The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-14
BOOK REVIEW

The Macmillan company has in press
a twO-vOlume work on. Modern Egypt
by the Earl of Cromer, which is ex-
pected to appear early in the new year.
1t Is the outcome Of Lord Cromer's
long official connection with Egypt,
where, as consul general, he has. exert
ed larger influence than any other
man in the country, and placed his
name among those OF the greatest mod
ern political administrators, Lord
Cromer's remarkable personality, and
the authority with which he will speak
on all matters Egyptian, make this a
work OF scarcely less interest in Ameri-
ca than In England. 49,
George w. Cables great novel .The
Grandissimes,H illustrated by Albert
Herter and just published in a new and
beautiful edition, tells OF the life of the
French Creole families in New Orleans,
in the early part of the nineteenth CEN
fury. Mr.. Gable was born in New Or
leans and lived in the south until after
the civil war, and there are few writer's
who can reproduce more perfectly than
he does the manners, speech and whole
social atmosphere Of a remote time and
a peculiar people. This story is delight
and delicious flavor of f1urnor that dis
tinguished ..Old Creole Days
Mr.. B. L. Putnam weale, probably
the best informed English writer on
problems of the Far East, has just
sent to press new book, THE Impend-
ing Struggle in Eastern Asia,'' which
The Macmillan company will publish
early next year. In this work Mr.
Weaie will round out the discussion of
eastern problems begun and maintain
ed in his "Manchu and Muscovite,"
"The Re-Shaping of the Far East and
THE Truce in the East and its After
math."
The new Meredith Nicholson book is
just out fresh from the press of the
Bobbs Merrill company. 1t is called
Rosalind at Red Gate and is sequel
The famous coup d'etat by which
Napoleon III gained control of
France is vividly described in the
IN emoirs. of Monsieur Claude" just
published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
Among the many anecdotes OF the
eventfu1 evening of December 1, 1851,
M. Claude gives the following: Comte
de Morny, the chief spirit of the noe
turnal drama about to be performed,
allay suspicious. lady said to him:
Monsieur de Morny, is it true that
they are going to sweep out the
anything about it, he replied; 'but
If there is any sweeping to be done I
shall try to be on the side of the
Richard Hickman Menefee is the
title of a new book by John Wilson |
Townsend Just published by the Neale |
Publishing Co. of Washington.
ION Saturday. March Sd. 1882" |
says Mr.. Townsend, twelve young gen. |
tlemen, all natives of Kentucky. wsre
gra duated from the Pennsylvania Law
School with the L. B. degree" The
one of the twelve who became most |
distinguished was Richard Hickman |
Menefee, lawyer, orator. legislator and |
college days, through his useful and
honorable service in the state legfsla-
ture, until at the age of twenty-n1ne,
he takes his seat in the Twenty.hfth
two years of hard work-brilliant,
successful, constant work-famous
and honored, "Menefee came back to
Kentucky to meet Henry Clay, the
dream of his boyhood, the ambition of
Of his manhood, and then to die"
when most men are just entering upon
their life work. Thomas Francis Mar
shall, in his eulogy on Menefee, said:
"He was a man designed by nature
and himself for inevitable greatness; a
man of the rarest talents and of the
most commanding character-a man
to whose advancing eminence there
was no limit but the constitution of
his mind proved too mighty for the
material elements which enclosed
them" Henry Clay, years after Meme
fees death, referred to him as "the
greatest genius Kentucky ever prof.
duced.' The book contains all of
Menefee,s speeches that are extant.
which Mr.. Townsend has collected
from old newspapers. The Congress
sionaI Globe, notes privately taken,
and elsewhere. These are now pub