The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-07


introduced to the public with an adj
dition of six battles to represent these
events: Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Sedan,
Manila Bay, Santiago, and Tsu-Shima
(Sea of JAPAN; and in addition two
others omitted by Greasy, but deemed
important by the present editors
Quebec and Yorktown. All of these
new events are treated in the revised
volume by trained historians; for ex-
ample, the story of Sedan is told by
the commander of the German forces.
Introductions, appendices, etc, are
supplied to help historical unity, a
typical synopsis introduces the second
part, and the other synopses follow
the chronological arrangement of
Greasy. General readers will find this
commonly informing, and students will
recognize it as an invaluable work of
reference. Certainly 1t Is a book for
all who care to read in brief space
what has been happening to the world
of nations. (New York: Harper &
Brothers.)
A fortunate mishap kept from the
airship in which Lieutenant Selfridge
was killed at Washington the other
day one of those assigned to make
the ascent. This was Macmillan Fos-
ter. author of the moved of mystery,
"Corrie Who" which Small, Maynard
& Company have just published. Mr..
Foster was to have written his per-
sonal experiences as an aeronaut, but
an unforeseen delay in reaching the
scene of activity prevented him from
going up-and coming down.
Buck" the wonderful dog who is
the hero Of Jack London's Call of
the Wild" originally belonged to
Alexander Macdonald, one of the new
group of story writers for boys which
Messrs. H. NJ. Caldwell company of
New York and Boston are introducing
to American youth. He gave to Jack
London full account of this marvel
louS animal, and that account was
worked up in Jack London's book
Buck" now appears at first hand in
Mr.. MacDonald's new work, ''The
White Trail; a Story of the Early
Days in Klondike," which Messrs.
Caldwell publish this. fall. Alexan-
der Macdonald has been a daring
and intrepid traveller since the age
of sixteen. His nineteenth birthday
was celebrated on the summit of the
Chilcoot Pass while bound for Klon-
dixie at the first of the rush. and he
was in Dawson City at the time of the
great "starve out" in the winter of
1897. The story related in this book
of the winter journey home by the
Long White Trail is an account of a
historic occurrence which will be re-
membered by those who have follow
ed the events of the opening up of the
Klondike. The whole book is based
upon the authors own wonderful ex-
perience. 1t deals with the adventures
of a strangely assorted band of pion-
GERS, who force their way into Klon-
dixie when the first news of it's rich
gold deposits startles the world, one
Of the leading characters being a fine
fellow from Kentucky. The long
journey down the frozen Yukon and
life in Dawson City is described.
Kirk Munroe remains in q class by
himself as a writer for the boys, and
those who remember Campmates,
Rick Dale, Snowshoes and Sledges and
various other tales by him will raise
cheerful shout when they know that
another is to appear through the
Harpers within a week. The story
has for hero a young mechanical
engineer who goes off to Newfound-
land and Labrador for an iron and
copper company. encounters ship
wreck, drifts alone on a raft, and is
rescued, only to be marooned by an
iceberg. lost in a blizzard, and finally
captured by the Indians of the north,
and all this time the plot involving the
mines thickens and deepens. The title
is Under the Great Bear.
Another Three Weeks" James S.
Metcalfe's humorous and satirical re-
buke of Mrs. Elinor GYMS book with
a similar title, has sold over eighty
thousand copies, and the demand still
continues. The popularity of this
sane minded skit speaks well for the
better second thoughts of the Ameri-
can reading public
Mr.. Charles Frohman has secured
the rights. both American and Eng
lish, to a dramatization of Arsene Lu-
pm. French detective story which
belongs to the school of Sherlock
Holmes and The Amateur Cracks
man, and was introduced in transla-
Iloh INTO this country last fall by the
Harpers. The French premier of the
play takes place next week in Paris,
and the dramatic note is struck in a
night meeting between Lupin and a
woman, both of them thieves, who
are led to abandon crime through
their love for each other. Arsene Luz