The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-11

covering the entire field. which will
! be published by A. G. McC,urg & Co.
| during the spring under the title, 1.-The
Psychology of Faith and Fear or, the
Mind in Health and Disease" 1t is the
| authors object in this book to take up
the matter of mind cure from every
side and present it in popular Ian
guage. He not only discusses the role
the mind plays in healing, but the
| bodily factors as well. and his posi-
lions on both psychology and physi-
ology are Endorsed by leading repre-
sentatives of those sciences.
One of the most important new
novels of the year will be Children of
Tomorrow" by Clara e. Laughlin,
the author of Felicity" which will be
published early this spring This is
| intensely story of the present day,
especially of New York 1t is not a
story of society or the s!ums; though
it has glfmpses of the East Side life.
The characters are ambitious young
men and women, interested in litera-
| ture and art, but, more than all, drawn
together by moral enthusiasm for bet
tering social conditions In their high
ideals they are real children to to-
morrow" The plot is unusual and alb
sorbing.
] Thomas A. Edison, who recently
| celebrated his sixty-fourth birthday by
spending three-fourth of the day at
hard work, surprises even his intimate
! friends by his endurance of mental
| labor, say F. L. Dyer and T. c. Mar
tin, authors of his recently published
! biography, Edison: His Life and In
ventions." In a conversation in 1909
he remarked, as if it We're nothing
out of the way that up to seven years
| previously his average of daily work
ing hours was nineteen and one-half,
but since then he figured it at eighteen.
1t was suggested that the secret of it
might be that he did not live in the
past but was always looking forward
| to greater future. H replied:
Eyes, that's it. 1 don't live with the
past; I am living for today and to-
morrow. L am interested in every de-
partment of science, arts and manu-
facture. I read all the time on as
tronomy, chemistry, biology, physics,
music, meta physics, mechanics and 9TH
er branches-political economy, cleo
tricity, and in fact all things that are
making for progress in the world"
Although Gustav Frenssen's new
novel, KLAUS Hinrich Baas,' is the
story of the achievement of worldly
success by self-made man, yet side
by side with the striving for material
swerving effort toward spiritual de-
lvelopment, and in the struggle of these
| two opposing elements of his nature
| lies the interest of the story of this
|
over himself and the other over the
world.
| 1913" is the extraordinary title of
new mystery story by Maurice Leblanc,
| creator of the already famous Arsene
Lupin. 1t refers to a mysterious blue
label bearing the figures "s13,' and
the story recounts the most terrific
duel of Lupin's career. The book is
published this week by Doubleday.
Page & Co.
Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. publish
this week 1.-The Adventures of Mod
est Man. by Robert w. Chambers
The modest man in question takes his
two daughters abroad for the summer,
after being pried loose from his Oys-
ter Bay home by man who wants to
marry one of the daughters. What
| the sights and the people of Paris do
to this middle aged parent who has
vegetated for twenty years on Long
Island, is set forth in tn estory. The
illustrations and decorations are by
Edmund Frederick.
Maurice Hewlett's new book, BRA
zenhead the Great" will be published
this spring. In the hero of this book
Mr. Hewlett has created a most BIZ
zarre, amusing and picturesque char
acter whose astonishing adventures he
describes with the extraordinary pow
er of romance narrative and poetic
description, and in the exquisite liter
airy style which has made REST Har-
row" "Open Country" and Halfway
House the most brilliant novels in
English of the last few years.
Justus Miles Forman now that his
new novel, 1.-THE Unknown Lady" is
out has arranged his summer plans.
AS usual, Re will go to England early,
and during the London season will be
the guest of friends there. He will
be there, of course, during the corona
Ition. 1.-The Unknown Lady," like all
of Mr.. Forman's novels was published
simultaneously in England and Amer
tica. The story also is international,