The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-21

led there is need for fresh emphasis
of the main issues There is also need
for building out the pragmatic theory
| in neglected directions. In a small
way. this book tries to serve both pur-
poses DR.. Boodin divides his discus
sions into four parts, considering first
Truth and Mental Constitution; second,
4 The Nature of Truth; third The Cri-
terion of Truth; and fourth, Truth and
Its Object. These parts are in turn
further divided into chapters where
/ the subjects are dealt with in detail
Mrs. McCarter's Peace of the Solo
mon Valley" is in its fourth edition.
Glover o. the Peach by Perceval
i Gibbon, is new publication of the
/ Century Co. Here is a piece of fiction
quite outside the ordinary, not alone
| for its unusual setting and plot; but
for its notable character delineation
/ DR.. Jakes and his wife conduct a sana-
4 torium in South Africa. Here comes
one Margaret Harding, an English
girl. Margaret; the weak, erring DR..
Jakes; his brave, pathetic wife, each
patient in their house: Paul and his
parents; the Kaffir, Kamis, who has
received doctors education in Lon
don and returns to South Africa to find
/ himself scOrned by both black and
white-these men and women stand
out distinct, individual, alive. The
story is a strange and gripping one;
and seems destined to take rank with
! THE Story Of an African Farm and
The Dop Doctor among the half
dozen great books on South Africa.
All of Henry van Dykes poems
including some never before printed
appear this month in single volume,
called 1.-The Poems of Henry van
Dyke Last year such an edition of
Eugene Field was published, and, be-
fore that. one-volume household edi-
Whittier, Holmes, and Lanier, and all
for the same reason. They were all
felt to be genuine American poets; ap-
probation of their works was wide
spread, and a demand for them. both
steady and popular, existed in all sec
lions of the country and among all
social grades. 1t is this same wide and
deep appreciation for Henry van
Dykes poetry that has led to the publ
cation of this wOrk-One that in tn
point of expense is within the reach of
almost everybody. 1t includes all that
is contained in the volumes known as
THE Toiling of Felix, and Other
Poems 1.-The Builders. and Other
Poems Music, and Other Poems"
ETC. and tie portrait which stands as
frontispiece is the one the author con-
siders as the best ever taken of him.
A slender white peacock flying into
the purple depths of an enchanted for
beside a stream. and a little brown
bird wise enough to counsel a lost
prince-surely these viii excite the
curiosity of any normal, wonder-loving
child. And they will hold his most in
tereSting attention until with the last
word of each delightful fairy tale, he
learns all that happened to them. The |
first of the three stories in the collec- |
ton gives the book its title; the sec /
ond, THE Pink Topaz" appeared in |
-irT,r .Tr, ifr71 af1fr7v
and the third, 1.-The Little Brown |
Bird" will leave the reader eager for |
the appearance of Miss Browns second |
series of fairy tales which is promised |
for the near future. The book is just |
out fresh from the press of the Rand |
MeNally company of Chicago, and it is
published under the title The En-
chanted Peacock" The publishers /
have spared no means to set forth the (
work of author and artist to the best I
advantage. Fine paper, clear type, and |
attractive binding make the book good |
to look at and pleasant to handle.
Miss Mary Johnston. the author of
The Long ROLL is having the newt
able experience of one who puts a |
great historical figure into fiction dur
ing the lifetime of men who knew him.
Miss Johnston's Stonewan Jackson is
already condemned as a "caricature'
by southern clergyman who served |
strained to say in reply only that the /
clergyman's personal idea" of the |
general must be compared with her /
own composite historical picture" of 1
him Which is the truer2 Nearly so |
years have passed since Jackson's /
death, and are personal memories of
him to be esteemed as more faithful
to life than the composite picture con-
structed by one who never saw him,
from an immense amount of historical ,
aHt0hi0gTE n material
Charles w. Collins, the author of
Great Love Stories of the Theatre"
writes with authority on dramatic mat
tiers, for he is a well-known critic. For
merly assistant dramatic editor on the
Chicago Record-Herald, he is now the
dramatic editor of the Chicago Inter-
ocean having seen altogether some
ten years of newspaper work in Chi
cago. He has also been more actively
associated with the theatre as literary
representative of the Chicago New