The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-18

while the latter is devoted to the
scenes in which lived the American
authors of the Concord and Boston
group or which they portrayed in
their books. The two volumes are
printed and bound in uniform style,
and are both illustrated.
H. M. Caldwell company of New
Y DIRK and Boston have secured the
American rights for the attractive lit
tie volumes in the Great Galleries of
Europe Series, each book containing
go or more reproductions of the fam
GUS pictures in each Of the principal
THE National Gallery" 1.-The Tate
Gallery" The Louvre and THE
Luxembourg" have already been pub
ished and others are in preparation.
Concise notes on the pictures or the
duction and the several volumes are
prefaced with an historical account of
the gallery represented.
Blue Waters and Green, r. Du-
mont Smiths travel book is in a sec
ond edition.
At the request OF the late DIR. Wat
sons family, DIR. w. Robertson Nicoll
Is preparing a memoir of the famous
author of Beside the Bonnie Brier
Bush" DR.. Nicoll is very DESTROYS
that may be in the possession Of
American friends OF DR.. Watson, and
asks that such letters be sent to DR..
Watson's publishers. Messrs. Dodd,
Mead & co. New York. Letters thus
loaned will not be sent to England,
but will be Immediately copied and
carefully returned to owners who
shall kindly loan them.
Requests for Ed Howe's book come
from every section Of the country.
The appearance Of Miss Elizabeth
Robins novel, 1.-THE Convert" pub
lished by the Macmillan Co., coincid-
ing with the visit OF Mrs. Cobden-
Sanderson to this country, has arous-
| ed keener interest than ever in the
woman's suffrage cause in America.
most prominent English suffragists,
| and took part in the recent agita-
| ton which resulted in her serving a
| term in jail. The scenes of the suf-
fragette agitation, which caused such
excitement in London, have been util-
lied by Miss Robins in her remark
able book, which presents in the form
Of fiction the whole argument for the
equal suffrage. One of the most prom
inent American suffragists has called
1.-THE Convert" the Uncle Toms
Cabin" OF the movement.
Among the spring novels to be pub
lished by Messrs. Dodd. Mead & Co.,
Is 1.-THE Loadstone," by VIII Lilli-
bridge, author of Ben Blair" DR..
Lillibridge is a Dakota man. born and
| bred In that country He has been
farmer. rancher and cattleman. Even
now. busy as he is with his profession
| and literary work, he has a mania for
being out of doors.
| Apparently it is hazardous for any
| writer-even Mark Twain-who is hu-
morous, not to be. Not long ago the
Harpers published a little story by
Mark Twain called "A Horses Tale
which involved very delicate humor in
the telling, but involved also as a eli
! max a sudden and startling rush Of
pathos centering upon a child. For
this the London Spectator finds it i'm
possible to forgive him. He Mark
Twain) has no right" accuses the
critic, "to make an abrupt transition
to the great emotions of life" Wheth-
er the writer limits his edict to this
| story, or whether he intends to cut
Mark Twain off forever from the great
emotions of life, is indefinite. Any
reader of "a Horses Tale" however.
could explain this critics attitude. No
man was ever yet surprised into tears
without experiencing some indignation
| at the cause. 1t is really a kind OF
| resentful compliment.
The title of the new story by George
Barr McCutcheon, to be published this
spring by Messrs. Dodd Mead & Co..
is THE Husbands of Edith" a story
in McCutcheons best style, which is
to say that it is inimitably clever and
entertaining.
A Convenient Train.
For Topeka people who desire full
| business day in Kansas City is the