The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-27

| citing incident for their charm.
| sorb all the excitement by his tropical
hunting trip. Such stories as are told
! in the newest volume in the Harper's
Young People SERIES Adventures in
Field and Forest would be breathless-
! ly interesting as>long as blood flows in
| the veins of a boy. The adventures
| themselves are such as are encountered
in facing wild beasts or reptiles. in trail
| ing the wilderness of this continent and
several others for the lion and bear, etc.
Some of the stories by name are
! Roots" the story of a wild boar hunt; !;
."Coxy,'' and how he faced a grizzly;
| "Mapa's Diamond attacked by an At
| rican lion; THE Game Warden's Story
on the trail of moose slayers; Hippo
| potamus Hunting in Africa" how the
chiefs life was saved; Finding the
| 1.-The Demon of Snaggletooth Rock
rescued from a lammergeyer; Fighting
a Boaconstrictor," an adventure in Bra
/ ziI
The fact that the President and Mrs.
Taft were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Roose-
welt for the last "a hours of the past
administration recalls by contrast the
passage in Mrs. Blaines lately publish
ed Letters descriptive of the Cleve-
lands behavior on a similar occasion.
According to Mrs. Blaine. the then first
lady of the land" withdrew from the
White House considerably in advance
of the Harrisons' arrival, leaving them
to make themselves as welcome as they
might with an empty larder. Mrs
Cleveland is said to be busy Offering eX-
plantations, since the appearance of Mrs.
Rlaine's Letters in many private if
not public quarters.
Irving Bachelor is to have new now
| ell this spring The Harpers are pre-
pairing to bring it out sometime in April.
collection of stories for readers who like
il; their fiction, love and adventure and
big, stirring plots, entertainment pure
and simple.
Ainslee's for April contains the sec
ond installment of Harold MacGraths
serial story, THE Goose Girl" which
continues, and will continue to be, the
most conspicuous magazine serial as
long as it lasts. It is story full of
interest because it is told with Mr.. Mac
Grath's unique gift of storytelling, and
has dramatic action and is full of color.
Nearly equal to this is Marie Van
Vorst's story I'm Ambush which has
many tense situations of the sort that
give the reader the keenest anxiety for
the fate Of some of the characters.
A new novel by Norah Davis will be
among the spring publications of the
Harpers. The author is southern wo-
man, born in Alabama, and her story
|
novelists she is of the younger set be-
| ing still under 80, with two other nov
els already to her credit-'"The North
erner'' and THE worlds Warrant"
| Boys books which are popular enough
! to have to be reprinted on the Harper
press include Rick Dale" by Kirk
| Munroe; 1.-The Eagle Badge by Hol-
man Day; 'Ffre-Fighters and their
Pets" by Alfred Downes; Left Be
hind" by James Otis; Cadet Days. by
General Charles King; and Track Ath-
letics,'' by Albert Lee.
Judge w. H. Thompson, of Garden
City, has written an article for the Kan
sas Magazine on Jack Rabbit Justice -
mission Tales in the Days of the
| Dons,' by Mrs. A. 8. c. Forbes, is a
collection of Il tales of the golden youth
of Cahfornia-of those days when Span
| ish don, priest, and Indian met in the
pueblos and adobe missions. Just pub
| lished by A. c. McClurg & Co., Chicago.
Mrs. Forbes has not only caught the
spirit of those romantic days, but has
! faithfully preserved the letter of the
legends which cluster around the Fran
ciscan missions.
! Lonny-Say. let's promise to marry each
| other when we grow up. Gracie-Oh, no;
| 1 might like somebody else better then