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

Glynn. The photographer, Mr.. Troth,
spent many days, even weeks, tramping
and boating around and through the
marshes to secure as nearly as possible
the exact scenes described in the DO
ems. Many OF the photographs were
taken In the region of Jekyl Island,
where the marshes have changed but
John and Rue Carpenter have pro-
duced Improving Songs for Anxious
Children" published by A. C. Nc
Clurg & Co. this month. 1t will be an
tie Boys Sing" illustrated in color
quantity and old-fashionedly, with
merry words and melodies which are
good music as well as engaging to the
ear Of little people.
An adult who has suffered in earlier
days girth too great for his height
will appreciate ono OF the lyrics, which
runs as follows: saT5s's -1.
Alas, I am heavy child. -a,.-.
A very heavy one.
cannot do the fearful things
That other boys have done.
try to caper on the green.
I try to skip and run,
But all my buttons they burst on
And make my clothes undone.
1t is very sad, sad thing
To be so fat child.
To have to merely sit about
And yet to feel quite wild.
1t is accompanied with appropriate
music, quite the heaviest in the book.
and with an entirely sympathetic illus
tration in color.
walled H." published by Harpers, q
new novel by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps,
will appeal to those who like their
stories with little bit of tragic acci-
dent, good deal of quiet heroism, and
a happy issue out of all complications.
The story, when the Harpers first pub
Iished it as a serial impressed great
many readers with it's pure tone, ten
der sentiment, and the absorbing fea-
lures of its plot. A young college pro-
fesSor is the victim Of an automobile
accident and is forced to spend sew
eral months within the space of four
walls. His pretty wife, an egoist, in
capable of devotion. resorts to outside
diversions, with the inevitable result
the mans love is destroyed by her self
for a better woman. In spite of dis
aster, the end is the best for all three.
Mrs. Phelps in this book has made the
point, recently neglected among novel;
lists, that man who is married ana
loves another woman may love her
that he may still be :.
faithful to his wife.
"Blottentots cId How to Make Them"
is a Jolly book for young folks, with q
game attached, by John Prosper Car
mel, published by the Paul Elder COM
pauy.
IF you've never made q blottantot.
This book will help you quite LOTT"
Here is a whole menagerie of these
startling, ludicrous, haphazard, jacka-
funniest that ever jumped
out of paper-a jolly Jingle with eachs
ing others just as funny. Out with the
nk-bottle, pen some scraps of paper,
and proceed forthwith, being careful to
follow John Prosper's. excellent adviceS
Don't crease exactly at the blot
You'll have a fearful muddle:
Press gently, too, and not a lot,
Unless you want a puddle"
The luckiest hit" of the publishing
season thus far seems to have been
made by a newspaper man, James Nor
gan of the Boston Globe, with his Life
If Roosevelt. With all that has been
written about the president 1t has re-
NAMED for Mr.. Morgan, in this straight
Onward, unpretentious narrative. to
produce what the New York Times calls
the ideal biography OF Mr.. Roose-
Telt" It is little wonder that editions
IS rapidly as they can be printed, when
he tone of the reviewers is fairly rep
esented by the following from the con-
ervative Boston Journal of Education:
No other biography that has come un-
Ter my eye will put as much iron into
. young mans blood as Will this story
4 a real life"