the
world loves a lover. it is easy to under
stand why young and old fall under
Georges spell and even his former
sweethearts condone his many engage
ments- Georgia, big, blond. boyish, is
chronically and constantly in love; but
his taste in girls is always beyond criti-
cism: Violet IS pretty as paint with
her golden hair and rose leaf skin;
alluring voice; Anne is cleverness it.
self; the Goddess Girl, Phillida, is al
ways picture and always charming
in her lively American way; Dolly
] Fitzgerald is pathetic and appealing;
! Diana, the most fascinating of little
Puritans. And George, while his
penchant for being on with the new
/ love before he is off with the old leads
to all sorts of comedy situations, yet
manages his love affairs so innocently
and enthusiastically that every old
sweetheart and her happy husband
! continue his warm friends ready to
help him out of every fresh scrape
They are all happy-go-lucky folk; and
! Georges haps and mishaps make
merry and diverting reading.
/ Messrs. Mcclure, Phillips & CO. an
nounce the publication of Stanley
4 Weyman's new romantic love story.
\ "Chippinge Borough" The scene Of
4 this book Is laid in England in 1882 at
the time of the Reform Bill. but the
interest of the story centers in its love
/ element and in the recovery by the
hero Of a large fortune which he has
! lost through devotion to his political
1 opinions. The chief historical person.
age Of the story is the great liberal
/ leader, Lord Brougham or "Bruffam,''
as his contemporaries loved to call
| him, figure at once grOtesque and
] gigantic and full of picturesque posi-
bilities for a writer like Mr.. Weyman
who knows so well how to grasp the
spirit Of a period and the characters
Of its men and women.
The Macmillan company announces
for early publication a book on Free
dom in the Church. by the Rev. DR..
Alexander V. G. Allen, Professor of
Church History in the Episcopal Theo-
logical School at Harvard In this i'm
portant work DR. Allen will treat such
topics as: Ruling Ideas of the Angli-
can Church in the Age of Reforma-
ton; Variety of interpretation, as the
Condition on which Creeds are Held;
The Vows of the Clergy; Clerical Hon
esty; The Virgin Birth and the Apos-
ties Greed; the Catholic" Theory of
the Incarnation; The Anglican Theory
of the incarnation; The Modern Sensi-
tiveness About the Virgin Birth; etc.
Toms River. N. J., which has figured
so extensively in the news columns of
late, was for nearly three years the
home of SeWen Ford. 1t needs no sub
tie discernment to guess that the "Ce-
darton folks" whose doings are chron-
icled in "Truegate of Mogador'' re-
Gently published by the Scribners.
were types suggested by the inhabi-
tants of this quaint Barnegat bay viii
lage. Toms River was settled long be-
fore the Revolution, and was named
after an old Indian chief.
The Harpers have just issued new
edition of that recent success, ''Bu-
chanan's Wife" by Justus Miles For
man.
William Dean HowelIs has returned
from Maine. where he spent the sum-
mer and much of the fall, and will
probably be in New York during the
winter.
In the current number Of The North
American Review, Mark Twain tells
Of fourteen widely known men whom
he met while on visit to Scotland
some years ago. He adds that all the
fourteen but one, Sir Charles Dixie. are
dead.
That Adam and Eve were not such
strict vegetarians as some have sup
posed. and that. incidentally. they sep
arateIy managed their farming estab- |
lfshments, seems to be implied from |
the letter of a Michigan man who. a |
few days ago, wrote the Harpers ask |
ing them to send him: zone copy
Adams Dairy, One copy Ewes Dairy
In a recent interview Dan Beard, the
author of the new Field and Forest |
Handy Book" just published by the /
Scribners, says: you know, there has
been a lot of nonsense published of
late about animals, and many appar- |
emily intellectual motives have been |
attributed to the most natural in |
stincts- What have always aimed to |
do is TO get al the real truth Of animal |
existence, and not to make woodchucks !
and fox cubs do things with the fore
thought of a philosopher dose them |
selves like doctors or amuse themselves !
like the real jeunesse doree of the |
woods. We are swinging back to first /
principles again, I am happy to say, |
and we are discovering that there is |
just as much interest in animal life as
If animals were indeed gifted like hu-
mans"
An enterprising New York booksel- |
Ter has been attracting much attention