The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-09-02
LITERARY NOTES.

DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes is daily en-
gagged in debating his "Recollections' 10
his secretary. but they are not to be pub
lished until after his death.
Prof. Max Muller is preparing for the
press a new edition, in four volumes. OF
his Chips from a German Workshop"
The books have long been out Of print.
Sarah Grand, whose name by marriage IL
? Mrs. c. r. McFall, resides at Kensington,
the London suburb. 1t is said that she re-
ceived only 1884 for the manuscript OF The
Heavenly Twins"
The Magazine OF American History, at
New York, formerly conducted by the late
Mrs. Lamb, and suspended about a year
ago. is to be revived under the editorship
of Gen. o.. o. Howard
1t is declared by some students of En-
glish history that in Lord Ormont and
His Aminta" Mr.. George Meredith has fol-
lowed In part the history OF the great Earl
of Peterborough and Anastasia johnson.
That was a clever hit which the late Lee
conte de Lisle once m in speaking OF
Baudelaire. "Baudelair { said, was a
good fellow who usec -urn his brain
as one churns butter, A strange ideas"
Some people in Eng =. are asking why
Jean Ingelow could not be the poet laure-
ate. She is living In an old-fas hioned house
tie. gray-haired woman of nearly seventy
four years.
Mr.. Julian Ralph has gone to Japan.
where he will make studies Of the war for
Harper's Weekly and Harper's Magazine.
He will be met at Yokohama BY Mr.. c. ID.
Weldon. the artist, who will cooperate
with Mr.. Ralph in his new labors.
The Century Publishing Company is pre-
pairing to issue the Century Cyclopedia OK
Names. being a ~pronouncing and etymo-
logical dictionary of names in geography.
biography, history. fiction. etc, 1t win be
uniform In size and typography with the
Century Dictionary.
An important work, soon to be issued by
Macmillan & Co., is a new and complete
concordance of Shakspeare's works. by
John Bartlett, author Of the Dictionary CT
Familiar Quotations" The authorship Is
sufficient guarantee that the work will be
accurate and comprehensive.
The editors of the Advance. having pa
tiently borne with the words "sermonettes"
and "storiettes'' in its contemporaries. are
at last goaded to protest by the lions
Herald's "essaylet." So they write a note
let asking their editorial brethren to abb
stain from such diminutives-
Mr.. T. b. Aldrich is soing to Japan and
India this autumn to gather materials for
a volume of travel sketches in the manner
of From Ponkapog to Pesth." Mrs. AL
drich will accompany him. Unless the trav-
elers get uomesick and retrace their steps,
they will complete the circuit of the globe,
returning by way OF England.
Mrs. Thaxter. whose death was an
nounced last week, wrote because the
poetry was I'm her life and heart, not be-
cause she wished to manufacture poems.
Her last volume, AN Island Garden" a
delightful record of her sympathy with the
sea, the flowers and the birds. is a final
witness of her sincerity and her sympathy
with nature.
Mr.. Marion Crawford sailed for Genoa a
fortnight ago. after having been a year in
the United States. During that time he has
travelled from one end Of the country TO
the other in settling the affairs OF his late
father-in-law's estate, and mas written one
novelette,, love i'm Idleness." and four now
els-.Marion Darche," Katharine Lauder
dale John Ralston," and Casa Bracclo-"