The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-11

Frank ]. Goodnow, Eaton, professor
of administrative law and munlclpdi
science in Columbia University, ana
author of "City Government in the
Tinted states'' has written a work On
Municipal Government" which treats
the subject in far-reaching detail me
book is intended both for college stud
ents and for general readers.
wagner's walkure told in English
verse by Oliver Huckel has been pub
nshed by the Thos. Y. CroweH. Th.f
Is the fifth volume OF the wagner
music-drarnas and the second of the
Ring" stories to appear in the present
excellen series of English poems. THE
Rheingold." which has already ap-
peared, gives the opening of this stern
tragedy Of the gods. and The
Valkyrie'' continues the theme. Wo-
tan creates a band of warrior daugh-
tiers whose duty it is to search he bat
tlefelds Of earth for the spirits OF slain
heroes, who are to be used to guard
Valhaila from destruction. InterW oven
with this theme is the love of oiegmund
and Sieglinde, and its resulting catas-
trophe.
The one hundredth anniversary of
the birth Of Oliver Wendell Holmes,
which occurred on August goth, has
been very generally referred to in the
current magazines and newspapers,
but the formal memorial observance
of the event was held at Sanders
theater Cambridge, last April. DR..
Samuel NJ. Crothers. who was one of
the leading speakers on that occasion,
will publish his study of Holmes I'M
der the title of "OIiver Wendell
Holmes: The Autocrat and His Eel
low Boarders." under the imprint of
Houghton Mifiin Co.. on September
18th, in the little series of centennial
books about great men. which has
already included Charles Eliot Nor
tons 'Longfellow" and Bliss Perry's
whittier
A unique book fresh from the press
of the Bobbs- Merrill company is 1.-The
Bill Toppers' by Andre Castaigne.
There has never been anything like
been attempts in the same direction.
to be sure. but now for the first time
a master hand has set itself to the
task task an. and we have the final and and
authoritative, word in fiction on the
subject with which the author deals. |
This story is to that great universal
life of the variety. the vaudeville,
the continuous" amusement what
Murger's scenes of Bohemian life is
to the Partisan Bohemian. 1t is re-
markable at once for its realism and
its humanness. and the perfect COM |
bination in which the two are blend |
ed lifts 1.-THE Bill Toppers" above the |
novels of the hour until one is led to |
question whether a new genius may
not have discovered itself in fiction. |
The story takes one into the inner |
most life of the players In the |
variety, sets that life forth with an |
accumulation of actual detail. an I'M |
erring veracity, that astonish and |
astound. Mr. Castaigne possesses |
the same picture-making quality with |
words that long since he showed with |
line and color. Fact. indisputable |
fact, is everywhere. The hardships, |
the cruelties and the whole seamy I'M |
derside are shown. as we'll as the
glitter of the footlights, the scraping
of the violins. the intoxication of the |
handclaps. And. without trace of
or exaggeration or pos
ing, the book rings absolutely true.
The great-granddaughter OF Robert
Fulton, Mrs. Alice Crazy Sutcliffe, has
written the story of Robert Fulton |
and the Clermont;" and the Century |
Co. will publish the volume today. Law
avishly Illustrated. and with many of
Fulton's hitherto unpublished letters, !
drawings, and pictures.
Houghton-Mifhin Co have just pub |
lished group of important educationa:
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to Study and Teaching How to Study"
by Prof. Frank M McNurry OF Column |
bia university; Social Development |
and Education" by Prof NJ V. O'Shea
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