The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12

home of another great American.
Henry Clay. Mrs. Atherton stopped
only long enough in New York to
publishers, the Harpers. for her new
novel, just issued, called Ancestors.
| She will probably not come to New
York at all this winter.
Four new volumes will be added to
| the Life Stories for Young People"
| by A. c. McClurg & Co. this month
| bringing the total number of this val
liable series of children's classics up
| to sixteen. Like their predecessors,
| these new volumes have been trans
lated from the German by George p.
Upton. the list including the 'Frithiof
/ Herman and Thusnelda," and THE
Swiss Heroes" of the time of William
Tell. The Haydn volume completes
the series of classical masters of mu-
first Roman invasion of. Germany In
Caesars time, while the Frithfof Saga
is one of the most famous of the an
, Gent legendary poems.
| Children the world over will rejoice
to hear that the author of one of their
most favorite books-"Little Lord
Fauntleroy''-iS to edit a magazine
| for them. The announcement has just
been made that Frances Hodgson
Burnett has accepted the editorshdp of
the Childrens Magazine, and that her
son Vivian, who was the original OF
| her famous "Fauntleroy," has become
part owner and manager Of the pub
lication.
James Morgan's Theodore Roose-
welt: The Boy and the Man, which
has just been published, is, as the title
| For this reason Mr.. Morgan has dwelt
more fully than any other of the
presidents biographers on his early
years. The chapters devoted to Roose-
| velt's western life are particularly 1uii
| and satisfa Glory, and when it is real
| lied that these cover nearly quarter
| of his life up to the present time, 1t
will be realized how much OF a west
| ernor Roosevelt is in spite OF his rev
York birth and residence. MI Nor
| gan tells the story of the Santiago
) campaign without undue eulogy, and
! he shows a positive gift for sketcnlng
! the presidents political career clearly
and simplifying the complicated po-
/ litical issues involved without falsify-
| ing them. The tone of the book is
| indeed eminently impartial, and the
| writing is sufficiently dignified to
| make this welcome book to admirers
| of the president of whatever age. 1t
| is fully illustrated and very attractive
| ly printed.
The most comprehensive biography
| English painters has just been written
by William d. Bolton and was pub
| lished by A. C.. McClurg & Co. on
Sept IA under the title of his subject.
Thomas Gainsborough." 1t contains
forty illustrations, portraits and land
scapes by Gainsborough, setting forth
pictoria1ly the steps in his progress
from poverty to fame, and abounds in
anecdote of the royal and celebrated
men and women of the time to whose
faces the painter lent the immortality
of his brush. The wit and humor re-
sulting leave the book one to be read
and enjoyed, quite as much for pleas
ure as for profit.
Large editions of -"The Turn of the
Balance" have Just been sold both in
America and England. This book
seems to belong to that small class OF
books that get a second lease of life
and make for themselves the steady
and constantly increasing sale so graft
flying to author and publisher alike.
The Maine coast possesses a great
attraction for authors. William Dean
Howells has his summer home there
at Kittery Point, and occupies himself
with vegetable garden. Mrs Mar.
garet Deland has cottage at Kenne-
bunkport, and cultivates there some
gorgeous flowers Now John kendrick
Bangs has purchase ed an estate between
Portsmouth and Portland. where he
plans to spend the greater part of the,
year 1t is probable that he will devote
some of his time to farming.
President Roosevelt and the great
moral principles which lie back of his
policies have found their most eloquent
prophet in Prof. Edward Alsworth
Ross, whose brilliant volume, "Sin and
Society,"" will be published next month
by Houghton, Miff1in & Co. The presi-
dent has written an open letter to serve
as an Introduction to the book, in
which he endorses it with character
fstic energy as "a plea for courage, for
uprightness, for farseeing sanity" and
it was owing to his suggestion that the
title was changed from ''Smokeless