The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-19
LITERARY NOTES.

!
A correspondent writes to London newspa-
per: There is one fault in the Queens book not
yet noticed. The cover ought also 10 have been
| brown
/ Matthew Alnold's views on Emerson and on
| Carlyle have been criticised by John Burroughs
in forcible paper which will appear in the April
! Century
! The authorship of the much discussed book on
Berlin society is as strenuously repudiated by
every one to whom it is attributed as is that of
| The Bread winners"
| General Ioring, wellknown authority on
| Eel Mahdi and the Soudan." which Dodd. Mead
4 Company will publish Immediately.
! The next volume in the admirable American
Statesmen series will be on John Adams 1t is
| by Mr.. John T. Morse. jr., editor of the series
| and author of the Lives Of John Quincy Adams
and Thomas Jefferson
Some further add tons to the Eminent
| Women series will be Harriet Martineau,7 by
| Mrs Fenwick Miller; elizabeth Fry by Mrs
| Pitman; Mime. de Stael" by Miss Bella Duffy
and Nine. Roland, y" by Miss Mathilde Blind
The first of a series of humorous stories by
Ivory Black will appear in the May Century.
These stories are about artists, and the names Of
the characters are adapted from the pigments with
| first story in the series is Rose Madder"
| There are now in the library of Congress 513,
AL books, 10000 pamphlets, 5000 bound vol
umes of American and foreign newspapers and
| over $50, 600 Autographs line-engravings mezzo-
| tnts photo -gravures chrOmos and so on. The
| number of volumes added to the library in 1883
was SO 365
There are only two American books which have
a market value approximating 81 900 They are
| the Bay Psalm Book" which has been sold as
| high as 81, POO and Eliot's Indian Bible-''Up-
Biblum God, in the aboriginal tongue-a copy of
which was recently bought at the sale of the IL
brary of the late Judge Henry C. Murphy, in
New York, for the sum of $3.50.
Dodd Mead & Company announce for mme-
date publication a Students Edition of Raw
linsons Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern
World" 1t will be issued in five octave vol
umes, and will be printed from the same plates
as their regular edition, and will contain all the
maps, plates etc. of that edition. the only differ
ence being i'll width Of the margin and thickness
of the paper.
The Art Interchange, of March 10, contains
eighteen columns of questions and answers, in
which every topic bearing upon art is intelli-
gently discussed. Here are to be found. among
other classes of information, advice as to the
artistic furnishing OF apartments and houses;
full directions for painting IN oil and mineral
cOOrs; suggestions for screen panels, sachets,
porteres. and instruction in hammered brass
The Critic and Good Literature New York
has consented to act as ballot-boX in an election
for a possible American academy, consisting,
like the French academy, of Forty Immortals"
Any of our readers who wish to do so may send
to the editors of that review d list of the forty
living American men of letters whom they con
slider most worthy of membership in such an in
stitution The result of the vote will be made
known in the Critic of April 5.
Over the door of Shandy Hall Il large stone
tablet has just been placed On it is this in
scrption: Here dwelt Laurence Sterne for
many years incumbent of Coxwold. Here he
wrote 'Tristram Shandy' and the Sen timental
Journey Died in London in 1868. aged fifty
five years. ''Shandy Hall has been converted
into cottages but it retains all its old features,
and is, says the New York Tribune practical
| ly precisely the same as when Sterne lived
there"
Mr. Austin Dobsons new-old volume has this
graceful rondeau for dedication
ITO you l sing. whom towns immune
And bonds of toll hold fast and sure;
To you across whose aching sight
Come woodlands bathed in April light
And dreams of pasture premature,
And you, Sad who still endure
Some wound that only Time cure,
To you, in watches of the night.
To you sing!
But most to you with eyelds pure,
Scarce whiting vet OF love or lure;
To you, with bird-like gances bright.
Halfpaused to speak half-poised in fight;
O, English girl, divine, demure.
To you sing!'