The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-13

HE nrSt Napoleon DOCK OF
the autumn will be Tighe
Hopkins 1.-The Women Ma
poleon Loved" in which this
painstaking and talented
English author has, after
assiduous research, set forth Napo-
Icons relations with the other sex. The
book, adorned with six photogravure
portraits, will be imported and pub
lished by Ldttle, Brown & Co., Boston.
e. Phillips Oppenheim continues to
be the favorite story writer with
American magazine editors. His lat
est popular book, THE Illustrious
Prince" has just completed serial
publication in the Cosmopolitan; THE
Lost Ambassador" is appearing in in
stalments in the Popular Magazine,
previous to book publication, and the
Smart Set announces a new Open
helm serial Havoc" Frequently a
half dozen Of Mr.. Oppenheim's older
novels are appearing as serials in diff
ferent newspapers throughout the
United States at the same time.
Harper & Brothers announce that
this week they are sending to press
for reprinting the following books:
The Servant in the House, by
Charles Ram Kennedy; Cadet Days"
by Gen. Charles King; 1.-THE Valor Of
ignorance" by Gen. Homer Lea;
Lorna Doone," by r. D. BIackmore:
THE Love of Parson Lord" bv MARI
Wilkins Freeman.
THE Vanished Ruin Era" by
Louis J. Ste1lmann, in preparation by
Paul Elder and Company, is to be an
art work concentrating the evanes-
cent wonder and beauty of the disas
ter OF 1905, and, in picture and song.
q foc afv,1k
Francisco's momentous reconstruction
period. Mr.. Stellmann, though news
paper and magazine writer. has cul-
tiVated artistic photography as his all
sorbing hobby and, in the DAYS fol-
lowing the great fire, took delight in
depicting with his camera the weird
and beautiful architectural studias
wrought by the Flame God. secnrine
in the course of several years an in.
valuable and unique Photographic
record Of that classic artistry of r11in
Wnich was a part of the confagra-
TONS aftermath. These photogranhs
are 70 be reproduced as mezzogravure
prints on leaves of rich brown tone
and bound into a substantial volume
The country of the cheapest te1o-
graph and the cheapest railwav rste.
IS not America but Russia, ACCORDING
70 The Russian Road to China " he,
Llndon Bates, jr. Russian rei1roaGs
extend almost to Kashmir. onlv abo,,t
SUI miles from those of British india
when this gap is crossed. CaIcutta
VIII be but eleven days distant f-o%,,
London. Aloin
A new volume of verse by an Amer
lean poet Is to be issued shor+i,, h.,
Thomas Y Crowell & Comnanv rbs
an no1 is Miss Charlotte Porter,
khoWn already as an editor of stand
ard editions of Browning ana Sbaira
sPeare' and literary head of "Poat-
Lore" Of Boston. which reioices IN -
Inc the only magazine in America a.
Noted exclusively to current poetry
Coming in the midst of the nresar+
dearth Of good original verse +hie
COX, which has been named ''I,ins oP
come vain WEI
The recent publications of the Mac
T Irhllan company include Design in
Ineory and Practice by Ernest A
Batchelder; Dictionary of Music and
musicians, Vol. V. by Sir Georos
Grove; The Statesman's Year ROOT
1910; st. Petersburg by G. Dobson
with ~ colored plates by F. De
Haenen; The Romance of London nv
Gordon Home, with 16 color plates and
s line wings; Advice to Consumn-
tives by Noel d. Bardswell; The Prac.
teal Telephone Handbook 4th editto-,
revised by J. Poole; Socialistic Fal.
lacies by Yves Guyot: The Crowd
seventh edition, by Gustave LIE Ron.
The Teaching of Scientific Method
second edition, - Henry f. Arn,'
strong; Threads in the Web of Life nv
Margaret r. Thomson and j. Arthur
Thomson: Supplementary Exercises
on Ora Martina by M L. STAFFORD
Smith; Land and Labor by B. See
bohm Rowntree; Principles of Chem
icaI Geology by James Vincent EIsden.
and Thoughts on Some Questions Re-