The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19

that gifted authors impressions and
experiences during many months of
wandering over the peninsula. Henry
c. Shelby. author of John Harvard"
and Literary BY Paths in Old Eng
land" again writes of his home coun-
try in a book entitled "Untrodden Eng
fish Ways" Not the least of Mr.
Shelley's accomplishments is his artis
tic Photography, and the illustrations
for his new book are all from photo
graphs of his own making.
Lillian Whiting has a comprehensive
book on modern life in the French capt.
tai, called Paris the Beautiful" and
Mary E. Walters Through the Gate
of the Netherlands" has been so steadi-
ly in demand since it's publication that
a new edition with additional illustra-
tions has been prepared for this fall.
South California, in our own country,
contains intensely interesting material
for the writer, and none is more htted
to depict its charms than George
Wharton James. himself a resident of
California, and author of I'm and Out
of the Old Missions" I'm and Around
the Grand Canyon" etc His book
with the picturesque California of Mrs.
Jackson's famous novel, and the incl
dents from which she constructed her
story.
In the history of American literature
no more important announcement has
been made than this: 1.-The Collected
Works of Ambrose Bierce," collected
edited and arranged by himself. and
representing the best of his life's work.
will be published in ten volumes, the
first of which will be ready in January.
1909, the others to follow rapidly me
beauty and magnitude of the WORK
the fact that the man who wrote the
books has been his own editor ana
Judge: the variety of Bierce's work, IN
he nd at
the perfection of the mechanical maj
up of the volumes-all these Things
combine to make this announcement
of great interest and historical sig
nificance. Each volume will contain,
approximately, one hundred thousand
words; it will be about six by nine
inches in size. and nearly two inches
thick; it will be printed on paper OIL
high grade, in large type, loaded; the
binding will be full Levant morocco
double head-bands, and lining OF more
silk. with gold edges all around-a
sIImptuous and durable edition, in dig
nifty and beauty worthy the great
writer whose life-work it presents TO
the world. The set is to be sold by
Subscription and is to be published by
the Neal Publishing company OF New
York and Washington.
Two beautifully illustrated and print
ed gift DOCKS Will NC lSSNSN al
- Nv THOMAS Y Crowell & Co.
Thoreau's cape Cod profusely illus
trated from the camera of Chfton
Johnson. who followed Thoreau's pain
and "A Treasury of Verse for Little
Children" which is described as the
most tempting anthology OF its class
ever presented.
A rather ludicrous circumstance. oc-
curing at a Chinese funeral in canton,
If.r1or aUO Frederic
s. Isham, author of The Lady OF the
Mount. All Chinese want big funerals,
and many estates are almost reduced
to nil by the time the dear departed
has been ostentatiously borne to the
final resting place. The ceremony the
novelist witnessed was unusually pre-
tentious. There were scores of men III
line: dozens of Gagged doves: many
varieties of flowers. sweets and con-
fections. and all the diversified trap
pings dear to the heather" sense OF
what is fit and proper. The coffin, a
mighty sarcophagus, was carried on