The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-06


book, "A Wall of Men, will be pub
1ished by McClurg in October. Like
its predecessor, THE Price of the
Prairie" it will be a story of early
Kansas of the period between 1855 and
1865. 1t will be uniform with the
price of the Prairie and will COM
prise about 500 pages. Marchand viii
make the illustrations. The book Will
be made the leading one of the firm
and it was accepted without a reading.
The Pilgrim Press, Boston. have just
published THE Culture of Religion, by
Professor z. c. Wilm, of the depart
ment of philosophy in WaShburn col
lege. This new book by Professor Wilm.
who is already well known through his
more technical books and articles in
the fields of philosophy and psychology.
is a discussion, in the authors clear
and vigorous style, of the aims and in
struments of moral and religious edG-
cation. After subjecting the widely
accepted aim of adaptation to en-
vironment" to a spirited and conVinc-
ing criticism, in which he brings out
clearly the merits and the Shortcom-
ings of this formula as an educational
ideal. the author discusses the funda-
mental educational principles and
ideals underlying the home, the day
school,, the parish and the Sunday
school. The book concludes with a conn.,
prehensive discussion of the much
debated question of the moral and re-
Hgious influence of higher institutions
Of learning, a chapter which is bound to
be of deep interest to all students of
higher education. Mr. Wilm has also
recently published the following: The
Philosophy of Schiller Guce & Co.,
Eoston); The Problem of Religion
pilgrim Press, BOSTON,, and The Phil
osophy of Henri Bergson (Houghton
and Miff1in, BOSTON,.
That the American melting pot of
Literature is yielding some of the best
literary works is shown in Zone of Us
by Ezra Brudno, Assistant District
Attorney in Cleveland. He was born in
Lithuania where his grandfather, hale
and hearty at ninety-five, is still living
and spending his last days in studying
and reading. His father who was quite
wealthy in ithuania, was forced to
leave his native place about forty years
ago for political reasons and emigrated
with his family to Cleveland, Ohio,
where Ezra Brudno, his noted son has
achieved distinction both in law and
literature.
aDavidee Birot' is a new novel by
Rene Bazin, who has been called
Frances premier novelist the sixth
to be published in this country. M
Bazin, member of the French Academy
is now in the United States as one of
the French commission to the Cham
plain Tercentenary. He is one of the
very few French writer's whose works
are brought out in this country at the
same time that they appear in France;
indeed he is almost alone as a French
novelist of this day who has a large
and evergrowing public in America.
''Davidee Birot," a love story OF a fine
young French girl who becomes school
teacher in a little town N Ardesie
through an intense desire to be of SER
vice, is published by the Seribners, as
were all Bazin's earlier novels-"The
Barrier This, My Son. THE Coming
Harvest" Redemption and The
Nun" This book is intensely con-
cerned with the social problems intro
duced by the prominence of labor
unions. It's plot largely dependc upon
a strike of miners who throng the town
in Ardesie where Davidee's school is.
M. Bazin was born in Anglers in 1853.
We was a delicate boy and spent most
or his early years on an Angevin farm.
AS he grew up he studied and praeticed
law at Anglers and for many years held
a professorship of criminal law in the
university there. His natural inclina-
lions were literary and ne was driven
toward novel writing by his intense