The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-04

/, me back, wildly. to my boyhood, lived
Pin the country Many Kentuckians
VIII, am sure, readily recognize por-
i traits and scenes of that humber life,
described In Aunt Jane. and it rs
| lived, quietly and beautifully, not wild
I ly and wiekedfy,-as so many northern
| ana eastern people would rather be-
| 1eVe 1t is lived,-in the rural districts
In "Askroyd of the Faculty." Anna
Chapln Ray deals with the relation
sprlnglng up between self-made man
and woman of assured social position,
and in the last few chapters the author
brings forward the question of mans
right to curtail,- howsoever briefly, the
dying tortures for which there is no
to be expected from her, yet sure to
provoke the whines Of the sentimen-
tai.
The deep impression made by Miss
Ellen Velvin's Behind the Scenes
with Wild Animals" particularly in
respect to the accuracy of her obser-
walton and the authority of her utter
ance, imparts a singular interest to
the announcement of her book, which
will be published in the late spring I'M
der the title of wild Animal Cele-
brities.' These are life stories of ac-
tuaI animals living and on exhibition
In various geological gardens and
menageries throughout the world. The
facts related have been got first hand
ed from the faturalists and trainers
In charge; and most of the animals
described are old personal friends of
the author. AS John Burroughs, the
celebrated naturalist, and William T.
Hornaday. director of the New York
geological park, agree that Miss Vel
vim work, on account of its unim-
peachable truth, has peculiar worth
In these days of animal fiction mas
querading in the clothes of facts, this
book will be found to have a marked
pace IN the popular animal literature
of the day. 1t will be published by
Moffat, Yard & Co.
Arrangements are being made with
leading booksellers throughout the
country to give window exhibitions of
the famous Ivanowski painting which
forms the frontispiece of Thomas W. |
Lawson's book Friday the 18TH 1t
Is believed that the painting will first
viii travel westward.
The Macmillan company has lust pub |
lished three books on religious subjects |
which show the trend of thought at |
the present time in widely different |
nelcs- The Rev. r. J. Campbells book, |
The New Theology is a restatement |
OF this famous preachers religious be-
hers which have caused such wide
spread discussion; Professor Walter
Christianity and the
Social Crisis" is a scholarly and pene-
trating study of the relation of the
Christian religion to the social move
ments of the day; and the changes that
are taking place in the attitude of the
Jews toward. their religion is shown by
Rabbi David sPhilipson in a work en-
titled, The Reform Movement in Juda-
ISM" lf
Messrs. Mcclure, Phillips & CO. an
nounce the following new volumes in |
their Temple 3aolieress.@z The plays are !
Les Femmes Savantes," the French
fling at the -btue-stock-
ing'' of his day, and LES Jalousies de |
Each volume contains pre-
face notes and glossary, with a photo |
gravure frontispiece. The text, OF |
course, is in the original French. The |
present volume brings the number of |
plays already issued in this series up
to eight. Others will soon follow until /
Moliere's complete works will be avail
able in this charming and convenient
form.