The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-15
LITERARY NOTES.

In the June Harper will appear Miss
Woolson's last story, The Waitress" the
scene of which is laid in Italy.
Dodo reappears in the last pages OF Mr..
E. f. Benson's new novel, THE Rubicon."
which promises to attract the whole read
ing public.
Prof. John Bach McNaster's forthcoming
fourth volume of United States history will
devote unusual space TO such socialistic
movements as that of Owen and Mormon
ism.
Capt. Charles Kings description of the
cavalry fight at Gettysburg is, says Lord
Wolseey, OF England, the most perfect
description Of a battle in the English lam
guage-
Swinburne, the poet, and Theodore Watts,
the painter, live together in an English
manor house. The poet is said to have
grown so deaf that he hears an ordinary
conversation with great difficulty.
The popularity of novelists is probably
nowhere so great as in Australia 1t is said
that 80 per cent. of the female and 20
per cent Of the male frequenters of the
public Libraries read novels almost exclu-
sively.
Mrs. Ramona Wolfe, whose first name
has become famous by reason of Mrs.
Helen Hunt Jackson's romance, has just
died. San Diego visitors take much inter
est in the little adobe church there where
Ramona and Alessandro were married.
Ibsen dimes every day at the Grand Hotel.
Christiania- He sits in solitary grandeur
at a little table, seldom speaking TO any
one except the waiter. but very often taxi
ing notes of those around him Ibsel'S
wife Is alive, but they are never seen to-
gether
Some of the successful OF the feminine
novelists are trying their pens at plays.
John Oliver Hobbies has been writing enc
in collaboration with George Moore-and
nice morbid production it promises to be.
Mrs. Clifford. the author of Aunt Anne
is also writing play.
Edmund Gosse thinks that the short
story will became permanent, and that
the long novel has had its day. Also that
the art of story telling must renew its
youth by communion with it's primitive ee-
ments-the psychological analysis Of Rich
ardson, the fancy of Sterne, the naturalism
OF Fielding and the romance of Smollett.
few weeks ago an American publisher
wrote to Oscar Wilde, asking him for a
'story of hundred thousand words"
He wrote back: Dear Sir-I have received
your charming letter. and have spent two
or three days in delightful contemplation
| should like to write the story, but l do
not how / can do so. Unfortunately
there are not one hundred thousand words
in the English language"
Mr.. H. G.. Paine, who has charge of Har-
per's Weekly during the illness of the edi-
tor is a handsome young man, not over
thirty years Of age. He has been on the
staff of the Harpers for some time and has
proved himself capable of filling the posi-
ton. He is a graduate of Yale and has
written a great many short stories. which
have won him considerable fame. He was
formerly assistant editor of Puck for
number of years, and LETT there for Har-
perS.
Norwich, where Nine Sarah Grand lived
for some years, is recognized as the scene
of 1.-The Heavenly Twins" Some of the in
cidents mentioned in the book are reported
to be founded on factor example, the
| tragedy of the lay clerk "A few years
ago." it is said by an English writer, "a
| well-lInOwn and popular tenor. after hiding
| for a day or two in the clereStOry OF Nor
| witch Cathedral, committed suicide by hang
ing himself there. Naturally, a profound
sensation resulted. There was talk of the
| cathedral being reconstructed, but in the
| end a solemn service of humiliation and
reconciliation held TO be sufficient"