The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-11

a love story and an unexpected end
ing that will give thrills to the most
experienced reader of fiction. The
scene is laid in the gay life of the
summer colony on Long Island. which
forms very effective contrast to the
powerful tragedy and mystery of the
story. 1t is published by Charles
Scribner's Sons.
The Atlantic for July prints as usual
timely leader. This month it is
What is the Matter with our Land
Laws?" by Seth K. Humphrey There
is evidently a good deal the matter.
and Mr.. Humphrey says SO pointedly.
A book of unusual Importance to
students of criminology is promised in
THE Young Malefactor," a study of
Juvenile punishment by Thomas
Travis. Phi. D., which is now in the
presses of Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
Tor speedy issuance. Ju@-0 Ben B.
Lindsey, perhaps the best known au-
| thority on children's courts in Amer
lea, contributes an introduction, pay
ing generous tribute to the investi-
gators work.
A distinguished bishop of the
Protestant Episcopal church has writ
ten the publishers of DR.. Swete's 1.-The
Appearance of Our Lord after the
Passion" In sending an order for a
second copy, please do all you can to
circulate widely DIR. Swete's book,
which you have just published. 1t is
one of the most valuable books of the
day that 1 have read"
J. B. Lippincott Company has re-
ceived a letter in reference to George
Morgans True Patrick Henry" re-
| Gently published by them, written by
Henry's grandson, DR.. T. S. Henry, of
Red Hill, Virginia, the old Henry
homestead. DR.. Henry, who is we'll
advanced in years, gives the volume
the highest praise, and says that the
| man Mr.. Morgan has described is Just
the sort of a person he has always
| pictured from the family reminis-
cenceS passed on to him in the days
| of his youth. DR.. s. Weir Mitchell
also writes in the highest terms of the
new volume.
| One of the pleasantest volumes in the
Macmillan Highways and Byways
| series is the one on Hampshire" by
| D. H. Moutray Read, with illustrations
| by Arthur b. Connor. To the tourist
| as we'll as to the born Englishman,
| Hampshire is one Of the most fascinat-
| ing counties in England. AS Mr.. Read
denghtfully says in his preface: Most
| writer's claim for their 'copy-hold' that
| 1t is the choicest bit of our choice
Homeland. This is a praiseworthy at
| 1tude. But not on this account, nor
with an desire to cast asDersions on
my fellow writer's do 1 assert that
J Hampshire is the most perfect of Eng
! lish counties and the most representa-
| tive corner of England" From a wri-
ter so enthusiastically in love with his
| subject much may with reason be ex-
| pected. Mr.. Connors illustrations, of
which there are about a hundred, are
admirably done and testify to the
|
| Persia: The Awakening" is a story
of caravan journey across Persia and
| the middle east, recently taken by the
author and his brother They spent
several months as the guests of the
| American minister to Teheran, and had
| exceptional opportunities for seeing the
| country. Persia, though one of the old
| est countries in the world, is now I'M
| dergoing great transformations, partic-
| ularly along commercial and political
| lines. The old order and the new are
| struggling for supremacy; modernism
| is pitted against the ancient traditions
| of oriental despotism. Mr.. w. p Cres-
son, the author, takes up these modern
| problems, and his account is as mar
| vellous as the golden tales of the Ara
| bian Nights of old, with the added in
terest of truth. This book is the best
| picture Of modern Persia we have today
and Is especially Illuminating in the
| present crisis in Persian affairs. 1t has
just been published by J. B. Lippin-
| colt company.
A thoroughly practical little book
which will be of great value to those
| who live upon small country places
| has been issued by the J. B. Lippin-
colt Company. The author, Samuel
| L. Maynard, has had more than thirty
years experience teaching botany and
| hnrfinrIltrtrn he ~
sary to the successful conduct of the
small farm or suburban garden are
discussed, and those whose work in
the city allows them but a few hours
each day to spend about the home will
find in it many helpful suggestions.
]. B. Lippincott Company has been
informed of the engagement of H.
Hesketh Prichard, the young author
| who captained the English team of
| cricketers that played in America last
year. to Lady Elizabeth Grimston,
daughter of Lord Verulam, and niece
of the Duchess of Montrose Two of
| Mr.. Prichard's books, THE Chronicles
of Don O. and Don Q in the Sierra
have been published in America by
the Lippincotts, and both have been
| well received. Mr.. Prichard has for
several years written in collaboration
with his mother, and one wonders
| whether this marriage will terminate
his arrangement,
| Senator Albert J. Beveridge is the
author of new book under the title
of THE Meaning of the Times" The
book contains the principal addresses
made by Indiana's senior senator dur
| Ing the past ten years. They are the
| speeches which gave him his national
| reputation as an orator and public
man. While the title of the book
THE Meaning of the Times" is taken
| from a single address-one which Mr.
| Beveridge recently made at Yale uni
versity-yet this title also aptly des-
| cribes the entire series of speeches in
cluded In the volume. For each
speech is in itself an Interpretation OF