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THE BIG ALL NOVELS Comment Reviews NOW ON SALE IMPORTANT BOOK INDIANA AUTHOR Indiana Man Author of ON RAILWAY RATES WRITES NEW STORY George Barr McCutctv Author of Many Weird Pieces of Latest Book an Aston thoritative Work on New iction Produces One of a THE YOUNG MAN AND THE WORLD Senator Beveridge ishing Tale Public Question Different Sort ENGRAVING ARCE COMEDY IN ICTION TALE WELL WORTH READING IS NOT A MERE THEORIST Douglas Wiggins Offers a Among Other Early Autumn Berkeley Smith Offers a Pleas Kate Pastoral Study Novels Is One by George ant Account of Outdoor the Cary Eggleston Parisian Life 5 50c The Bobbs Merrlll Company and Baseburners GEORGE BARR Current Periodicals Among the Publishers and In welfare of the Republic "The Made in Indiana jyjORE than that it is made from the most the "How Anwrow Souvenir Post Card in every package TAILHOLT AGAIN or Out of Town Subscribers and further Information address enough us off the map A ft ft alone safe of the Prussian THE MAN THE HOUR AYESHA PIPETOWN SANDY THE GAMBLER THE SOCIAL SECRETARY NEDRA THE BEST POLICY MY RIEND THE CHAUEUR THE RECKONING A SERVANT THE PUBLIC ROSE THE RIVER a Hie lias for Tailholt for mi Thia book Read's best The character soldier Llmprosies is in the inspiration Laird Lee They've closed up the postoffice true I will allow got Rural ree Delivery And do not need It now So why stir up a rumpus? sure it's no disgrace So long's your delivered At the proper time and place What's the difference if your postal card's Addressed to Or handed to jou at the door Marked No One?" Let them close up the not a sinecure No one is looking for the job or what it pays sure And next day they called It Then tried "Ragsdale" for a while But neither of them suited 'Cause they both were short on style Then came the railroad people Scorning all names on the bill And said so far as they're concerned This town would be But nothing seemed to suit the place or people would get "wise" No matter what they called it That "Tailholt" in disguise Maybe Carrollton sounded better In Washington But Tailholt's always been a name That's good enough for me i Miss Helen Nicolay daughter of John Nicolay joint author with John Hay of the authorized life of Lincoln has written a life of Lincoln which is to appear in St Nicholas during the coming year While the work is founded on Messrs Nicolay and history yet it has in it much new material which is of special interest to young folks It will be fully illustrated and one of the lead ing features of St Nicholas during the coming year I've lived here over sixty years And things are much the saihe As when I came except of course The changes in tlie name At first they called it "Tailholt" Spelled with a little And that old name has clung to It And Is good enough for me Among the half dozen other interesting articles in the Trained Nurse for October are in Typhoid by Dr A Benedict and Balkan Hos an illustrated article describing some of the curious hospitals tucked away in European Turkey Ono time we had a visit from The poet whom we love And he wrote some lines about us That raised us high above The other little towns about In And since then more than ever Tailholt's good enough for me The Hobart Company New York an nounces for early publication a new novel by Gen Charles King entitled Sol Trial: An Episode of the Canteen Crusade" The author has been engaged some time in its preparation resulting in what is said to be one of the best of his many splendid stories He has woven into the plot a very powerful argument in favor of the restoration of the "army illustrating same from actual scene and incident for and do not understand why ciaw or Charles The New England Magazine for October goes out of its accustomed field and opens with an artcle descriptive of Spokane Wash "The Durfield in cludes in its pages an account of the fa mous and needlework "Queen Victoria and the American People" and "The Harvard are titles of other contribu tions of interest There are several short stories of merit COMPANY By RANK STALNAKER Chairman Org Committee Indianapolis Ind The Williamsons' Motor romance Princess if anything is in creasing in popularity as the months go by Messrs Henry Holt Co are just printing the eighth large edition of this book which in its first seven months has sold more than five times as many as the same authors' "Lightning Conductor" did in its first season Octave Thanet Rider Haggard John Philip Sousa Katherine Ceell Thurston David Graham PhillipsGeorge Barr McCutcheon Elliott lower and A Williamson Robert Chambers Anthony Hope Kste Douglas Wiggin Heaters Kipps1 has for The October issue of the Cincinnati magazine Men and Women appears in most attractive guise its cover design be ing a work of art and its literary features having much Interest and variety An nouncement is made that George Ran dolph Chester who is gaining attention as a fiction writer has become associate editor of the magazine Vonnegut Hardware The Greater West Is the name taken by a new magazine issued at Chicago under the management and editorship of Mar ian A White a lady well known in Chi literary circles The purpose of the periodical is to promote the interests of the West to point out the advantages of its various States and cities and to give intelligent direction to persons wishing to establish themselves In new homes Properly enough the opening issue gives space to an article descriptive of Chi cago as a gateway to the greater West Another feature is a clever little story Two by our Tragedy" by Miss Esther Griffin White of Richmond Ind Another time the President Passed through our little town And we were there assembled To do the honors brown Of course he didn't know it And didn't stop to see But twas quite a boom And good Ripley whose paper upon "Presi dent Railway Policy: The in the September Atlantic at tracted attention is out with a sequel In the October Atlantic dealing with "Remedies" Treat Ppg chiefly of the problem of fed eral ownership of railways Mr Ripley makes a very searching examination of the conditions abroad and in this country His conclusion is that whatever the fu ture may some day contain' it is clear that under present conditions public own ership and operation of the railways of the United States would be a highly dan gerous experiment dangerous not to business and property but to the ty and So now they've And deprived There's nothing Our early gotten fame not much to lie remembered In our history And it's name is only Still "It'S good enough for There Is no limit to the Industry of Mr Andrew Lang He will make still another contribution to the books of the winter in "The Clyde Mystery" which is described as a study in forgeries and folk lore Mrs Charles Rohlfs (Anna Katharine Green) whoso most famous novel "The Leavenworth has just been brought out in a handsome illustrated edition be ban her literary work as a poet and it is in her poetry that she finds her main artistic satisfaction moved us of our name now remaining but In answer to many requests S100000 at the 10 ner cent stock of GAS COMPANY has been allotted for sale to persons residing outside the city of Indianapolis Balance stock being taken by future patrons of company Capital to bn used In purchasing mains of Consumers' Gas Trust Company already connected with 14000 houses insuring an established business Company to be operated under franchise granted to representatives Board of Trade and Commercial Club under management of leading business men of Indianapolis Shares $2500 each payable in five monthly payments Stock nontaxable and nonassessable Ten per cent dividends per annum ror subscription blanks list of subscribers A DAUGHTER THE SOUTH i It must be a rather hard task to make a hero out of a man who stands as a neutral in a war in which his country is engaged but George Cary Eggleston has succeeded In doing this thing and therein has shown himself capable of doing a hard work well The later days of the civil War and the lower Mississippi River are taken as the time and the scene of Mr last story "A Daughter of the South" Hugh Marvin the hero is a Kentuckian who has not conviction enough to make "him fight on either 'side but he gets action and danger in abundance by en gaging in the hazardous work o' running out cotton He saves tlie heroine a beautiful Southern girl from death by starvation in a bayou country where she I Is lost After that the lots of the twain are cast together in romance and In danger The story is dramatic and sym pathetic Lothrop Publishing Company The appearance of a volume entitled "Government Rate Regulation of Rail has such a timeliness in view of the present Interest in the subject as to suggest hasty preparation in order to meet a current demand for information on tlie subject but such a suspicion Is soon shown to bo ill founded The author Prof Hugo Moyer of the University of Chicago has been engaged In a study of the question for twelve years nnd this book embodies the results of his investi gations He began Ids career as a stu dent in Hammond with leanings toward socialism and It was through his Inquiries into State ownership of railroads that his attention was attracted to tlie failure of governments which had such control as Australia to conduct transportation in a business like way free from political in fluence His studies extended to Germany and other European countries where he found similar conditions and eventually Included the workings of the United States interstate commerce law His discoveries led him to abandon the Socialistic Idea and to reach tlie conclusion that government rate making hampers commerce dustrlal development Prof Meyer explains that one nrlncinnl reasons loading tile Government to take over the ownership of its railways was the complaint of dis crimination in favor of competitive points which Is one of the arguments put forward for government regulation of rates in this country In Germany however the reme dy lias proved to be far worse than the cure according to Prof Meyer The con flicts between various producing centers intent on securing or preserving advant ages In relation to common markets has thrown the question of railway rates into politics In many instances important legislative measures for example the commercial treaty with have boon passed only by paying the price of con cessions in rates to politically powerful sections of the country Professor Meyer it will thus be seen is not A mere Hieorlst He has facts to support his conclusions and though 1( may not convince all his readers what he has to say is of much material inter est The subject as a public question in this country fs comparatively new and there is little general knowledge concern ing ft His book therefore supplies a distinct and Immediate want and fs likely to fill an Important place in coming dis cussions of the subject The professor' testified before the Sen ate Committee on Interstate Commerce In May Tlie Senators expected to bo bored by a dull economic theorist but when a business like man (Professor Meyer was then in his 39th year) stepped before them and began marshaling a striking army of facts and figures and drawing Ills concise conclusions the members of the committee sat up and paid him more strict attention than they had given to any other witness He loft the committee room an economist of na tional reputation The volume is published by the Macmil lan Company his latest book taken a new departure the weird and fantastic in check socialistic theories put aside for the time and he PAGE THIRTEEN INVITATIONS for receptions weddiigs and every sort of social functions PERSONAL CARDS for social and basinass use A Nw A copper name plate and 100 cards for srreat novel Will DO DrOUKllL to a iners GAS ALRED POTTS Secretary Address Commercial Club Owing to repeated requests from Har vard Yale Princeton and other institu tions where the modern drama is studied with increasing interest Mr Clyde itch has made arrangements for tlie publica tion qf his plays in book form ive ofthese are announced for issue in separate volumes this fall by the Macmillan Com pany "The Girl witli tlie Green "The Climbers" "The Toast of the Town" Own and Stubbornness of Geraldine" UNSEAnIEfrCIRTrCItS Houghton Mifflin Co have just pub lished a monumental large paper edition of "The English Works of George Her in six volumes limited to 150 num bered sets printed directly from type and edited with notes and critical essays by Prof George Herbert Palmer: an Ulus 1 trated book of travel by Mr William Beebe of the New York Zoological Park I entitled "Two Bird Lovers in "The Counsels of a Worldly by Persis Mather Green by George Wasson a story of decadent New England Arthur Stringer's story of a real live boy "The Star Jewel and Other by Ab bie arwell BroWn and "The Imma nence of by Prof Borden Brown of Brown University glad that have sees above them brooding over them a mon ster a shadow a great world Stupidity except for which his Kippses might have developed to a finer life "You he says breaking out at one place "that I am going to write fat silly grinning novels about half educated undertrained people and keep it up all the time and that the whole nothing but funny? I see through the darkness the souls of my Kippses as they are as lit tle pink strips of living stuff like the liodies of little ill nourished ailing Ignorant children children who feel pain who are naughty and muddled and suf And the the beast rests unon Scribners Sons publishers "Parisians Out of Is Berkeley Smith's third book about the dally life of the amusement loving denizens of the gay rench capital Like Its predecessors it fs bright and entertaining and appeals with equal interest to thoso who know Paris well or not at all Mr Smith de scribes the outing which begins after tlie Grand Prix has been run at Longchamps and he deals with the doings at Trouvillo the Manhattan Beach of rance and the other channel watering places and goes os far afield as Nice and Monte Carlo The rench are instinctively an out of doors lovlng people Life In the open air means to them nine tenths of the joy of living Out of doors for every spare hour on holidays In the country Is their Mecca Paris Itself contains all the means of en joyment in and out of doors that any one can want Purks boulevards play grounds fetes music fireworks everything for the pleasure of tlie masses are pro vided by ilio Government And it is In the great city that many of tlie outings are taken Knowing Parisians frequent a rare old Inn at Dives in Normandy called the of William the Conqueror the sometime resting place of Balzac and Hugo Dumas and laubert De Maupas sant and Mlle rancine Of this fasclnat Ings place and of the life at Barblzan and ontainebleau there are some pleasant bits of description Mr Smith with other artists have il lustrated the book with drawings In color and line and Hopklnson Smith has contributed a writer color frontispiece unk Wagnails Company (With Apologies to James Whitcjmb Riley) BY GEORGE McDOUGALL Wells fancy been held have been has devoted himself to the production of a novel on conventional lines But al though it is a study of contemporary life it is not by any means a common place tale On the contrary Mr Wells has written a story which is a refresh ing oasis in the desert of current fiction Kipps whose name gives the title to the book is designated in a subtitle as a sim ple soul He is a simple soul largely be cause he Is an undeveloped soul Prob ably under the most favorable conditions Kipps would never have evolved Into a brilliant being but the circumstances of his early life were decidely unfavorable to intellectual growth He was sent for a time to a cheap and worthless school a modern Dotheboys Hall his homo was with an aunt and uncle narrow minded Ignorant people suspicious of the neigh bors and living to themselves At 14 he was apprenticed for seven years to a diaper or as Americans would say a dry goods merchant arid there ho was a drudge At the end of this time he real ized vaguely that he moved among great bogs of ignorance and made feeble and tentative efforts at self improvement He "battled with Shakespeare all one Sunday afternoon" and found that the dim knowl edge of English literature with which his schoolmaster of years before had been supposed to equip him had vanished down some crack in his mind He had no doubt that Shakespeare was splendid stuff but he couldn't quite make out what it was all about wus an oc cult meaning' he knew In literature and he had forgotten NEW CONDITIONS ARISE About this time a great change came in Kipps's fortunes and he was brought into association with a different class of people from those he had formerly known and had a series of adventures and ex periences which form an interesting part of the tale The author is satirical but he also has a keen sense of humor and an insight into human nature which make his portrayal of life and character especially clever and realistic Also he is amazingly familiar with the details of the calling which knowledge gives another vivid touch to his work It is a satirical thrust which he gives when at the end he puts Kipps who knows nothing about books into the book trade which he had always had an ambition to enter and makes him succeed financially Kipps explains to hls wife that selling books is unlike selling goods In the latter case "If you got just what the shoppers want it's 'Oh and out they go But in a book shop dif ferent Ono book's very like another after all what is it? Something to read and done with It's not a thing that mat ters like print dresses or serviettes where you either like one or and people judge you by They take what you give em in books ana nor lea ana to be told what But Mr Wells takes It to heart the simple souls at whom he writes not had their proper chances Ho anove mem nrooan GOSSIP ABOUT AUTHORS It is reported that Booth Tarkington's novel "The Conquest of now running as a serial In Magazine has already been snapped up by the enter prising dramatist Mr Tarkington Is said to have given permission for Its drama tization to Genevieve Haines author of "Hearts Mrs Haines is also at work on a stage version of "The Beautiful Ijady" Mr Takington's novelette which also appeared in Harper's Magazine Mrs John Elliott (Maud Howe) who Is at Oak Glen Newport I with her mother Mrs Julia Ward Howe has been giving readings from her forthcoming volume of Italian studios and sketches "Two in at the residences of some of the prominent Newport cottagers ONLY "The Only Way" is the title of a little volume by Warner Anthony Ross a young mari who formerly lived in this city The purpose of Mr Ross In "The Only Way" is to show that the true Christianity Is the only solution of the economic and political ills from which the nation suffers It must be admitted that the author takes a rather pessimistic view of the future a pessimism however that is relieved by his firm conviction mat me lire tnat unrist taugnt us to live will save us from tlie malestrom that threatens Mr Ross's strength of con viction along this line is unusual in one of ills years Thera la a frankness nf nn peal in the book that lends it a certain i charm The volume is published by the I Page Printing Company of Wayne i Ind i $100000 10 STOCK GAS COMPANY WELLS'S STORY 1 SIMPLE SDUL Another name has been added to the list of Indiana Mrs Blake author of "Heart's Haven" a novel just Issued by the Bobbs Mertlll Company She was bom at Rockport and for a num ber of years her homo was in Evansville She Ilves now in Minneapolis She finds the material for her story in the life of the Rappite Community which preceded the Owen settlement at New Harmony a I field hitherto uuworked VERY ADVANTAGE of the many ''that heating stoves possess is covered by one or more patents and can not bo employed on other makes The Improved patented jointless ashbox patented screw draft register and patented antl buckllng ring as well as the portable base triple flues hot air circulation tlrepot supplemental radiator and the construction that makes them gas and air proof all of these are of a kind peculiar to "Estate" stoves SOME THE RESULTS THESE SPECIAL ADVANTAGES ARE: stoves heat the floor IRST Moro heat is derived from the com bustion of a given amount of fuel and ALL the heat Is thrown into the room A good warm firo will contlne for fifty hours on one charge of fuel Except In tlie hard coal basebumors any tuet win give a uieun even heat No gas or smoke can get Into the room when the upper feed door is opened The stove can be taken apart easily for cleaning or moving You have at all times ABSO LUTE CONTROL YOUR IRE we also seiL "raoimt Horn" Hesress ano tusteuRittRi A INE SUMMER Washington Star did you spend the summer?" said the old friend "Very answered Mr Cumrox "Sent mother and the girls to you?" staved home with a fine lot of old port" In his book Kaiser as He issued by the Putnams Henri de Naussanne maintains that William II has than once visited Paris incognito a recent numberof the Echo de Paris De Naussanne cites another witness to prove this habit of the Emperor He states that a certain diplomat recently told him positively that the Kaiser had many times made trips to "Paris dressed aS a motor car mechanic or stoker The 1 same informant expressed the belief that the Kaiser was sotpleased with this style I of traveling that he was quite certain to come to Paris again in the near future in the same extraordinary disguise In George Barr McCutcheon has written a comlo opera novel That Is at its close the reader is left with so many impossible and remarkable things to look back upon that he has a sense of mental confusion and can not quite recall what the production was all about the various strange happenings being connected by so slight a thread that in retrospect they seem quite unrelated though at the time the events were un folded they appeared to possess coher ence The fashion of taking a preposterous proposition and treating it seriously is a favorite one with recent fiction writers and is well llk'ed by the public the plot of one of the most popular novels of the past year turning upon a situation which could not possibly have occurred in real T4 1 1 1 DU I NV Ill 1 1VX 1 LVLLy 11 UL lldJl 1 111 xJL 13 the manner of extreme realism the tale conveys at no time the impression of actuality but as intimated suggests the! uprealty of those heterogenous com hj positions known as musical comedy or li farce comedy Nevertheless just as one 'stays to the end of the stage perform anco in order to see what will happen L' next so the readers of will finish I the book just to see what the author will i do witli two young people capable of be 'y having as idiotically as his two leading characters do in the first chapter i il TVTr NloCutnhpnn pvirlnntlv opt nut tn aca i "how many absurdities under the guise of realistic narrative ne couia perpetrate in one volumne and he has made hls list long Two large islands somewhere be tween Hong Kong and the Philippines whose Inhabitants had never seen white human beings until the hero of the tale and the woman he was not engaged to marry are cast away on one of them are among these surprising situations But the story contains much sprightly conver sation its events move rapidly and if some of its material such as the castaway episode seems rather shopworn tlie out come differs so widely from the promise of the opening chapter and everybody con cerned is so happy that a large number of readers are likely to be well entertained and the story to rival "Graustark" In popularity The book is handsomely printed and has a number of illustrations In color after drawings by Harrison ish er Dodd Mead Co New York Mrs House of will be brough conclusion in the November Scrlbi A Large Package for 10 Cts at the Grocery On the list for the fail is Brownings Piper of which will be issued immediately in an edition for children witli colored full page and text illustrations the text printed in large type Arrangements have already been made for rench En glish and Dutch editions WITH THE AUTHORS NEW BOOKS CONDUCTED BY TIANY BLAKE The continued interest in air God" by the late Gen Lew Wallace has led hls publishers Hougthon Mifflin Co to issue a new illustrated edition which is enriched with twelve most excel lent full page illustrations by 'Mr Eric Pape These are reproduced from draw ings made after much study and travel over the very country which Cortes trav ersed In the opinion of the London Atlie neum air is the best of stories a powerful and roman tic treatment of the defeat of Montezuma by The book is already in its one hundred and fiftieth thousand The Century Company will issue James Eugene "Versailles and the Court Under Louis XIV" this fall The volume will be a royal octavo bound in light blue cloth with seventy two full page illustrations in tint reproductions from photographs and of famous pictures Mr armer who is master in history and English literature at St Paul's School Concord II has been a zealous stu dent of rench history and has spent con siderable time at Versailles and Parts gathering material for this work Among the most interesting of the fall publications of A McClurg A Co is a translation of Abbe elix Pays de Ja Vie in whicli the rench impressions of America are entertalngly presented It will be pub lished under the title of Land of the Strenuous Life" and the importance of the work may be estimated by the fact that the original has just been crowned by the rench Academy and awarded the Montyon prize THE VORTEX I Thntvac a Rtnrv VftTtAT pi based largely on the attempt of a noman uarnonc priest in xiaiy to convert to the religion of his church an artist who with his wife is living in the peninsula kingdom It must be confessed that Mr McKeen does not supply a satis factory motive for the priestly efforts at proselyting but the struggle of wills that ensues makes a strong picture Anna Trefusis the wife of the artist Is bitterly oposed to the priest and to the church which he represents and there is a contest in which the husband flahts be lli twen love on one side and what he con i4 Vila rAntv nn tVia nt har A wnman of Italy comes into the scene and is used hv the nriest in his nlan of conversion The story becomes Intense and finally 14 IT 1 111 xt tragic i iei me dock leu me outcome The author of probably had an object in writing a book of con i troversy It makes precious little differ ence whether a story is well written or' not to the person who Is religiously at outs with the point of view ho will like or not according to his church however is well worth wniie irom tne interest standpoint Lippincott Company Is the product of Indiana toil and the favorite food of Indiana people It is the food that always tastes good and builds up the system Children always want more Charles new novel will be pub lished on Oct 25 by Macmillan It is en titled a Maid of The more important books announced for early publication by rederick A Stokes Company are two novels "A Servant of the by Anthony Hope and Speculations of John Steele" by Robert Barr Toady Crusoe" a new book for children by Crockett "The Joy of Life" a plea for right living by Lillian Hamilton rench "Ideals for Girls" by Mrs rank Learned (Priscilla Wakefield) ern Allies" by Willard Nelson Clute and "Women Painters of the a de luxe art book edited by Walter Sparrow INITIAL STATIONERY Naw Stock very stylish embossed with striking designs Prof Hugo Meyer Author of Au Star Want Ads Ic a Word 'r k' carefully selected white flint Indian corn by a mill that has behind it a reputation of half a century to sustain OP IE LATEST Tn hls last story "The" Son of Ople Read has gone back to the days of Christ for his characters and liis plot The hero of the tale Is Eradmus a Roman soldier who rises in irtHA uy luiuc vi ma uwu uimcavui until he becomes a centurion Eradmus is the officer in command of the soldiery at the crucifixion of Jesus the Christ The Savior enters into tlie development of the story and Mr Read has shown skill of method in his treatment of a char acter that many writers fear to approach in writing mood There is delicacy and reverence in the portrayal The Roman soldier serves In Britain prior to hls jgrhange of station to Jerusalem and there Wire meets with adventure through which a romance enters into ms me is one of Mr of the Roman nature of an Chicago Jiy 1 t1 1 1 I Br Is Bi 'f BJ R( Bh II H'l' it Bij Ki I 1 Hh Hl I I lit i a 1 1 01 I vl Hr fa iBiiTy iW Un I I UJ 7 In ffiSSw fc'SsS liBalnHIBM Di 1 ilv avTrlrTnvi 1 ate I' I 4'1 1' 1 ffP.