The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-28
NOTES.

Richard Harding Davis is at work on his
first play.
Congressman Champ Clark, of Missouri.
is about to write a biography of Stephen A.
Douglas.
A volume of hitherto uncollected papers
by the late Walter Pater will bear the name
Greek Studies"
The title of Mr.. J. NJ. Barrie's new novel
will be Sentimental Tommy 1t will not
be completed until next spring.
Macmillan & Co. announce a complete
edition of Chaucer in one volume, with an
introduction and glossary made especially
for it by Professor Skeat.
The autumn number of Modern Art. the
quarterly art magazine published by ]. NJ.
Bowles. at Indianapolis. will contain a new
poem, profusely illustrated, by James Whit
comb Riley.
Mr.. George Moore's new book is to be
called "Celibates." Unlike the "Celibat-
aires" of Honore de Balzac, who are simply
those unsuccessful in getting married, Mr..
Moore's are those who will none Of it.
Miss Dora Reade Goodale, the poet of the
Berkshire Hills. whose sister Elaine mar
ried DR.. Eastman. a Dakota Indian. a few
years ago, is engaged to be married 10
Prof. Thomas Sanford, of the University of
California.
In the fifteenth century a book Of devo-
tions for a wealthy English nobleman was
copied by one man. had the rubrics sup
piled by a second, the initials painted by a
third. the ornamental borders by a fourth.
and was sent to a miniaturist of Flanders
to be further ornamented.
Among the holiday books, though II is
really for all time, is Charles Kingsley's
"Hypatia," with three hundred ~illustra-
tons from the drawings by William NJ.
Johnson. which Harper & Bros. announce.
The work will be published in two volumes,
and Will contain a nOrfrait of Canon KINGS
Law.
Miss Harraden writes to a friend in New
York that she has just received a COPY Of
Ships that Pass in the Night In Danish.
and that within two days she has had re-
quests from three d-Ieleat tsss~~ - p..-
mission TO translate "Sr'or' -
The story has been translated into Italian
by a medical student, ouC nAs ~, 49,.
published yet.
The scene Of that very much discussed
story, THE Heavenly Twins written by
Nine. Grand, is said to be in Norwich.
England. where she spent part of her child
hood and some OF her maturer years. IT
may not be miss to say. in this connec-
ton. that Mime. Grand and George Moore
are engaged in a dramatization of the work
that has given her so much notorlety. If not
fame.
A library of extraordinary value was re-
Gently destroyed by fire in Triest, the prop
erty Of the professor of modern languages.
While he was lecturing in his room, a cat
overturned a lamp, and the whole collection
was S5on in flames. Among the rare books
destroyed was a complete collection of
Bibles of 14S0 historical books from the
fourteenth century, as also manuscripts in
Turkish, Egyptian, Syriac and Aramaic lit
erature. Five fine old Italian pictures and
a collection Of majolica were also de-
stroyed.
Miss Alice Stone Blackwell. the only
daughter of the lamented Lucy Stone, has
taken up her mothers work, and will de-
vote herself to furthering the interest of
the woman's Journal and the cause it rep
resentS. She is an unusually clever young
sity and a member Of the College Club, the
New England Woman's Club and an officer
of the New England Woman's Press AS
ISOLATION. She is stih a young woman, and
is said TO possess unusual executive ability.
She inherits her literary gifts from both
sides of the family.
It has been the misfortune of the great
Russian novelists that they have been
translated from the French more often than
from the Russian. and when they have ap-
peared in English they have been twice re-
moved from their original form. TolstoI
has suffered sorely in this way. The diff
culties ~ the way of translatlng these
writers are very great. and as their charm
has lain in their power not only OF delineat-
ing human life, but of iInparting to thai
deiineation a rare literary quality, the loss
which they have suffered by imperfect
translation has also been very great.