The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-25
Authors and Publishers Notes.

Queen Victora's new book will be published
in Harper's Franklin Square Library
Fanny Burney received only 500 for eve
lima but for her third novel she had $15, 900.
Miss Mary Greenaway is to have house built
after her own design ona piece of land she has
bought at Hampstead 'Hf"s-
Mr. W. D. Howells sees few visitors nowadays,
being deeply absorbed in literary work in which
he does not wish to be disturbed.
Ten thousand copies of the first edition of the
Queens Diary" were sold the first day. The
second edition will be ready by the end of the
month.
Mrs Julia A. Moore better known as ''the
sweet singer of Michigan has given up poetry
and gone into the grist-mill business Every
thing points TO prosperous year in this coun-
try
Boydell's edition of Shakespeare, extended to
thirty-six volumes by the insertion of 1869
plates and drawings which belonged to the Har-
rison library. brought only So, 500. 1t was
bought by Brentano and is said to have cost
$4,000
Several manuscripts of the Almagest not util-
lied by modern scholars have been found at
Venice and at Florence by Professor Peters. of
Hamilton College, who is abroad investigating
the star catalogue of Ptolemy, with view to an
accurate edition.
Mr. Wlkle Collins is so popular in the East
Indies among the natives that one of them has
asked his permission to translate all his novels
into Bengal. The authorization having been
granted the translator is now at work on ''The
Woman in White"
Indiana is entitled to the credit of having pro
duced one of the best translatons of Virgil ever
made John Augustine Wilstach, the author of
a new edition of the Works of Virgil (Hough-
ton Mifflin q Co., Boston, publishers is a resi-
dent of Lafayette, Ind
New York Sun: The author of the successful
little novel 1.-THE Bread Winners" appears to
be Mr. Thomas Hunter, the principal of the
Normal College in this city. We knew he was
clever schoolmaster, but never suspected him
of being clever story teller.
The volume of Dickens's speeches which has
been brought out in London by r. H Shepherd,
contains fftysix of the novelist's short addresses
Some of them are of trifling interest-replies to
votes of thanks and expressions of gratitude for
silver cups and boxes of cutlery-and the best of
them require the point and grace that Dickens's
own delivery gave.
1t is proposed to erect monument at Cam
bridge University to Thomas Gray. the poet,
which shall take the form of a marble bust, to
be placed in the hall of Pembroke College, oppo-
siteto Chantreys bust of Pitt, and close to the
corner where Gray was sitting when his fatal
illness attacked him. The sculptor will be Mr..
Hamo Thornycroft, a. X. A.
1t appears from work to be published
by Louis Pagan, the author of a well known life
of Panzzi, that the British museum possesses
the only authentic manuscript of Raphael, the
manuscript being Il sonnet written a sheet
containing sketches for some of the figures in
the Dispute of the Sacrament which was
painted in the Vatican about the year 1908.
Mrs. Laura Redden Soaring, known in liter
airy circles as Howard Glyndon." is one of
the few poets in America that an appreciat
i've public would like to hear from
oftener. 1t will be read with pleasure that she
proposes shortly to publish another volume Mrs.
Soaring is unfortunately totally deaf, and has
been so since her eleventh year Notwithstand-
ing this, her sense of melody aud rhyth is deli
cate and acute,