The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-21
BOOK REVIEW

Randall Parrish comes into the liv-
ing present in his new novel, Beth
Norvell," announced for publication
| by A. G. McClurg & Co., on September
81, dividing his interest between q
| Colorado mining camp and the for
tunes Of an actress who has the spark
of genius. 1t is the first time this
widely read author has dealt with
| contemporary men and women, and
this romance of conditions in western
| theaters, in the dance halls in the
! mountains, in camp under siege by
a gang of desperadoes, and in Chicago,
| is uniformly interesting.
1t is written in the authors charac-
| teristic style, which has made his
earlier works so popular. Mr.. N, G,
Wyeth. who Is now, recognized as the
| leading portrayer of western life and
scenes, has contributed a striking
frontispiece to the book. printed in
four eolors. As is usual with Messrs.
McClurg & Co.'S publications, the ap-
pearance and makeup of the book are
excellent, and a really artistic cover
| completes it's many attractive features.
TENDER 25th a new edition of Boutet
de MonvePs beautifully made and
illustrated Joan of Arc; six vol
umes of Biographical Stories" re-
told from st. Nicholas: another of
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett's
Cozy Lion;" "Abbie Ann" by George
Madden Martin, author of the Emmy
Lou stories; Alice Hogan Rice's first
juvenile, Captain June" and a story
of an Oregon lumber camp by Beatrice
Mantle, "Gret: The Story of a Pagan"
Halle Erminie Rives, the author
of Satan Sanderson." one of the most
successful novels of the year, is in pri-
vate life Mrs. Post Wheeler. having
become the wife of the poet and secre-
tary of the American embassy at
Japan. Mrs. Wheeler, who is nothing
If not picturesque, has become a great
favorite with the picturesque loving
wrote recently: There was a whisper
abroad some months ago that AIKEN
omyozin, or the Dawn God OF Star, ap-
peared early every morning enthronad
in the shape of an American lady with
a crown of yellow hair and with a rose
in her breast, riding on a horse by the
long moat of Tokogawa's feudal castle.
We soon discovered that she was not q
star lady, but a real American woman
and. more than that, a novelist, named
Halle Erminie Rives.'
The Harpers have issued new edi-
tfons of "a Stumbling Block" by
Justus Miles Forman; bud" by Neil
Munro. and Needles and Pins" by
Justin Huntly Mccarthy.
one VINO mas recently met Mrs.
Katherine Cecil Thurston, author of
those remarkable books 1.-The Mystics,"
THE Masquerader" and THE Gam
bier" writes of her that "she is a very
small, shy person, the last one in the
world, apparently. to have thought of
such original and striking plots.''
1--WE feel that we can not too warm
ly recommend My People of the
Plains to our readers are the words
of unqualified praise with which the
London Spectator concludes a long re-
view of this book of "reminiscences by
Bishop Talbot, the Cowboy Bishop"
The Harpers have Just issued a new
edition of that delightful book,
Shakespearian critic and commentator
w. j. Rolfe. The book combines all
that is known of the youth of Shake
speare, with descriptions of the life of
book gives description of Stratford-
on-Avon as 1t must have been in
Shakespeare's boyh God, and is rich IN
detail regarding manners and customs.
sports and Dastimes of the Elizabethan
age.
AS call the world loves a lover" all
the world ought to love stories about
Iove-and. If SO. all ought to love those
two new books, "Barbary sheen" a
scenes of the Algerian desert, and ga
Stumbling Block a story of love and
sacrifice set in present day New York |
Among the interesting announce
ments for fall is one to the effect that
Agnes and Egerton Castle will have a !
new book ready-"My Merry Rock
hurst The Castles are known as rap
i'd workers, yet 1t is more .han two
years since their last book, If Youth !