The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-29

| ers The illustrations, as usual. are excellent
D. Lothrop Co., Boston
MAGAZINES RECEIVED.
Macmillan's: Macmillan & Co., New York
| The Cottage Hearth: Ii Broomfeld street,
| Boston.
Lippincotts: J. B. Lippincott Company, Phila-
| delphia
The Eclectic: E. R. Pelton, 25 Bond street,
| New York.
Popular Science Monthly D. Appleton & Co.,
| New York.
The Milestone and Corn Miller: David R.
Ranck, Indianapolis
| Literary Notes.
| They say that Mrs. Craik is writing play for
Mary Anderson.
| Sixteen thousand three hundred and FIVE books
were published in Germany last year, as against
Ia, COZ in 1884,
IA Romantic Young Lady" is the title Of q
new novel by Mr.. Robert Grant, which Messrs.
Ticknor will publish.
| On Sir Lubbock's list Of the ''best hundred
books" but two American authors are given
| Longfellow and Emerson.
| Mr. Jamess DAISY Miller is undergoing
serial publication, in a French translation, in
the Revue Contemporaine.
| The J. B. Lppincott Company will publish. in
April, new novel by Capt Charles King, author
| OF The Colonels Daughter"
! VIM. Fl. Furness. the well-known Shakspear-
! can scholar at Philadelphia. has the finest
library on the subject Of America
Ex-Governor Long of Massachusetts,, not con-
tent with the literary honors won by his trans
lation of Virgil is said to be writing novel.
IF Estes & Lauriat announce that the price Of
'.Shelley's Poetical Works" edited by Rossetti
limited to fifty copies, and issued at go so, has
| been advanced to $18.
| The leading poem in Clinton Scollards "With
| Reed and Tyre" is "The Masque of March, !"
which has already appeared in the March volume
OF Through the Year with the Poets"
| j. B. Lippincott & Co. have published Pop
ular Family Atlas of the World which is a neat
and convenient set Of maps for Office OF home
| use anc sells at the low price Of 30 cents.
| Mr. Bronson Howard was announced to lect-
ure on the drama, at Harvard College, on Friday
| Of this week. It has not been forgotten that
Mr.. Irving accepted similar invitation year
| or so ago.
| Each of the 258 buyers of ssThe Bunting BALI
who guessed Mr.. Fawcett to be the author has
received, we believe, the sum of So. 87-a 258th
| part of the 81 900 promised by Funk & Wisnalls
to the successful guesser
| In their Rainbow series, Cassell & Co. will
publish next novel by Mrs. Walworth, author
of "The Bar Sinister" and without Blemish."
| The title s ''Old Fulkersons Clerk and the
| scene is laid in New York.
| "Ruhainah," story of Eastern life. based
upon the scenes and incidents of the first At
CHAN war, is promised by .Gassell & Co. The
material is good. and in the proper hands should
| make strong and successful novel,
| A gift of $4,000 by Mr. John E. Thayer to
Harvard University, to establish publication
fund In political economy, is to be utilized in the
| publication, at regular intervals of a series Of
contributions to political and economic science
| Mr.. Ell. C. Bunner, the editor of Puck, has
written new novel. which will be published
next month. 1t takes its title of s'Midge" from
its heroine The scene is laid in New York. and
| a great deal of the action passes in the French
quarter south of Washington square.
Mr.. VIM j. Florence the actor, is writing q
sketch of his friend. E. A. Sothern, for Messrs.
Hutton u Matthew's series of factors and
Actresses of the United States" which the Cas-
sells are to publish Mr. burner, of Puck, is to
| write Of Joseph Jefferson, Mr.. Lawrence Barrett
is to write Of Edwin Forest and Mr. Henry
Irving has already written sketch of Edmund
| Kean.>
Dodd, Mead e Co., will publish on April / q
novel by Dr. James L. Ludlow. entitled "The
| Captain of the Janizariea" They also have
ready new novel by Mrs. Barr, called "a
Daughter of Fife" the scene Of which is laid in
| Plttenloch, one of the small Fife villages.
@: P. Putnam's Sons will publish Immediately
"A Hancock Monograph" comprising the pro-
| ceedings Of the Military Service Institution at
| the meeting held in memory of its president
| General Hancock. The volume includes trib-
utes of prose and poetry offered by his compan-
ions-in-arms and friends.
The Revue Contemporaries is now publishing
DAISY Miller" as serial, by consent of Mr.
| Henry James. Mark Twain is now doing duty
In Revue de deux Mondes. From number Of
similar instances recently. we judge the French
are beginning to be appreciative of American
| literary work in current fiction.
l NJ IL
| pleton & Co. new novel by Octave Feuillet
which has just completed its course in M. Feuil-
| let's Revue deS Deux Mondes and is called s'La
| Morte." The interest turns upon religious IS
i've character. being young girl devoted to evo
luton and scientific research. The English title
| will be 'Aliette."
| When Messrs. Charles L. Webster & ca Sc
cured the publication of the memoirs of General
Grant. they made great business Stroke but
now, it seems, they have made still greater
| one, and are about to undertake the publication
| of the memoirs Of his Holiness Pope Leo XIII.
The book is to be written in Latin and translated
into every Christian tongue, and a sale of hun.
dreds Of thousands of copies is foregone conclu-
| sion.
Mr. John Augustus O'Shea, whose book emit.
| tied Leaves from the Life of a Special Core
| spondent was much read and liked year ago,
has in press a continuation of the story. The
former volume told the story Of the last days of
Lne french empire, down TO the hrst Gays OF the
Commune. The new one is entitled IAN Iron
bound City; or. Eight Months of Peril and Priva-
ton" and narrates the authors experience of
every day life in Paris during the siege and the
reign of the Communists
favorite book for notwithstanding just
now, is the large paper edition Of Mr. Stedman's
American Poets" One hundred and fifty
copies were printed, at $40 each; and each and
every one was subscribed for before the book
was off the press. At recent auction sale
not the Morgan-a copy sold for $18 1t was
| thought there were no more to be had, but three
or four have since been found in Broadway
bookstore, that are held at SIS. Mr.. Stedman
Is preparing an extrailustrated edition of this
book for his own library. and it is said that he
has a most valuable collection of autograph
poems. letters and portraits to draw from for
this purpose. Mr.. Lawrence, who is doirg the
work for him is nlaying every maze SC that