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

Revolutionary soldier and statesman.
In 1870 DR.. Hamilton took his degree
at the college of Physicians and Sur
geons, Columbia university and a few
years thereafter became a specialist
IN nervous diseases in New York CITY
from 1900 to 1903 he was professor
OF mental diseases in Cornell university
and after that resumed his nrac4ioa
/ In New York. where he has become
prominent in his line His oninion
mas frequently been sought during the
last quarter of a century in deternin-
Ing the sanity Of many noted criminals.
ne was called in the case of Guiteau
and Czolgosz, the assassins of Presi-
dents Garfield and MCKINLEY mr.
hamilton belongs to all the Important
medicaI societies in the United States.
ne Is also fellow of the ROYAL So
ciety of Edinburg and member ~
the best social clubs of New York Tn
MS new book there appears MANY let
terS OF Alexander Hamilton which
i nave never before been published, also
MS expense books and records of cases
Sir Harry H. Johnston, hunter ex-
plorer and writer, gives this high
praise to Kermit Roosevelt in his re-
view of african Game Trails. 1aTba
main interest of the book is Theodore
Roosevelt's personality and his verbal
pictures of wild beasts birds and men:
ana almost equally the photogra phs
taken by Mr.. Kermit Roosevelt and
the fathers record of the singular
acnleVements of son who at twenty
years OF age bad qualified to take place
among the greatest big game sports
men OF the world. Kermit Roosevelt,
IN stalking his life on equal terms
against 1eopards. lions rhinoceroses.
punaloes and elephants gave evidence
OF cool bravery, steadiness of nerve.
accurate craftsmanship and straight
rldlng which must have made his
fathers heart glow with pride. and
which certainly excite the admiration
or the reader. To those who did not
know him already-and there were. of
necessity, few beyond his relations and
school comrades who did-this book
reveals son of Theodore Roosevelt
who should some day take up a prom
inent position in the world on his own
account
Just before the first snowfalI an nm
usual feat in forestry was performed
on the new estate of Doubleday Page
& Co. at Garden City Long Island.
THIS consisted in the removal by a
twenty-eight full grown cedar trees
from the estate of former Senator
Carl s. Burr. Jr., to the Doubleday,
Page & Co. property. The trees are
about thirty years old and thirty-f1ve
feet in height, and have been set out
around a miniature lake A large
quantity of rhododendron bushes have
been used to form a screen between
the trees. The cedarS add materially
in identifying the grounds of the
Country Life Press
That the prominent German pub
fishers, Messrs. Schuster and Loeffler
Berlin, should request the rights of
translation of an American work on
musical subject speaks well of the
esteem in which David c. Taylor's
Psychology of Singing" is held. This
work has been enthusiastically re-
viewed by the foremost German tech
meal publications. distinction which
many American authors may well
envy.
| Ian Hay, the young Scotch autho-
who came into immediate popularity
with, American readers last year
through his two novels. THE Right
| Stuff" and "a Mans Man" is now IN
this country on brief holiday visit To
| his publishers Houghton MfffIin Co.
He witnessed the New Years eve cele-
bration in New York, to which city he
+, is not a stranger, as may be inferred
from his amusing description of Coney
Island in "A Mans Man.. He is receiv-
! ing considerable social attention n
Boston. where, by the way, "A Mans
Man. is reported as one of the three
best selling books. He is a gradua.=
of St Johns, Cambridge. and assist
ant master at Fetts college, one of the
] leading boarding schools of Scotland.