The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-18

The Mcclure Company announces
the publication this fall of an impor-
tant book by Mrs. Leonidas Hubbard.
Jr.. entitled "A Woman's Way
Through Unknow Labrador" The
tragedy of the Hubbard expedition of
1903, undertaken under the auspices
of the Outing Magazine, and of how
Leonidas Hubbard missed his way and
died of starvation in the wilder
ness, Is known to all Americans The
account of his journey was unfinished.
but his devoted wife, nurtured in lux
ury and refinement, essays to COM
plete his task. In July. 1905, after the
recovery of her husbands body, she
started from Hudson Bay post on the
Northwest river, accompanied by four
men, one of them her husbands form
er companion, George Elson and a
Cree Indian, a Russian half breed and
O young Eskimo. The journey through
the wilderness along mountain bear
paths and river rapids occupied forty
three days and they travelled SIS miles
from post to post. The result is a
book of marvellous fascination. IA
Woman's Way Through Unknown
Labrador is a story of unwonted de-
votion and simple courage on the part
of woman who sought to achieve
and found the goal unreached by her
courageous husband, and the touch
ing loyalty and chivalry of her four
companions are among the finest at
tributes to be found IN. mans deal
ing with woman.
Wilbur d. Nesbit is another author
who has come home from a trip
abroad. only to pass through town and
then depart for the country, in this
case to Illinois. Mr.. NesDit, whose re-
cent humorous verses in the Harper
periodicals have been very clever imi-
tations of children, spent his trip of
Cix vyaa1xa rhfafU in T.nndnn ri
"And IL wanted to-" says Mr.. Nesbit.
'I could write book about it,
Mark Twain has gone to his sum-
mer home in the billy inland of Con-
necticut, near Redding, which lies in
the old colonial district once tramped
over by Israel Putnam. The house is
just at the verge of the hilltop. at the
head of a succession of terraces, and
overlooks woodland, stream, and hills
calls the estate Innocence at Home"
The house itself, which is long and
white, with loggia and the charac-
tertstic great living room, was design
ed by Mr. John Mead Howells, the
brother of Mr.. William Dean Howells.
The Last of the Plainsmen is the
title of book to be issued this month
by the Outing Publishing Company.
1t Is partly an account of a hunting
trip through the widest region of Ari-
iona. and partly study of the cele-
brated old frontiersman, Buffalo
Jones Of Kansas, who was the leader
of the party. The object of the ex-
petition was to lasso and capture alive
mountain lions, at which dangerous
sport Buffalo Jones is an expert. Las
soing mountain lions is certainly sport
indeed. healthy. full grown animal
at the end of a thin rope is likely to
cause no end of trouble, to say nothing
of the difficulty of the initial part of
the performance. An interesting ac-
count of trip taken for this especial
purpose has just been written by DR..
Zane Grey, and will appear in book
form about the end of this month. DR..
Grey was accompanied by the cele-
brated frontiersman, Buffalo Jones,
and the country hunted was the neigh
borhood of the north rim of the Grand
Canyon of Arizona.
Three of the best known of Mr..
William Dean Howells's books have
gone into reprint through the Har-
pers: The Ragged Lady, A Traveller
from Altruria, and The Landlord at
Lions Head.
Mrs. A. NJ. Williamson the we'll
known authoress, who with her hus-
band, c. N. Williamson, has collabo-
rated on so many successful works of
fiction. recently paid a short visit to
this country, partly to see some old
friends, for Mrs. Williamson is an
American by birth and a native of
Kentucky, and partly to get some local
color for a new book upon which she
and her husband are engaged and
which her publisher, the Mcclure
Company, promises for this fall. Mrs
Williamson is now in Italy where she
will spend part of the summer Her
winters she generally spends on the
Riviera where in the pinewoods of a
certain Captain Martin she and her
husband have a bungalow. Some of
the Williamsons' best known books
are THE Chaperon," which was pub
lished this spring, Lady Betty Across
the Water" my Friend the Chauf-
feaur," THE Lightning Conductor
The Princess Virginia." and THE Car
of Destiny"
The Henry Altemus Company OF
Philadelphia has published the Grover
Cleveland essay on Good CITIZENSHIP
in neat and attractive book form. Mr.
Cleveland's Good Citizenship" is g
little masterpiece. 1t is a book thai
ought to be read and re-read by every
boy of high school age from Maine tc
California. 1t is, in effect a primer O,
patriotism, potent for untold good in
fostering an intelligent and unselfish
love of country. Theoretically, mos
or US are patriotic enough on election
day. We vote for candidates we be-
lieve to be honest; on the Fourth OF
July we burn f1recrackers and eat bis
dinners-and let 1t go at that. We be.
lieve so implicitly in the splendid des.
tiny of our nation that we quite for.
get to do our share toward makins
that destiny come to pass Patriotism
: and good citizenship, Mr.. Cleveland
pointed out, are not virtues to be ex
ercised once or twice year, but dutie!
to be practiced daily from New Year.
Day to New Years Eve. They are no
alone the duties of the great and pow.
erful, but debts that are owed will
equal gertrude by the humblest an(
by the most obscure. No Spe can scar
these pages. however hastily Withnu