The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-14

Miss Mary Johnston, Mrs. Kate
Douglass Wiggin, Meredith Nicholson,
William J. Hopkins, John Muir. Hugo
Munsterberg. Haveloek Ellis and Dali
las Lore Sharp, are among the prom1-
nent authors whose new books Will
be published by Houghten, Mif1in Co.,
the coming spring season
| Andrew Lang in a recent number
of the Illustrated London News said
of Myra Kelly's Little Aliens ::
strange aliens are they whom the
Americans are trying to educate into
in Little Aliens tells many curious
and touching tales of small Hebrew
immigrants from Slavonic countries,
and of the methods employed in their
education. The kind of English which
they talk is about as like our native
speech as the 'pidgin' patter of Aus
tralian blacks who live near stations
of the whites. 1t looks very adaptable
into American slang; soon our un-
taught novelists will be borrowing
deals with a small Russian prince,
kidnapped by a Jewess, and running
wild in the Sums of New York, where
he is the terror of the little Semltes-
His recognition turns on the posses
sion of a gold chain and jewel set
miniature
A notable contribution to the bio
graphical literature of this country,
is found in the ''prison diary of Alex
ander H. Stephens, brought out re-
Gently by Doubleday. Page & Co. OF
Garden City, L. l. The editor, Myrta
L. Avary. in bringing to light and
placing in readable literary form this
account of the incidents and reflec-
tions of the Confederate vice president
when he was confined in Fort Warren,
Boston Harbor. has performed a valu-
able service. To the photographed
material she has added sketch of his
life Mr.. stephens views of the pub
lie men and events of his times. il
lumined throughout by simplicity
and quiet pathos that reveals the kind
and wholly charming personality of the
man. makes THE Recolletions of Al
exander H. stephens both an lmporce
tant historical work and something of
more than ordinary interest to the
general reader.
A "war scare" having just passed over
the country, and the question of war
political horizon, there is peculiar
timeljness in the immediate publica-
/ ton by A. c. McCIurg & Co., of a
book which in small compass deals
with the whole question Of milftarism.
WAR or Peace: A Present Day Duty
and a Future Hope" is written by
General H. NJ. Chittenden, u. S. A,
| a graduate of West Point, 1884, who
served as chief engineer of the Fourth
army corps during the Spanish-Amer-
| lean war, and who is already known
| to the public for his writings on the
history of the West.
Until the publication of the re-
markedly interesting and valuable BIZ
ography, 1.-The Intimate Life of Alex
ander Hamilton its author. DR.. AL
| Ian McLane Hamilton. VIZ known to
readers only in professional lines
Thousands who know DIR. Hamilton as
| the most distinguished pharmacist in
| the United States. and as a writer on
| such serious subjects as clinical
Therapeutics" "a System of Legal
Medicine" Railway and Other Ac-
cidents." and magazine contributions
on specialized medical subjects. were
quite surprised that a pen hitherto
! given entirely to scientific subjects
I could give to the world such an inter-
esting, human, sympathetic book.
Since its publication few weeks ago
| by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York,
it has been remarkably successful and
/ has proved. itself suited to the taste
| of the general reader as well as to
| the taste of the student DR.. Hamil-
iton was born in 1848, in Brooklyn, n.
~. His father was Philip. the young
est son of Alexander Hamilton, the