The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-03

A delightful book by Henry Jerome
Stockard has just been published by
the Neale company of Washington.
Which makes a speciality of books OF
the southland 1t is "a Study OF
Southern Poetry and is intended prt-
marily for the school room, but it Will
delight any one who is interested IN
literature and any student OF poetry.
professor Stockard has brought TO ms
work the two essentials: intelligence
knowledge of the actual needs of the
teacher, and sympathy. His choice or
material is broad and representative
MS treatment of the material logical
concise and practical. The work opens
with a brief and thorough treatise on
the art of poetics, theme too rarely
treated in text books of poetry. The
work of each poet is prefaced by
short biographical sketch. each selec-
ton characterized and followed by
questions for study, and for the use or
the teacher. To facilitate the study of
the poems, the lines are numbered, an
admirable plan, as eN cry teacher
knows. One meets old friends in this
work-Edgar Allen Poe, Maurice
Thompson, Francis Scott Key and 9TH
ers who have been immortalized In
poems like 1.-THE Bivouac of the Dead"
and "My Maryland" He also makes
new and delightful acquaintance and
the reader will lay aside the book with
satisfaction that his time has been well
spent.
Messrs. A. c. McClurg & Company
make the important announcement
that they will issue early in the rail-
volume of Recollections by Senator
Shelby NJ. Cullom. 1t will be practi-
calIy the senator's life story and covers
a period of seventy-five years, begin
ming with his boyhood in Kentucky and
Illinois, his experience as a young law
yer, his first entrance into politics, and
covering his political life of over half
a century. The volume will be Illus
trated.
Kate Douglas Wiggin paid a charm
ing tribute to Ellen Terry at one of
the farewell dinners given to her in
New York, in the course of which she
said: I'VE are saying goodbye to that
elixir of sunbeams labelled by her par
ents Ellen Terry. She is going home %
England. Her heart may be beating
with anticipation, but her American
friends will miss her sadly. l confess
that a country having ninety-five mil
lions of people and no Ellen Terry in it
seems a foolish sort of place, a little
dull and not quite well furnished" Mrs.
Wiggin has been spending the past
month in London where luncheons ard
dinner have been given for her by
Lady st. Heller, Lady Sheffield, Lady
Bell, Lady Playfair, Lady Waterlow,
Countess Arrim and Sir Charles Wynd-
ham. On May 10 at a dinner given by
the American Circle of the Lyceum
club she spoke for 1.-The Guests" and
at the Women Writer'S Coronation
dinner on May 20 she spoke to the
toast, 1.-THE Literary Life"
The Century Co. will publish, June "a,
"Thorpe's Way" by Morley Roberts, an
English writer better known in Eng
land than in this country. "Thorpe's
Way is satire on middle class So
c1al conventionalities and a jolly love
story, of style to invite comparison
with George Bernard Shaw. Gloomy
Fanny" the hero of some OF Mr.. Rob-
erts' short stories, is a character in the
book.
Harry Franck's "a vagabond Jour-
ney Around the World" has gone to
press for its fifth printing. The author
is at work on a new book -Four
Months Afoot in Spain"
The fortieth edition Of Frances Lit
ties THE Lady of the Decoration, is
selling.
That indefatigable translator, Ber-
nard Mail, has just put within the
reach OF people who do not understand
French A. Coboton's Java and Suma-
ira and other islands Of the Dutch East
indies. With an excellent map and
Illustrations to supplement the concise
text, this book gives an ample account
of the natives, the agricultural and 9TH
er resources, the administrative divis-
ions, the cities and ports, the customs
and religion of an empire of which lit
tie has been written in English The
Translator contributes a brief historical
preface and occasionally explanatory
notes.
In the Red Book Magazine for June,
Gouverneur Morris has a story enti-
tied THE Oldest Beginner" that every
millionaire in America should read and
others will find it a delightful story.
Gene Stratton-Porter's nature book
Music, of the Wild" is now publish
ed by Doubleday, Page & Co., the pub
fishers OF her popular stories, 1.-THE Girl
Of the Limberlost" and 'Freckles" 1t
is isued in gift book form, superbly
illustrated from Mrs. Stratton-Po rters
own photographs of birds, trees and
flowers, and is one of the handsomest
volumes of descriptive nature essays
TO be found anywhere. The volume is
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