The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-02

view of it. which recognizes at once
the appalling consequences of depar-
ture from the printed rules OF the
game of life' and the heroism and no
bility of nature capable from a high
unreasonable motive, of such an IN
fraction. The book Is published by
Scribners.
A G; McClurg & Co. have just pub
lished "Our Country Home" by Frances
Kinsley Hutchinson. The book Is not,
as the title would suggest, another
volume of advice to those who con-
template building in the rural districts,
but is an interesting, almost idyllic mar
ration of the experiences Of nature
loving couple in the creation OF q
charming estate. Two people with an
Unborn love for the things that grow,
blessed with enthusiasm and suft1cient
of this worlds goods to carry out their
ideals, plan and build beautiful home
in the midst of a virgin forest, by the
side of Wisconsin lake. The execu-
ton and accomplishment of their joyous
efforts is charmingly and instructively
recorded in word and picture in this
attractive volume, which is at once
book of CHEEKY entertainment for the
tired city dweller, of suggestive stimu-
lus for those who dream of some day
having their own country home, large
or small, and of practical value for
those who are already working out the
same problems that confronted these
two happy laborers.
Alice Hogan Rice, author of Mrs.
Wigs of the Cabbage Patch" has
written a juvenile just published by
Captain June This is her first
book for children; and it has the SUNNY
spirit which breathes through all her
writings. Captain June is dear little
American lad who stays with his Jap
anese nurse in her home while his
mother is far away nursing the soldier
father through a fever; and he has all
kinds of interes ting and unusual ex-
periences-thrilling, too. for he be-
comes good friends with a certain
Monsieur Care, a French officer, who
in time of illness and danger intrusts
the little fellow with some important
papers. And June-short for Robert
Rogers Royston, juniors faithful to
his trust, and we'll deserves the
Frenchman'S praise.
Mrs. Lucy Fitch Perkins, already
well known as an illustrator and writer
of happy rhymes for children. has
seized upon the Utmost spirit Of init
mate New England life for her new
work, "a Book of Joys" just published
by A. C. McClurg & Co. Seen with
western eyes the older civilization de-
velops humorous situations as well as
marked charm, the scenes in a little
old fashioned village in which quaint
individualities thrive sharing the atten- |
ton of the reader with family re- |
union and the buoyant life thereat. |
Mrs. Perkins has designed five illustra- |
lions in color for her book. which has |
the interest of fiction with the addi- |
.tional element of verify.
Messrs. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. |
announce that they have gone to press |
with a new edition of Ralph Waldo |
Trine's In Tune With the Infinite" |
remarkable record for work other |
than fiction, and is surely an encourage
ing sign of the reading times. To date
over three hundred thousand copies of
above volume belongs-have been is
sued in this country and England;
while several translations of them have
also been made.
Hamlin Garland, whose new novel,
Money Magic" the Harpers publish ed |
last week, has been devoting himself to
writing for the greater part of twenty
after he was twenty by teaching litera-
ture in Boston. One autumn he went
out to Dakota to visit his parents, and
during the brief space of fall and win
ter wrote two books which gave him
his first prominence. Gradually he
gave up teaching, as literary work abb
living in Chicago, with time out for his
travels about the country, since he left
Boston fifteen years ago. He is a ma
tive westerner, having been born in La
Crosse county, Wisconsin, and has
Wisconsin summer home.
Mr. James Montgomery Flagg, the
author and illustrator of eff" and
'fwhy They Married" has just re-
turned from q stay in Europe where
he has been gathering material for his
Forthcoming work, 1.-The Rise and Fall
of the Mother-in-Law Joke"
The fall announcement list of Small
MAYNARD & Company, which Is just is
sued. contains thirty-nine titles, the
largest that this publishing house has