The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-20

III high order with an UNDER
current of politics running
through 1t. There is more than hint
Of the extremes to which men may go
to further their political schemes and
populations. The story hinges upon a
double disappearance and the loss OF
valuable pearls and a large sum OF
money. There is a love story of course
which adds to the interest. The story
lacks the amusing features of When
a Man Marries" but it is an exceed
ingly strong book and will delight the
lovers of mystery. The Bobbs- Merrill
Company, Indianapolis, Ind, is the
publisher.
A new novel by Edward G. Booth,
author Of THE Post Girl is an offer
ing Of the Century Company. 1t is
called 1.-The Doctors Lass" Jane, the
doctors lass" Is own sister to Pam.
1.-The post girl" James mother, dying,
begs tie Yorkshire country doctor,
whose young manhood she had wreck
ed, to take her little daughter for MS
ward. Unwilling, bitterly, he does SO.
Then the girls fragrant sweetness ana
charm win first his tolerance, then all
his heart. Jane is bewitching sprlte
of a girl; and, of course, she has more
than one lover. Her father, dissolute
vagabond, who unexpectedly appears
on the scene; narrow and strait-lacea
suitor, an Episcopal clergyman; the
taciturn, lovable doctor, form trio or
characters whose tangled relations and
misunderstanding form the fabric Of
a story unusually dramatic and pic
turesque. While the girl and the doc
tor dominate every page and the rean-
er's interest, the book is peopled with
a host Of quaint characters, who, as In
1.-THE Post Girl" supply the comedy
element for a love story Oh unusual
sweetness and power.
Doubleday, Page & Company have
published another motor story py Z. n.
and A. NJ. Williamson, entitled The
Motor Maid" This latest Williamson
book takes the reader through the
beautiful Riviera country. at the same
time spinning very original love tale.
Printed in two colors and with many
colored photographs and paintings, the
September Outing is one of the best is
sues ever published. 1t is "Fall
Shooting Number" with nearly two
hundred pages of advice and sugges-
lions for outdoor lovers. Meat of the
Toothless," illustrated with paintings
in color by the author, Charles Living
stone Bull, pictures the tragedies OF
animal life in South America. THE
Brown Badger" Is a cracking little
story of snipe shooting An ex-Ten-
derfoot and a Buck is true story of
a deer hunt in which the author, Ste
phen Chalmers, nearly lost his life.
Everyone interested at all in the con-
Dillon Wallace's article, Passing of
Our Big Came" In it he shows that
many of our priced game animals are
travelling the same route as the bison
to extinction.
Theodore Roosevelt in the Septem-
Der Scribner gives an account of one of
the least known of the African great
game the so-called white" or square
mouthed rhino, which has become
practically extinct in South Africa, but
of which a few specimens remain in
the Lade along the Nile. Kermit sue
ceeded in taking a series of striking
and valuable pictures of the white
rhino alive.
1.-The Wild Olive" which is reported
by the impartial literary magazine,
1.-THE Bookman," to be the best selling
novel in the United States, is being re-
printed again this week by Harper &.
Brothers. 'The Wild Olive is by the
author of THE Inner Shrine" which
was the best selling novel last sum-
mer, according to the Bookman's fig
ures for two months.
1.-THE Power and the Glory" a new
novel by Grace MACEDONIAN Cooke, is
now on sale. 1t is a story of an up
springing and conquering self-reliant
girl OF our southern mountains. In her
determined fight for success YOU SEES
clearly the power and the glory in one
who truly wears the Sandals of low .
The publishers, Doubleday, Page &
Company announce an ante-publica-
ton sale Of over seven thousand COPIES
Harper q Brothers announce that
they are reprinting this week the fol-