The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-26
BOOK REVIEW

A book of special interest to KAN
sans will be issued next week from
the press of Crane & Co., of Topeka.
1t is Ed Howe's story of his trip
around the world. 1t is called by the
simple title DAILY Notes of a Trip
Around the World" in two volumes
of $40 and 315 Lages each, boxed, and
is made to sell for 81.
Nearly every one in Kansas is more
or less familiar with Ed Howe's style.
1t is plain, simple and straightforward.
He possesses the faculty of gaining
the confidence of the reader and keep
ing him interested to the end. His
travel notes were published in the
State Journal during the progress of
his journey and attracted wide atten-
ton. They have been revised for the
book but there is little departure
from the text of the original letters.
Harper's Weekly printed the follow
ing editorial notice of the letters
when they were published serially in
the newspapers:
"The chances are that any news
paper a man picks up now will remind
him that E. w. Howe. of the Atchison
Globe, is travelling around the world.
Mr. Howe is the most re-
luctant traveller Kansas ever sent out.
He likes Atchison and prefers to stay
there; we don't know how he was in
duced to take to the road. When he
got to Honolulu, he was homesick,
and longed to return home, but was
ashamed to turn back. and he gritted
his teeth and went on. He gets novel,
strong and interesting impressions,
and all the newspapers copy passages
from his letters to the Globe. 1t is
hard to say which is more interesting:
their pictures OF Asia, or their pic
lures of Howe"
The appearance Of the Howe book
will be awaited with interest.
George E. Woodbury., whose new
book, 1.-THE Appreciation Of Literature"
has just been published with the Baker
& Taylor company's imprint issued his
first book twenty-four years ago.
graduate of Harvard, he was professor
of English at the University of Wiscon-
SIM but later he became professor of
comparative literature at Columbia uni
versity. Mr.. Woodbury. is the author
of eleven works and editor of the COM
plete works of Shelley and Edgar Allen
Poe with Edmond c. Stedman). Pro-
fessor Woodbury. is now living in
Beverly, Mass, engaged in editorial AMI
literary work
Early in the new year Messrs. A. G.
McCIurg & Co. will issue booklet
from the pen of Horace Fletcher with |
the suggestive title "Optinisln: A Real
Remedy" Mr.. F'letcher's name and
fame make this announcement of Pc |
culiar interest. Mr.. Fletcher has done |
more perhaps than any man living to |
chow humankind how to secure rational |
and prolonged happiness In life. His /
books on the proper methods OF eating |
have been made the basis of system |
known the world over as '-F'letcherism."
and his entire outlook is that of prac- |
teal optimism. There is no doubt that |
the new book will he eagerly awaited.
Miss Emile Poulsson, author of |
Father and Baby Plays one of The
Century Co.'S fall issues, has struggled
almost since her birth with serious
of the eyes. Despite this ham
best known writer today of nursery
fnger-plays; and with her sister she
was for many years editor Of the Kin
1ergarten Review. A feature of her new /
book, Father and Baby Plays" is ff-
Leen original songs. the music by Their
asa H. Garrison and Charles Cornish.
Mr.. Marion Crawford's cosmopolitan
SIN is curiously illustrated in his latest
story, "Arethusa," published by Mac
milan. The scenes is laid in CONSTANT
lople in the year 1876, and the principal
characters are Carlo Zeno. a Venetian
merchant and soldier of fortune; Are /
husa, supposedly a Greek slave girl,
out actually a Venetian, like Zeno;
Russian Karaboghazji, Persian slave
lealer; Gorlias, Turkish astrologer;
he two emperors, Johannes and his son
Andronicus; and Tocktamish, a Tartar
nercenary. This is a sufficiently d. ,
-ersified company to provide an album
lance Of incident in the story which
DR. Crawford tells so delightfully."-.
Sidney Lanier's poems, the Hymns :
# the Marshes" will be published early &
n October, in a beautifully illustrated !
dition. Twenty-one repro ductionS have
,een made from photographs taken es- !
,ecial1y for the work in the marshes of