The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-22
BOOK REVIEW

Anotner book, Adventures With In
dams. appears this week in the Har-
per's Young People Series which has
become SO popular with boys. While
the book is fiction for the most part,
certain of the stories are largely fact
and others are founded on actual Incl
dents. They are stirring tales OF am
bush, battle, and adventure. with vivid
glimpses of the Indian life and the In
dian nature, and the strenuous rela-
lions between red men and white men
Quering way over the continent. As Is
customary in the series, various wri-
tiers contribute the several tales, among
them w. Q. Stoddard. Philip Verrill
Mighels. Major G. B. Davis, Frances
McElrath. and others.
In my Experiences with Railway
Rates and Rebates" in the March Cen
fury, Andrew Carnegie will tell just
how the practice of special rates
view: first. as secretary and telegraph
operator of Thomas A. Scott. super1n-
tendent Pittsburg division of the Penn
sylvania railroad, and. second. as head
of the Carnegie Steel company.
In the new books for this spring by
the j. B. Lippincott company there is
ample variety to afford literary enter
tainment for all tastes. Among the
important works Of permanent value
win be 1.-The Struggle for American In
Dependence by Sydney George Fisher,
Persia: the Awakening East" by w.
p Cresson. and new volume OF the
New variorum Shakespeare. 1.-The
Tragedy of Richard the Third" by
Horace Howard Furness, Jr- Three de-
lightful books for the nature-lover are
promised In IA Small Country Place"
by Samuel T. Maynard. wild Flower
Families by Professor Clarence M.
Weed and Our Trees and How to
Know Them" by Arthur I. Emerson and
Clarence III. Weed. Their first new
novel, which Is to be published this
month. will be Marcia Schuyler by
Grace Livingston Hill-Lutz. a story OF
the interior of New York state in the
early part of the Nineteenth century.
There is frontispiece In color by
Anna Whelan Belts, and six haf-tone
illustrations reproduced from paintings.
Following this novel will be issued at
intervals, 1.-The Duchess of Dreams" by
Edith Macvane, I'm the Dead of Night"
by John T. Mcintyre, 1.-THE Master In
fuence" by Thomas Mexican, and last,
but by no means least, John Reed
Scott's new romance. 1.-THE Princess
Dehra," sequel to his highly success
full story, 1.-THE Colonel Of the Red Hue
Ears" =
It may interest both operagoers and
book-lovers to learn that a special SOU
venir edition of Maeterlinck's "Pelleas
and Melisande" is in preparation by
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. The book will
be profusely illustrated with scenes
from Debussy's opera, and will contain
a critical introduction by Montrose j.
|. Moses, the well-known dramatic critic.
At the time when Sir Gilbert Parker
went into parliament it was prophesied
that he would neglect literature, and
that his imagination might be affected
| by the material surroundings OF pol1ti-
cal life The actual difference seems to
have been only that he has produced
fewer works and fewer stories, and has
| become convinced thct slower produc-
ton is better for his work. The Weav-
ers, still another edition Of which the
| Harpers have just announced, Is testi-
mony to the success Of this method for
| Sir Gilbert at least, whether or not
other novelists can afford it In the face
Of tempting present-day rewards for
| best sellers.
| Hardly another modern Englishman.
with the exception of the late Cecil
Rhodes, has made more history than
| Lord Cromer, and this fact makes his
book on Modern Egypt" one of the
most important historical works that
has thus far appeared in the twentieth
| century. In spite of his conspicuous
success as q Colonial administrator
Lord Cromer has by no means escaped
| criticism, and there are plenty of mat
| tiers in Egyptian history during the past
quarter Of century around which con-
| troversy still RACES. In his Introductory
chapter he writes: MY object In writ
ing this book is twofold. In the first
place, wish to place on record an ac-
| curate narrative of some Of the prtn-
| cipal events which have occurred In
Egypt and in the Soudan since the year
1876. In the second place. wish to ex-
plain the results which have accrued
to Egypt from the British occupation
Of the country in 1882. The accidents
| Of my public life have AFFORDED me spec
all opportunities for compiling certain
chapters of Egyptian history. From
March. 1877, to June, 1880. and again
from September. 1888. up to the present
time (1s07). I have been behind the