The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-11

| novel, Fairy Prince" is ready for
| publication this week by E. P. Dut-
! ton & Co. The authors character
istic originality is said to lift the sew
| eral gay, fantastic tales the book con-
| tains out of the realm of Juveniles,
altho three children are the links
which bind them together, and to
make the book as much for adults as
for the young.
| The curious things that happen
when once propaganda begins. 1t
! has been charged that British inter-
| ests have been influencing a change
| in our American history books. with
the object of obliterating the last
| traces of any unpleasantness con-
! nected with 1776 and of bringing about
an Anglo-American entente. Mr.. An
/ drew Carnegie openly sponsored the
| idea of modifying our American his
! tory teaching along these lines. A
| counter-propaganda has been started
| against this sort of history revision
| this side sponsored, not too strangely
| but also quite openly, by the always
| pro-Irish and anti-British K. of c.
! That suspicion has grown acute seems
| evident when diatribes are launched
| against a dictionary as English"
| We forget for what particular passage
| it was that "'Webster's Dictionary
| was picked on by the Boston city
council but that that same city coun-
| Gil OF the 1r1Sh-pOliticked city unant
mously passed an order requesting the
| trustees of the Boston public library
| to bar from the shelves Helen Moo
lays Book of American Wars" also
as pro-EngliSh, is recalled to us by
note from the Century company, her
publishers, stating that this author is
| a daughter of John Nicolay, co-author
with John Hay of the great ten-vol-
ume work, abraham Lincoln: A His
tory" and one of the great president
trusted secretaries. She is also the
author of "a Boys Life of Abraham
Lincoln" which was recently included
in the limited number of titles chosen
for~the children'S ''Two-Foot Book
shelf selected by the American Lii
brary association and the National
Education association in conference.
Charles H. Cugle, who for years has
been the head OF a well-known navi-
cation school in New Orleans. is the
author of Practical Advanced Navi-
CATION which E. P. DuttOn & Co.
brought out last week. His earlier
book, Simple Rules and Problems in
Navigation" which the buttons pub
lished five or six years ago, has proved
so useful and has met with so much
demand that he has prepared this new
volume dealing with rules and prob
lens in the higher branches of navi-
CATION The author has been a navi-
gator for twenty years and therefore
knows his subject on the practical side
and also from the viewpoint of the
encountered by pupils.
Margarita Spalding Gerry's second
book in the "Philippa' series will be
published by Harper & Brothers in
November. There was an unusually
large sale for the first volume in this
series for girls. Altho "Philippa's
Fortune was not brought out until
late last year, the sales equalled those
of many other Harper juveniles which
were published at the beginning of
the season. Mrs. Gerry's fine gifts
are thus appreciated by her younger
readers as by her older admirers. Her
last book is "Philippa at the Chateau"
Perhaps Washington never told
lie, but some of his biographers have
been telling them about him ever since
the days of the cherry tree. One of
the two things that we all know about
Washington is that he exhorted his
people to beware of "entangling alli
ances." William Roscoe Thayer now
tells us, in his George Washington
(Houghton Mifflin company, that the
phrase is not Washington's and, i'll
fact, did not appear on the political
Thomas Jefferson in his inaugural adj
dress, 1901, sixteen months after
Washington was dead and buried.
With the recent publication of the
Letters of Franklin K. Lane" which /
is one of the most widely discussed |
books of the year certain secrets of
the war cabinet now come to light. /!
1t is being read with great interest in
Topeka. In one place Secretary Lane |
says, THE army and the navy are so |
set and stereotyped and stand pat that
L am almost hopeless as to moving 1
them to the wise, large and wholesome /
job. They are governed by red tape |
worse than any union And in an
other he scores Secretary of the Navy /
Daniels because he said that he must
not convoy our merchant SHIPS, that
would be dangerous" Think of |
secretary of the navy talking of dan
geri' Mr.. Daniels resents this fully |
wrong impression and says he can pro- |
duce his own diary which he kept dur
ing the same war period to refute Mr.. |
Lanes hint of cowardice.
Six more fall books came from the
press of Houghton Mifflin company |
this week. On this day John |
Buchanan's History of the Great !
War will be published in four vol |
umes; Boyd Fishers Mental Causes |
usual novel, "Overlooked;" E. ]. Oar |
tons THE Soul of Dorset" and two
juveniles, Lucy Fitch Perkins's THE |
Swiss Twins" and Frances jenkins !
Olcott's Good Stories for Great |
Birthdays
A new book by the Funk & wag
nails is 1.-The Policernan's Art" by Ma
is superintendent Off the department
of state police, New York state. His
book is compilation of the most i'm
portant subjects taught at the New
York state School for Police, and has
been authorized for use in the school. |
1t is felt that THE Policeman's Art !
will prove indispensable to policemen
and police officials, as well as to mag |
istrates. justices of the peace, and all
others whose duties are the protec- |
ton of the public, the maintenance OF
peace. and the administration of JUS
tice-
Notwithstanding the enormous lit