The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-02
Literary Notes.


Literary Notes.
A new edition of Ella NJ. Bakers Soldier and
Servant has just been issued by D. Lothrop &
Co.
M. Taine is in poor health, and his doctors for
bid mental labor. The concluding volume of
The French Revolution" is completed.
Mr. Swinburne's work on Victor Hugo will be
published by the Worthington Company, of New
York, before the close of the present month.
Houghton, Miffiin & Co. will issue Immediate
ly new edition of Macaulays works in sixteen
volumes, and cheap edition of Mrs. Ole Bulls
popular memoir of her husband.
Many owners of sets of Harpers Magazine
will be glad to know that the new Index, to in
clude the last ten Volumes or volume one to
seventy" is soon to be published
Marion Crawford has finished two new novels,
"a Lonely Parish" in which the scene is laid in
an English village, and Prince Sarresca," the
history of aprincely Roman family.
Mrs. j. Il. Walworth, author of 'The Bar
sinister" Mormon story, is aboutito publish,
through Cassell q Co., a novel dealing with. the
question of the negros future, and entitled
without Blemish: To-days Problem"
A new book by the Rev. James Freeman
Clarke is soon to be published by Ticknor e. CO.
Its called Every Day Religion" andconsists of
discourses ON religionin the affairs of daily life
Mr. Clarkeisl Self Culture is now inits eleventh
edition.
The learned gypsy Franz Sztoika, who lives
in Uszod, has just completed dictionary of the
language of the Hungarian gypses. The Arch
duke Joseph has undertaken to print the work.
and also volume of Sztojka's dialect poems at
his own cost
Messrs. Harper e Brothers announce a novel
by Mrs. j. Gregory Smith, which it appears is a
direct outcome Of Mr.. Donnelly's book ON AT
lantisY. 1t is entitled "Atla a Story of the Lost
Islands" The novel is said to be very clever and
uncommon!y well written
Casseil & Co.'S new series of novels was not
named the Rainbow series with reference to the
titles of its first two volumes IA Crimson Stain
by Annie Bradshaw, and ''Morgan,s Horror" by
George Manville Fem, but because the covers
are of rainbow hued paper It is a twenty. five
cent series
The North American Publishing Company
have in preparation "Reminiscences of Abraham
Lincoln, by Distinguished, Men of His Time"
collected and edited by Allen Thorndike Rice,
editor Of the North American, Review, The
book will appear in April. and will ha sold by
subscription
| By special arrangement with the English pub
fishers the Worthington Company are enabled
to announce the Immediate publication of Mr.
Swinburne's eagerly expected study of Victor
hugo inns monograph makes volume OF
some 230 pages and is one of the most brilliant
specimens of its brilliant authors style.
The London Academy, speaking of Miss Muir
frees last novel, 1.-THE Prophet Of the Great
Smoky Mountains" says that las q series of
positively lurid sketches of scenery, character
and life, all harmonizng with each other-for it
can hardly be called a novel-it surpasses any
thing of the kind that has yet come from Amer
ica" ~
/ Another important book now in the press of
Harper & Brothers is an historical work on the
Indians, entitled The Massacres of the Mount
aims" The author, Mr.. j. P. Dunn, jr, of
| Indianapolis, has given a large amount Of time
and labor to the study OF the subject, and he
has made a bold and thorough exposure Of the
cruel mismanacement of Indian affairs for many
years.
I In March the Messrs. Putnam will begin the
publication of a monthly journal to be called
The international Record Of Charities and Cor
rection. and to be devoted to ''the discussion of
all questions relatngto to- the care and treatment
of the unfortunate and criminal classes, in all
their varied Observation-Disclosures, economic,
scientific, governmental and practical" Its price
will be 81 year
/ The North American Publishing Company, of
New York, will publish, on or about the LIST of
May next, "Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln"
by distinguished men of his time. Among the
contributors are General Grant, Elihu B. Wash
burne, Henry Ward Beecher, General Butler,
Walt Whitman. and other mon of mark. It will
be the standard Lincoln book. Allen Thorndike
Rice, editor of the North American Review will
edit the volumes which will be embelished with
fine steel portrait of Lincoln. and other engrav
AnSSs ~ wAAA No SWAN ohiy Ny 00OSSkAptlOus
/ Harper g. Brothers have 10 press a volume on
railroad monopoliss, by Jos. f. Hudson, editor
of the Pittsburg Despatch, which is said to be
the most important book on the subject that has
/ been written in the quarter of a century now
closing, being thorough exposition of those
| abuses of railway MANAGEMENT which have given
the railway corporations arbitrary control over
| industry and commerce, and despotic dominion
over so-called republic" The writer is not a
socialist. evena radical, but merely seeks by
| clear and conclusive reasoning to reach the fun
damental source of wrong.
Roberts Brothers have in preparation, and will
shortly publish, three post-humous volumes by
| Helen jackson ('H. H.") They are "Glimpses
of Three Coasts Bits of Travel" in California
and Oregon, Scotland and England, and Nor
way, Denmark and Germany, partly new and
partly reprinted from the Atlantic and the Gen.
tury); Verses" second SERIES la collection in
Guiding everything of Importance written by
Mrs. jackson since the publication of her first
volume), and Between Whes." Ibid anybody
ever publish volume of short stories called Be-
tween WhilesF" wrote Mrs. jackson last sum-
mer, in postscript to a letter to her publisher
IF not, hide it away and don't tell anybody,
and by next spring / will have had enough
volume
An Ambitious Newspaper Venture.
New York Special
Dr. Dorsheimer's paper, the Star, has been
making quite sensation for the past few days
de has been bidding for some OF the best jour