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

selves and other people into amusing
trouble Strangely mingled with their
fortunes IS a famous court Jester, wit
~ and impudent but a true friend.
Again Mrs Baker proves how gay and
entertaining the historical romance
may be made for children. Margaret
Ely Webb supplies the book with TWEEN
ty-11ve attractive Illustrations.
In his book. s-The American Girl. 4
which MOffat, Yard e. CO. have Just
published, Mr.. Howard Chandler
Christy discusses his delightful subject
under the following heads: Greeting:
To the American Girl; Forward; I,
The Girl Graduate; II, The Debutante;
III, The American Girl in the Coun-
try; ~, The American Girl in the City;
The American Girl as a Bride; Epi-
Iogue. The book, therefore. is the
completed tribute to the American
Girl, possible as his sparkling text is.
of course illustrated with his pictures
OF her, in colors, in all her moods and
lenses.
Mr.. John Ames MitcheL's 1.-THE ST.
lent War has at least puzzled the crit
les They do not seem to know wheth-
er Mr.. Mitchell is testing or in earn
est The seriousness of part of that
story which involves a warfare between
the masses and the millionaires. with
the latter on the defensive, and the
levity of the love romance which be-
comes tangled up with the more ser
lous element in the story raise the
question of whether Mr.. Mitchell has
put out a joke, a sociological tract or
a straight romance. 1t is interesting
from any one of these points of view
The fact that Henry George Jr.. has
written a novel, 1.-The Romance of
John cambridge" which will proba-
bly, be much read and discussed, has
raised in the mind of one critic the
question whether his father might not
also have written fiction. Writing in
The single Tax Review, this critic says:
We have often thought that if the
father had turned his attention to nov
Ell writing he might have given us
something notable in fiction. Perhaps.
too, he could have written a great
poem-either achievement seems not
to have been impossible to the man
capable Of writing Progress and Pow
erty.' Imagination he possessed. and
humor, too. Constructive ability was
not lacking. and sublimity and pathos.
AS novelist or poet he would have be-
gun his task with a far higher equip
ment than many of our most success
full novelists."
The Macmillan company is publish
ing this week the following books:
when Love Speaks" a novel by viii
Payne, author of "Mr. Salt" and 1.-THE
Money Captain; Highways and By
ways of the Mississippi Valley" by
Clifton johnson. author of New Eng
land and Its Neighb ors"; Vol. " OF
The Cambridge Modern History. deal
ing with The Thirty Years War;
Vols. XVII and XVIII Of "Hakluytus
Posthumus, or Purchase His Pill
grimes: Pagan Races OF the Malay
Peninsula" by Walter William Skeat.
NJ. A, and Charles Otto Blagden. Ma;
'Idealistic Construction of Expert
ence," by J. Z. Baltic, NJ. A. D. Phil:
and THE Life of CadwaIIader Golden
by Alice NJ. Keys. in The Columbia
University Studies in History.
one Of the exceedingly interesting
features of the North American Re
view-now being issued as a fortnight
Twill be the serial publication Of
Mark Twain's autobiogra ply. It was
the intention of the humorist at the
beginning of his great task. that no
part of his memoirs should reach the
public until after his death, but she has
finally yielded to the persuasions of
those who were convinced that there