The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

tunes of the family of the woman he
loves (they have been victims of the
'System.D with the greatest coup"
in the history of the Street" The
fever of money madness and the curse
of speculation run throughout the
story. This terrific conflict between
man and money, with the shifting and
glittering background of frenzied fin
ance, lends itself to a dramatic I'M
folding, and Mr.. Lawson, with his in
innate experience and his picturesque
and vivid style has created a story,
that in bigness Of appeal and vitality
oE human interest, might be called an
Epic of the Market Friday the
18TH" by an interesting coincidence
VIII be published on the first -anniver-
sary of the publication of The Jun
GLE
The late Bishop Westcott made an
extraordinary impress on the church
both in England and America, and
since his death there has been a not
able demand for the publication of the
material which he left in manuscript.
The recent appearance of his commen-
tary on The Epistle to the Ephesians''
was an event of Importance to biblical
scholars. while later volume of evil
lage Sermons" just published by The
Macmillan company, shows him as one
of the great preachers of the modern
Anglican church.
a
creation number of its February is
sue. 1t comes just as people are be-
ginning to tire of enforced indoor ex-
istence, and such breezy out-of-door
stories. articles and pictures are thor
things in The Reader are the two fun
ny stories by Ellis Parker Butler,
author of Pigs Is Pigs" and Ralph
Henry Barbour. One chronicles an
elopement by auto, the other a race
hRfwnQn
oughly laughable, and with illustra-
tons ito suit " by May Wilson Preston
AMI Clyde o. DeLand.
An interesting bit of news comes
from the publishing house of Thomas
Y. Crowell & Co. to the effect that
their first folio edition of Shakespeare
is being republished in London. This
is probably the first time that Brit
ishers have gone away from Newcastle
for coal--or in plain language have
come to America to procure a text of
their master writer. This edition
harks back to the original of 1923, and
is the only popular price text to do so.
Doubleday, Page & Co. have just
published Soils" by S. w. Fletcher.
This is the second volume in the Farm
the first having been Farm
Animals" The author is a member of
the faculty of the State Agricultural
brary has been planned to do for the
farmer what the Nature Library, for
example, does for the student and
lover of nature. The attempt has
been made to take advantage of the
wealth of knowledge which has revo-
lutionized farming and made the con-
quest of the earth possible Forth
coming volumes will be Farm Equip
ment'; Field Crops; Farming as a
Business" and 1.-The Farm Home"
So many of Mr.. E. Phillips Open
helms older novels have been reissued
in new illustrated editions that his lat
est published book, 1.-THE Malefactor,"
has been confused. in some quarters,
with these new editions THE Male
factor was brought out in book form
for the first time on January 5th, and
the publishers report that its sale has
already exceeded that of any pre-
viously published Oppenheim novel
Several enthusiastic reviewers have
termed the book "a new Monte
Crisro!"
Mary Moss, in her review of the last
years fiction in the January Atlantic |
gives tn place of honor for the year
author she says: with all his glitter |
(Which we once feared might degener- !
ate into glorified journalism,) with all /
his restless plotting from land to land, I
his experimenting, his weakness for |
Sousa moments, so to |
speak-looking back upon his career /
1t is now plain that he. the man, has |
been constantly growing"
The publication in the March Cen i
fury of Timothy Coles wood-engraving
IF Ribera's assumption of Mary Mag
ialene" will conclude that famous en-
yraver's notable series of Old Spanish
twenty-nine in all. Mr.. Cole