The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-27

from the collections az Richard Hakluyt. and
ssSir Roger de Coverley and the Spectators
Club"
The National School of Elocution and Oratory
Philadelphia. has published The Eiocutionists
Manual" No. IA in paper. 30 cents, and Young
Folks Entertainments" paper, 20 cents. Tney
are for sale by Cathcart, Cleiand e. Co.
The latest additions to Harpers Handy Series
ars "A Play wright's Daughter, novel by Mrs
Annie Edwards; bad to Beat novel by Haw,
ley Smart, and 'sOur Radicals" tale of love and
politics. by Fred Burnaby, the author OF "A
Ride to Khiva"
@. P. Putnam's Sons have added to their
Travellers Series the following "Whms and
Oddities" Pictures of People and Places by
Thomas Hood, and Pictures and Legends from
Normandy and Brittany" by Thomas and Cath
crime Macquoid
The New England Conservatory Of Music.
Franklin square. Boston, has issued it's annual
announcement in artistic form. accompanied by
the commencement programme and annual SOU
venir. This popular and unrivaled institute or
music and ART maintains its position with no
indication of falling from the leadership. The
catalogue shows that there were seven pupils In
attendance from Indiana during last year.
Literary Notes.
The Hon. George II. Boxer has nearly ready
for the press volume of about three hundred
sonnets
The '.Athenaum" says Mr.. Lowell s'has en-
ioyed his visit to England this season so much
that he talks of returning next spring"
The twelve-volume Riverside edition of the
works Of Longfellow which has been prepared
by Horace E. Scudder, will be published early
next month.
Hannibal of New York, is the title of the
new novel (of New York and Newportlife which
Thomas Wharton will publish at once, through
Henry Holt & Co.
The celebration at Kilmarnock. two weeks
ago, of the centenary of the publication OF the
first edition of the poems of Burns, was attend
ed by some 3d. 600 persons.
William Westall has written story of advent
ure in unexplored regions of Central America,
which will be published by Cassell & Co. under
the title of 1.-The Phantom City."s
The biography of Qneen Victoria, which Mr.
Barnett Smith has had in hand for some time.
will be published in September in one volume OF
400 pages 1t will contain several portraits.
The Critic announces that Thomas Hughess
Life of Peter Cooper Having proved unsats-
factory to the family, Mr. Hewitt has placed
the work in other hands, and new life is being
written"
Mrs. F. Gorton ida Glenwoodl, the lecturer
and serial writer, though blind and sixty years
of age, uses typewriter for much of her work,
eQualing ordinary person in the neatness and
accuracy of the writing
Mr.. r. L. Stephenson's powerful and disagree
able story of DR.. Tekyll and Mr.. Hyde is selling
at the rate of a thousand week. The first edi-
ton Of 10000 copies Of Kidnapped by the same
author is already exhausted.
During her recent illness, which extended over
many months, Miss Mary Cecil Hay was able to
correct the proof sheets of her new novel, IA
Wicked Girl" The Athen@um describes her as
IAN excallent and charitable woman, who worked
exceedingly hard"
Mr.. Loweli's English address on Democracy"
will be published in Boston this fall The vol
nrn0 yvhi ah will faa <yf1o hat oAd
will also contain his late papers on Fielding,
Coleridge, Dean Stanley, Garfield and don
Quixote' and presumably the more recent essay
on Gray.
Paul HI. Hayne had been invited to deliver,
next winter, at Vanderbilt University. series
of lectures on poetry or literature. ut is loss
serious and irreparable," says the Southern
Bivouac. that these lectures will never be writ
ten, and that before the invitation had reached
him this well-loved poet had laid down his pen
forever"
Charles Armitage Brown, the friend of Keats.
died of apoplexy in New Zealand, in June, 1912,
seven months after his arrival in that country
with view to permanent settlement His re-
mains were buried on the brow of Marsland Hill.
In New Plymouth, and large slab was placed
over them. When the hill was subsequently,
fortified this rude memorial was covered with
earth so that now only few old settlers can
point out exactly his resting place.
Some interesting details of Napoleon's second
marriage are given in the memoir of Marie Lou
Use, OF which the first of the five volumes has
just been published in Paris by Al. de Saint
Arnaud. This first volume carries the story
down to Napoleons departure from Dresden on
the Russian campaign. When Eckmuhl was
proclaimed an Austrian success Marie Louise
was girl in school, To her father she wrote:
I'VE have heard with great JOY that Napoiapn
was present at the great battle which he lost. If
he would only lose his head as WE'LL" The young
lady's views of the Emperor were obviously to
undergo change. She was, however. incapable
of deep or lasting attachment Having made
up her mind to the marriage, she simply deter
mined to make the best of it. Napoleon's con-
duct towards her when she went to France was
chivalrous and almost romantic. He FASTENED
away with Murat to meet her at Courcelles, and
drove into the town in light carriage when the
rain was falling in torrents They took shelter
under the porch of the church facing the posting
inn. When the equipage of Marie Louise came
up Napoleon rushed to the door and threw him.
self into the arms of his young wife. who was
overcome with emotion and surprise"