The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-17

Never say diet" and MANY looks
spoil the cloth" have a pointed shaft
for the fotbles of today.
Moffat. Yard & Company announce
the publication, this fall, of an an
/ thology of humorous verse and prose
selected and edited by Tom Mason,
! managing editor of Life and author
1 of "A Corner in Women The Won
/ Burners" and other books of high
" humorous character Probably no
/ literature is so rich in this special de-
/ partment as English and these two
volumes contain the cream of it
those selections which, Mr.. Mason be-
lieves, com bine in the highest degree
the two elements of love and laughter.
''Krausz's Complete Automobile
Record" published by Laird & Lee. of
Chicago. is designed to furnish the
autoist with complete record of ex-
/ penditureS and other information that
! will interest every motorist. The book
is arranged in columns, SO that the ex-
act cost for any item can be immedi-
1 ately ascertained for any particular
day or week. There are spaces for
/ recording the cost of gasoline, carbide,
tires, repairs. requirements, chauffeur's
salary, garage expenses, etc, also for
keeping a record of runs, place OF
| starting, definite number of miles trav-
/ eled and average speed; also pages for
/ listing the specifications and equip
/ ment Of the owners car An appendix
/ gives the auIOnODlle laws OF lAlrLy-
| five states, together with the names of
/ those states which have no automobile
] laws. A speed table is also given.
which Will prove valuable for refer
ence.
: Life is in trouble with the postofhce
department. The humorous weekly
has widely advertised the offer of a
picture as q premium to annual sub
scribers. It added as postscript to
the offer that the first one hundred
persons who sent in their subscriptions
would receive the first one hundred i'm
pressions of the plate. numbered and
signed by the artist The advertise
ment no sooner appeared than not on
ly the publishers of Life but the pub
fishers Of the twenty-five or more per-
iodicals in which the advertisement APP
peared were solemnly notified by the
postoffice department that this offer
was a lottery and that no publication
which contained 1t would be permitted
to corrupt the people of the United
States by being carried in the United
States mails.
Houghton, Mifhin & CO. have the
following books on press this week for
new printings: 5th edition of The
Evasion" by Miss Eugenia Brooks
rockingham: 4th edition of The En-
joyment of Art" by Carleton Moves;
Sd edition of "Montlivet. by Mrs:
Alice Prescott Smith; I'd edition of
1.-The College Man and the College Wo-
man." by William Dewitt Hyde, Presl-
dent OF Bowdoln college.
Any one who reads Tom Masson's
new book. 1.-The Van Burners" just
published by Moffatt Yard & Co, will
regret that he has never before tried
his hand at a complete novel. It is
brimful of humor and the story is
good one.
The frontispiece Of the Christmas
Century Will be a reproduction in color
Of Mr. Sigismond de Ivanowski's por-
trait of BIaude Adams as Peter Pan
Mr. de Ivanowski's studies for this por-
trait were made in the Catskills last
summer Miss Adams posing out OF
doors; and the finished painting was
submitted to her at her cottage at
Onteora park. A pretty story is told Of
her enthusiasm at her first view over
the cOloring and sympathetic treat
ment of the portrait, which is rated by
all who have seen It as altogether
charming conception of the character.
Henry b. Fuller the author of 1.-The
Chevalier of Pensieri- Vani,'' has re-
Gently written very little, but in the
Christmas Scribner he returns to his
best manner with story of Americans
travelling in Italy, entitled |Addolo-
ratas Intervention" The delicate sa-
tire and charming humOr of Mr. Fuller
are shown at their best
young People in Old Places" by
Cornelia Baker and THE Court Jes-
ter" by the same author. have been
published by The Bobbs- Merrill COM
pany, indianapolis. There is some
thing rarer than a day in June. And
that is a good juvenile. There is some
thing rarer than a good juvenile. And
that is two of them. Mrs COrnelia
Baker has written two good juveniles
this year The first is Young People
in Old Places" a story of the things
that were said and the things that
were done by two lively youngsters and
their lively grandmother during a visit
to London. Paris, Spain and Tangiers.
It is not at all the ordinary travelling
tale" but a narrative briTnful of nov
city, originality and excitement. with
enough Information to add to the value
of the book without distracting one
whit from its interest. There are
many full-page pictures representing
European scenes and many pen-and- |
ink drawings in the text by Franklin
Booth. The second is THE Court Jes-
ter" a fascinating tale of two high
bred little ladies of the sixteenth cen
fury, the Duchess Anne of Brittany
and the Princess Marguerite of Aus
tria. These two girls are real chill
dren, with a love of dolls and pets and |
stories and a knack of getting them |