The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-30

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I ates'' by Lillian Bell, and "a Golden We'd
| ding by Ruth McEnery Stuart. The
same firm is also bringing over from the
pers' Library of Living Thought: The
/ Lie of the Universe by Svante Arrhe-
MUS. ana christianity and the New
IdeaHsm' by Rudolf Eucken.
Mrs. Cora Harris, whose latest book.
/ The Recording Angel viii be published
/ returned from Europe on the Pannonia
OF the Cunard Line, December 8, after
having been abroad since midsummer.
/ W nile travelling, Mrs. Harris wrote Il
series of articles on European women
The articles are now appearing in The
Saturday Evening Post. Mrs. Harris
viii be remembered as the author of The
Circuit Riders Wife" and Ewes Second
Husband" The Recording Angel is
laid in Georgia where Mrs Harris has
spent most of her life, and where her
forefatherS lived.
mi "A Naturalist on Desert Lands" a
new Scribner importation, Percy R. Lowe,
member of the British Ornithologists'
union describes voyagfng on a yacht
AMONG the many primitive islands Of the
caribbean sea and the Gulf Of Mexico
The yacht was that of Sir Frederic John
stone and his wife, Lady Wilton whose
guest the author was on six consecutive
winters, and the islands they visited
politically and commercially unknown
only geographically known for purposes
OIL HaNlS3IOn- MOST OF them are UIlln-
habited and upon others live only sin
gle family In Robinson Crusoe-like style
Fishermen live on others at certain sea-
sons OF the year; ana sun otherS-nOtaOly
the CaNmans-are scantiiy populated with
the descendants OF shipwrecked sailors.
The book gives much information of real
value to the naturalist its interest to
the lay reader lies rather in descriptions
of wanderings amid the wild beauties of
these little primitive lands
Mrs. Alice Wilson Fox who will be re-
membered as the author of Hearts and
Coronets, has written another story en-
titled THE BarOn'S Heir, which was
published in this country a few weeks
ago, and will be found an appropriate gift
for young people 1t is tale of the days
of Henry VIII and the scene is laid in
the town and country houses of Sir
Thomas Moore at the period when he was
high in the favor of the king. Sir Thorn ]
as receives under his roof the child and
heir of a certain nobleman of his ac-
quaintance, and there are charming pic
lures of his own children and their little 1
guest at their lessons and recreauonS,
on their jOurneyings and as spectators +
of numerous sights and ceremonies, all
of which give d capital insight into the 4
manners and customs of the times.
Among the novels to be published be- |
tween now and spring by Doubleday,
Page & co. are Counsel for the De 4
fense,'i by Leroy Scott author of ssThe /
Shears of Destiny and others; In I
Search of Already by Nina Wilcox Put 4
na55- ..-Tbe Radi1lrn Terrors ,, bv Albert /
Darlington: s.The Guests of Hercules I
by A. NJ and c. n. Williamson; and The T
White Waterfall by Charles Francis
Dwyer-
/. Allen Harker's long delayed novel,
MT. Wycherly's Wards, viii appear
read Miss F,sperance and Mr. Wych-
arly' of which it is in way a continual
ton, viii be glad to follow little fur
Their the lives of Edmund and Mon
tague" and OF Mr. Wycherly himself;
and those who have read concerning
Paul and Fiametta' or Master afd
Miss Esperance and Mr. Wycherly.
will want to read this now Other
seribner publications. OF me honth are
new volume in the Original Narratives
Of Early American History Series,
namely. Narratives of Early Pennsyl-
Iania Delaware and West jersey, 1861
I7OS. edited by Albert Cook Myers; and
he "reminiscences of the famous lawyer
author. William Allen Butler, who wrote
allied "a Retrospect of Forty Years.
S25-1S65. Mr.. Butler dictated it the latter
months of his life to his daughter, Haf-
let Allen Butler the editor lt IS run o.
unusually interesting anecdotes of great
nen and offers an unusually clear po-
itical history of this country between the
vvo dates that mark its limits
Hamiin Garland, whose new novel
Victor Ollnee's Discipline has just
zen published has become secretary or
he Chicago Theater society, and rat the
ecent dinner of the Society of American
)ranaatists and Composers he declared
hat our drama is IAN utter disgrace to
lrr country In this harsh verdict NJ
fariand is supported to a certain extent
~ another WelI-knoWn author, Arnold
Bennett whose growing popularity IN
his country gives his words a similar
Weight AIR Bennett is said to have re-
marked that everything connected with
he stage in America-the theaters, plays.
cenery, arrangement of the house, etc
) below the highest London standard
Ir Bennett is a friendly critic, and his
IMPRESSIONS of America, soon to be pub- +
shed in Harper's Magazl4 mere are expected
In Prof Ellsworth Huntingtons recent
ook Palestine and Its Transformation
Houghton Miflin Coz there is a striking
comparison of Palestine with southern
california In the latter, from Los An
eles fifty miles northeastward across the
fountains TO the Ayojaye Desert the same