The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-17

is COMPREHENSIVE set forth in book
entitled 1.-THE Panama Canal and Its
Makers, written by Vaughan Corn
ish, member of the Royal Geograph-
ical, Geological and Chemical Socie-
ties of London, as the result of two
prolonged Investigations. This emil
nent English geographer discusses all
phases of the subject, including the
argument for and against locks and
the sea level type of canal. His book,
which will be published by Little,
Brown & Company, May list, contains
an invaluable map, plan, and 63 ex-
cellent pictures reproduced from phot-
ographs taken by the author.
Louise Closer Hale actress herself
and author of 1.-THE Actress" one of
the new Harper novels, says it was the
typist who works in the London office
of Charles Dickens granddaughter
who paid George Bernard Shaw the
greatest compliment she has ever
known him to receive. mo matter
how we have muddled his work." said
this woman, "he never speaks an un-
kind word to us!'' "And I knew that
she meant by u.s. said Mrs. Hale, in
telling the story, 1.-The legion of women
who must work, and whose condition
Mr.. Shaw is endeavoring to anchor
ate"
Harold McGrath has sailed again
for Italy. He expects to spend some
time in the Villa Serbelloni, at Bel
lagio, on Lake Como, which he thinks
the most beautiful spot in all the
world, and where, it will be recalled,
he laid the eliminating love scene of
1.-THE Lure of the Mask" Mr.. Nc
| Grath is supposed to be at work on
new novel, and the superstition is
natural considering the regularity of
his output and its uniform success.
Tor INva T. 80 r.
May issue of the Smart Set by one of
the most charming stories he has ever
| written. aloha De-" is a tale of
Hawaii, full of the romance and per-
fume of that sun-bathed island en-
pire. In the development of the story
| is shown the basic idea of race-differ-
ence that introduces an interesting
problem apropos of this country and
its island dependencies.
Mark Twain's new book, "Is Shake
lspeare Dead" contains more of Twain
than it does Of Shakespeare, introduce
ing some rare and delightful anec-
dotes of the authors life, particularly
in early youth. The narrative is de-
scribed as quick with humor and
pierced with vigilant wit, and is fur
Their said to carry under the guise OF
fun a massage of real Importance.
The latest publications of the
MeSSrS. Harper q BrOtnerS, annOunC-
ed April list, include wallace
Rhodes" a novel by Norah Davis
three volumes in Harper's Library OF
Living Thought-"Three Plays Of
Shakespeare" by Algernon Charles
Swinburne, 1.-The Teachings of Jesus,
by Count Leo Tolstoi. and Persona
Religion in Egypt before Christian.
ity." by Prof. w. M. Flinders Petrie
also 1.-The British Tar in Fact and
Fiction" by Commander Charles Ma
pier Robinson, r. N, and a volume
for youthful readers in the Young
People Series, "On Track and Dia.
mond."
Frank Dandy has painted in use
bastian," her new novel published b.
Macmillan, more attractive side o.
} London life than those she selected IL
her earlier works Ambition. literar,
and commercial, and mother love are
the two great themes of the story
Both the hero's ambition and the
mothers love are refined, strengthen.
. ed and purified by experience until