The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-07
BOOK REVIEW

| Fueplo entertain, has entered the nc
| ton field with a novel he calls 1.-THE
| Hberators." just published by the B.
| w. Dodge company of New York.
| THE Gberators'' is a political story.
Its dedication shows that it was writ
| ten for a purpose, viz: To point out
| the obstacles to successful public ca
reer for the honOrably ambitious youth
| of America.
| Early in the book the author brush
eS aside the cobwebS of prejudice US
ually raised against the frank and hon.
| est discussion Of public questions in
| this country, and through a veritable
| Harriet Taylor in knowledge Of Ameri-
| can economics he has a beautiful and
wealthy woman inspire two young men
with the patriotism required to bring
about a betterment Of our social and
governmental conditions.
Gertrude Strong is a remarkable Wo-
| man, but one easily welded out of any
one of a dozen American women, some
| of whom the author undoubtedly had
| in mind in creating this character.
The author is an ardent champion OF
the equal rights of women in all gov
| ernmental matters and his characters
demonstrate how wholly unnecessary 1t
| is for women to lose any of their fem
| ininity or grace while engaged in that
work.
The chief hero of the story-George
Randolph-receives dying charge
from his father, an Illinois farmer and
veteran of the civil war, to enter pub
lie life "but only in such way that
you can be of real service to man
kind"
At Harvard, Randolph meets Frederic
Ames, the son Of one of the great rail-
way magnates of the country and they
become fast friends. 1t Is with DIM
Guilty that Ames induces Randolph 10
go with him to his home in New YORK
city, but finally, at the Easter vacation
of their junior year in the law school,
he accepts and spends the week at the
Ames home in New York.
There he meets Gertrude Strong. next
to Mr. Ames the largest stockholder In
his enterprises the daughter of a great
railway builder of the Northwest and
the widow Of a former general mana
ger of the Ames roads in that section
of the country. She is young woman
about % years of age, but her father
had early taught her economies ana
she had just returned from taking
course of lectures at Cambridge, Eng
land, where Randolph met her AT the
death of her husband she had silently
vowed to give her life to the service
az mankind At the dinner which fol-
lowed Randolph's arrival a very in
teresting discussion took place as TO
the opportunities for a young man 70
achieve honorable fame in public life
under existing political condlllons; III
story deals with affairs for the four
years succeeding the next presidential
election.
two sisters. Margaret ana virginia On
this visit to New York. He and the
Ames family become great friends, ana
he spends a week with them In SOUTH
ern Italy the next September ana taxes
| trip with them through the great
west the next summer
The story aboupds in strong political
discussion and startling political stu
atoms. in beautiful mountain Legends
| and romantic love scenes
Hardly has the Macmillan company
| comnleted the publication or Mr..
| Algernon Graves monumental! work
| saThe Royal Academy of Arts: Com,
plete Dictionary of Contributors anu
announcement comes of new Work
of even greater interest to students
| and connoisseurs of art. InlS IS
Catalogue Raisonne OF the Works OF
| the Seventeenth Century" based on
| fhe work of John Smith, by DIR. 9.
Hofstede de Gfoot, translated py Eo-
ward g. Hawke. The work is to De
| com pleted in ten volumes, octave, ana
the first volume has just appeared. It
deals with the works or jan Steen,
Gabriel Metsu Gerard Dou, Pleter dc
Hooch: Carel Fabritius and Johannes
Vermeer.
The literature of religious motive
il sought with a slow but steady I'M
| dercurrent of demand. Among the
reprints for the month the Harpers
announce God in His World, by Hen
nv Mills Alden. This is a book Wnich
avoids differences of creed, calls upon
the brotherly spirit for right living.
and points to the lessons OF existence
for the presence of God in His
world" Dr. Alden called his DOCK
IN secondary title, An Interpretation.
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