The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-08

Miss Anna Mcclure Sholl. whose
third novel, 1.-The Greater Love-" has
Just been published by the Outing Co..
Il a niece of the distinguished Brown
ing scholar, and friend of Browning.
DIR. Hiram Corson. who for over thirty
years filed the chair of English litera-
ture in Cornell university. Miss Sholl
resides in New York city. but was
born in Philadelphia, and comes on
her mothers side of q Quaker family
Of French Huguenot origin. She is an
essayist as we'll as a novelist, and con-
tributed many biographical essays to
Charles Dudley Warmers library of
the worlds best literature. Her chief
favorites among the novelists are
Meredith, Hardy, Dickens and Balzac
Her stories all deal with America and
American people, for she believes that
writers should confine themselves to
the environment with which they are
most familiar,
A valuable addition to the histori-
cal literature of the country will be
''The Grafton Magazine of History and
Genealogy," a quarterly periodical,
the first issue of which has just been
brought out by the Grafton press of
New York and Boston. The mag
size, contains 81 pages. and Is printed
In clear type on special all rag
paper made for the genealogies pub
1ished by the Grafton press. The con-
tents include the address on THE
Society of the Cincinnati and It's Flu
ture" delivered by Charles B.
Alexander of the Pennsylvania society,
before the Rhode Island society June
4. 1908; a most interesting article on
Ideal Newport of the Eighteenth
u ,f
Providence. whose work as an his
torical writer is already widely
known; 1.-The Strange Story of Roger
Williams" by Edmund ]. Carpenter
of Milton. Mass, who has made
special study of Roger Williams and
has a book in press on the subject,
The Ancient Strings of Calder.
Sherriffs of Sterling, and Some
others by Albert NJ. Sterling the
author of The Sterling Family History
now In process of printing stor1 Miss ef
Andrew Eilicott. an Astronomer,
Surveyor and Soldier of a Hundred
Years Ago" supplements very enter
tainingly some of the features in
'Bllicotts Life and Letters" which
has recently been published under her
editorship. In the genealogical de-
partment is an interesting account of
the first two immigrants of the Jewett
family, and shows their connection
with England.
of all the newer magazines for the
month which have thus far appeared
on the news stands, Smiths is perhaps
one of the most attractive in appear
ance, and certainly one OF the most
interesting in the variety and worth of
its contents. The Photographic stud
ies which open the number include in
addition to the usual portraits of we'll
known actresses series of special
photographs posed especially for this
magazine and to be found nowhere
else. The complete novel. "A Leaf in
the Wind" is sure to make an especial
appeal to every woman who reads II,
and the article by Annette Austin,
1.-The Store Girls Chance" is a strong,
thoughtful essay on a subject of vital
importance to women. c. H. Forbes
Lindsay, in "a New Future for the
Wage Garner" describes what irriga-
ton is doing for the great west, and
tells of a change that the federal gov
eminent Is now offering to every man
who is dissatisfied with conditions as
he finds them and wants to make
new start in the direction Of acquiring
a competency for old age.
Peoples Magazine for September
contains within its covers some re-
markably strong and clever fiction.
It's opening number Is a long complete
novel, entitled "His Ducars and His
Meth Boyce, whose new book, "The
Bond" is just out and attracting con-
siderable attention. In His Ducats
and His Daughter" the author has
drawn very wildly an American type
of extreme interest-the self made
millionaire; a powerful, crude. taci-
turn kind of man, who fights his way
grimly to the top of the ladder, rung
after rung, by means of tooth and
fist and iron willard yet a man with
M h IL
only child. The love affairs of this
girl, with all her fathers heritage of
strength and weakness, make a novel
of intense interest.
A third edition of "Outlines of the
vedanta System" by Paul Deussen of
the University of Kiel translated by
]. H. Woods and c. B. Runk1e of Har-
English publisher from the Grafton
press of New York who brought the
work out in this country.
The condition of Rex Beach. the
author, who is at the Seattle General
hospital suffering from an affliction of
the eyes, is about the same, according
to a statement given out this morning
by the nurses at the hospital. Beach
is still confined to a dark room and is
w. X. Seelye, the eye specialist. Mr.,
Beach's friends say that the authors
case is not as serious as was at first
believed. but he may not leave his
room for some time.
How to Dress a Doll is the title of a
new book published by the Henry
Altemus company. Not the least pleas
ing feature of the book is the part de-
voted to fancy dresses, such as the
Little Red Ridinghood costume, the
Japanese outfit and the Pierrot cos
tune. all of which are easy to make
and are extremely effective. This lit
tie work is a model Of thoroughness
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