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

Every boy who is interested in col
lege athletics will enjoy Ralph Henry
Barbour's new book. The Crimson
Sweater" recently published by the
Century company. While THE Grim
son Sweater was evidently written
for the boys OF the family, it is book
their sisters should enjoy as we'll; Roy
the chief chara cter5 is a manly, bright
lad, more interested perhaps in foot
ball than in algebra; but stanch IN his
ideas of right and fair play whatever
he is doing. There is a healthy com
radeship between Roy and Harry, the
daughter of the headmaster of the
school; and the story of "the school' >
adventures and misadventures IS OF
wholesome interest There ism duil
page In THE Crimson Sweater ana
the many lively illustrations by c. NJ
Relyea add much to the book S attrac-
tiveness.
Hattie Homer Louthan. a Kansas
woman who formerly lived at En-
poria. has written a new novel Of Colo
RADIO life. 1t is called This Was a
Man" 1t is published by the c. NJ
Clark Co of Boston.
Sidney Lee. the distinguished Eng
lish critic and Shakespearean scholar,
whose new volume on shakespeare
and the Modern Stage" the Scribners
have Just published, was born in Lon
don in 1859 and is a graduate of Bal
liol college, Oxford His labors as
jOint-editOr with Sir Leslie stephen Of
the English Dictionary Of National 81
ography and as the managing editor
of that work from 1891 to 1901 frst
brought him into prominence. He IS
already we'll known in this country as
an author and lecturer. His Lives OF
Queen Victoria and Shakespeare, and
that charming collection of essays IN
literary biography entitled Great
Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century
have had a wide circulation here and
al
Boston, Johns Hopkins and Princeton
we'll as other universities and col
leges, two years ago, introduced him
to a large and appreciative audience
who will welcome this new work upon
a subject about which he IS one Of the
greatest living authorities.
The second installment of Ellis Pax
son OberhOltzer' Jay Cooke, and the
Financing OF the Civil War" will deal
with the stirring and sensational days
Of the famous seven-thirty and five
twenty loans which supplied the
'sinews of war when disaster to the
Union seemed inevitable. The story of
the bold, big way in which these loans
were planned and carried through, of
Jay Cookies enthusiasm and energy,
despite much personal risk, with
touches of romance and political In
trigue. makes intensely interesting
reading.
10 base an amusing mover on so ser
Gus and SOmber a question as the rela-
tions of the masses to the millionaires
seems rather large order Il must be
admitted, however, that MI John A. ,
Mitchell (author of Amos Judd" and
~Ihe Pines of Lory") has given an
entertaining story in his new work, /
1.-The Silent War" Blackmail and muir
der are opposed to the wrongs inflicted
by wealth. This sounds rather blood
curdl1ng and sensational, but MIR. !
Mitchell's way of handling these heavy /
materials makes them a thought-pro-
voking background for the love story
and persihage that thread the book.
The Silent War" shows a literary
skill and originality not often met with
in the fiction of the day.
How completely absorbed one of the
greatest generals of the world, General /
Grant became in one of the most wide /
" read novels Of the world, Ben !
Hur' is of unusually striking interest. !
And the enthusiasm with which the
usually taciturn and supposed phleg-
matte general expressed himself. in de- /
scribing his absorption, gives a fascin- |
ajting insight into his real character. /
The description is found in letter
which has just come to light, which was /
written from New York by General |
Wallace to one of his family on No /
Vember q, 1884: General Grant told |
me today goes the letter.
that he had read .Ben-Hur' through |
word for word; that he began in the /
morning. not having read a novel in /
ten years before, and finished it next I
day at noon, after reading all night /
He said, ! could not lay 1t down
A stirring little message of the times I
which has been attracting attention I
among discerning readers, is 1.-The Life I
That Counts by Samuel v. Cole 4
president of Wheaton seminary. The +
publishers, Thomas 7. CrOweH &, Co, /
state that they have received a single /
order for 1900 copies. from a private |
buyer. for gratuitous distribution
Messrs. Mcclure, Phillips & Co. an
nounce the publication of the sensa-
tional modern romance of mystery.
Eden PhillpOtts' and Arnold Bennett's
high price and run as a serial by the +
Hearst Syndicate of newspapers. The 4
present book Is a new departure for 4
Mr.. PhillpOtts who has here entirely
ting of his earlier novels. The action
of "DOubloOns" starts in London but t
passes to the West Indies in a wild
search for buried treasure Those who
has departed from modern life will be
surprised at the effective use which
the collaborators have made of the
most up-to-date contrivances
Love is the greatest thing in the
World and 1t is fitting, therefore.
that the latest anthology compiled BY
Frederic Lawrence Knowles should
death last September Mr. Knowles
handed to the publishers, H. NJ Cald-
we'll Co. Boston, his manuscript for
1.-THE Value of Love" The volume will /
be published early in the spring and
from the advance pages it is evident
the same careful and painstaking prep
arahon has been employed to make
the book equal if not superior to its
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