The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-02

gave the promise had she been spared, that she
would have been in the front rank as writer Of
! pure smooth and wholesome fiction Without
/ being an imitation of Miss Alcotts Little
| Women" 1t has the same attractive tone and
| color.
1.-The Hoosier Editor" taleof Indiana life. is
| a novel, by George h. PeFrow, late night editor
Of the st. Louis Times Mir Perrow. who
then Dec. 10, 1877, lived at Sullivan, Ind, in
seribes his book Ito Hon. r. W Thompson, SSsc-
rotary of the Navy, in remembrance of past
! kindness"
"A Century of Gossip, or the Real and the
Seeming, by Willard G. Nash, for a time on che
Los&nsport journal, appeared in 1876
MIS- 4ary Hartwel Catherwood, until recent
ly residing ID this city is making place in the
world OF letters Long contributor to various
periodicals. the coinage of her brain is get
ting q more cohesive and individual form,
being made into books in which it shines
forth without either aid or loss by contrast with
| the work of other stoiy-writers as it does i'll
magazines. Her first book was "Craque o
DOOM, which has been followed by 'I&ocky
Fork and Indiana"
"SfantSu7 is recent novel by Margaret
Holmes (Airs NJ. Ii. Bates, Of this city,; Bond
and Free" story Of the South, (1SS2.l is by
TRACE LintneP Mrs. Ellen NJ Ingraham, also of
this city,; '''fhe Man Who Tramps,n by LEGO
Harris; ''Vesta Vane7 by l.. King II. fLizzie
hing Rodenbergerj Hannah, the Odd Fellows
Orphan, by Mrs. Abigail d. Hawkins 1879;
The Hoosier Doctor medicated story by
Karl kringle 81. 2. Buckner); ''Reveries. of a
Wood-sawer, GS72) by Jonas Simpkins tan
afasE Fifteen Years in He'll, by Luther Ben
son: "A HOLSTERS Experience in Western
Europe, 1885, by John $ Bender, of Plymouth,
Ind.
''Fhe New Purchase or Early Years in the
Far " lest, by Robert Carlton, John r. Nune-
maeher New Albany, 1851 Publisher, is to be
found on the shelves Of the city library
tflendover is Il novel by Deane Roscoe fired
b. Hatesl, author of I'm the Flesh
Benjamin +. Taylor lived for several years at
South Bend in this State, and for this reason
his books, THE World on Wheels" I'm Camp
and Field' (which contains the finest pen-pictures
of the war for the Union ever producCd), and
Summer Savory" are considered Indiana prod
uets.
Mrs Wallace, wife of General Lewis Wallace,
minister to Turkey, and now residing at Con-
stantinoplc, has recently, last fall. published
The Stored Sea- a volume ef pleasing, unpre
tentious sketches that is in demand
James Baldwin, for number of years super
intendent of public schools at Huntington, now
at Rushville, this State, has made valuable con-
trfbutions to literature for youth in 1.-THE Story
of Roland and also in @'The Story OF Siegfried."
He has also written and published two large vol
umes on English literature.
Mrs. n. Alexander is the author of "a Widows
Life, Here and Hereafter The Outeast Re-
claimed and christianity and Intidelity."
Fallen Women" and 1.-THE Converted Gam
BIER are by Mason Long, of Fort Wayne. They
bear evidence, like Peter Pindar's razors, that
they were made to sell
MY Summer in the Kitchen" by Mrs. Hetty
Athon Morrison, of this city, is not novel. but
a collection of sketches. The work is that of a
thinker, and the style is as graceful as TX
Maryels. There was but a small edition OF the
book printed, and the sale was not proportiored
to its merits. The title, too, unfortunate,
giving the impression that it was a cook book.
Mrs Morrison has written some of the best
poetry produced in Indiana, and marked with a
strong individuality.