The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-21

Mathews, and tells of the courage and
i enthusiasm of a southern woman who
and useful education of her mountain
people, In different vein is Emily
! Posts article. ITO the Country for
| Christmas full of the joy of out-of-
| holiday celebrations in great house
and homely farm, Professor E: A.
Ross, ia THE Outlook for Plain
Folk" explains just how our demo-
and predicts for it a glorious future.
Woman's INVASION" William Hard
continues his Illuminating statement
of the case of the Industrial woman;
it is full of interest and appeal.
Ainslee's for December has among
other distinctions a most attractive
cover, designed by Howard Chandler
Christy, the first piece of work of this
kind done by him for a long time.
The contents of this number shows no
falling away from the high plane
upon which the magazine seems to
have permanently established itself.
gin with, that IS very rarely en-
countered elsewhere. Each one of
the stories contains story in the true
sense of the word, that is to say,
upon which everything else. charac-
ters, incidents style, depends.
The series of e:..;cies on Romantic
GermanV by Robert Haven
Schauf11er, which is to be one of the
features of the new volume of The
Century, covers a field of travel litera-
ture which has been almost neglected
since Bayard Taylor's Views Afoot'
of sixty years ago. Mr.. Schauff1er,
German descent, went to Germany
specially to refresh his impressions
before writing the articles It is the
authors object in these papers to
romance are hidden away in the
larger, more prosaic German cities
Leipzig, Munich, Berlin-and to
familiarize the reader with the
dam, Brunswick, Hildesheim, Meissen,
and Rothenburg. The illustrations
are being made by some of the more
notable German artists, with whom
this exploiting of the beauty and
charm of the Fatherland has been a
work of pride and love. Mr.. |
Schauff1er's paper in the Christmas
Century will tell of Berlin, 1.-The City
OF the Emperors."
OF the vampire breed is the strange |
compelling creature who fits through |
the pages of 1.-THE Witch Woman" the
novelette, in December Young's Maya |
zine, and with heavy ldded glances |
- oIS OhLHS dy, Oh the young, cream, /
dominent type. into a cringing, soulless
In contrast is the pretty, |
girl whom Fay loved pas /
sfonately before the vampire came into |
his life, and for whose sake he strug- !
giles madly against the charm of the
other women 1t is a tale permeated |
with the weird, intense personality of
The Witch Woman with a refresh I
ing novelty of plot and setting and a
warning undercurrent against 1.-The
flesh and the Devil
There is to be a new Queen Silver
oell' story by Frances Hodgson Bur-
nett in 1909 st. Nicholas, 1.-THE Spring
best. yet,s it is promis-
I'd. And in 1909, too, Mrs Rebecca
Harding Davis will contribute set of
,rief little talks under such taking til
les as What We Can" "A New Years
Help" Three Useful Lives" "Homely
Hints for Everyday" etc.
Americas next war forms the theme
# the complete novel published in the
December number of the Smart Set
This is an imaginative romance by
Arthur Stanley Riggs, whose fancy
oars to almost as great heights in
lealing with the future. as did that of
Jules Verne. In this novel, I'm Quest
# Fame" the author cleverly inter
'upts now and then the progress of a
charming love story to draw very
ogical picture of the conditions that
nay bring on an ultimate conflict with
n the next two decades. The claShing
# ponderous armored fleets, the swift
wooping of aerial craft, great cities
rashing down amid ruin and riot and
he thrilling exploits of the hero make
me of the most readable stories of the
month.