The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-08
THE FIELD OF LITERATURE.
The Latest Publications.

| company.
''Four Winds Farm" story for children, by
Mrs. Wordsworth, is we'll written. prettlly illus
trated aud of pure moral tone. London: Mac
milan q Co. Indianapolis The Merrill
Company.
'The Sentimental Calendar. by ]. S.. is col
lection of twelve short stories which the author.
in his preface says are funny. 1t is published
by Charles Scribners Sons, New York, and sold
The Bowen Merrill Company
''Sonnets and Lyrics" by Helen Jackson (H
H., is posthumous collection of poems by
| that lamented author. The volume contains
beautiful in sentiment. and finished in style.
| Boston: Roberts Brothers. Indianapolis: The
Bowen Merrill Company Price, 81.
"Beckonings for Every Day" is collection Of
quotations for every day in the year, compiled
| by Lucy Larcom, The idea and plan are not
new but the book is not copy of others. The
| quotations are judiciously made. indicating
wide range of reading and thoughtful, sympa-
| thetlc spirit on the part of the compiler Boston:
| Houghton, Mif1in q Co. Indianapolis: The
| Bowen Merrill Company. Cloth covers, 16 NO.,
81 25.
Democracy, and Other Addresses" is the title
| given TO a collection Of addresses by Mr.. James
Russell Lowell before various societies during
his stay in England The addresses were all de-
| livered on special occasions, and before dis
tlngulshed and literary audiences. They are In
| Mr.. Lowells best vein, and in their collected
| form make an interesting volume. Boston:
| Houghton. Miffiin & Co. Indianapolis: The
| Bowen Merrill Company. Price, $l.25
| Harper & Brothers, New York, publish in the
English Classics series "Select Poems of Robert
Browning" edited, with notes, by W. J. Rolfe
and Heloise E. Hersey. The volume contains
| twenty of Brownngs poems. selected with much
taste and care and judiciously arranged. There
are also a short essay on the life and works of
Browning, a chronological table of his chief
works, an article on helps to the study of Brown
ing and critical comments on his works. There
is fine portrait of Browning. The Bowen
Merrill Co.
Manners Maketh Man." by the author of
'How To Be Happy, Though Married" is not
book on etiquette, as the title might imply, but
a series of essays on different phases of social
life and, incidentally, on good manners. There
are thirty chapters, essays, few of which
have appeared in different English periodicals.
They embrace variety of social topics and are
written in pleasant and entertaining style 1t
is readable book. New York: Charles Serb
ner's Sons Indianapolis The Bowen Merrill
Co. Price, $lGo.
Messrs. White, Stokes & Alien, of New York,
are publishing series of 1.-THE Lives of the
Presidents" by VIM. o. Stoddard. we'll known
as writer of Juvenile stories. The two first vol
umes of the series are washington" and
Grant" Both subjects have been pretty thor
oughly treated in biographical way. Mr. Stod-
dards biographies are intended for young read
ers, and he has succeeded in investing his we'll
worn subjects with something like a new degree
of interest. The Bowen Merrill Company.
Price, 81 % each.
Mistakes in Writing English, and How to
Avoid Them" by Marshall T. Bigelow, is rather
practical and useful little book, as such books
GO 1t points out for the use of teachers, writ
ers and speakers the principal errors of most
common occurrence which correct writers
and speakers apt to fall into 1t is
mere collection Of vulgarisms which any inteli-
gent high school pupil knows such. but calls
attention to the errors of good writer's
The arrangement is systematic, and there is
waste matter in the book. Boston: Lee & Shop
ard. Indianapolis: The Bowen Merrill Company.
Thirteenth in number in the Famous Women
series is Susanna Wesley" by Eliza Clarke. AS
the mother of John Wesley, the founder, and of
Charles Wesley, the poet of Methodism, her title
to place among notable women cannot be dis
puted. This biography, however. is not written
from sectarian, nor even from an en-
inently religious point of view. 1t
is more picture of Mrs. Wesleys
personal life and character. Besides being a
highly religious woman, Mrs Wesley was very
| intellectual and cultivated woman, and her per-
sonal character presents many interesting
phases. The author of this biography is con-
nected by blood with the Wesley family, and
| the book seems to have been written with SYM
pathetic admiration for the subject Boston:
Roberts Bros Indianapolis The Bowen-Merrill
Company. Price, ST..
"House Plants as Sanitary Agents; or, the
Relation of Growing Vegetation to Health and
Disease" is new book on comparatively new
subject. The author, Dr. j. NJ. Anders. is also
a botanist and natural scientist Of approved
standing The object of the work seems to be
to set forth, in plain terms, the latest informa
ton regarding the effects of of the func-
tions of plants and flowers upon the atmosphere
in general. and the air of dwelling houses in par
tcular The author holds that plants and flow
ers, particularly when cultivated indoors. are
worthy to be placed in the foremost rank of san
itary agencies. Whatever may be thought of his
conclusions they are the result of long series
of personal experiments and sustained by
very ingenious arguments. Philadelphia j. b.
Lippincott Co. Indianapolis: The Bowen
Merrill Company. Price, $l.50
Carlylean literature receives an interesting
| addition in early Letters of Thomas Carlyle"
edited by Charles Eliot Norton. 1t appears that
Mr.. Carlyle was for many years during his early
manhood an industrious letter writer. A great
many of his letters have been preserved, and
are in the possession of his niece, Mrs. Alexander
Carlyle The letters contained in this volume
have been selected from them, and they serve
well a partial biography; illustrating his
character oy internal and unquestionable evil
dence. If they do not afford complete portrait
it is at least correct as far as it goes The let
tiers cover the period from 1914 to 1926 and are
addressed to members of his family and init
mate friends. Admirers of Carlyle will find
them interesting. For frontispiece the book
has fine engraving of Mrs. Carlyle London
and New York: Macmillan & Co. Indianapolis
The Bowen Merrill Company. Price. So. o.
"Haf Hours with the Best American Authors
| is valuable work. The plan embraces short
and characteristic selections from representative
American authors in every department. of the
literary field, bat chiefly in the field of light lit
erature, embracing the works of novelists hui
morists and miscellaneous writer's The selec-