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


| ed by the Macmillan company of THE
Economic History of Virginia in the
Seventeenth Century" by P. A. Bruce,
in two volumes; and Principles of Ag-,
riculture,H by Professor L. H Bailey,
of Cornell university. xnp. ~.
September Is is the date set for the
publication of Vol. II in the Collected
B. Yeats" This volume is to contain
Mr.. Yeats six dramas in verse, includ-
ing "Deirdre," which was first pro-
duced in Dublin last year, and has
never before been printed.
That Mr.. Owen Johnson's stories of
French life are carefully studied may
be inferred from two comments on his
novel of the Terror, I'm the Name of
Liberty" The late Madame Blanc of
the Revue des Deux Mondes said that
in its depletion of French life this tale
contained not a single false attribution
Sloan, author of the Life of Napole-
on" said that he had failed to find more
than single historical error and that
only trivial one. In the October Cen
fury Mr.. Johnson will have a short
story entitled, THE Surprises of the
Lottery" depicting the menage of an
impecunious French country nobleman,
who, with his cook and his sapeur-
pompier otherwise f1reman), furnishes
more than one surprise for the reader
in lively narrative, for which Mr.. Gut
pom will supply some striking pictures.
An important new novel by a writer
whose southern training and afilia-
tions have afforded rather unusual
opportunities for the study of condi-
tions in that section is THE Welding"
by Lafayette McLaws. The book, an
nounced for fall publication by Little,
Brown & Co., appeals strongly to ma
tional pride, and will interest readers
in both north and south. The author
notes and studies those elements in
the beginnings of the republic that
late friction and disruption culminat-
ing in the civil war; shows the strength
and weakness and conflicting sectional
interests in national politics, and
finally pictures the welding of these
interests into the promise of a united
nation.
The late jeremiah Curtin. the we'll
known translator of Sienkiewicz's
Polish works, one of the most remark
produced, and a deep student of east
ern history, gave the greater portion
of the last years of his life to an his
torical study of the Mongols, and had
just completed the work when, in, the
ripeness of his power, death cut short
his career. In the first volume, en-
titled, 1.-The Mongols, a History" to
be published by Little, Brown & Co.
campaigns and conquests of Temudjin
(Jinghis-Khan). and his lieutenants
and successors, in northeast Asia,
China, Russia, Arabia and Persia, the
narrative being brought down to the
early part of the fifteenth century.
when the Mongols, after reigning in
China. were finally expelled from the
country by the founders of the Ming
dynasty. A second book, Russia I'm !
der the Mongols,'' will be published |
next year.
In Anne Warmers new "Susan
Clegg" book, entitled, Susan Clegg |
and a Man in the House,, the inimit-
able Susan Clegg is persuaded to- take /
a boarder, Elijah Doxey, nephew of /
Mr.. Kimball. the village grocer.
Elijah, says Susan. sis so smart, that
he'll be offered a place on one of the |
biggest city papers in little while,
but in the meantime he's just lost the /
place that he did have on one of the /
smallest Elijah having been paid |
off with an old printing press, his
mother sends him to the country to
visit Mr.. Kimball. who proposes to
utilize Elijah and his printing press by
a village newspaper Elijah
Doxey's novel ideas as to the conduct