The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-08

article in which a life of Mary Baker
! G. EDDY and a history OF Christian Sci
ence are announced, to begin in jan
uary. Christian Science is a movement
and the announcement that e true his
tory of this great romantic movement
and its leader is forthcoming marks
an excellent stroke of magazine pol
1 Icy. Another chapter Of the Carl
Schurz "Reminiscences recalls his first
\ journey to the new crude west, a visit
I in London, and his first hearing Of
4 Jenny Lind and of Wagner re-
markable musical experience described
with great poetry OF feeling. Lincoln
Steffens relates the story of Judge
Lindsey's splendid triumph in Denver,
and G. p. Connolly tells how the Clark
men failed in their attempt to handle
the supreme court of Montana and of
the memorable scenes at the investiga-
ton of Clark's election in Washington.
Three years ago The Bookman" in
the course of g. survey of his published
works wrote: Mr.. Davis's position as
story-teller is now and has been for
the last few years so firmly assured
that criticism can do very little either
to augment or to mar his success. 1t is
ten or twelve years since he made his
reputation and he has kept it, which
nowadays is much more remarkable.
We are reasonably sure that
he will never write and publish any
worth while" Mr.. Davis's Real Sol
diers Of Fortune which the Scribners
have just issued, adds a new, unusual
and Accordingly interesting volume to
his published works. In this book
with his genius for graphic descrip-
ton, ne depicts in the very colors of
life the exciting adventures in the lives
Of the most notable of the romantic
figures of recent times
A happy title Is sometimes found
quite by accident. THE House Of a
Thousand Candles" published by the
Bobbs-M Merrill Co. was a phrase that
flowed from the authors pen in a mo-
ment of abstraction and without his
realizing the nugget he had hit upon.
fBlindfOlded,' Walcott's romance. got
its name in the course of a CONVERSE
ton between the publisher and an en-
thusiastic editorial reader. who was
trying to explain the effect the book
had made upon him. why" said the
E E. r., you are as much in the dark
as the mystified hero. You grope along
in an al; anxious hurry, as though you
named the book" said the publisher.
The Outing Publishing company has
bought Caspar Whitney's well-known
book, Jungle Trails and Jungle PeO-
pie from Charles Scribner's Sons.
Jack London is to sail around the
world for the Cosmopolitan Magazine
in a forty-fve foot ketch-rigEed boat
which he has named ene Shark. with
Mrs. London, her uncle, a cook, and
a Japanese cabin boy. The author of
1.-THE Sea Wolf expects to be gone
several years and during that time to
do all his writing on board his boat.
He viii write the story of the voyage
for the Cosmopolitan, and expects TO
begin his narration in the January or
February number The Christmas
Cosmopolitan contains a characteristic
fOreword from Mr.. London, together
with many pictures of the author and
his novel craft. Other features of the
Christmas Cosmopolitan include ar
ticles and stories by Edwin Markham,
DR.. Julian p Thomas. Alan Dale.
Emerson Hough and Ella Wheeler
1t has been generally known that the
law which forms the groundwork of
Mrs. Caroline Abbot Stanley's "A Mod
ern Madonna, q law permitting a man
to will away the custody and tuition or
his unborn child, was actually existent
in the District of Columbia up TO ten
years ago. Now the attorney generals
of the states of Tennessee and South
Carolina are authority for the state
ment that almost identical statutes are
in force in these states today. The
book. therefore, treats Of a live and
appealing issue.
The Christmas Annual Country Life
in America has come to be an Ameri-
can insttutfon-full of good cheer, !
glowing color, and Yule log feeling
It is like the great English Illustrated
in its sumptuous illustrated
friendly makeup. But it is also in
tensely national and new world. In
1t the immortality of Santa Claus is
and proclaimed And the
two supreme notes Of the day are
sounded-the religious note and the
note of childhood. Santa Claus and !
His Reindeer by A Radcliffe Dug |
more, tells of a brn-new, stuffed rein |
deer-a Christmas novelty that will |
thrill children Of all ages. DIR. Henry !
Van Dyke contributes a Home Song" |
that will become a domestic classic. /
B. Ostertag tells of "Old Christmas |
Customs and Dishes" Christmas !
Dances with appropriate lifting music
are included in this seasonable feast /
Mr.. Walter A. Dyer describes "Old |
and tells what 1t is really |
worth. A rich glow Of color greets the |
reader arriving at Autumn Leaves for |
Decoration" The poignant !
ests are sDlashed over eight unforget- |
Ia BILE pages. tas it," to quote Lowell, |
God had wreaked his sunset there"
The Henry Altemus's company has
just published Senator Sorghum's !
Primer Of Politics Senator Sorghum
IS not neophyte in politics, wandering