The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-10

tence or literary pose. and the NlVlo
sense Of character and dramatic Values
shown In these pages. warrant tne pc
lief that the present book VIII De no
less heartily welcomed than was MS
Roosevelt
The following books were published
BY Houghton Miffiin company on sat
urday. October 3: The Lighted Lamp,
a novel by c. Hanford Henderson;
.s-rhe Life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich.'
BY Ferris Greenslet; The Confessions
of a Railroad Signalman," by James
o. Pagan; The Quest Flower,
story for young readers, by Clara
Louise Burnham, and The story OF
wireless Telegraph Boy" by John
Trowbridge The Life of Aldrich ap-
pears in a large paper edition, limited
to 500 numbered copies, as Wen as IN
the regular edition.
The November number of The Cen
fury will mark the beginning of the
seventy-seventh volume and the thirty
ninth year Of this magazine 1t VIII
appear with this issue, in an entirely
new dress OF type; with new headings
known as 10-pOint Caslon. This is
modelled on the original type cut by
CASTOR in the eighteenth century and
the advantage claimed for it is legi-
biIity and frmness of face
Robert Kitchens startled the public
bit by the news that a Spirit in Pris-
on" his new novel which the Harpers
are just to issue, is a sequel TO he
Call of the Blood" With Delaney the
lovable dead in his infideIty. his wife
ignorant of his betrayal, and their
child unborn. one wonders what the
sequel could be after Is years, the time
supposed to have elapsed, unless. in
deed. it were new romance OF the
child. Apparently, however. it is not
rhEa InNrh
story, at least; the romance is still
with the wife. The psychologist turn
which Mr.. Kitchens has for searching
the feminine mind stimulates curiosity
What does a woman do who finds she
has been divinely fooled for Is years?
"The Happychaps' is the title of a
pretty children's book just published
by the Century company Would you
believe that there exists a nimble race
OF little people, so tiny they can hold
their merry madcap pranks in the hOl-
low of ones hand without ever tread
ing on ones cuff? The Happychaps are
not Brownies. nor Elves. nor Gnomes,
nor. yet. exactly. Fairies; but they are
own cousins to all OF them-a dear,
quaint. funny small folk. whose doinss
and sayings. with Carolyn Wells and
Harrison Cady as interpreters. make
up a Jolly and delightful book for young
and Old.
Mr.. Meredith Nicholson. in The Lit
tie Brown jug at Kildare" published
by the Bobbs-MerriN company, thus
pleasantly discusses the moral qualities
OF the bottle and the jug: "A bottle,
while suggestive. is not Inherently
wicked; but a jug is the symbol of
Joyous sin. Even the soberest souls,
who frown at the mention of a bottle,
smile tolerantly when jug IS sug-
gested Jugs Of many centuries are
assembled in museums. and round them
the ethnologist reconstructs extinct
races of men: and yet, even science
and history. strive they never SO sadly,
can not wholly relieve the jug Of its
CHEEKY insOuciance. A bottle of in
ferior liquor may be dressed forth en-
ticingly, and alluringly named; but
there's no Disgusting the jug; its gen.
ial shame can not be hidden. There
are pleasant places in America where,
II one deposit a half dollar and a little
brown jug behind a certain stone. or
on the shady side OF a blackberry
bush, jug and coin will together disap-
pear between sunset and sunrise; but
10, the jug. filed and plugged with a
corncob. viii return alone mysterfously,
in contravention OF the statutes in
such cases made and provided. Too rare
for glass. this fluid. which bubbles out
of the southern hills with as little guilt
in its soul as the brooks beside which
IL comes into beingi But lest he be
accused Of aiding and abetting crime
against the majesty of the law, this
chronicler hastens TO say that on a
| hot day in the harvest field. honest
water, hidden away in little brown
jug in the fence corner acquires a
quality and imparts a delight that no
| mug OF crystal or Of gold can yield