The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-24

a quotation from Thackeray, or Dick
ems, or an old Joe Miller told with an
uninterferedwith particularly. for
who would interrupt or refuse to
laugh at a presidents joke, make up
his book of life, whose leaves are GER
tain1y not for the healing of the ma
ton
The Macmillan Company is bring
ing out this week april 14) a new
and revised edition of John Spargo's
Socialism" Mr.. Spargo's book has
long been regarded as one of the most
lucid and illuminating expoSitionS of
the whole question of economic re-
form from the standpoint of the So
cialists The book, however, was first
published in 1906, and, as economic
conditions and theories have taken to
changing with bewildering rapidity in
recent years, Mr.. Spargo has revised
and added extensively to the original
book. One Of the most notable diff
ferences is the addition of new CHAP
ter, Means of Realization In this
though careful to declare that he Is
expressing nothing but his personal
opinion. Mr.. Spargo gives a sketch of
the means by which he believes the
Socialist vision is to be converted in
to fact. The chapter Is a fitting con-
c1usion to a statement of the history
and meaning of Socialism. which is
too forcib1e to be ignored by the Bit
terest opponent of Mr.. Spargo's theo-
ries.
From Japan, where the taste for
American books is governed by law
known only to itself, an interesting
order for two books has reached the
Messrs. Harper. The two are as diff
ferent as could be. 1.-THE Principles of
one. and the other a novel. 1.-THE
Whole Family" No doubt readers in
those parts have been attracted to the
latter by its list of a dozen authors,
of which list it has been said, And,
Ioi Dean Howell's name led all the
rest!'
"Lorimer of the Northwest" by
Harold Bindloss, author of ALTON OF
Somasco'' winston of the Prairie"
"'By Right of Purchase" etc. which
Stokes published in January, promises
to be the most popular novel yet writ
ten by Mr.. Bindloss. More recorders
have been received since publication
than for any other Bindloss novel in
the same period, say the publishers,
Stokes &. Co.
Louise Forsslund. author of "Old
Lady Number 81" is really Mrs
Charles Carey Waddell, who, in turn,
is we'll known under the name of
Charles Carey, as the author of 1.-THE
dell is a native of Sayville, L. L. and
still calls it her home, though she is
temporarily resident in New York.
"Old Jim Case of South Hollow"
published by Doubleday, Page & Co.
is the work of a new author Mr.. Ed.
Rice. of Syracuse, N. Y, is a success
full coal merchant, a farmer, a fish
erman who owns his own trout brook,
a joker who is quoted all over his
district" and an artist whose car
toons adorn many walls. Edward I.
Rice, or. in Syracuse. where his name
is a household word, Ed. Rice. is pro-
baby the best-known man in SYRIA
cuse. He did not have to write his
book, "Old Jim Case of South Hol-
low 10 become any better known in
his native city than he was a year
ago. He made himself popular in Sy-
racuse by staying out of politics and
getting into peoples hearts. Every
time they mention Rice for some Of
flee he leaves town and word that he
has gone to the Bad Lands to hunt