The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09
Books and Authors

New York. March 9.-The Ziegler
Magazine for the Blind. the first pub
LEGATION of its kind in this country and
the second one in the world has just
come from the press. II is now being
sent TO the sightless thousands in
America through the benevOlence of
Mrs. William Ziegler, widow of the
hacker of several Arctic expeditions,
who has donated the funds to carry
out the enterprise II is estimated that
the cost of the magazine TO Mrs Zieg-
Ter Will be $4,000 a year 1t is more
bulky than the ordinary publication,
and is twelve by thirteen inches. COM
prlSeS fifty sheets and weighs almost
one pound. The sheets are printed
only on one side. They are very thick,
since the characters. consisting of rails
ed dots and dashes have TO be first
made on metal plate and then repro
duced on the paper The Braille sys-
tenn of type is used
Much care has been taken by Wal
ter c. Holmes, the editor. in compiling
the magazine. Many poems and stOT-
les have 10 be omitted because they
deal with the sense of sight. Allusions
TO mOOnbeams. starlight. rainbows.
clouds and beautiful scenery may not
be printed as they serve to emphasize
TO the readers the sense of their afflic-
ton
over 10000 copies of the first issue
have been printed of this number
COCO have already been sent to blind
r
The remainder Will be distributed
among the students now in schools for
the blind The magazine contains no
advertising and is absolutely free.
In addition to stories. poems and
current news, the first number con-
tains a map of the Panama canal,
showing by means Of raised charac-
tiers. the location of North and South
America. Cuba and the Isthmus. Some
of the points on the map are marked
vi nix
letter of the name but in the margin
the name is spelled out. The number
also contains a letter from President
Roosevelt to Mrs. Ziegler. a letter
and the first instalment of Mrs.
Wigs of the Cabbage Patch which
will run as serial.
The second volume of the J. B. Lip
pincott company's French Men Of Let
tiers Series. Francois Rabelais.'' by
Arthur Tilley. NJ. A. which was an
nOUnced for publication during Feb
poned. The necessity of having all
proofs and queries submitted TO the
author. who is a fellow and lecturer
of Kings college. Cambridge. England.
has caused various unforeseen delays
that may hold the book back for a
month or two.
If timerness is a dominant factor in
n
David Baldwin now in press by Thos.
Y. CTowen & Co. should attract wide
attention This novel is based upon
real experience and deals with ''heresy''
in the modern pUlpit-a theme closely
par llleled by the celebrated "'Crapsey''
case and also, still more recently. by
the confessions of an ''undistinguished
hereto which have appeared in a
prominent religious paper. These con-
LESSONS are arousing a storm of critic
ism. in which the epithets range from
coward" and "hypocrite'' TO brave
man and lover of truth
BY chance George Frederic Turner's
new Zeldaesque novel. Frost and
Friendship (Little, Brown & Coz was
published on the day Of his maria ge
the bride being a daughter Of George
Grossmith- Among the congratulatory
kilograms he received was one that
read Here's luck-lots Of Friendship
and no FrostiH
The plot of Nicholson's new story
The Port Of Missing Men. turns as The
reading public is fast finding out Oh
the disappearance Of an Austrian arch
duke and his supposed temperance in