The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-30
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|WA nj eign powers watch our every
IW@ Nj diplomatic move than we do
ourselves is given in Amer
lean Foreign Policy" lHough-
ton, Miff1in Coz by "a Diplomatist."
When we elevated our legation at Con-
stantinople to an embassy in 1906 it was
hardly noticed at home but in Europe
it was considered of extreme Import
ance and looked upon as a sign of the
entrance OF America into the Turkish
situation. The book is a criticism of
Cur somewhat passive diplomatic policy.
1t points out opportunities we have
neglected and suggests what may be
done in the future.
Messrs. Duffield & Co.'S list of books
for the autumn is one of the strongest
of the year, and contains many fam
Gus names. Besides the much talked
of "Chantecler," which this house is
issuing in English, there are an FL. G..
Wells novel, The New Machiavelli,"
book conceived on the lines of ''Tono-
Bungay;" Marguerite Bryants ANNE
Kemburn: Truthseeker," the next book
after the same writer's christopher
I1ibbault: Road5naker," now in it's
sixth edition; Richard Dehan's lone
Drawer Thing" novel issued in Eng
land under the title of 1.-THE Dop Doc
tor and already in it's third edition
there; Devious Ways" by Gilbert
Canaan, author of that promising first
book, Peter Homunculus;'' Katharine
Holland Browns white Roses with
illustrations by James Montgomery
Flagg; THE Getting of Wisdom" by
Henry Handel Richardson, author of
Maurice GUEST" ''Angela's Quest" by
Lillian Bell, illustrated by A B. Wen
zell; 1.-The Pools of Silence" by H. de
We're Stacpoole, the third. and perhaps
the most powerful, of DR.. Stacpooles
romances of the Tropics and the ORR
emit
William Dean Howells is now in
Europe with his daughter, and will
travel until autumn. At the time he
was to sail few weeks ago some un-
finished proof correcting remained. SO
Mr. Howells engaged an extra state
room aboard ship which he used as
workshop during the voyage. His va
cation abroad last summer resulted in
Seven English Cities" book of
travel sketches.
Hamlin Garland, soon after the pub
LEGATION of his new novel. "CaVanagh.
Forest Ranger" left his Chicago home
for West Salem, Wis, and there he
vacation employments are the simple
ones of the farm for which Mr.. Gar
land has never lost his love.
A newly built bungalow study on
the Stormf1eld property at Redding
Conn.,, calleu MaFRIdnQ, rs the SceHe
of Albert Bigelow Paine's summer ac
tivities. His new book, THE Ship
DweIlers." has just been issued by the
Harpers and he has already begun the
preparatory work on the projected
| Mark Twain biography. The land on
which Mr.. Paine's bungalow is built
was given him by Mark Twain.
Rex Beach, who yielded to the blan-
dishments of newspaper syndicate to
"do" the Reno fight story, has re-
turned to New York, where he is now
| hard at work on another novel. 1t
| is to be a stirring outdoors story
more like 1.-The Silver Horde" than
the farcical merriment of "Going
Some.' published late in the spring.
Near the shores of Greenwood Lake,
at Pompton, N. J., there is now going
on the regular summer reunion of
what might be called three genera
lions of Marion Harlands. Children
and grandchildren, some of whom
own homes near hers, spend several
months in this way every year. Ma
rion Harland's Autobiography" the
most recent writing she has done, was
| published in the spring
In a bungalow on Maidencreek. in a
Pennsylvania valley, Georg Schock has
| taken I'D her summer residence.
"Georg Schock" is the pen name of
| Katherine Riegel Loose, and the val
lev is the scene of her newly pub
lished novel, Hearts Contending."
The bungalow was once meeting
| house for regular weekly worship by
the folk of the countryside.
Josephine Daskam Bacon left New
York in the spring soon after her last
| book sThe Biography of a, Boy was
published, and with her husband has
been entertaining friends at their
country place in Briarcliff, Westches-
ter county, New York.
DR.. Leonard Porter Ayres, Phi.
D. author of "Open-air Schools" a
new book published by Doubleday,
Page & Co., has made life long
study of the subject of child hygiene.
He is now associate director of this
department of the Russell Sage foun-
dalton. To DR.. Ayres belongs the hon.
or of founding the first outdoor school
under the American flag, which he did
in 1904, when general superintendent
of public schools of the Island of Porto
Rico. Born in Mantle, Conn.,, Sep
TENDER Is, 1879 DIR. Ayres gradual
h ed from Boston university in 1902, re-
ceiving masters degree from that
institution in 1909 and his Phi. d. in
1910. His educational work began in
Porto Rico in 1902. While there he
revised the courses Of study in the
public schools with view to making
English the insular language q 1907
he was placed in charge of the back