The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22
SUNDAY

F. w. Headley's 1.-THE Fligh of
Birds" just imported by the Serb
ners, derives a peculiar interest today,
from the fact that man has entered
the field of flying, which it would not
have had a few years ago. In that
sense it has in its analysis of the
birds flying, methods of balancing;
steering, etc, a real and practical
value. But aside from that, illustrat-
ed as it is by diagrams and pictures,
it makes interesting reading not only
technical style. for everybody who
takes any pleasure in birds. Some of
the chapter headings are Gliding,
starting" Steering" stopping and
Al1ghting," Varieties of Wing and Of
Flight" and Wind and Flight"
The Days of the Saxon a new
book by General Homer Lea, author
of 1.-THE Valor of Ignorance" is pub
Iished this week by the Harpers- It
is a strong warning to the Saxon race
against the hangers of national ever
confidence, fancied security, and neg
Iect of sane preparation for any posi-
BILE contingency. The author points out
definitely the perils that theaten the
survival of the race, and explains what
he considers necessary for preserVa-
ton.
Miss Jane Adams was the chief
speaker at the commencement exer-
cises of the Bryn Mawr college last
N6Shs Sin AAo1 = 11C
of higher education for women. Tne
philadelphia North American in
commenting on the event, says that
miss Adams stands out as the one
woman in the country who has made
a sociological study of the problem
of vice and who has done more than
any other person living to rouse the
world to a sense OF the enormlty OIL
+rafhc in young girls and degrading
conditions in large cities. In her
book, "A New Conscience and an AT
cient Evil she has laid bare the mis-
ery. poverty and the shame OF thou-l
sands of girls. and she has mercilessly
turned the fashlight of investigation
upon the sordid interests ana the dIs.
picable commercial aspects OF the
white slave traffic
A new publication which to DE
welcome this time of year is Harper
Guide to Wild Flowers by Mrs. caro-
line A. Creevey. 1t explains in
Ianguare all about the different Amer
lean flowers and plants, and is based
on the new classification Of the
Vienna congress. This body finally
came to an agreement respecting theI
botanical names and classifications of
American flowers which will need no
revision for many years to come. Be
sides the new correct CLASSIFICATION the
hook is we'll Illustrated, and its sim
niicitv will make. it an agreeable
companion on summer walks and
drives
The July Century will be the first
of three numbers specially given over
TO fiction, with short stories by owen
author of "Stover at Hale'
charles D.. Stewart, author of The
Fugitive Blacksmith" J. ]. Bell. with
another "Wee MacgreSor' story;
lucy Furman, author of "Mothering
on P~erilous;" Freeman Tilden, Charles
Johnson Post and Hilaire Belloc.
Exporters. business men contemplate
ing possibilities of a market for their
manufactures in South America, and
people thinking of taking up ranching
or some other business there, will find
the sort of information they want in
the South American Series" publish
ed in this country by Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons. A new volume has just
been added. Guiana: British, French
and Dutch" The author IS James
Roadway, F. l.. S. AS was the case
with the other volumes-"Chile,"
Peru" Mexico Argentina" Bra
zil,' Uruguay" Venezuela" "Para-i