The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-12-09

Mr.. Hall Game was once reproached by
Mr.. Oscar Wilde with always writing at
the top Of his voice.
The favorite authors of the late Car are
mentioned as being Pierre Lott. George
Meredith, Stevenson, Oscar Wilde and VIII
helm Hauff.
Virginia and Her Neighbors'' is the title
of a series of historical papers which Pro-
fessor John Ffske has written for publica-
ton in the Atlantic.
Some Men are Such Gentlemen is the
peculiar title of a forthcoming novel by
DR.. Arabella Kenealy, author of the much
talked-of "Dr. Janet of Harley Street"
The author of 'The Leavenworth Case
has written a new novel Of mystery which
she calls "Dr. lard 1t is to be published
as a serial in the American Agriculturist.
Maupassant. it appears. is already forgot
ten in France. His books, they say, are
scarcely asked for in the Paris booksellers
shops. and money for a memorial for him
cannot be raised.
The will Of James Anthony Froude orders
that all his literary papers be destroyed.
including the imprinted documents concern
ing the Carlyles which Thomas Carlyle be-
Queathed to him
William T. Adams, "Oliver Optic" who Is
now seventy-three years OF age, has lived
in Dorchester, Mass. for thirty. years. and
during that time has written 126 books and
1000 newspaper stories.
Miss Rhoda B~roughton, the novelist. whose
books have lost something of their early
vogue, Is described in an oxford letter as
the snippy lady with the giriish figure who
was drinking tea upstairs"
The Bookman says that IL IS interesting
to compare the 100000 copies Of "Trilby" in
America at x.75 q volume with the 1000
copies sold in England, where the work Is
published in the usual three-yolume style.
The present Lord Tennyson's biography OF
his father will probably not appear for sew
eral years to come. The preparation of the
material for use in the volume have already
occupied a year and a half. Nearly $1,000
letters have been examined
They say at oxford, some Of the gradu-
ates do, that they can't bear Matthew
Arnold. Why? 'Oh, we are brought up to
feel that way now. You see, in the first
place, he couldn't write English; in the sec
ond place, he was no poet; ana then, nnaily,
he was a dreadful prig, you Know"
: Ibsen writes very slowly and carefully
and never takes a real vacation. Every
day he devotes five hours to literary work,
from s a. m. till 1. 1t takes him about FIVE
months to write a drama, and after com
pleting one he devotes six or seven months
to mental prep psaa bre TOT a new one; he
at is fortunate" says a sarcastic New
York paper, ''that Mrs. Frances Hodgson
Burnett has a knowledge Of other tongues
and is able to speak OF a mauvais quart
d'heure instead of a bad quarter of an hour,
and pour passer lie temps instead Of to pass
the time, and simpatica instead OF sympa-
thetic. There are thousands Of writers who
have to struggle along with only English
words"
One Sunday morning the Earl of Clar-
endon, the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, took
up the work on the Method of the Divine
had just published. His lordship became so
interested in the book hat he forgot to go
to church. He afterwards sent for DR.. Nc
logic and metaphysics in Queens College.
Belfast. DR.. McCosh accepted, and lectured
there for sixteen. years His next post was
the presidency or Princeton, which he filled
nineteen years.
American literary influence in England is
thus described by Mr.. Ludlow in the current
Atlantic Every American work Of merit
is sure of republication in England; some
are republished which scarcely deserve II.
Marion Crawford, w. D.. Howells and Henry
Elizabeth Phelps and Kate Wiggin, are as
widely read among US as any English au-
thors of fiction. Longfellow, Lowell, En-
popularity, not of their merit), are 20 be
found in the library Of almost every En-
glish home
The cheap books which flood the market
nave insensibly influenced the printing of
good literature. Yet art and genuine work
are not left without a witness in our coun-
try. Thomas b. Marker. of Portland, Me-.
Is one who believes that good literature
should have a fine setting is publishing rare
volumes fittingly clothed. In the bibeIot
series he has issued Songs Of Adieu." a
volume of old world lyrics; the 'R~ubaiyat,"
and "Felise," a collection of poems from
Swinburne. In the face of the hard times
Mr.. Marker has launched his ship. laden
with beauty and wisdom and in concession
to the depressed market, his prices are ex-
tremely modest.