The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-03

A1-n.MM9I expedition, was SHOWN JUST
before he departed on his
western tour, and just after the row
with Vice President Sherman and the
New York bosses over the temporary
Craftsmanship of the state convention.
Questioned about this by reporters
when on the point of boarding his
train on August 23rd, he waved poll
tics aside with these words: Now this
is totally different. What is of real
ly absorbing interest today is the fact
that Scribners have come to me with
copies of my African book, which will
be out tomorrow That is of keen per-
sonal interest"
Mrs. Humphry Ward in defending
her contention that it is better in fic-
ton writing to take historical Incl
dents and give them modern sur
the reader Into olden days and olden
ideals says: THE form and function
of any tale that has ever touched HUI
man imagination is undying. And
life is always reproducing new sub
stance for the old forms. Mary Stuart,
Darnley and Boutwell, are darkly re-
peated in many an ugly police-court
story; there are modern Adolphes tir-
ing of their Ellenores; there are OBJ
scure SwiftS, at this moment, breaking
the hearts of unknown Manassas;
and the world is never without its
Cordelias, whatever it may call them. !"
The quotation is from Mrs. Wards in
PRODUCTION to The Marriage of Will
liam Ashe" for the new complete edi-
ton of her works.
Little, Brown & Co. of BOSTON are
announcing for fall publication a
Modern Criminal Science Series'' of
books written by continental authori-
ties and 1t promises to be one of the
important publishing undertakings of
the season. 1t appears that the Amer
lean Institute of Criminal Law and
Criminology is behind the enterprises
for this organization is of the opinion
that America is backward in the in
tell1gent and systematic Improvement
OF the criminal law. It was decided
therefore, to translate and publish with
an American introduction the work
OF the great minds of Europe therahv
furnishing a systematic and sufficient
acquaintance with the controlling, doc
trine and methods regarding the in
disqualification of present treatment
a ano tne causes of crime that now hold
the Stage OF thought on the contin-
emit. The first book announced for
early autumn will be Criminal Pew
chology, by Prof. Hans Cross of
Graz, Austria, one of the half dozen
most eminent European students Of
GTInlnal science. translated by DR..
Horace M. Kallen, lecturer In NH
osophy at Harvard. The autbor Iii
supply a special preface for Amar;ca,1
readers and Joseph Jastrov nrofasran
OF psychology in the Universitv of
wisconsin. will furnish an introduo-
ton. iii'roouc-
Travellers who like to visit the oza,,.
named little streets Of old TonSns
town SO that they may talk of then, ~
thsIr lntimates will doubtless be in
Ger oereS s.e I'm In book soon to be brought
hooks and Corners of Old Iondo o,e - :,
II tells OF the romance which hovars
around old houses, of ancient bvwaTs
mat are lost in the vastness of a
Metropolis, OF forgotten churchyardG
with the "reminiscences that cIine -
their crumblipg tombstones. ana of +h he
hundreds OF other quaint and curious
Spots hlduen in out-of-the-wav T,ondon
corners. In describing their work,
CHARLES and Marie Hemstreet, who
nave dIreaoy written several books on
OLD corners of other cities, say: "Of aIl
the old hooks and all the queer corners
In all the world, the hooks and corners
OF old London town are the dearest. tine
cosiest, the grimiest, the most fascin-
ating Of ALL"
Thomas Nelson Page stands sponsor
TO a volume of essays to be published
by the Scribners this month-pictures
or Virginia life before the war, bv DR.
George w Bagby, called 1.-THE Old Wiz
ginia Gentleman and Other Sketches "
In his introduction Mr. Page SAYS.
Poe was the master of the absolutely
imaginative sketch or taIe-so purelv
imaginative that to discover any local
color by which to give it locality If "a
meet ssary to analyze the work for un-
Intentional traces OF his surroundings.