The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-05

a Trip Around the World has gone
into second edition. There are few
travel books as popular as this.
The wilHamsons, whose latest
story. ''Set in Silver" has just been
published by Doubleday, Page &
Company, are very fond of the Ri
viera, whittier they go in the early
dens are beginning to fade. By the
middle of October. of course, there
is summer on the Riviera The roses
are still in bloom. and the fresh new
grass is green as emerald. This is,
to be sure, an early time to come to
the Riviera; but the Williamsons have
a private villa not far from Monte
Carlo, which used to be a shooting
lodge of the former Prince of Mo-
naco. Before the season really begins
and friends come in, they write in the
quiet, take long drives and walks
and motor excursions.
Miss Edna Haywood, a Topeka girl.
has published little book in pamph-
let form on the Kansas birds in this
vicinity. She calls it Fifty Common
Birds Around the Capital and it is
so simply gotten up with such econ
ready. useful easily accessible infor-
nation that it ought to have con-
siderable success. 1t Is the sort OF
book that you can carry around IN
will make your country drives and
tramps a thousand times more inter
esting and enjoyable than they are
now, it, like most people,, you have
eyes and see not, ears ana near not
the beautiful Kansas birds whose mu-
sic in the fields and woods and hedge
rows make the summer vocal 1T
was for those people" says Miss Hey
wood in her preface, who are seek
ing a simple answer to some simple
ir6 xKh
able to call by name our common
bird visitors, who want to have
bowling acquaintance with them, that
these few facts concerning our most
common birds were arranged and put
in a convenient form for quick
reference and for field ident1flca-
ton = Again and again people
say: I should like to know something
about birds. but we do not have any
around our house. There are no
birds in town any more, anyhow, and
I can't go into the country to hunt
them 1 used to say something like
that myself but listen to what John
Burroughs says and then this attl-
tude is explained: You must have
the bird in your heart before you can
find it the bush; and when you have
st in your heart finding it in the bush
is a secondary matter After 1 had
the bird in my heart 1 SUCCEEDED IN
finding nearly half a hundred differ
emit kinds of birds in our own yard
one summer and that number was in
creased by walks and drives about the
city and on the nearby country roads
So YOU see the birds are here, right in
the heart of the city and all we need
to enjoy them are eyes, ears and
heart"
necially to mothers or teachers who
want some little information in a
simple form about birds to tell their
girls and boys. There is no more
Fascinating summer study than the
birds. around us. If you don't know
make YOU acquainted with them and
the slight effort necessary will be
abundantly repaid"
Rose O'Neill figures in a double
role on the list of spring fiction. She
is the author of 1.-THE Lady in the
White Veh,'' vivacious society and
mystery novel Just published, and she
is also the illustrator of the forth
coming novel "Peter, Peter" Maude
Radford warren's serial which has
been appearing in Harper's Bazaar.
Mrs Wilson, as the artist-author is
known in private life. has the salts
faction of having provided the pic
ture design for the poster or ner
novel 1.-THE Lady in the White Veil"
This is a sketch showing the interior
of a cab the door of which is held
: open bv the woman within, who with
her other hand is beckon1ng some
one. and whose face is seen beneath
the cloud of the romantic white veil.
Honolulu, in response to cabled
demand. is receiving special editions
of Mark Twain's "Is Shakespeare
Dead - and of the anonymous novel
which has been a serial in Harper
Magazine, 1.-THE Inner Shrine"
men. Women and Mirth,"' is the
title of a new work about to be put
out by Life Publishing Company. Like
it's companion volumes, The Social
Comedy and 1.-THE Comedy of Life,
It is made up of the more important
large drawings from Life, reprinted on
heavy coated paper and handsomely