The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-10

baseball, yOun- and old, has just Deen
published by A. c. McC1urg & Co., of
Chicago. 1t is called F'The Short-Stop"
and is written by DR.. Zane Grey, who
was a professional ball player for
many years and knows the game. what
is more to the point, he knows how to
tell about it in a most exciting way.
Kansas people will be interested in the
book as DR.. Grey is a personal friend
of Buffalo Jones and short time ago
wrote the life of Mr.. Jones under the
title, 1.-The Last of the Plainsmen."
The book is made to sell for $1.25-
In The Bride of the Mist1etoe, pub
lished on June "a. by the Macmillan
Publishing Co, James Lane Allen has
broken a silence of six years with a
work remarkable for its artistic re-
straint. The polish of the style Is what
one long since learned to expect from
him, but in this latest novel there Is
also a dramatic compactness, rigid
adherence to the chosen theme, which
give unmistakables strength to the
story. From the first page to the last
Mr. Allen has maintained the ideal at
mosphere in which he has elected to
cIothe the ever-vital problem of mar
as well as physical loyalty. In this
ability to idealiZe the material, to per
ceive, through the veil of events, the
spiritual aspect and significance, Mr..
Allen treads in the footsteps of Haw-
thorne; and like the great New Eng
land mystic, he has at his command
a thoroughly perfected art. For this
reason The Bride of the M1stletoe
stands far removed from the ordinary
novel of married life. The subject has
been treated often, but rarely on so
elevated a plane and stlll more rarely
with such consummate skill.
Charles Warren stoddard. whose
death on April 2 ended romantic
literary career, had fully intended
about a year ago to return to New
England for a sojourn in the land of
variable and vigorous climate. It was
during his last stay in Cambridge
duced, directly in train of serious i'll
ness. his latest book, 1.-THE Island OF
Tranquil Delights" pronounce by
many critics to be not the least peau-
tiful of his South Sea idyls. One wri-
ter's word picture of the work is
spray of the salt sea, silver line OF a
beach star-sown, wavering or tai
palms; sunset glow OF flowers R 9a1.
aromatic, delicious,-dream, sleep, and
solitude in the heart Of one of those
rare Jewels of the Pacific. In 1905
he went back to California where he
seems to have experienced a slow de-
cay of his productive powers
Brand whit1ock, writing in the Cir
Gle about the significant lives with
which he has come into contact, says; !
''It has been my privilege to know some /
great souls,-Frank Hurd, Clarence
Darrow, Governor =Atgeld, Sam Jones, |
and Tom Johnson,-and all these nave
had their effect upon me. And then
I have known some other great souls |
who were yet ineonspicuous, and they |
have have had their effect. I owe a |
great deal to William Dean HoWelIs |
whose writings and beautiful person. |
atty long ago began to exert an 1nflu- |
ence upon me which has never waned. |
And then I have read whitman and /
Emerson and Tolstoy and Tourgenieff |
and Thomas Hardy. And have a /
mother and a wife and, thank God, a |
few friends" Among the historic |
influenced the energetic mayor of To-
ledo is Abraham Lincoln, OF whom he |
has recently written a remarkable bio |
graphy published in the Beacon Bio
graphies series.
Moffat Yard and Company. will
publish, early in autumn, book OF
importance by DR.. Richard Clarke Ca
Service and the Art of Healing" DR..
Cabot's extremely important part in
the recent wonderful Developments in
Social Service makes this book one of
unusual interest.
In The Red Book Magazine for July
Professor FREDERICK Starr, the famous
scientist of the University of Chicago,
presents a most daring study of civil
lied woman under the title he Wo-
men Men Marry" Professor Starr de-
claTeS mas never aCnlCN6d 1
really first class performance in |
literature. science or art. He says, fur
Their, that the ultra-eivilized women !
Of today have more in common with
the savage women than the world
realizes. and depIores generally the
tendency among women to seek high
pr education in American colleges. As
scientist, Professor Starr tells why
he big businessman is more likely to
we'd a butterfly-girl than a maid who
has earned a college diploma: His ar
.icle is destined to be widely discussed
1.-THE Squaw Man" Edwin Milton