The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-09

experience OF years. The author,
Harrington Baker, has made garden
ing his hobby; he is an expert planter
and landscape architect, but prefers
to practice only for his own enjoy
ment In addition to a large city gar
den, Mr.. Baker has a country place.
larger operations are conducted. From
both Of these places material for the
book has been collected. The begin
ner may learn also how to plan his
home grounds-whether large or small
and he Is assisted in the work by a
pendix are planting tables, and the
lists will inform him what will grow,
thrive and bloom in shade as well as
In sun-a point always of value to the
city gardener. Special chapters are
devoted to vines, shrubs, trees, peren-
malls, ANIMALS, diseases, and their
treatment, insects and their extermi-
nation. soil. fertilizers, porch and win
dow boxes. the indoor winter window
garden, bulbs, roses, peonies, phloxes
and lawns. The cultural directions are
specific and simple. and the book is IL
Illustrated by large number Of beauti-
full photographs.
1.-THE South Americans" recently pub
lished by the Bobbs- Merrill company:
LAS Uruguay is new Spain, so is Mon
tevideo a new Madrid, with broad
streets cleaned to a nicely, a Ieisurely
habit Of going and coming, trolleys just
genial. courteous, hospitable, with
plenty OF time for the amenities of So
cial intercourse, but perhaps slow.
They dress well, far better on the av-
erage than those in crowded. impatient
New York. while their kindness and
good manners, their sincerity and hon
esty, might put to the blush the resi-
dents OF our metropolis, If blushing
and an introspective examination Of
faults We're at all compatible with
western continent. The men are diff
ferent from Argentinos. although they
have, OF course, the same racial char
acteristics, and the women are the
most beautiful in the world. From
street to street, from social tea to a
gala function at the opera, or at Poci-
tos, the charming little watering place
just outside the capital, a foreign visi-
tor is constantly exclaimins, What
beautiful women!' And how simple,
elegant and dignified they are! These
graces are not confined to the upper
classes alone, but there seems some
thing in the mode of living, or, as they
,modestly put it. in the climate, which
brings out physical beauty not ANA
zonian at all, but spirituelle, dis
men Of South America"
Mr.. James Montgomery Flagg's new
book of humorous verse and drawings,
is called "All in the Same Boat" and is
to be brought out by Life Publishing
will be uniform with Mr.. Flagg's other
laugh-compellers. IT, a Guide to Bad
Manners" Why They Married" and
'Tomfoolery."
Lovers of mystery stories In which
| desperate crime is unravelled have long
been waiting for something novel in
this fascinating field. Charles E. Walk
has succeeded in giving q new and
modern touch to this established form
| of fiction in his hrst essay, THE Silver
Blade, A True Chronicle Of a Double
Mystery" newly published by A. e.
McClurg & Co. He has made his book
not only a narrative Of incident and
crime, but romance of love and pas
sion. and at the same time a novel Of
manners and character. His detective
officer Is a human being, not a bit of
mechanism, and he enters the lives Of
the families involved in the two MUIR
ders about which interest centers as a
sympathetic soul-in short, as a lovable
personality. For all that the mystery
| remains mysterious to the end, when
| a moments reasonable explanation un-
| ifies everything.
Moffat, Yard & Company announce
| for early autumn publication book
by Samuel McComb, A. M, ID. D., en-
titled "The Making of the English
Bible" This book is a popularly writ
ten but scholarly attempt 10 set fortn
| the romantic history of the Bible as
we have it today in the English Ian
euage. The various influences that
have gone to shape the Engush Bible
are clearly described, and the debt