The Topeka state journal., 1910-09-24

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York. The title is Master
OF the Vineyard" and it is beautifully
printed and bound. There is always
a large circle of readers waiting for
each of her new books as it appears.
But the remarkable feature of Miss
Reeds popularity is that each one of
her new books continues to show in
creasing sales every year. The more
the public has of them, the more it
wants. This can be said of no other
fiction of the day. Miss Reeds stories
are always charming, but her latest
book is something more than this. The
humor is delightful, and the panO
rama of life. with its well balanced
picturing of lights and shadows, pos
sesses the quality best named fascina-
ton.
The October Century will contain
the third of Mr.. George Kennan's pa
pers on "The Reaction in Russia"
review of events since the Bloody
Sunday of January, 1905. The last
paper will deal with the laws, the
courts, and the prisons, setting forth
in detail how the people, in spite of
certain alleged privileges and rights,
"are still living under an an-powerful
bureaucratic administration, with
methods quite as lawless and despotic
as those which made the lives of Rus
slams miserable twenty-five or thirty
years ago. In some respects the stu
alton is better than it was in the clos
ing years of the last century, but in
other respects 1t is much worse
''Whirligigs" is the title of the last
of the o. Henry books just published
by Doubleday, Page & co. More
American than Poe, more American
even than Harte, o. Henry swiftly
made his way upward in the hearts
of a constantly growing audience till
hn CHI
story writer of his time. The last
collection of his stories are not con-
fined to New York, but are, perhaps,
more representative of his varied
genius than any former volume. Some
people say that o. Henry lacked ser
iousness. But one would search for q
very long time before finding any
where a story so full of quiet earnest
ness, of tender pathos, of noble under
lying purpose as Blind Mans Holt
day." in this volume called "Whirli-
gigs" The we'll known inimitabl
style, the cutting wit, the whimsical
ity, the wonderful control over the
element of surprise, the keen charac-
terization, and above all the infinite
love for and understanding of human
ity in all its complex modes and
phases, all are here iE this new vol
ume-the things that will make o.
Henry read in company with de Maui
passant and Kipling, long after other
names have been forgotten.
Abraham Lincoln, and other Ad-
dresses will be the title of a book
bv the Hon. Joseph H. Choate. to be
published by the Century company
this fall The book gathers in perma-
nent form material first given to the
English public in various addresses.
and includes Mr- Choate's farewell ad-
dress to England.
THE Refugee" by Captain Charles
ellison, is a recent addition to the books
published by the Century company.
This is a story brim full of adventure
Of the good old fashioned kind, the
scenes set near the east coast of Eng
land during the French Revolution.
The Vfcomte des Ormeaux is the chief
character, a polished, fascinating ref
ugee and rascal, with no care for any
thing in the world but himself and his
own ends; and to help him carry out
his plots he employs as his aids the
villains Gipsy Yates and Jerry Aber-
shaw, the kind of adventurers who
hold up the stage on the kings high
way and scruple not at all to shoot
the man who resists- Jerry, at least,
is a real historical parsonage, whose
fame has come down as a notable
highwayman who terrorized certain
counties of England for several years
and finally paid the penalty of his
misdeeds. How the Vicomte came to
England and there betrayed the hos
pitality of Neither Hall, even to the
carrying off of bonny Cicely Packe
penalty of his life of violence, how
Roland and Cicely were happily wed,
the boyhood of the great John Con-