The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-08
James L. King Makes a Selec-
ton of 100 Volumes.
Cream of Writings of the Past
100 Years.
THEY ARE ALL ABOUT KANSAS
Many of Them Are the Works
of Kansas Authors.
They Are Also the Output of
Kansas Publishers.

One hundred Kansas books, the best
that the state has ever produced or
have been written about Kansas have
been selected by James L. King, the
state librarian.
The books in the Kansas shelf-like
the 5-foot Harvard classics-were
written at the request of people for
something standard, the cream of the
production of the past 100 years. A
committee of Hutchinson women
wrote to Mr.. King some time ago
with the request that he select a basis
for a Kansas shelf in the library there.
The work of picking out the library
took approximately week.
''It wasn't so much the choosing of
the titles that took the work" said Mr.
King, ''as getting the publishers and
date correctly"
Mr.. King has been at the head of
the state library for IT years. When
he took charge the books numbered
20, 900 and were in the basement of
the east wing. A clerk and messenger
were employed.
Today there are $4,000 volumes on
the shelves exclusive of the $4,000
books in the travelling library. Thir-
teen assistant librarians are employed.
81 have always been in newspaper
work more or less" said Mr.. King. II
was formerly on the old Topeka Com
monwealth and founded the LaHarpe,
Illinois, Howe News, the Preston, Iowa,
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literary and social paper that foreran
the Topeka Daily Capital"
MI King is a brother of the late
Captain King, the editor of the st.
Louis Globe Democrat, who died last
spring He has been contributing to
magazines and papers all his life and
/ believes that a man can get a good
education with newspaper as train
! ing school.
what do you consider the best
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/ There are several books that are
invaluable as a nucleus to a Kansas
/ library" he replied. I think that you
would need the Kansas State His
torical collection, the Transactions of
! the Kansas Academy of Science, Pro-
/ fessor Haworth's Geological Survey of
/ Kansas, and a set or the Kansas
Magazines of 1S73-74."
The Kansas Shelf
The 100 chosen books are as fol-
| lows:
Adams. Andy. Log of a Cowboy,
Houghton, Mifflin & Co, Boston, 1903.
Adams, Franklin c., Martin, George
w, and Connelley, William E, IL
vols, State Printing office. Topeka.
Agora, The, Kansas magazine,
1896, vols, Journal Co. Law
renee, and Crane & Co., Topeka.
Ailerton, Ellen p. Walls of Corn
and Other Poems, Crane & Co., To-
peka. 1894.
Plains, F. C. Brown & Co, Chicago,
1913.
Arnold, Anna E, History of Kansas,
State Printing Plant, Topeka, 1914.
Barker, Nettie Garner, Kansas Wo-
men in Literature, Messerau1 & Son,
Kansas City, Kan, 1915.
harrington, F. H, comp, Kansas
Day, Crane & Co, Topeka, 1892.
Bigger, L. A, Around the World
With a Business Man, vols, John C.
| Winston Co, Philadelphia. 1909-1O.
Blackmar, Frank w, ed. Kansas:
a cyclopedia of state history, 3 vols,
Standard Publishing Co, Chicago,
1912.
Britton, Wiley, Civil War on the
Border, vols, Crane & Co, Topeka,
1899 and 1904.
Brooks. Noah. The Boy Settlers. a
Story of Early Times in Kansas, Scrib-
ners New York, 1891.
Call, Leland Everett, and Kent
Harry Lewellyn. compilers, Agricul-
ture. State Printing Plant, Topeka,
1914
Garfield, James H, Local Govern
r1ent of Kansas, 1889, Cowperthwaite
x Co, Philadelphia, 1889.
Carruth. William H, Each in His
Own Tongue and Other Poems, G. P.
Putnam's Sons, New York, 1909.
Cavaness, A. A b, and Cavaness
]. M, Poems by Two Brothers, pub.
by authors, Chetopa, Kan. 1896.
Coburn F. Dwight, Swine in Ameri-
ca, Orange Judd Co, New York, 1909.
Connelley, William E, Ingalls, of
Kansas, pub by the author, Topeka,
1909.
Kansas, Pilgrim Press, Boston, 1903.
Crawford. Samuel l. Kansas in the