The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-14

may be obtained in Topeka for fifty
cents at Halls or Zercher's.
over half million copies have been
circulated of Raymond NJ. Alden's
story, Why the Chimes Rang. This is
generally regarded as the best kinder
garten story ever published.
Moore, just published by the Neale
Publishing Co, of New York and
Washington. is an unusual book. A
strong man loves a beautiful girl. That
is not unusual. Through the girls
brilliant coquetry they are estranged.
This is not unusual. They remain
absolutely faithful to their mutual un-
spoken love, he, through the pride of
self-mastery, she, in the confidence
that he will return to her. Neither is
incidents that keep the lovers apart
is unusual, and Mr.. Moore has used
the irony of fate" with excellent
courage, and with a great deal of art.
About these facts of life and love-
and death. Mr.. Moore has woven
remarkable tapestry of delicate coll
ors, an intermingling of vision and
retrospect that is unique and sugges-
tive. 1t is a poets brooding subdued
to prose form, a love-tragedy sombre
and powerful And at the beginning
of the tragedy of love he writes, as
Omar wrote at the close of the.
to say, "Oblivion.''
Ellen Terry's long expected volume of
memoirs, whose almost immediate pub
LEGATION will be one of the literary
events of the year, is the record of a
Gus people. Born of a family of actors,
put to sleep as a baby in her moth
er's dressing room at the theater she
passed happy childhood among peo-
pie who regarded the stage as an hon
orable profession and trained their
children carefully in it's traditions.
From her first appearance at the age
of eight in Charles Kean's company
she practically lived at the theater.
Her marriage at Is with George Fred
erick Watts introduced her into a good
ly company where she came into asso-
citation with such men as Tennyson,
Browning, Gladstone and Disraen The
unhappy outcome of her marriage, her
six years retirement when she was
dramatically discovered by Charles
Reade and induced to return to the
stage again, form a dramatic story of
great interest. Her intimate associa-
Bernhard, Duse, Whistler Sargent,
Burne-Jones, Joseph jefferson and
Saint Gaudens are of great interest.
The book is Illustrated with photo
graphs from Miss Terry collection. re-
productions from notable paintings of
Terry and Irving and special drawings
by Albert Sterner.
The Mcclure company announces the
second edition of 1.-The Guest of Ques-
nay" by Booth darlington; the sec
ond edition of "Lynch's Daughter" by
Leonard Merrick; the second edition of
Anthony Hopes 1.-The Great Miss Dri-
ver;" the second edition of "9009," by
James Hopper and Fred r. Bechdolt;
the eighteenth edition of Pigs is Pigs
by Ellis Parker Butler; the third edi-
ton of THE "reminiscences of Carl
Schurz' (two volumes); and the second
edition of "A Woman's Way Through
Unknown Labrador" by Mrs. Leonidas
Hubbard, Jr.
A peculiar interest attaches to the
review of tariff history and the frank
discussion of the tariff question by
Andrew Carnegie which will be pub
lished in the Christmas Century. Mr..
Carnegie's experience and convictions
he declares, for tariff for revenue in
stead of tariff for protection, the is
sue of 40 years ago, "and therefore the
strict maintenance of the present du-
ties upon foreign luxuries paid by the
rich. The present tariff rightfully ex-
empts the masses of the people from al
most all national taxation, because they
have not the ability to pay as re-
quired by Adam Smith, the greatest
economic authority"
George w. Cables new novel, sKin-
caid's Battery will be published this
month by the Scribners. When Mr..
Gable writes of the life in New Or
leans just before and during the Civil
war he tells of matters and scenes
which he knew at first hand. He is
the only novelist now writing of that
period who actually fought on the
southern side during the Civil war,
and in this new story he has some
chapters about that conflict which are
among the most breathIess and thrill
ing scenes in all our fiction. No
story since THE Cavalier" has so