The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-22
the well-known and many other draw

the well-known and many other draw
ings.
"Old Creole Days" by George W.
Gable, has just been brought out in a
new and beautiful edition. The stories
/ in this volume include cafe des Ex-
Hes Bellies Demoiselles Plantation"
POISON Jone, - Jean ali Poquelin."
'Tite Poulette," and ''Sieur George AMI
Madame Delicicuse'' The Illustrations,
which are finely reproduced in photo
gravure, are from drawings by Albert
Heter, and are remarkably attractive
and appropriate. The New York Tri-
bune well said of Mr.. Cable: There
are few living writer's who can repro
duce for US more perfectly than Mr..
Gable does the speech, the manners,
the whole social atmosphere of re-
mote time and a peculiar people. A
delicious flavor of humor penetrates
his stories"
One of the most attractive volumes
in the English Highways and Byways
Series" is the one on Berkshire. by J.
E. Vincent, with Illustrations by Fred
erick L. Griggs Mr.. Vincent was a
Berkshire enthusiast before he under
| took the writing of this volume, and
since its accomplishment he proclaims
| himself more enthusiastic than ever
The Illustrations by Mr.. Griggs. OF
which there are nearly a hundred. are
among the most charming that have
appeared in this notable series.
! The third English edition of The
House Of a Thousand Candles" was ex-
| hausted in November. and the novel
bids fair to repeat it's American sue
cess. It is already issued in independ-
ent editions in Canada and Australia
The English press is speaking In cor
dial praise of the workmanship Of the
| tale, which presents. moreover that
rarest of achievements these days
new and astonishing device in roman
tic fiction.
The curiously romantic episodes in
the life of Count Cassini, ex-ambas-
sador of Russia to Washington, and
the mysteries that surrounded the
young Countess Cassini. whom the So
ciete Deplomatique accepted as his
niece, are said to be Inevitably sug-
| gested In one of the seasons new nov
! els, THE Impersonator" written by a
| Washington author Mary INLAY Tay-
Tor. The character Of Count Portucar-
rero in the story is an eminently good
| character study Of the late ambassa-
dor with such differences as a discreet
author would make; for, while Miss
Taylor deprecates any attempt to spe-
officially depict Washington society life
| in Tho 1mpersOnatOr," she has vet
presented most vivid Interpretation
| of It, full of local color. The book ID
| published by Little, Brown & Co.
Mcclure. Phillips & Company an
nounce new editions, at a low price,
of those popular books of Major
Martin Hume, entitled 1.-The Courtships
of Queen Elizabeth" and The Love
Affairs of Mary, Queen Of Scots They
are attractively bound in red cloth.
with gold decorative device and let
tering.
Has a new Anglo-American poet "ar-
rived? This question has been asked
by more than one critical reader OF a
recent volume of verse, entitled "The
Worker and Other Poems" It's author,
Coningsby William Dawson. Is a very
young man; an Englishman by birth.
a graduate of Oxford. and at present
a resident Of this country. His unpre-
tentious and unheralded little volume
has been acclaimed by many a sur
prised critic as a genuine and import
ant poetic utterance.
An announcement of much interest
is that Mark Twain's book on Chris
tan Science Is to be published by the
Harpers early in February. He has
been busy during the past month IA
thoroughly revising this great work.
which Is the result Of years OF labor.