The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-16

The Century Cog Mill. publish early
in June a new novel by a new author,
THE Post-Girl'' BY Edward c. Booth.
1t Is a romance of a. musician and a
charming girl, with bit Of mystery
about her family, set in the Yorkshire
country. 74e@ z an
Edwin Markham, who has been SER
iously, i'll all winter. has now re-
covered and resumed work on his
''Virgilia and Other Poems which are
announced for this spring and next
autumn respectively by The Mcclure
Company.
The Worlds Work for May begins
new and unusual service-a bureau
of information for the man who wants
to know what kind of an insurance
policy to buy, what pitfalls are to be
guarded against and where he can get
exactly what he needs. An insurance
article will be published every month,
and the reader is also encouraged to
apply by letter whenever perplexing
insurance questions arise.
In the New York state Iibrary's list
of the best books of 1907 are in
Guided What 1 Have Done With Birds,
James Whitcomb Riley; The South
Americans, by DR.. Albert Hale; His
Wife, by Warren Cheney; Empire
Builders, by Francis Lynde; The Port
of Missing Men, by Meredith Nichol-
son; On the Trail Of the Arabs and
Rob the Ranger, by Herbert Strang.
Meredith Nicholson's novel, The
House of a Thousand Candles, is to
run as serial in LIE Journal of Paris.
The translation has been made by
Marguerite Belin. The House of a
Thousand Candles has now been
translated into almost every European
language.
AS in April, so in May the best SELL
ing book in America is The Black
Bag by Louis Joseph Vance. Ac-
cording to the May Bookman it has al
most twice as many votes in the
popularity contest as its nearest
competitor. ~
"True Stories of Crime" by Arthur
Train; author Of "McAlIster and His
Double" and THE Prisoner at the
Bar" extraordinary tales of great
crimes of our own day told as fiction
but actually fact; "Monoiogues," by
Beatrice Herford. which contains six
OF her famous monologues now first
publisher in book form; THE Stage
stories of theatrical life on and off the
stage, and 1.-THE Girl and the Game and
Other College Stories.''. including
Eight Talks with Kid Brother" by
Jesse Lynch Williams. author of
Princeton Stories and 1.-THE Day
Dreamer will be some of the fiction
to be published by this month by the
Scribners.
1t is reported that Lord Cromer may
visit this country the present season
as the. guest of President Roosevelt,
one of his great admirers. No one
would be more welcome guest to
the country. Because of his unparalleled
led record as a colonial ADMINISTERS
in Egypt, Lord Cromer has more than
once been called the greatest of living
Engfishmen. After his thirty years
service IN Egypt, during most OF
which he has been the actual ruler OF
that country, lie has retired to England
not to rest. but to Ike an active part
in political life and to write one of the
greatest. Of modern historical works,
his Modern Egypt which has just
been published by III the sol Macmillans
! In Jimmy Bulstrode, the hero of her
new book, '"The Sentimental Adven-
lures of Jimmy BuIstrode," Marie Van
Worst has created character who is
winning firm place in the liking OF
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