The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-07

Basket, Ingram Crockett, Mary Ray
| mond Shipman Andrews, Harrison
! Robertson, George Madden Martin,
| Elizabeth Robins, Carter Goodloe, Hal
| lie Ermine Rives, Edwin Garlic Litsey,
| Frank Waller Allen, Joseph A. Altshe-
| Ter, George Horace Lorimer, Ethelbert
D. Warf1eld, William B. Smith; and the
| poets-Robert Burns Wilson. Lucien
! V. Rule, Mrs. Sarah B. Pfatt, Will S.
| Hayes. Lillian R. Messenger. Charles
Hanson Towne, Will ]. hampton, w.
L. Visscher, Gale Young Rice and 9TH
| ers.
| Little. Brown & Co announces a sew
i enth printing of Mary E. walters "A
| Daughter of the Rich" and 18th print
| ing of Miss walters 1.-THE Wood-Carver
Of Lympus."
An English edition of John Harvard
and His Times" by Henry G. Shelley,
| the first book to tell the life-story of the
founder Of Harvard college. will be
brought out Immediately by Smith, FL
der & Co., the London publishers.
The announcement by Little, Brown &
Co. of a seventh printing Of Eliza Cal
vert Halls Aunt Jane Of Kentucky is
now closely followed by the statement
that an eighth edition, also of 10000, is
In press.
The Neal Publishing company of
Washington has just brought out a book
by Alice Maude Ewell. 1t is called "a
Long Time Ago" They are very charm
ing, these stories of long ago, as Mary
Mapes Dodge pronounced them when
she published all but two of the series
in ST Nicholas, that famous magazine
folks, they have given genuine pleasure
| to old and young alike, for, as Miss
Ewen says, There is indeed a point
where old-young and young-old people
satisfaction Mrs Dodge surely was
| justified in her admiration for Miss
| Ewell's work, for in these rehabilitations
Of the past, the Virginia of two centuries
an artist, with all an artists sympathy
and insight. Miss Ewel1 has written
much for The Atlantic Monthly and is
the author of "a White Guard to
Satan" a story Of Nathaniel Bacon's
great Rebellion, published by. Houghton
Miffin & Co. She is Virginia woman,
lifelong student of the history of her
native state, its legends and traditions,
| its quaint old customs and queer laws.
In her clever pages that picturesque
past is before us in all it's romance and
beauty, its pathos and strength.
One thousand dollars for a new
| story by a new writer is the prize
| offered by The Outing Publishing
company to encourage story tellers:
worth while If they only had the
| chance. No such offer as this has
| ever been made in this country. 1t
was inspired by the conviction on the
part of The Outing Publishing COM
pany that many men and women have
| it Sin them" to tell a big story If
special opportunity is given to them
alone.
mo other works of D'Annunzio,
1of "a nj a
reach such heights" says Charlotte
Porter OF 1.-THE Daughter Of Jorio.' in
| her intro duction to the authorized
translation Of the italian dramatist's
| pastoral tragedy, which Little, Brown
g. Co. are publishing in handsome
style. ''They have artistry. power,
concrete truth to life in common with
The Daughter OF Jorio'," she con-
| in that inner truth to life which I'M
wells the purity and aspiration of the
! power of supreme love in life and in
art. That inner life of the power of
love hallows this tragedy. Hence the
poets art gains an unerring potency of
| touch. and 1t makes the loving of
Mia worthy of a younger brother of
the Dante of the Vita Nuova' and
the Paradise. The book will be
finely illustrated, including a frontis-
piece portrait and five illustrations, re-
produced from photographs of scenes
in the italian production of the drama
John Burroughs in his latest book,
Camping and Tramping With Roose-
velt,'' says: "I have never been dis
turbed by the presidents hunting
trips. 1t is to such men as he that
the big game legitinately belongs
men who regard it from the point of
view of the naturalist as well as from
that of the sportsman, who are in
terested in its preservation. and who
share with the world the delight they
experience in the chase. Such hunt
er as Roosevelt Is as far removed
from the game-butcher as day is from