The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-10

are historians and novelists, and both
have been members Of parliament.
Justin Huntly, however, writes plays
in addition and with great success.
scenes in his latest romance, The IL
lustrious O'Hagan," published this
week by the Harpers, that il would not
be surprising TO find this story before
long dramatized for the stage.
Baroness Emmuska Orczy returns
once more TO the period of the French
Revolution in I VIII Repay" pub
lished by the J. 3. Lippincott com
pany. A young woman, the last Of
her family, is bound by a vow TO her
dying father to repay q man who has
killed her brother in a duel some years
before the story proper opens. She
finds means to denounce him to the
tribunal of the Revolution, but at the
same time falls in love with him. The
story is concerned with the onhict be-
tween her love and her mistaken sense
Of duty. The Scarlet Pimpernel, of
Baroness Orczy's former book of this
title, again makes his appearance in
this novel.
The new Christy book is out. The
publishers are Monatt, Yard & Co,
and it is a gem. The price is $3.50.
Harris Dickson, author of ''The Raw
CAALA2 I'LL HI O. w ~ y
deals in his new story, Gabrielle,
Transgressor," with New Orleans in
Colonial days. Gabrielle, a young girl
who has been educated in a convent,
upon returning home finds some loose
bricks in the wall separating her faith
er's garden from that adjoining. She
removes them, and enters this neigh
boring garden, where h meets the
doomed Prince Imperial of Turkey,
who is hiding here from a party of
n,.-t~- r-k1u1 -ofrrfCn. fr TO v,r4t hf-a r.
death. The love story of these two, in
terwoven with the seductive mystery
of the east, is intense and unusual. The
book is published by the J. 3. Lippin-
colt company
The Macmillan company is publish
ing this week The Omance of John
Bainbridge," a novel by Henry George,
Jr.: Poems" by Alfred Noyes; Read
ings in Descriptive and Historical So
Geology by Professor Franklin H.
Giddings. of Columbia; THE Polish
Jew: His Social and Economic
Value" by Beatrice c. baskerville;
Northern Spain" painted and de-
scribed by Edgar 7. A. Wigram; THE
Rare Adventures and Painefull Pere-
CARNATIONS" of William Lithgow; a
Textbook of Fungi by George
Massee; Savage Childhood: a Study
Of Kaf1r Children" by Dudley Kidd:
The Tados." by W. H. D. Rivers. Eel
! low y 81 JUL . OO4LCA0p &aAiADI 0z6
THE Family" by Helen Bosanquest;
New French Course for Schools
Part II, by Charles COPELAND Perry and
DR.. Albrecht Reum. and A English
! Grammar" by Professor George r,
Carpenter Of Columbia university.
Ivan strannik. whose book s'The
Shadow Of the House" has just been
published by Mcclure, Phillips & COn-
pany. was the first to introduce Gorky
to readers outside of Russia. Her first
DOC was a translation into French OF
a volume of rGorky's stories under the
title of THE ~NagabOnds." She has
also written one Of the most searching
and Intelligent appreciatiOns Of GoTky
that have yet appeared, in her volume
on Contemporary Russian Thought
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The late Henry George, whose owl
life was a romance, has at last been
made the central figure in a novel by
his son. Henry George Jr., whose book
The Romance of John cambridge.
is published this week. The hero OF
this novel is a young lawyer n en-
ters politics from a sense of duty &c
combat the private ownership of pub
lie franchises. This incident, and tbs
train Of events leading to it are based
directly on facts in he career Of the
authors father. The book is not only
an intimate picture of present-day po-
litical life. but it also contains charac-
ter drawing and develops n plot thai
are said to justify Mr.. Georges incur
sion into a new literary field.
That Mari Twain has really hit up
on a fresh and vigorous method OF
~narrating history is shown anew. IN the
instalment of his Autobiography
which appears in the current number
of The North American Review, in tht
delightfully."- i-nconsequent yet satisfy
ing n in which he tells of his
ancestors, as: After Jere. Clemens
fame as a senator passed away, he wa:
still remembered for many years OF
account of another service which III
performed. He shot old John Brown
Governor Wise in the hind leg in {
duel. However, I am not very cleal
about this. 1t may be that Governor
Wise shot him in the hind leg. How
ever, I don't think it is important.