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

Suay"-this is not merely an impress
sionistic travel book by any means. 1t
is a careful study of the conditions of
soil, climate, waterways and harbors;
the nature of the people is carefully
set forth, their governmen and their
social n industrial life carefully
analysed. h exposition is thorough,
accurate, and packed by statistics. To
the business man the chapters on
agriculture and natural products,
government. the people and immigra-
ton. trade, will be particularly valu-
able. The Illustrations ARE very fine.
An interesting new edition this week
is Home Life in Germany which
was originally published in 1908, went
through a number of editions and has
been for some little time out of print
in his The book is the work
of Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick and is a ar
ticularly happy and intimate picture
of the day to day existence of the chill
men and the women of Germany. Mrs.
Sidgwick also touches upon the
schools, education in general, upon
the expenses of living, upon typical
German customs, their summer re-
sorts and their holidays. The volume
is one which people who have visited
Germany will like quito as much as
those whose information about the
country has been obtained hitherto
from dry uninteresting tones. Mrs.
Sidgwick'S book does not in the least
resemble these. 1t is br: ght and full
of anecdotes and succeeds in present
ing the real atmosphere of the place..
w. Morgan Shuster has dedicated his
book The S~trangling of Persia
which tells the full details of the recent
stormy chapters in Persia's history:
ITO the Persian people, in the endea-
vor to repay in some slight measure
the debt of gratitude imposed upon me
through their confidence in my pur
poses toward them and by their UNI
wavering belief, under difficult and
forbidding circumstances, in my desire
to serve them for the regeneration OF
their nation"
Teach her patience-teach her tC
work" says Juliet Wilbor Tompkins
in Pleasures and Palaces''-'I don't
care what the work is-mind or body
so long as she learns to go on with
it after it has ceased to amuse-tc
spend herself, to grind long, patient
hours and so purify her soul of tho
curse of trivility. a woman who can
not work neither has nor gives happi-
ness. She holds the whole world
down"
Sir Sidney Lee, the Shakespearian
scholar, according to a recent cable de-
spatch, is said to have incurred the
displeasure of King George through the
biography of the late King Edward
which Sir Sidney wrote This life Of
King Edward, it is alleged, depicts him |
as far from being the master of state |
craft he has been popularity considered.
Sir Sidney, best known in this coun-
try through the new edition of Shakes
peare's works, often referred to as the
Sidney Lee Shakespeare, stands in the
forefront of those scholars who try tc |
discover the facts of Shakespeare's life
and to estimate his work with a con-
s-cientiousness equal to hat of scien- |
lists. There was a time when it would
have been impossible to treat Shake. |
speare otherwise than in a spirit of
profound adulation; but nowadays crit
ical scholarship and intellectual hon
esty are less easily quenched by liter
arv traditions or by reverence for roy
atty.