The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-04

day, Page & Co. away from the larger,
1reer life of the great Northwest. AS
child he yearned to be a lum berjack
and as a man he has joined the ranks
of those who know and love the great
outdoors we'll enough to interpret its
people. Mr.. Chisholm makes his home
in Windermere, British Columbia, and
takes prominent part in the business
and political life of the country but
whenever his duties allow it, he is off
in the towering mountains which he
insists afford the grandest scenery in
the world, hunting, fishing or visiting
the lumber camps where he is an ever
welcome visitor.
George Hamilton Fitch, the author
of Comfort Found in Good Old
Books" and literary editor of the San
Francisco Chronicle. has left his edi-
torial desk for a journey around the
world via Japan. His second series of
from Macaulay to kipling, are in pre-
paration to be published in the early
spring by Paul Elder and Company,
san Francisco. The second large print
ing of Comfort Found in Good old
Books" is now on the press of the Paul
Elder & Co, San Francisco.
The Gods and Mr.. Perrin which
The Century CO. has just published,
has made a distinct hit in England,
of Mr.. Perrin and Mr.. Trail" This
is the authors third novel following
The Wooden Horse and 'Mared1ck
at Forty" Hugh Walpole is still under
thirty He was educated at Cam
bridge and for three years has been
reviewer and dramatic critic on the
London Standard.
Georgia Wood Pangborn, whose vol
ume Of short stories entitled Inter
n
Scribner's, was the winner of two of
the $1,000 prizes offered recently by
Golfers Weekly Both these prize
stories are included in this collection
Although the Scribner presses have
this fall already turned out new novels
by Henry James, F. HopkinsOn Smith,
Edith Wharton, Maurice Hewett, and
Richard Harding Davis, and notable
non-fictiOn books such as James Hume
ker's Franz List Henry Van
Dykes Poems" complete in one vol
ume. Rear-Admiral F. f. Chadwick's
two-volume edition of 1.-THE Spanish
American War General Francis Vim
ton Greene's The Revolutionary War.
and Edward Penfield's beautifully
illustrated Spanish Sketches" they
still have a good part of their autumn
work ahead, as this list shows: J. NJ.
BaTrie's new book, Peter ana
Wendy," c. D. Gibsons "Other Peo-
which shows considerable variety from
his other works and contains some
heads in red chalk: Mrs. Burton Har-
rison's "Recollections, Grave and Gay
concerning the South before the war,
Richmond during the war. and New
York after it: and W. w. Jacobs
Ships Company" wherein the night
watchman spins new yarns in the same
old way. T r. Lounsbury's EARLY
Career of Robert Browning
new and cheaper editions of T. a.
Cooks "Old Touraine." and "Old Pro-
vence;" THE Moon Lady" a novel by
Helen Huntingdon; William Bancroft
Hits introduction to the '-e of
Christ" and "One Hundred Bible
Stories by Robert Bird Early this
month they publish Ernest Thompson
Seton's new book Arctic Prairies;'
Brigadier- General Frederick Funston's
Memories of Two Wars" a new and
beautifully illustrated edition of Lit
tie Lord Fauntleroy;' Frank Abbott's |
THE Common People of Ancient |
Rome" a new edition of Ellis Paxson
Oberholtzer's referendum in Amer |
lea which has been greatly enlarged |
and is now entitled "The Referendum, |
Initiative, and Recall in America"