The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-22
Como Out OF the Kitchen.


Come Out of the Kitcheni" is a ro-
nance, on somewhat new lines. The
scene is an old Virginia manor house;
the story is what befalls when Burton
Crane, young New Yorker, rents the
house for the hunting season and is
confronted with the altogether sur
prising servants who go with it-one
of whom, the pocket Venus" who
presides over the kitchen, rapidly as
sumes a highly important position in
the narrative. Though the story is To-
Gated below the Mason and Dixon line
it does not rest upon either the Civil
War or the Reconstruction period. 1t
is indeed entirely modern, not at all
with a happy ending. Alice Duer
Miller, the author, lives in New
York City, and was born there. She
was graduated from Barnard College
in 1899. and the same year married
Henry Wise Miller. She is the author
of Blue Arch Less Than Kim
and several other novels; and fire.
quent contributor of short stories and
articles to the magazines. Mrs. Miller
is a prominent figure in the suffrage
ed the clever book of verses. Are
Women Feople?'' "Out of the
Kitchen!" has twelve full-page illus
trations by Paul Meylan. Pub
lished by the Century company of
New York. Date of publication, April
!
Behold the Woman!
(By T. Everett Harre.)
In the character of Mary, the pow
erful Alexandrian courtesan whose
beauty was the glory of Egypt" the
author presents the struggle of wom-
anhood in its integrity and nobility
with mans age-long exploitation (the
problem which woman has met since
the beginning of the world), and in
| hof ofn c,fr- 1irl1 ic
today finding one of its expressions in
the feminist movement.
No romance of antiquity has ever
been written in the English language
surprising Behold the Woman in
the vividness and reality of it's pre-
sentation of an epoch barbaric in it's
luxurious magnificence, stirring in it's
adventure and romance. unrestrained
| in its naked passions, ruthless in its
cruelty, and riotous and murderous in
its religious conflicts. Behold the
Womani" describes a period said to
have been even more colorful and
licentious than that of Nero,--the
time is the final conflict between Pa
ganism and Christianity.
1t is the absorbing story of a wom-
ans quest of love amid the vices and
excuses of an age when wantonness
was an art and woman became emf
| nent only through her shame, and of
this woman's finding redemption in
the divine love that in all ages knows
not utter condemnation, but is all for
Igiving because all knowing
| Behold the Woman" bears a mes
sage to every man and woman living
in the world today. 1t is a novel of
powerful religious and spiritual
significance.
It's Lippincott publication, selling
at $1.35.
| s.ChiIdren of Hone,
Children of Hope" is by Stephen
| Whitman. author of "Predestined,"
| THE Isle of Life" etc.
Mr.. Whitman's new novel tells the
story of Aurelius Goodchild, of Zenas-
vile, Ohio, and his three lovely daugh-
tiers, Aglaia. Euphrosyne, and Thalia-
the three graces"-who. having come
into legacy of 100000, set out to
| ious ambitions. Aurelius, as quaint
| inventor. poet, photographer, piano.
tuner. portrait-painter, botanist, chem
| list. shabby genteel and imperturbably
romantic amateur in a hundred fields;
Aglaia, thirty, dreaming of the opera !:
Euphrosyne, twenty-five, with George
Eliot in mind, determined to be a
great novelist; and Thalia, twenty,
| filled with emulation of Rosa Bonheur
these are the principal characters.
] Paris and other parts of the Continent,
and especially Florence, form the set
ting of the story.
mitted to be one of the best craftsmen